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So I think someone might have sat on my car without me knowing, maybe to take a selfie or something, but I just noticed that one of my headlights is now misaligned.
It appears that my driver side headlight is now slightly pushed in at the front inside corner. It's not loose or wobbly at all, and there's no damage to the light housing that I can see or feel. Totally solid, just out of place.
I recently had my entire front end refurbished at an authorized Aston Martin shop with a new bumper cover, new headlights, grille, and paintwork, so I know it was all perfect.
Basically, what does this look like it could be? Is it a matter of having it realigned or is it likely something is broken in there?
Probably just movement at the mounting points. The headlights have 3 mountings, 1 at the very front. How long ago was the front refurbished? Call and ask if they can look at it.
Most shops have a labor/parts warranty of a year for repairs. I doubt anything is broken.
As they are new headlights its unlikely that the mounts are broken, very likely if they were original. The front mounting point and the rears are all adjustable.
The mounting screws needs loosening and then the front mount screwed in (27mm if i remember correctly) to raise the front of the light, easy job if you have an airbox delete, not so easy with the airboxes in.
Yeah, it doesn't feel like anything is broken, the mount is still solid as it should be, no looseness or wiggling at all. It's just weird that it got pushed in like that considering how solid it does feel.
I'm going to bring it to the shop to have it looked at sooner or later. I had the front refurbished about two years ago, and I believe I have a three year warranty on the work although I don't know that this would necessarily be something they'd cover. Either way, I'm just wondering if this is more likely going to be an hour of labor to make an adjustment, or a couple thousand dollars for a repair to the housing.
I feel like it should just be a quick adjustment. Let's see I guess lol.