Is this headlight cutoff normal?

[Matsweeper]

So after removing my LED headlight kit from my car, I put my halogens back on. I then had to adjust the aim again because when I put my LED on, i noticed it was focusing too high. I noticed this when i parked a car in front of mine and my LED was blinding me from the side mirrors.

So I tried to aim them as i see on the websites. Tried to get a pretty good cut off line, which I feel i did. Here is the output.


So then when driving i noticed a brighter beam in front of my car on the floor. As if the driver side was aimed too low. So when I finally almost got home, in a darker back street I put on my high beams and noticed it would brighten up the floor in front of me. At this point I knew it was aimed wrong.

I didn't know what to do so i asked my wife to let me borrow her 2013 civic sedan to see her beam pattern that was set from the factory. When i took it to a wall (5 feet away) this is what I saw. The first is the low beam and the second is the high beam.


I tried to aim mine to match hers and this is what I got. Left low and right high beam.
Even though the low beam looks weird, when i put the high beam on, it fills it up perfectly. If I were to lower the left side, the high beam would light up the floor on the left.


Now although i'm happy, I'm just wondering... If i were to look at the first picture of her stock beam pattern online, it would probably be filled with 'not alighned, blinding people, aim your headlights" threads or pictures.

Every picture I see online has straight or at least a little higher passenger side.


So my question is, do I just leave it? or is this normal. The ONLY thing I can think is, when I wanted to test my LED on my wife car, i did remove her driver side halogen to put my LED and then swapped them again. Maybe i put hers back in incorrectly and mine as well?

I mean i'm pretty sure its in all the way and secure. It does not move at all when I try to move it (the bulb in my cars socket). Any feedback or idea would be appreciated. I'm thinking maybe that's just the way our car are set. just don't understand why other halogen pictures always show two obvious strong patterns and mine, you can see the right is clear, but the left just looks like its way off.

 

[webby]

this looks correct.... ^^

the ones where the drivers side is higher than the passenger side is incorrect. That's reversed from how it should be in the United States (left hand drive)

 

[Matsweeper]

That's what I thought, however when I had it on the picture you posted, you could see the beam hitting the floor. And when I put my high beam it made the floor brighter (where the fog lights up).

 

[webby]

only thing I could suggest is taking the bulb back out and making sure it's seated properly. The led pattern is going to be totally different from a standard halogen bulb or a HID bulb.

 

[Matsweeper]

I guess at this point I'm going to take it to honda to check it out

 

[Matsweeper]

Issue solved!!!! So as it turns out the bottom portion of the bulb was not sitting flush against the housing like the passenger side was. And the reason my wife was because I remember using her driver side bulb to try my LED headlight to test something. Here is how it now looks.

Low lighting because it's daytime. In either case I'm VERY happy because this has been bugging me for days. You guys don't think I damaged anything do you?? I wonder if anyone has done this before. Thanks again for the responds.

 

[webby]

looks right now. You wouldn't damage anything....no biggie at all