Saab 2007 owner manual IB1950

248 Car care and technical information

•The vehicle should be fully assembled and all other work stopped while headlight aiming is being done.

•The vehicle should not have any snow, ice or mud attached to it.

•Tires should be inflated to the prescribed pressure.

•Close all doors.

•Rock the vehicle to stabilize the suspen- sion.

Headlight aiming is done with the vehicle low beam lamps. The high beam lamps will be correctly aimed if the low beam lamps are aimed properly.

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1Wall or garage door

225 ft (7.6 m) between wall and headlight lens.

3Measurement from the ground to the low beam aiming marker on the headlight lens.

4Same measurement as (3) but substract 2 inches for vehicles with halogen lamps and 3 inches for vehicles with xenon lamps.

If you find that the headlight needs adjust- ment follow these steps:

1Open the hood and locate the vertical aiming device.

2Locate the marker on the lens.

3Measure the distance from the ground to the aim marker on each lens.

Subtract 2 inches if the vehicle is equipped with halogen lamps, record this distance.

Subtract 3 inches if the vehicle is equipped with xenon lamps, record this distance.

4At the wall or other flat surface, measure from the ground to the recorded dis- tance (see point 4) and draw a horizontal line the width of the vehicle.