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Old May 6, 2009 | 06:01 PM
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Driver said headlamp cracked, decided to buy a whole new set to keep them looking good and matching. The driver side has a bad scatter of light. The pass side has a clean cut off. I have to aim my driver side much lower to stay out of drivers eyes. Does this mean it is a bad headlight? I can take pictures tonight of the light scatter if needed.

My problem is because i have to aim it so low, the headlamp shield does not fit good and when high beams are turned on, much of it is shining onto the ground
 
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Old May 6, 2009 | 06:38 PM
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You are running two different brands of light bulbs which can cause this to happen.
 
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Old May 6, 2009 | 06:55 PM
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You are running two different brands of light bulbs which can cause this to happen.
I have never heard of that before, I will have to file that into the back of my brain for later.
 
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Old May 6, 2009 | 06:59 PM
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Actually i'm using the same bulb, silverstar ultra night. I replaced my old ones with these a year ago. then swaped when i changed the headlamps out. I'm going to put the old ones in and see if i still have a scatter, maybe during the transfer i damaged a bulb. I'll check into it tonight if i can find my old pair


actually i'm going to swap the bulbs from right to left in the headlamps, that should do the same thing to test them out.
 
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Old May 6, 2009 | 07:06 PM
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OK, you are running the same bulb, the only reason I posted that is I know some, especially the high end bulbs have different internal deflectors.
So in your case, that isn't the case. Have you looked at the molding of your head lights lens, are there differences in the dispursel pattern?
 
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Old May 6, 2009 | 10:13 PM
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All fixed, the metal plate below the bulb was slanted but held its place anyway because of the spring thing. Done deal, thanks
 
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