> Still, obviously, nothing you can do, or the driver in general.

You could... fix it?

All headlights can be aimed. Even the "auto-levelling" ones have adjustments. I'm sure there are some where it requires some dealer-only programming tool, but a lot still just have little knobs and things. If they don't go ask the dealer to do it.

I drove behind a friend and they told me after that my headlight was shining in their side mirror and blinding them. I put my car in the garage and spent 15 minutes with a screwdriver adjusting the aiming on the auto-leveling sealed LED headlight units so it was lower and wouldn't blind people.

I assumed the self leveling led whatever wonder-tech-wizz cannot be aimed. If they can, that should be the first reaction of someone who is getting flashed at a lot. As opposed to flashing back. It's not a headlight-measuring-contest.

But if it's a newish car, I assume it is factory tuned to whatever standard it is supposed to be, and if you change it, at the very least it will get changed back when doing MOT.

"Nothing they can do"? I've never owned a car so genuinely don't know but surely you can buy whatever lights you want for it and/or correct the alignment?

I helped a friend with aligning the headlight after changing the bulb some years ago, I hear newer cars don't let you change the bulb yourself necessarily but then surely the mechanics can be asked to do this when they change it anyway, or upon the next inspection or so?

> whatever lights you want

For the cars I owned, only one set of official lights existed. Aftermarket would be nearly guaranteed to be worse quality and poorer alignment. And no changing them in the warranty period either.

Car parts are not like PC parts, where you can buy your own and mix-and-match.

No, things with car lights are not as you think. In many modern cars there are no bulbs, but laser diodes and complex lenses and god knows what else. I wouldn't trust anyone to fiddle with mine and do a good job, including the dealership.

> I wouldn't trust anyone to fiddle with mine and do a good job, including the dealership.

Evidently that includes the manufacturer, since he wasn't able to give you proper lights to begin with.

What part of my comments tells you my lights are not proper?

The lights of that Honda:

> When I got my Honda van with stock LED headlights about a year ago, people started flashing me that my brights were on.

I didn't write that. Pay attention to usernames.

I was aware, I thought you are defending, that they can do nothing about it.

That... is a sorry state of affairs and explains a lot. Thanks for making me aware.

>"Nothing they can do"? I've never owned a car so genuinely don't know but surely you can buy whatever lights you want for it and/or correct the alignment?

This was my initial thought too, but thinking about it for a second, I'm sure it's some absurd proprietary connector or housing, with a DRM chip of course, and only comes in the one variety to protect their brand.

> but then surely the mechanics can be asked to do this when they change it anyway, or upon the next inspection or so?

They then proceed to adjust them to spec, which is what they were already at, thus not fixing the problem.