Regardless 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 occasions, there’s only one part of your motor vehicle to blame – your low beams. Although this adjustment may seem to be easy to do thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a full adjustment is much more complicated than this basic realignment, and in this article content, we will discover how to adjust the low beam lights of your Audi A5? For this, first we will discover why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Audi A5.
Why set the low beam lights of your Audi A5?
So let’s begin our article content with the interest of adjusting the low beam lights of your Audi A5. For many 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 examining this setting, either because the low beams of your Audi A5 are not lighting up well, or because you have the feeling that they are too weak or too strong is a good plan .
Adjusting the low beam of your Audi A5 for safety is a good plan.
First of all, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Audi A5 must be done for a elementary safety purpose. Whether it’s for you, or for the other users you come across during your night journeys. Indeed, if you don’t see enough, the real danger is to fail to see an obstacle on the route, or to predict a curve badly. However, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the people 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 Audi A5 for law motives
In addition to safety, 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 light up at least 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 floor, and that they must be at least 600 mm apart.
How to adjust the low-beam headlamps of a Audi A5?
We will now move on to the part that concerns you the more in this article content, how to adjust the low beams of his Audi A5? This setting may appear a bit complicated, 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 A5
Firstly, you will need to set up your motor vehicle to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to apply:
- Place your motor vehicle on a area in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
- Check your tire pressure rigorously.
- Check 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 Audi A5
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 move back your motor vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the process here are the simple steps to stick to:
- Open your bonnet, locate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Audi A5 (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 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 manipulation, 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 complete, verify that the low beam setting of your Audi A5 is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to verify 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 A5, please read our article content on this subject.
If you wish more guides on the Audi A5, go to our Audi A5 category.
