These questions keep going in my head especially since I went to a body shop and they ask me what model I have and im not sure which one it is. When I bought the car it has HIDs but the bulbs are much more blue than factory, also I dont think I have ever seen them auto level. Anyway to tell if my HIDs are factory or not?

Secondly my model has appearance package although one pair of them seem to be from the Titanium gray so they could have been added. It also has navigation. There is no sunroof and the interior isnt black and red. Also there is no heated seats and looks like I have a single disc cd player but still has a cd changer button? Just trying to figure out what it is because it seems like I have some options and not all. Thanks.

 

If you've got HID headlights, fog lights and DSC but no moon roof you've got the Sport package. That's consistent with cloth unheated seats. Nav was an option on all trim levels.

If you don't have DSC then you've got a base and the HIDs would have been added. As far as color of the bulbs goes, a previous owner could have changed those.

The specification deck was posted here in a sticky. I don't know if it's still there, or was displaced by later year versions.

Ken

 

Thanks. I must got the sport then. I got dsc. When I go to body shops they only ask me if I have base, touring or grand touring. They never ask a sport option.

 

Why don't my hids auto level?

 

I bet they do. Auto leveling should never be a thing to notice, other than the test procedure when the lights are initially turned on. Even that is a fraction of a second.

 

The leveling is very subtle. There is a sensor on the driver's side rear suspension. If the person has had suspension work done then it is very easy for a careless person to put the sensor arm back at an inorrrect angle. I have seen this, it leaves the lights misadjusted either way too high or low.

 

Anyone have a picture of the sensor? And how it should be? Car had s-techs when I bought it so they probably were adjusted wrong.

 

Why adjust it when lowered? Do you really have to? Just curious...

 

best way to test it.
turn on the headlights and the ignition to on, open the trunk and sit on it. you should hear a faint grzzz. then you get off turn around quickly you should see the light moves.

 

I probably dont have a picture of that particular part.

It is a small box with a thin arm coming out of it (or arms, sorry its been a while since i looked at it). The arm bolts to the lower control arm i believe. It is based on rotation, not extension. So as the suspension moves the arm rotates and turns a sensor in the box.

Kinda difficult to explain but if you remove you driver's rear wheel you should notice it easily.