Regardless you feel you can’t see good enough after dark, regardless whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these situations, there’s only one component of your motor vehicle to blame – your low beams. Although this adjustment may look easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a complete adjustment is much more complicated than this basic manipulation, and in this article, we will see how to adjust the low beam lights of your Audi Q7? For this, first we will see why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Audi Q7.
Why adjust the low beam lights of your Audi Q7?
So let’s start our article with the benefit of adjusting the low beam lights of your Audi Q7. For many people these lights are sufficiently adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. Unfortunately this is not constantly the case and checking out this setting, either because the low beams of your Audi Q7 are not illuminating well, or because you have the feeling that they are too low or too strong is a good idea .
Adjusting the low beam of your Audi Q7 for safety is a good idea.
Firstly, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Audi Q7 must be done for a simple safety cause. Regardless whether 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 miss an obstacle on the route, or to predict a curve badly. Alternatively, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the drivers in front of you, and thus putting yourself at risk. It is therefore imperative for others as well as for you to have an ideal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Audi Q7 for law motives
In addition to safety, there is a law that regulates 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 regulation regulates 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 Q7?
We will now go forward to the section that interests you the most in this article, how to adjust the low beams of his Audi Q7? This setting may seem to be a bit difficult, but if you stick to the guidelines you should be able to do it without too much issue.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Audi Q7
Firstly, you will need to set up your motor vehicle to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to put in place:
- Place your motor vehicle on a floor in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
- Check your tire pressure cautiously.
- Check 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 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 Q7
Once your motor vehicle is into position, 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 move back your motor vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the process here are the guidelines to stick to:
- Open your bonnet, identify the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Audi Q7 (they are in general 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 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, verify that the low beam setting of your Audi Q7 is consistent on the road, do not be reluctant 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 Q7, please read our article on this subject.
If you need more tutorials on the Audi Q7, go to our Audi Q7 category.
