as most of you know, I just painted my housings black, but now my light output is terrible. when you look at the lights, they look fine, but either they are pointed too far down, or they lost about 50% of their original output somehow.

I have searched for days and cant find anyway to adjust the headlight positioning. Does anyone know how to do this on an 06'?

 

I have never seen where to adjust the headlight my self. Im sure you could mess with the brackets a little. Sorry to hear your output is less efficient.

 

Are you joking? I just searched for "headlight adjust" and on the first page was this https://my350z.com/forum/showthread....adlight+adjust . The thread is amazingly titled "headlight adjustment". Wow...

 

you can adjust the lights with a long stem phillips screwdriver. lookup the tutorial on the 3 5 0 z - t e c h.com forums

eliminate the spaces on the link.

 

no sh*t. read my thread I have 06 lights not 03-05 like that thread shows...wow

 

ok, so I have figured out how to adjust them, BUT it did not solve the problem

Either I am imagining that my lights used to be ALOT brighter, or compared to the new 3 series bmw, our lights are about 50% dimmer.. Any tech guys know what could cause this?

 

wow

 

Well, I think the housings are reflective for the reason that it would refract the light within and amplify the light beam coming out. That would result in the forward beam being scattered giving you a larger lighting area. Once you black that out, its only the forward facing beam that is casting the light and the stuff coming off the sides is deadened by the black. So i guess thats why it would feel like the forward beam is less effective?

 

umm idk how your it would be dimmer...its not reflecting off anything liek the 03-05 liights since theyre projector like....i think youre just imagining things man

 

Yeah something isn't right. The 2006's are a full bi-xenon projector and there is, to my knowledge, no reflection going on for light output.

 

the 2007 3series BMW is a projector just like the 06 Z headlights. The BMW doesn't use anything to reflect off of, the projector is right at the front of the light housing, and when you put a white paper in front of the BMW and then in front of the Z, there is no comparrision at all.

 

if you got paint inside the projector somehow you'd be seeing a light output decrease. '06 lights put out less light than BMW's anyways.

 

when i painted them, the projectors where inside the house, while the housings that got painted were outside, so that cant be the problem. I wonder if the heat from the oven, messed up something in the wires that were still attached? its so strange how dim they are now, but the funny thing is, that when you park the car in the street and walk about 60 ft away, the lights look fine

 

Pics.

 

Sell me the lights and I will let you know what I think. lol

 

bump

 

Do you have upgraded bulbs? If you go higher in kelvin, you will notice a decrease in light output.

If you have the 06's painted with stock bulbs (4300k) , it shouldn't have changed so drastically.

 

Im still using stock bulbs

 

There is absolutely NO reason whatsoever that blacking out the '06 headlights would dim them out. I am in the process of doing so myself and compared the painted side with non-painted and found zero difference. I even have a pic of that. Will post it tonight.

 

ya thats what i thought also, so there must be something screwed up with my wiring inside