Regardless 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 car to blame – your low beams. Even though this correction may seem easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a full correction is much more complex than this ordinary manipulation, and in this content page, we will discover how to adjust the low beam lights of your Audi Sq5? For this, first of all we will discover why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Audi Sq5.
Why adjust the low beam lights of your Audi Sq5?
So let’s begin our content page with the benefit of adjusting the low beam lights of your Audi Sq5. For most of us these lights are sufficiently adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. However this is not automatically the case and verifying this setting, either because the low beams of your Audi Sq5 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 Sq5 for safety is a wise decision.
To start, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Audi Sq5 must be done for a simple safety cause. It doesn’t matter if it’s for you, or for the other users you come across during your night journeys. Indeed, if you don’t see enough, the risk is to miss an obstacle on the road, or to predict a curve badly. On the contrary, if your lights are too powerful, you risk dazzling the drivers in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is subsequently 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 Sq5 for law justifications
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 minimum , 30 meters. Another regulation 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 Sq5?
We will now go forward to the section that interests you the more in this content page, how to adjust the low beams of his Audi Sq5? This setting may seem a bit complicated, 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 Sq5
First of all, you will need to set up your car to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to apply:
- Place your car 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 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 Sq5
Once your car 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 car up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the operation here are the basic steps to follow:
- Open your bonnet, locate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Audi Sq5 (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 something 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 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 finished, check that the low beam setting of your Audi Sq5 is consistent on the road, do not be reluctant 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 Sq5, please browse our content page on this subject.
If you need more guides on the Audi Sq5, go to our Audi Sq5 category.
