Hi All,

My 2006 Octavia 1.9 PD TDi Estate is the first car I have owned which has separate main and dipped beam adjusters. On previous cars, you adjusted the headlights with reference to the cut line on the dipped beam, and once the dipped beam was OK, the main beam was as well...because both main and dipped beam were in a single unit.

With the Octavia, the two beams are in separate units with separate adjusters. Adjusting the dipped beam is easy; you use the cut line as usual. But how do you adjust the main beam? I know you twiddle the nuts behind the headlight to move the beam up and down and left and right; what I mean is, how do you know when it is right? When I got my car a couple of months ago it was obviously wrong, with the offside main beam shining at the ground about six feet in front of the car. I've adjusted it and it is now much better, but is there a "right" setting, and if so how do I find it? There's no obvious graticule or beam pattern to use.

Or is it non-critical: you just blast everything in front of the car with light?

Thanks in advance,

scandalxk

Edited 4 August, 200916 yr by scandalxk

...Anyone?

a search on here found this:

http://briskoda.net/octavia-ii/octavia-2-headlights/126158/

and if you do a search im pretty sure there is a picture too.

When you say "twiddle the nuts behind the headlight" you don't mean that literally, do you? The correct adjusters are between the headlight and the opening for the radiator, accessed by lifting the bonnet.

I had to reset mine (I wonder why they don't get set at the factory these days; my '04 Cooper S was off as well) and I believe the main unit adjusts with the dip. so you set that as normal and then check the main beam. If necessary you can adjust the height of the main beam separately but there is no left/right for main beam.

the dip and full beam both have seperate adjusters. if you have xenons then the screws will only adjust full beam. there is a diagram on this site somewhere.

When you say "twiddle the nuts behind the headlight" you don't mean that literally, do you? ... I believe the main unit adjusts with the dip.

Yes, I do mean that literally. The adjusters you refer to affect only the dip beam units. The main beams are entirely separate.