Regardless you feel you can’t see good enough at night, regardless whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these occasions, there’s only one component of your car to blame – your low beams. Even though this correction may appear easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a full correction is much more technical than this ordinary realignment, and in this content, we will see how to adjust the low beam lights of your Audi A2? 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 A2.
Why adjust the low beam lights of your Audi A2?
So let’s begin our content with the point of adjusting the low beam lights of your Audi A2. For the majority of us these lights are good enough adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. Unfortunately this is not necessarily the case and verifying this setting, either because the low beams of your Audi A2 are not illuminating well, or because you have the sense that they are too weak or too strong is a good option .
Adjusting the low beam of your Audi A2 for security is a good option.
To start, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Audi A2 must be done for a elementary security cause. It doesn’t matter if it’s for you, or for the other drivers you encounter during your night trips. In reality, if you don’t see enough, the risk is to fail to see an obstacle on the road, or to predict a curve badly. On the contrary, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the drivers in front of you, and thus putting yourself at risk. It is consequently 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 A2 for legal justifications
Furthermore to security, 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 minimum , 30 meters. Another law 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 A2?
We will now go forward to the part that interests you the most in this content, how to adjust the low beams of his Audi A2? This setting may appear to be a bit difficult, but if you stick to the instructions you should be able to do it without too much problem.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Audi A2
Firstly, you will need to prepare your car to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to do:
- Place your car on a area in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
- Verify your tire pressure precisely.
- Verify that the height adjustment knob for the lights is set to 0
- Try doing that with half a full tank.
- Remove all unneeded 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 Audi A2
Once your car is set up, 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 step back your car up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the process here are the basic steps to stick to:
- Open your bonnet, locate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Audi A2 (they are almost always marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side handles the horizontality of the adjustment).
- Use a cloth or anything else to hide the light on which you are not making the adjustment.
- Using the screws to make the horizontal adjustment, 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 finished, check that the low beam setting of your Audi A2 is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to check that it has been driven, sometimes it may move.
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If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Audi A2, please examine our content on this subject.
In the event that you have any further questions about the Audi A2, do not hesitate to consult our Audi A2 category.
