Whether 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 situations, there’s only one part of your car to blame – your low beams. Despite the fact this adjustment may seem to be simple thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a full adjustment is much more complex than this basic modification, and in this article, we will find out how to adjust the low beam lights of your Audi Q2? For this, first of all we will find out why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Audi Q2.
Why set the low beam lights of your Audi Q2?
So let’s start our article with the benefit of adjusting the low beam lights of your Audi Q2. For many of us these lights are good enough adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. Unfortunately this is not necessarily the case and looking at this setting, either because the low beams of your Audi Q2 are not lighting up well, or because you have the feeling that they are too weak or too powerful is a wise decision .
Adjusting the low beam of your Audi Q2 for safety is a wise decision.
To begin, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Audi Q2 must be done for a ordinary safety cause. It doesn’t matter if it’s for you, or for the other drivers you encounter during your night journeys. In reality, if you don’t see enough, the real danger is to fail to see an obstacle on the road, or to anticipate a curve badly. On the other hand, if your lights are too powerful, you risk dazzling the drivers in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is therefore fundamental for others as well as for you to have an ideal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Audi Q2 for legal motives
Additionally 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 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 ground, and that they must be at least 600 mm apart.
How to adjust the low-beam headlamps of a Audi Q2?
We will now go forward to the part that interests you the most in this article, how to adjust the low beams of his Audi Q2? This setting may appear to be a bit difficult, but if you follow the recommendations you should be able to do it without too much problem.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Audi Q2
To start, 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 surface 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 needless 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 Q2
Once your car is set up, 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 car up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the operation here are the simple steps to follow:
- Open your bonnet, locate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Audi Q2 (they are commonly marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side adjusts the horizontality of the adjustment).
- Use a cloth or anything else to hide the light on which you are not making the manipulation.
- Using the screws to make the horizontal manipulation, 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 correction, 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 Q2 is consistent on the road, do not hesitate 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 Audi Q2, please browse our article on this subject.
If you want more tutorials on the Audi Q2, go to our Audi Q2 category.
