Headlight leveling sensor "arm" broken.. way to manually adjust headlights?

[mart242]

Now that winter is here and days much shorter, I've noticed that my headlights are way too low. I did a quick inspection and found that the arm of the rear level sensor is broken. It's the part that shown here:
http://imgur.com/WaGiCQt

Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to be sold separately and since my sensor appears to be working because it's not throwing headlight error codes, I'd rather do without replacing it because it is definitely NOT cheap at all up here in Canada. Plus, I've just put $800 on the car for other repairs. I'm thinking that I could simply put a dab of adhesive on the sensor so it doesn't move and then adjust the headlights manually so they don't move. I don't carry 800lbs of passengers on the rear seat so don't think that my headlight adjustment should vary much. Plus, it would be like most cars out there that don't have auto adjust.

All I could find on the web is about how to force the computer to learn their new "reset position" but I'm thinking that completely disabling the auto adjust would be the way to go. Is this doable? Any other recommendations?

Thanks!

[mart242]

Turns out they don't sell the little arm. Had to give up and bought the stupid sensor. What a $@#$#!@ PITA that thing was to change. Everything was rusted (what else do you expect living in the canadian city that uses the most salt..) and the screws were stuck so it took a while to get the stupid thing out, there is no room to work. I had to cut them. Major PITA. New one was installed in just a few minutes once the old one was out.

[kt883]

where exactly is it located? I did a quick glance and could not find it. Do you have a pic of the location? I'm going to check again on drivers side.

On my last car I ended up fixing my broken leveler arm by epoxying it back together (plastic arm broke in half). It worked. Just have to get vcds to set adaptations (shows it highest and lowest positions to orient itself).

I have the same problem as you. I think I dropped my car from jack too quickly and broke it or overextended the joint and its backwards, which is what I'm hoping.

[mart242]

I don't have a pic but you can barely see it without jacking the car if you use a flashlight. Mine was completely "seized" and rusted so it snapped.

[kt883]

I found drivers rear and epoxied it back together. I drove a screw into the arm end that broke (something for the epoxy to grip on) and scored up the other part that's attached to control arm with a dremmel and covered in epoxy putty.

I also sprayed penetrating oil onto the ball joints of the sensor as they were stuck and immobile. They are nice and free now.

I need to find the other ones to examine them for damage. Cant find the others.