How to adjust the headlight on a PX?

[rtrevor]

Hi all

I have a 2008 PX125E (one of the last...), and it has a brilliant headlight - which currently illuminates the sky rather than the road.
Perhaps a silly question... but how do I adjust the headlight? I see there's a bolt-head underneath the rim: do I just loosen that and tilt the unit by hand?
(As you can guess, I'm completely new to Vespa maintenance...)

Richard

[Robjack]

Yes, that bolt should do it. You may need to loosen your headset top first (4 bolts under headset) and lift it a little to allow the headlight to move. The headlight swivels on two fixings, one at each side, and I can't remember at the mo how they fix onto their brackets, but if necessary you may have to loosen these to allow it to move also. Then tighten down the headset to secure.

[rtrevor]

Many thanks! I'll try exactly that and report back.

[rtrevor]

It really is as easy as that: loosen the bolt, swivel the headlight and tighten the bolt again!

[joey]

Yes it really is as simple as that!
I leave mine loose so that I can adjust while riding for particularly bad roads, but for MOTs etc shine your light at a wall from about 10 metres and adjust until the top of your beam is roughly 1m from floor level so as not to dazzle drivers to your front.