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On Saturday, June 6, 2020 at 2:09:46 PM UTC-5, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Andy > wrote: > >On Friday, June 5, 2020 at 7:14:20 PM UTC-5, wrote: > >> Steve W: > >> > >> Provision of X and Y adjustment of motor vehicle > >> headlights is common sense. I think even as recent > >> as my 2008 Kia Optima had both. > > > >Back when cars had glass headlights, you had both adjustments. > > > >That was when I had a Pinto. > > When you had a Pinto, the frames of American cars were slapped together with > hammers and approximate spot-welds and nothing really matched. The doors > didn't fit right, the hood seams were never nice and straight. I do not think they were "slapped together". That had assembly lines even back then. But Ford being Ford, they were the worst American made cars. (F)ix (O)r (R)epair (D)aily Within a year, all my window knobs had cracked. I went thru 4 throwout gears for the starter motor. But as my father was a taught Ford mechanics, I did learn a lot about repairing cars. :-) Andy |
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Xeno:
I've driven plenty of domestic and foreign post-2000 cars, and I have yet to see any with dashboard controls for the aim of headlights. Everything from Impalas to Accords, Optimas to Malibus. Never seen a "rheomawhatitiz" anywhere on any dashboard I've ever sat in front of, as passenger or as driver. |
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On 7/6/20 12:22 pm, Steve W. wrote:
> wrote: >> Â*Xeno: >> >> I've driven plenty of domestic and foreign post-2000 cars, and I have >> yet to see any with dashboard controls for the aim of headlights. >> Everything from Impalas to Accords, Optimas to Malibus.Â* Never seen a >> "rheomawhatitiz" anywhere on any dashboard I've ever sat in front of, >> as passenger or as driver. > > For the most part the systems in use are automatic. There are some that > have manual adjust with a dial but not common in the US. > Well, my experience is with Australian models. The US experience might well vary. -- Xeno Nothing astonishes Noddy so much as common sense and plain dealing. (with apologies to Ralph Waldo Emerson) |
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On 7/6/20 5:09 am, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Andy > wrote: >> On Friday, June 5, 2020 at 7:14:20 PM UTC-5, wrote: >>> Steve W: >>> >>> Provision of X and Y adjustment of motor vehicle >>> headlights is common sense. I think even as recent >>> as my 2008 Kia Optima had both. >> >> Back when cars had glass headlights, you had both adjustments. >> >> That was when I had a Pinto. > > When you had a Pinto, the frames of American cars were slapped together with > hammers and approximate spot-welds and nothing really matched. The doors > didn't fit right, the hood seams were never nice and straight. Because > of that, a lot of precision things like headlight positions required > adjustment because they were relative to a frame and body that were not > straight to begin with. > > Now that car bodies and frames are built to rather higher degree of > precision, many adjustments that were once critical are no longer necessary. > --scott > Pretty much sums it up. ;-) -- Xeno Nothing astonishes Noddy so much as common sense and plain dealing. (with apologies to Ralph Waldo Emerson) |
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On 7/6/20 8:08 am, Andy wrote:
> On Saturday, June 6, 2020 at 2:09:46 PM UTC-5, Scott Dorsey wrote: >> Andy > wrote: >>> On Friday, June 5, 2020 at 7:14:20 PM UTC-5, wrote: >>>> Steve W: >>>> >>>> Provision of X and Y adjustment of motor vehicle >>>> headlights is common sense. I think even as recent >>>> as my 2008 Kia Optima had both. >>> >>> Back when cars had glass headlights, you had both adjustments. >>> >>> That was when I had a Pinto. >> >> When you had a Pinto, the frames of American cars were slapped together with >> hammers and approximate spot-welds and nothing really matched. The doors >> didn't fit right, the hood seams were never nice and straight. > > I do not think they were "slapped together". That had assembly lines even back then. Slapped together refers to the *tolerances* used. Much tighter tolerances these days. > > But Ford being Ford, they were the worst American made cars. > > (F)ix (O)r (R)epair (D)aily > > Within a year, all my window knobs had cracked. > > I went thru 4 throwout gears for the starter motor. > > But as my father was a taught Ford mechanics, I did learn a lot about repairing cars. > :-) > > Andy > -- Xeno Nothing astonishes Noddy so much as common sense and plain dealing. (with apologies to Ralph Waldo Emerson) |
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Xeno wrote:
> On 7/6/20 12:22 pm, Steve W. wrote: >> wrote: >>> Xeno: >>> >>> I've driven plenty of domestic and foreign post-2000 cars, and I have >>> yet to see any with dashboard controls for the aim of headlights. >>> Everything from Impalas to Accords, Optimas to Malibus. Never seen a >>> "rheomawhatitiz" anywhere on any dashboard I've ever sat in front of, >>> as passenger or as driver. >> For the most part the systems in use are automatic. There are some that >> have manual adjust with a dial but not common in the US. >> > Well, my experience is with Australian models. The US experience might > well vary. > Well you folks down under couldn't use the automatic version, they would all point up instead of down... LOL. I've seen "manual adjust" power versions here as well, usually on the lower cost models where they share a lot of parts with the uplevel versions. -- Steve W. |
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Xeno > wrote:
> On 7/6/20 10:30 am, wrote: >> Xeno: >> >> I've driven plenty of domestic and foreign post-2000 cars, and I have yet to see any with >> dashboard controls for the aim of headlights. Everything from Impalas to Accords, Optimas >> to Malibus. Never seen a "rheomawhatitiz" anywhere on any dashboard I've ever sat in >> front of, as passenger or as driver. >> > You need to look a little harder. Such adjustments are not uncommon. I > have owned at least two cars with such things and they are by no means > up market models. All the cars I have rented _in Europe_ have headlight adjustment dials in the cockpit, but none of the cars I've driven _in America_ have them, whether Japanese, European or American makes. I suspect thekmanrocks hasn't driven many cars outside the USA. |
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