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Tourer
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| I need to adjust my headlight ,so I looked in the manual. Well the manual did not help with this problem because of my electric adjuster, for the windshield, is right where your hand would go behind the mount. Do you think the mechanism needs to come out to move the headlight? This is a 2009 tour premium. |
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Visionary
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San Antonio, TX | There is a wheel that has cog like teeth. Spin the wheel one way and the lights go up and the other the headlights point further down.
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New user
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| I have the 08, so it may be a little different than yours, but in the very center of the front, once you've removed the cover, is the adjuster.
I can't see my headlights move while turning the adjuster, but it does work
it's a big, black cog-like circle back in there, you can't get your whole hand on it. The manual says clockwise/counterclockwise (I think) but you're on the opposite side of it, so it moves backward.
I had the same problem, and it took me several attempts to find it, so not finding it the first time isn't out of the ordinary (at least for me).
and, if you're like me, that electric adjuster will come in very handy. All the way up, and I can talk to my darling wife (it's very seldom all the way up with her on the bike with me), all the way down for slow-speed (city streets, parking lots), and about 1/3 of the way up blocks the wind off of my face so I'm comfy with an open faced helmet, or my full-face with the visor up. |
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Tourer
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| There is no room on mine. Do you have the electric windshield? I think the 08's are different from the 09's |
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Cruiser
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Cold Lake Alberta Canada | The best way to describe finding the adjuster wheel is its behind the window unit. Or at least on my 08 premium. A pain to find until you know where it is. |
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Cruiser
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Montreal, QC Canada | I had a hard time with mine as well. My friends were always complaining about my headlight being in their eyes. Remove the panel below the windshield and slide your hand down towards the light. The wheel is right in the center. Once you find the adjustment wheel, you just have to be able to touch it with one finger. Park your bike close to a wall so you can see if you are moving up or down.
Edited by kenandpen 2009-11-15 10:37 PM
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Fountain Inn, SC United States | Thread moved to Tech Q&A forum. |
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Tourer
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20 miles west of Chicago. | You can use a large screwdriver, dowel rod or something similar to turn the adjusting wheel by placing it against the cutouts in the perimeter of the adjusting wheel sequentially, in place of trying to get your hand and finger in the cramped space.
Edited by Mudge 2009-11-16 9:13 AM
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Tourer
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| Thanks guys. I got the bike out in the bright sun an finally saw the adjuster. I can get one finger to turn it. |
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Headlight adjustment???