snailmont5oh
snailmont5oh New Reader
7/30/14 8:49 p.m.

Hi.

My wife just got a 2014 Impala 2LT of the newest style. My problem is, the headlights are atrocious! They are halogen projectors with very little side spill, and they are actually adjusted to come to a point in front of the car! There is no horizontal adjuster. The end result is that, if the road turns at all, you just plain can't see. If the road goes up a hill you're not on yet, can't see. Are the low beams on? Yep. Can't see. I was surprised by a car sitting on the berm of a straight piece of road because the headlights only illuminated the paved part. Don't these people want to know that the deer is there before they hit it?

Seriously: The non halogen square sealed beam headlights in my 1980 Fairmont do a better job.

Any suggestions will be appreciated, especially if it involves a method for horizontal adjustment.

By the way, I've been driving for over 25 years, and this is the first Chevy I've owned.

Thanks for the help.

MINIzguy
MINIzguy Reader
7/30/14 10:14 p.m.

Bake them open and retrofit a bi-xenon projector, such as a FX-R, in it.

novaderrik
novaderrik PowerDork
7/31/14 1:19 p.m.

can't help with your problem, but GM thinks that you are wrong about the headlights sucking:

http://media.gm.com/media/us/en/chevrolet/news.detail.html/content/Pages/news/us/en/2013/Oct/1030-impala-hid.html

is it possible that the car has been wrecked and repaired with cheap parts?

snailmont5oh
snailmont5oh New Reader
7/31/14 6:13 p.m.

Carfax says no wreckage. GM apparently doesn't know what people need to see when they drive. Maybe they all drive in Detroit, and not seeing what's on the sides of the road makes them feel better.

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