I rented a 14' U-Haul last week and drove it to Davenport, IA., Orion, IL., then back to IA. and finally back to La Crosse...
The headlight on the driver's side was set too high...on low, I could see it shining right into the back of the head of the driver ahead of me...when there wasn't anyone in front, the beam barely scraped the road...
The headlight on the passenger's side was worse...the main part of the beam was aimed into the pavement about 50' in front of the truck.
When I got to Davenport, I stopped at Sears, bought a 4mm. socket and one of those palm-sized, circular 1/4" ratchets...then when it got just dark enough, I ran the truck up to the wall, backed it off about 15', then adjusted the LHL down and the RHL up to level...then I slowly backed the truck up to see the drop...it fell about 1"-2" ... I dropped the lamps down just a little more, then headed out into the night, back to La Crosse...near Moqueteka, IA., I got some gas and "fine tuned" the heights of the lamps once more...much more enjoyable and for the people out in front of me, a LOT LESS ANNOYING!!!!
When I dropped the truck off at U-Haul the next morning, their response was, "We only change the lamps, we don't drive 'em down the highway to see how they're aimed. But thanks anyways for doing that for us!"
Nobody knows how to adjust lamps and they don't care...I even had the pleabs at the Dealer5hit where I get the S-10 taken care of screw up my Drivers' Side Headlamp when they went to replace a marker-lamp in the fixture...the clowns didn't know how to remove the fixture from the front-clip brackets and they weren't about to ask their boss how to do it...I just happened to look out the window and saw the two cranking on the adjustment screw ... I'm like "WTF????" I ran out to the truck and asked them where the plane was that they were trying to land...then I took the marker lamp from the clown and had them both stand there while I showed them the two clips that loosens the fixture. I then removed it from the vehicle far enough to swap out the defective lamp...then I re-assembled the unit, then I took the truck back into the dealer$hit and showed the SA that I need to use his wall to straighten out my aim...thank GOD the clowns didn't crank on the other fixture...it made the re-alignment alot easier...
I think the ONLY TIME the offenders get the lights straightened out is either the driver knows how to do it and gets up enough gumption to make it right, or the cops get "dosed" by bad light and write up the dummy...
Other than that, I'm seriously considering caring a small hammer to "adjust" the more indignant violators...
