Q: air conditioning and headlight aim
i have a problem with my headlights i put a brand new set of headlights and hid bulbs in them and everything works perfect but its leaning to the side and aimed way to high and need to figure out how to level it back up and aim it down toward the road. Second i have a problem with my air conditioning it only blows on high speed i have read from numerous people that had the same problem and they said it was the resistor. is that true?
My car has 185045 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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