It doesn’t matter if you feel you can’t see good enough through the night, regardless you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these circumstances, there’s only one component of your vehicle to blame – your low beams. Although this adjustment may appear simple thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a whole adjustment is much more complicated than this simple modification, and in this document, we will find out how to adjust the low beam lights of your Bmw Serie 4 F32? 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 Bmw Serie 4 F32.

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Why set the low beam lights of your Bmw Serie 4 F32?

So let’s start our document with the interest of adjusting the low beam lights of your Bmw Serie 4 F32. For the majority of us these lights are well enough adjusted, and it seems 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 Bmw Serie 4 F32 are not lighting up well, or because you have the sense that they are too low or too powerful is a good idea .

Adjusting the low beam of your Bmw Serie 4 F32 for security is a good idea.

To begin, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Bmw Serie 4 F32 must be done for a simple security purpose. Regardless whether it’s for you, or for the other users you encounter during your night journeys. In fact, if you don’t see enough, the real danger 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 at risk. It is subsequently essential for others as well as for you to have an optimal setting of your parking lights.

Setting the low beam headlights of an Bmw Serie 4 F32 for legal motives

In addition to security, 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 illuminate at least 30 meters. Another law 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 Bmw Serie 4 F32?

We will now move on to the part that interests you the most in this document, how to adjust the low beams of his Bmw Serie 4 F32? This setting may appear to be a bit complex, but if you stick to the instructions you should be able to do it without too much problem.

Preparations to set the low beam of a Bmw Serie 4 F32

First of all, you will need to prepare your vehicle to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to put in place:

  • Place your vehicle on a area 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
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  • Try doing that with half a full tank.
  • Remove all unnecessary weight from the vehicle, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.

The setting of the low beam headlights of his Bmw Serie 4 F32

Once your vehicle 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 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, situate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Bmw Serie 4 F32 (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 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 strong part of the beam which should be a little to the right of the vertical line marked on the wall
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  • 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 accomplished, check that the low beam setting of your Bmw Serie 4 F32 is consistent on the road, do not be reluctant to check that it has been driven, in some cases it may move.

If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Bmw Serie 4 F32, please browse our document on this subject.

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