Happens all the time to me. The lights are adjusted properly. But on bumpy roads, we have many in Iowa. The front of the car bounces blinding or flashing the other car.

 

You can put a sticker (or a square of electrical tape) on the middle of the headlight lens (in front of the bulb).
Then when you project the light on a wall, or garage door, you'll have a dark spot to help you align the lights.

 

esmarkey-

Look closely at the headlight lens, it will have a tiny mark # at the aiming point. This point is where you measure from there to ground.

That is how high the lights should shine on a wall @ 25' away. (on low-beam only)..

 

I get it anytime the oncoming driver does not actually see me dim my lights. I checked, the aim it is actually somewhat low. I can see the upper cutoff when driving. My solution is to make sure I am seen dimming my lights, when I do this I never get flashed by oncoming traffic.

I too get annoyed by bright lights on an oncoming vehicle, I'm more sensitive than others about the bright lights in the dark I guess. My biggest pet peeve is those who have fog lights on, they tend to turn them off quickly when I'm driving my other vehicle and turn on my off road lights, but I also see a lot of pickups either towing or hauling a heavy load that makes their rear end squat several inches but they don't re aim their headlights and literally blind everyone, they don't feel it affects them and they usually die when the vehicle they are blinding swerves into a head on collision with them. Then to top it off I see whe there are those who want to put in brighter lights, as if the HHR stock lights aren't very bright already.

But then of course this is all my opinion, and it tends to be different from the vast majority most of the time.

 

I have noticed that my 2008 does NOT have very bright lights, and I looked at one I passed today they looked rather anemic, at least in DRL mode, yellow. Maybe a function of age? of the light bulb that is.

 

They're supposed to be dimmer in DRL mode.

 

I know that, but yellow?

 

How well can you see white light in the day light?

 

But some people change to yellow bulbs too, I always did in my ranger, they generally don't appear as bright but your visibility improves ten-fold especially in snow and rain, I intend to switch these too if I ever lose one. And you shouldn't look into a headlight either, you can use your burm lines to guide for the 15 sec. it takes to pass the headlight when it's close enough to really affect you anyhow

 

I can't stand getting flashed all of the time!!! it's rather annoying! I have 6000K HID Bi-Xenon High/Low Beams in Headlights, and 6000K Low Beams in Foglights which are always on! I love blinding the crap out of people when they high beam me, because people in NJ are rather stupid and don't know the fog lights/Low bea theory. Even though my car doesn't work that way. I can have High beams and the fog lights are still on!!! OEM BABY!!! just a little tweaked! I almost wanted to have High/Low in both fog lights and headlights, That would definately suck for the oncoming person! I didn't want to be a jerk though.