It doesn’t matter if you feel you can’t see good enough during the night, regardless 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. Despite the fact this correction may appear easy to do thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a complete correction is much more technical than this common modification, and in this article, we will discover how to adjust the low beam lights of your Audi A6? For this, first we will discover why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Audi A6.
Why set the low beam lights of your Audi A6?
So let’s commence our article with the advantage of adjusting the low beam lights of your Audi A6. For the majority of us these lights are good enough adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. However this is not always the case and verifying this setting, either because the low beams of your Audi A6 are not illuminating well, or because you have the sense that they are too weak or too powerful is a good plan .
Adjusting the low beam of your Audi A6 for security is a good plan.
First of all, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Audi A6 must be done for a basic security reason. It doesn’t matter if it’s for you, or for the other drivers you come across during your night journeys. In fact, if you don’t see enough, the risk is to fail to see an obstacle on the road, or to anticipate a curve badly. However, if your lights are too powerful, you risk dazzling the drivers in front of you, and thus putting yourself at risk. It is therefore 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 A6 for legal justifications
Furthermore 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 floor, and that they must be at least 600 mm apart.
How to adjust the low-beam headlamps of a Audi A6?
We will now go forward to the part that concerns you the more in this article, how to adjust the low beams of his Audi A6? This setting may seem to be a bit complex, but if you follow the instructions you should be able to do it without too much issue.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Audi A6
Firstly, you will need to prepare your motor vehicle to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to do:
- Place your motor vehicle on a surface 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 needless 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 A6
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 process here are the basic steps to follow:
- Open your bonnet, identify the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Audi A6 (they are usually marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side controls the horizontality of the adjustment).
- Use a cloth or some thing else to hide the light on which you are not making the correction.
- Using the screws to make the horizontal correction, you should have the most powerful 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, check that the low beam setting of your Audi A6 is consistent on the road, do not be reluctant to check 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 A6, please browse our article on this subject.
If you want more tutorials on the Audi A6, go to our Audi A6 category.
