How do I adjust the headlight aim left to right (horizontally) on my 2016 RTL? Any hints, directions?

[lord lucan]

Hi all, my question is how do you adjust the left to right (horizontal) aim on the upper lights on my 2016 RTL? I'm aware of the procedure to adjust the height by turning the adjuster behind the side panel, just can't work out how to adjust the left to right aim?!

 

[Bfromla]

Believe there's a similar screw adjuster, double check your manual, access may be behind the dash.

 

[Gwolf]

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[Little Blue]

Do you know if Spyder's for the UK are the same as USA? Something comes to mind about the lights. I have only
adjusted the vertical line. Seems like there is a way to do the horizontal.
My Spyder is in storage till April. The wife has been trying to help me find my books.

Hopefully someone will come up with the correct answer.

 

[Peter Aawen]

Do you know if Spyder's for the UK are the same as USA? Something comes to mind about the lights. I have only
adjusted the vertical line. Seems like there is a way to do the horizontal.
My Spyder is in storage till April. The wife has been trying to help me find my books.

Hopefully someone will come up with the correct answer.

Actually, now that you mention it, @Little Blue, I should've realised/remembered that @lord lucan comes from London, UK and his Spyder is going to be an EU Spec Spyder, which is much more like and Oz Spec Spyder than it is a North American Spec Spyder, especially when it comes to the RT's headlights! Sorry @lord lucan. Mind you, that might not quite be the case any longer, because I think in the last 'Can I get these US Spec headlights to work in my UK Spec Spyder' thread that you started, weren't you considering swapping in the US Spec light assemblies you'd sourced, @lord lucan?? But if you'd done that, one of the things you would've needed to swap would've been the upper headlight assembly aiming mechanisms, so you should be aware of how to adjust the aim already... so maybe you didn't do that swap?! (smart move, IMHO! ) so...

AFAIK, 2013-2019 Oz Spec Spyders don't have the US Spec single filament headlight globes with a shutter arrangement that allows the activation of High and Low Beam, and I believe EU Spec Spyders share this difference from the US Spec headlights. We have our Low Beam Lights down where North American Spyders have their Fog Lights, and our High Beam lights are in the Upper light assemblies, only WITHOUT the shutter arrangement.

IIRC, the aiming adjustment for our 2013 -2019 RT's upper headlight assemblies is all achieved by turning either/both of the brass knurled posts that are mounted on EACH SIDE of the Spyder underneath the tupperware panel below the mirrors - there's a frame brace under there that has the two knurled brass posts mounted on each side of the Spyder (I'll try and add a pic in the morning, if I've got the time; but it's almost midnight here & I'm not going out to strip the tupperware off a Spyder now just to take a pic for you, sorry! ) Without going to check, I think that one of the two brass posts on the Left side of the Spyder provides up/down aiming adjustment for the Left upper headlight assembly; while the other brass post provides left/right aiming adjustment for the Left upper headlight assembly - and the two brass posts underneath the panel below the Right mirror provide similar up/down or Left/right aiming adjustment for the Right upper light assembly.

So @lord lucan, do you have/have you found the pair of brass adjusters underneath the panel below the mirror on one side of your Spyder? If you have, there's a chance that one of them will adjust up/down aim for that side upper light assembly, while the other will adjust the left/right aim for that same side upper light assembly; and you should be able to find a similar pair of brass adjusters under the corresponding panel below the mirror on the other side of your Spyder, adjusters which may well provide for both up/down and left/right aim adjustment for that side upper light assembly!

Over to you...

Edit: Check out the thread linked below. The pic in post #4 is of a North American Spec Spyder, but you can clearly see the hole where our Oz Spec Spyders and I believe EU Spec Spyders have that second brass adjusting post I mentioned above. I don't think that our brass posts &/or the frame are labelled HB & LB any longer, but like I said above, it's late-ish here, I'm not going out to check, but I might have time in the morning.

 

[Snowbelt Spyder]

Correction to the above, courtesy of the 2016 Operator’s Guide;

- US/North America Spec: One brass adjustment knob per side. Upper headlight assembly up/down.

- European/Australian Spec: Two brass adjustment knobs per side. Lower headlight assembly up/down. Upper headlight assembly up/down. (no difference on the upper)

- Japanese Spec: Three brass adjustment knobs per side. Lower headlight assembly up/down. Upper headlight assembly up/down. Upper headlight assembly left/right.

So, I suspect that one of the mounting points for the lamp carrier assembly was redesigned to make it adjustable on the Japanese model, or it already is, it just doesn’t have a flexible cable to it. Never saw one in the flesh. Typically then, horizontal aim is not a problem. If yours is off, maybe the lamp carrier mounting is out of whack, and can be corrected. Or, worst case, you could shim the headlight assembly mounting.

 

[Mikey]

Now I can go anywhere in the world and adjust my lights!!! May not know which side of the road to drive on but I can wing it!!