1966 beetle headlight adjustment

[51tuscany]

How do you adjust headlights, on, 1966 vw beetle

[Digger89L]

See attached pages from the 1966 Australian owner's manual. Pretty straight forward really.

[Blue Baron]

That's a bad chart for left hand drive vehicles because it will result in your headlights blinding the oncoming drivers. (Assuming your car is 12 volt!)

Here's how I do it. I park the car about 25 feet from the garage door and get a grocery bag and a screwdriver. I tape the bag over one headlight and adjust the beam of the other by turning the two screws on the headlight ring. One adjusts the vertical and one adjusts the horizontal. You want to center the beams ahead of the car, just above the bottom of the garage door. Test drive the car to see if the beams are on the road, and that the top of the low beam is just below the sight level of oncoming traffic. You may have to experiment a little to get it just right, but you'll get a feel for it.

[Digger89L]

Good point: forgot that the Australian model would be a right hand drive, and that that would make a difference on the headlight settings. However, it wouldn't take a rocket scientist to convert the right-drive setting instructions to left-drive settings. Mirror image of the chart I posted.