From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Andy   wrote:   
   >On Friday, June 5, 2020 at 7:14:20 PM UTC-5, thekma...@gmail.com wrote:   
   >> Steve W:   
   >>   
   >> Provision of X and Y adjustment of motor vehicle   
   >> headlights is common sense.  I think even as recent   
   >> as my 2008 Kia Optima had both.   
   >   
   >Back when cars had glass headlights, you had both adjustments.   
   >   
   >That was when I had a Pinto.   
      
   When you had a Pinto, the frames of American cars were slapped together with   
   hammers and approximate spot-welds and nothing really matched.  The doors   
   didn't fit right, the hood seams were never nice and straight.  Because   
   of that, a lot of precision things like headlight positions required   
   adjustment because they were relative to a frame and body that were not   
   straight to begin with.   
      
   Now that car bodies and frames are built to rather higher degree of   
   precision, many adjustments that were once critical are no longer necessary.   
   --scott   
   --   
   "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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