Whether you feel you can’t see properly during the night, whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these situations, there’s only one component of your car to blame – your low beams. Despite the fact this adjustment may seem to be easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a whole adjustment is much more complex than this ordinary realignment, and in this article, we will find out how to adjust the low beam lights of your Mercedes Benz M Class? For this, first of all we will find out why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Mercedes Benz M Class.
Why set the low beam lights of your Mercedes Benz M Class?
So let’s start our article with the point of adjusting the low beam lights of your Mercedes Benz M Class. For the majority of us these lights are well enough adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. Unfortunately this is not automatically the case and looking at this setting, either because the low beams of your Mercedes Benz M Class are not lighting up well, or because you have the feeling that they are too low or too strong is a good idea .
Adjusting the low beam of your Mercedes Benz M Class for security is a good idea.
To start, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Mercedes Benz M Class must be done for a ordinary security reason. Regardless it’s for you, or for the other users you come across during your night journeys. In reality, if you don’t see enough, the real danger is to miss an obstacle on the road, or to anticipate a curve badly. On the other hand, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the drivers in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is consequently necessary for others as well as for you to have an optimal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Mercedes Benz M Class for legal reasons
In addition to security, there is a law that supervises the power, the adjustment of low beams of cars, here is what it specifies: have between 2 and 4 headlights that illuminate at minimum , 30 meters. Another legislation supervises their use, the European one (directive 76/756/EEC), which stipulates that the height of the beam must be between 500 mm and 1200 mm from the ground, and that they must be at least 600 mm apart.
How to adjust the low-beam headlamps of a Mercedes Benz M Class?
We will now go forward to the section that concerns you the more in this article, how to adjust the low beams of his Mercedes Benz M Class? This setting may sound a bit difficult, but if you follow the guidelines you should be able to do it without too much problem.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Mercedes Benz M Class
First of all, you will need to set up your car to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to put in place:
- Place your car on a floor in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
- Verify your tire pressure rigorously.
- Verify that the height adjustment knob for the lights is set to 0
- Try doing that with half a full tank.
- Remove all unnecessary weight from the car, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.
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The setting of the low beam headlights of his Mercedes Benz M Class
Once your car is set up, you will switch on your dipped beam and make a cross-shaped mark (one horizontal and one vertical section) in the middle of the beam that will be projected on the wall. Make sure with a level that both parts of the cross are straight. Then back your car up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the operation here are the simple steps to follow:
- Open your bonnet, locate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Mercedes Benz M Class (they are almost always marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side adjusts the horizontality of the adjustment).
- Use a cloth or something else to hide the light on which you are not making the manipulation.
- Using the screws to make the horizontal manipulation, you should have the most intense part of the beam which should be a little to the right of the vertical line marked on the wall
- With regard to vertical adjustment, you will have to use the screw to try to position the upper end of the beam at the level of the horizontal marking on the wall, or slightly below.
- Once done, examine that the low beam setting of your Mercedes Benz M Class is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to examine that it has been driven, in some cases it may move.
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If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Mercedes Benz M Class, please go through our article on this subject.
If you want more tutorials on the Mercedes Benz M Class, go to our Mercedes Benz M Class category.
