From: xenolith@optusnet.com.au   
      
   On 7/6/20 5:09 am, Scott Dorsey wrote:   
   > 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   
   >   
   Pretty much sums it up.  ;-)   
      
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