Global Moderator Popular Post mjh937 Posted September 1, 2014 Global Moderator Popular Post Share Posted September 1, 2014 This may be obvious to many of you here, but I know there are some of us here who are new to motorcycles and it was not so obvious to me. There is no need to disassemble the headlight to adjust the aim (I found this out after I had taken the light off several times). Note: thanks to MXRider and his handy service manual I have definitive information that the right side screw is for horizontal adjustment and the left is for vertical. I am correcting the how to with this info. Vertical beam adjustment is from the left side. There is a brass colored screw that can be seen when you look between the left fork and the tank. It is just below and left of where the bulb is. Clockwise will lower the beam. You can use a Phillips screwdriver or a 10mm nut driver. And here is a close up of the aiming screw. Horizontal aim is adjusted from the right side with a similar screw that is just above and to the right of the light bulb. You will have to experiment with which way is left or right as I did not notice (sorry). And a close up of the horizontal adjustment screw. Just move the wire out of the way. I could not get it to stay out of the way for the photo. As for the actual aiming I measured the distance from the floor to the bulb and put some tape on the garage door at the same height. I then adjusted the low beam so the top of it was just a bit below this mark while I was sitting on the bike. This seemed to work well. Night riding is a lot more fun with the light aimed better. My low beam was aimed very low from the factory. 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerryv Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 Mine it low too, so if there are two adjustments, are they separate bulbs or do the adjustments just move reflectors? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Global Moderator Guru Posted September 1, 2014 Global Moderator Share Posted September 1, 2014 Excellent write-up! Thank you. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Global Moderator mjh937 Posted September 1, 2014 Author Global Moderator Share Posted September 1, 2014 jerryv, there is only one bulb. I am not sure how the adjustment works exactly, but it does work. I could not see anything moving while I adjusted if so it must be not be moving very much. It also took more turns of the adjustment screw than I expected to get the beam aimed where I wanted, but it is really easy to do once you know where the adjustment screws are. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cassecou Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Thanks for the tip. I am sure it will become handy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscardms Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Pretty sure one adjusts the bulb up and down, other is to adjust side to side. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Global Moderator mjh937 Posted September 2, 2014 Author Global Moderator Share Posted September 2, 2014 That might be, but it sure seemed like high and low beam to me. Before I figured it out I was messing with the top right one and it was not adjusting the low beam at all, but when I went to high beam it was aimed way up. The lower left one adjusted the low beam up and down just fine, and then I went back to the top right and bought the high beam back down. I would mess with it some more to be sure, but the light is aimed exactly where I want it and I do not want to mess it up and have to spend time getting it right again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerryv Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Pretty sure one adjusts the bulb up and down, other is to adjust side to side. That seems to make sense ... US vs European drive on opposite sides of the road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Global Moderator mjh937 Posted September 2, 2014 Author Global Moderator Share Posted September 2, 2014 I will talk about cars because I do not know if motorcycles are different, but the countries that drive on the other side of the road (most of Europe does not, just the UK) have reflectors that are opposite of ours to have the beam higher towards the curb side. The beam pattern looked pretty uniform between left and right on the garage door so perhaps motorcycles are different. If someone wants to experiment wit the right side screw I can change the how to, but as I said now that mine is adjusted as I want them I do not want to mess with mine. The left side definetly adjusts the low beam up and down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 Nice. I am going to have to try this because mine also seems really low. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aeisan Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 Nice. I am going to have to try this because mine also seems really low. I was just thinking mine was too low last night during my first night ride. It didn't feel like the light reached out far enough down the road. Does anyone know if the instructions for proper adjustment are in the owners' manual? I can look when I get home, but just curious. You know, like a diagram that shows how to measure the height of the light beam shined on say a garage door from X feet away, etc. Life is good on 2 wheels! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superboots Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 Just a FYI since I haven't seen anyone else mention it, if you look at the black plastic just above each adjustment screw they have printed the effect that adjusting the screw will have. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Global Moderator mjh937 Posted September 19, 2014 Author Global Moderator Share Posted September 19, 2014 I cannot believe I did not notice that. Well actually I guess I can. Thanks for pointing it out though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superboots Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 No problem, thanks for posting such great pictures! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fooschnickens Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 This should totally be at the top of everyone's checklist once they get home with the bike (along with checking their tire air pressure). I decided to check mine on a whim and it was aimed over a foot low! This was going by the standard 25ft measuring test. 25ft from a wall on a flat surface, upper edge of the beam should be 36" from the ground. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dewski Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 Brilliant! I can't believe I have never seen this thread. Too often I have found myself just running my high beam since the low is near useless. Thanks for the write ups. Doing this asap! Just did mine, super easy using a stubby phillips ...looking forward to riding home from work tonight and to see how much better i can see without having to hit the brights 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member hippiebikerchick Posted February 5, 2015 Premium Member Share Posted February 5, 2015 Yes! I think a lot of the stock headlights were aimed too low. I know mine was. I would go on a group ride and the people in front of me would tell me they thought my headlight was out. Illegitimi non carborundum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member crazycracka501 Posted February 5, 2015 Premium Member Share Posted February 5, 2015 In addition to the adjustment, I replaced the bulb with a brighter H4 and man did it ever make a difference. Did this a while back because I too thought I was over riding the light at anything over 35mph. Everyone I run into with an FZ-07 I give the heads up...no pun intended. Make it stop!....Now make it go faster! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magsz18 Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 CC, any link to the bulb you used to replace the stock one? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member crazycracka501 Posted February 6, 2015 Premium Member Share Posted February 6, 2015 CC, any link to the bulb you used to replace the stock one? Thanks! Piaa H4 Superplazma Yamaha part number: ABA-0SS58-40-08 Make it stop!....Now make it go faster! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magsz18 Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 You are the man. Thank you! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pioneercrazed Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Thanks so much for this post. I haven't been satisfied with the headlight since I got my bike back in November, to the point of it being a serious safety issue with the extremely low cutoff. Now with the simple turn of a screw I'm completely happy with how my low beam is now, so much better to see what's coming up down the road a little. This should be a sticky for any new buyer to do immediately IMO. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member motomeek Posted February 25, 2015 Premium Member Share Posted February 25, 2015 Is this a sticky yet?! Cus after this post was made, I realized that my light was SOOOOO LOW!!! Fixed it and it's made a whole lot of difference! Instagram: @meekmade | You don't need to flat foot a bike to ride it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member hippiebikerchick Posted February 26, 2015 Premium Member Share Posted February 26, 2015 Is this a sticky yet?! Cus after this post was made, I realized that my light was SOOOOO LOW!!! Fixed it and it's made a whole lot of difference! Consider it done. Illegitimi non carborundum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member motomeek Posted February 26, 2015 Premium Member Share Posted February 26, 2015 Sweet @hippiebikerchick! Instagram: @meekmade | You don't need to flat foot a bike to ride it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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