Regardless you feel you can’t see as well at nighttime, regardless whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these circumstances, there’s only one part of your motor vehicle to blame – your low beams. Although this correction may seem easy to do thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a full correction is much more technical than this basic manipulation, and in this article, we will find out how to adjust the low beam lights of your Alfa Romeo Mito? For this, first we will find out why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Alfa Romeo Mito.
Why set the low beam lights of your Alfa Romeo Mito?
So let’s commence our article with the advantage of adjusting the low beam lights of your Alfa Romeo Mito. For most people these lights are well enough adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. Unfortunately this is not constantly the case and examining this setting, either because the low beams of your Alfa Romeo Mito are not illuminating well, or because you have the sense that they are too low or too strong is a good plan .
Adjusting the low beam of your Alfa Romeo Mito for safety is a good plan.
Firstly, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Alfa Romeo Mito must be done for a simple safety cause. Regardless whether it’s for you, or for the other users you encounter during your night trips. In fact, if you don’t see enough, the risk is to fail to see an obstacle on the route, or to anticipate a curve badly. In contrast, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the car owners in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is consequently fundamental for others as well as for you to have an optimal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Alfa Romeo Mito for law reasons
Furthermore to safety, there is a law that controls the power, the adjustment of low beams of cars, here is what it specifies: have between 2 and 4 headlights that light up at minimum , 30 meters. Another legislation controls 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 Alfa Romeo Mito?
We will now move on to the part that interests you the more in this article, how to adjust the low beams of his Alfa Romeo Mito? This setting may appear to be a bit complex, but if you stick to the instructions you should be able to do it without too much issue.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Alfa Romeo Mito
To start, you will need to prepare your motor vehicle to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to apply:
- Place your motor vehicle on a floor in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
- Verify your tire pressure carefully.
- 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 motor vehicle, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.
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The setting of the low beam headlights of his Alfa Romeo Mito
Once your motor vehicle is into position, you will turn 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 motor vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the procedure here are the simple steps to stick to:
- Open your bonnet, situate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Alfa Romeo Mito (they are in most cases marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side manages the horizontality of the adjustment).
- Use a cloth or some thing else to hide the light on which you are not making the modification.
- Using the screws to make the horizontal modification, 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 modification, 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 completed, check that the low beam setting of your Alfa Romeo Mito is consistent on the road, do not be reluctant to check that it has been driven, on occasion it may move.
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If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Alfa Romeo Mito, please go through our article on this subject.
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