Whether you feel you can’t see as well at night, regardless you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these cases, there’s only one part of your automobile to blame – your low beams. Although this correction may appear simple thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a complete correction is much more complicated than this ordinary manipulation, and in this article content, we will see how to adjust the low beam lights of your Audi A1? For this, first of all we will see why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Audi A1.
Why set the low beam lights of your Audi A1?
So let’s start our article content with the advantage of adjusting the low beam lights of your Audi A1. For many people these lights are good enough adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. Unfortunately this is not always the case and examining this setting, either because the low beams of your Audi A1 are not illuminating well, or because you have the feeling that they are too weak or too strong is a good idea .
Adjusting the low beam of your Audi A1 for safety is a good idea.
To start, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Audi A1 must be done for a ordinary safety cause. Whether it’s for you, or for the other drivers you come across during your night journeys. Indeed, if you don’t see enough, the risk is to miss an obstacle on the road, or to anticipate a curve badly. However, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the people in front of you, and thus putting yourself at risk. It is therefore essential for others as well as for you to have an ideal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Audi A1 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 illuminate at least 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 Audi A1?
We will now go forward to the part that interests you the most in this article content, how to adjust the low beams of his Audi A1? This setting may sound a bit difficult, but if you stick to the guidelines you should be able to do it without too much problem.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Audi A1
First of all, you will need to set up your automobile to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to apply:
- Place your automobile on a floor in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
- Examine your tire pressure precisely.
- Examine 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 automobile, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.
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The setting of the low beam headlights of his Audi A1
Once your automobile is in place, 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 step back your automobile up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the operation here are the guidelines to stick to:
- Open your bonnet, identify the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Audi A1 (they are usually 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 modification.
- Using the screws to make the horizontal modification, you should have the most strong 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 done, examine that the low beam setting of your Audi A1 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 Audi A1, please read our article content on this subject.
To find more tips on the Audi A1, take a look at the Audi A1 category.
