Please help! I am in a process of transferring my beloved Mazda3 2.2D SportNav (adaptive headlights) from the UK to Hungary. How can the headlight beam projection be adjusted/changed? It's a right-hand car and the headlight projection is opposite to a left-hand drive car. The level adjustment is fine, but this light projects more towards ongoing cars. I have adjusted the levels with the white cap/screw. In older cars, this was done with swapping/changing the mirrors in the headlights. Thanks.

 

You will need to replace the whole headlight assembly with a LHD unit.

You can't adjust it from RHD to LHD.

 

I did some research and contacted a couple of really specialised headlight repair shops and they all said it can be done. Ordinary car electricians don't want to touch xenon headlights . There is also a youtube video with the title "RHD to LHD headlights" that shows that you only need to adjust the reflector behind the lens in xenon lights. Apparently, it's not a big and complicated job.

 

Just wondering, did you manage to adjust the lights or they need to be replaced?

 

Just wondering, did you manage to adjust the lights or they need to be replaced?

 

Hi Roger,

yes, I did, back in 2021. The car passed the state technical inspection (first time MOT) in Hungary successfully. Still driving my Mazda here and couldn't be happier.

Exactly as you wrote Found a garage in Serbia, Belgrade who are specialized in headlights. They opened them up (with heat-guns) and adjusted the mirrors inside so the beam would be the opposite projectory. They even showed me different types of headlights, e.g. in German cars (BMW) this is done by a simple switch inside the headlight, while for the Mazda it is a little more complicated, since there is no switch and the beams are moving with steering, so the mirrors needs to be adjusted. It was a 130EUR job, around 150 USD.

But as you mentioned no ordinary car electricians wanted to touch them . Man, I contacted a lot of them Doing this I saved around 1300EUR (1500USD). I also had to replace the tailgate-lamps, as the reverse-light and fog-light positions had to be swapped (to drive a RH car in a LH country – fog-light must be towards the outside lane). I did the tailgate-lamps change by myself following a YouTube video.