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I'm bringing a left-hand drive Jeep Wrangler (2018) into the UK. How can I adjust the headlights so that they dip left instead of right?

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Ask the jeep dealer how.
LHD to RHD conversions can be super hard.

if lucky only new light assemblies
ask them.
uk jeep dealers,ask

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  • Posted on Aug 10, 2008

SOURCE: Need to change headlight dipping direction

No need to replace the bulbs. They can be adjusted by most inspection stations.

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  • Posted on Jun 02, 2009

SOURCE: dipped head lights

you can just change the headlight lens if available

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Sep 08, 2009

SOURCE: dipping headlights to right instead of left

Remove the lens. There should be two to 4 screws for adjusting. .

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Sep 30, 2009

SOURCE: UK Headlights to French Headlights

The headlamps themselves will look identical. If you were to look at the beam pattern of the light, then it would be different. Your original headlights were designed to throw excess light to the passenger side of the road (I.E. away from oncoming cars). Now that driving directions are opposite in France, your old headlights would be throwing the excess light into the oncoming cars, blinding them). The new lights are designed to throw the light away from those oncoming cars.

The adjustment screws/nuts should be located either on the top of the headlamp assembly, behind the headlamp assembly, or near the frame rail by the radiator support.

You will have vertical adjustment screws for each independent beam (separate highs and separate lows, but will be same screw if highs and lows are the same bulb). You may also have additional horizontal adjustment screws as well

Park your car on a level ground 30 feet from a wall and measure the height from the ground to the bulb and mark on a wall (do this for highs beams and low beams if the bulbs are separate, if highs and lows are the same bulb, only do it for the lows)

For Low Beams: If the headlights read VOR, then aim the brightest part or cutoff part just below the mark on the wall. If it says VOL or nothing, aim them 2 inches below the mark on the wall.

For High Beams (if separate from low beams): Aim the headlight directly at the line you marked on the wall.

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Oct 06, 2009

SOURCE: I am driving to spain soon, can I adjust the main

Unfortunately you cannot. The beam pattern itself is different. On left hand drive cars, the actual beam is designed to throw the least amount of light into oncoming cars and will look something like this.
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you can't change the pattern as the housing unit itself is what depicts the pattern projected.

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