Method for adjusting an actuator (20, 40) of a component of a motor vehicle headlamp, wherein the actuator (20, 40) is driven by a actuating motor (21, 41) configured to effect, in order to perform a desired position change, an adjusting movement to the extent of a travel path corresponding to the position change, wherein, in the event that the position change is accompanied by a reversal of direction of the adjusting movement in comparison with an immediately preceding change in position, a total displacement path, which in comparison with the displacement path that corresponds to the position change is incremented by an additional travel, is performed, wherein the additional travel is determined in advance during a calibration process, in which the actuating motor (21, 41), starting from an initial position realising an actual value IST-MIN, is displaced in a first direction R1 by a travel distance to the extent of a predetermined minimum travel distance while detecting each position thus reached is detected with a nominal value SOLL-R1 as well as a corresponding actual value IST-R1 for the first direction, until a maximum position IST-MAX is reached, then the actuating motor (21, 41) is moved back by a travel distance according to the minimum travel distance in a direction R2 opposite to the first direction R1 while detecting each position thus reached with a nominal value SOLL-R2 and a corresponding actual value IST-R2 until a minimum position IST-MIN is reached, and for each actual position IST-R1 and IST-R2 thus reached of the actuating motor (21, 41) and actuator (20, 40), respectively, of the actuating device (20, 40), differences with respect to the corresponding desired positions SOLL-R1 and SOLL-R2 are determined, characterised in that, from the differences between the detected nominal values SOLL-R1 and SOLL-R2 and the corresponding actual values IST-R1 and IST-R2 for the first and second directions R1 and R2, in each case a respective value for travel paths corresponding to the differences is stored in a memory as an additional travel for subsequent changes in position, and, when the method is executed, the additional travel is retrieved from the memory, wherein the calibration process is performed at different operating temperatures or ambient temperatures of the motor vehicle headlamp and a plurality of representations of the additional travels, which are each dependent on the operating or ambient temperature of the vehicle in which the motor vehicle headlamp is mounted, are stored in the memory and are retrieved from the memory in accordance with the respective operating or ambient temperature of the vehicle during operation of the vehicle and the respective representation of the additional travel associated with this temperature. wherein, in the event that the position change is accompanied by a reversal of direction of the adjusting movement in comparison with an immediately preceding change in position, a total displacement path, which in comparison with the displacement path that corresponds to the position change is incremented by an additional travel, is performed, wherein the additional travel is determined in advance during a calibration process, in which the actuating motor (21, 41), starting from an initial position realising an actual value IST-MIN, is displaced in a first direction R1 by a travel distance to the extent of a predetermined minimum travel distance while detecting each position thus reached is detected with a nominal value SOLL-R1 as well as a corresponding actual value IST-R1 for the first direction, until a maximum position IST-MAX is reached, then the actuating motor (21, 41) is moved back by a travel distance according to the minimum travel distance in a direction R2 opposite to the first direction R1 while detecting each position thus reached with a nominal value SOLL-R2 and a corresponding actual value IST-R2 until a minimum position IST-MIN is reached, and for each actual position IST-R1 and IST-R2 thus reached of the actuating motor (21, 41) and actuator (20, 40), respectively, of the actuating device (20, 40), differences with respect to the corresponding desired positions SOLL-R1 and SOLL-R2 are determined, characterised in that, from the differences between the detected nominal values SOLL-R1 and SOLL-R2 and the corresponding actual values IST-R1 and IST-R2 for the first and second directions R1 and R2, in each case a respective value for travel paths corresponding to the differences is stored in a memory as an additional travel for subsequent changes in position, and, when the method is executed, the additional travel is retrieved from the memory, wherein the calibration process is performed at different operating temperatures or ambient temperatures of the motor vehicle headlamp and a plurality of representations of the additional travels, which are each dependent on the operating or ambient temperature of the vehicle in which the motor vehicle headlamp is mounted, are stored in the memory and are retrieved from the memory in accordance with the respective operating or ambient temperature of the vehicle during operation of the vehicle and the respective representation of the additional travel associated with this temperature.