Whether you feel you can’t see properly after dark, regardless you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these cases, there’s only one component of your automobile to blame – your low beams. Despite the fact this adjustment may seem easy to do thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a complete adjustment is much more complicated than this common modification, and in this article, we will find out how to adjust the low beam lights of your BMW X1? For this, first we will find out why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your BMW X1.

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Why adjust the low beam lights of your BMW X1?

So let’s start our article with the advantage of adjusting the low beam lights of your BMW X1. For most of us these lights are well enough adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. However this is not always the case and checking this setting, either because the low beams of your BMW X1 are not lighting up well, or because you have the feeling that they are too low or too strong is a wise decision .

Adjusting the low beam of your BMW X1 for security is a wise decision.

Firstly, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an BMW X1 must be done for a basic security purpose. Regardless it’s for you, or for the other users you come across during your night journeys. Indeed, if you don’t see enough, the real danger is to miss an obstacle on the road, or to anticipate a curve badly. On the flip side, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the people in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is consequently necessary for others as well as for you to have an optimal setting of your parking lights.

Setting the low beam headlights of an BMW X1 for law motives

Furthermore to security, there is a law that controls 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 legislation controls 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 X1?

We will now go forward to the section that interests you the most in this article, how to adjust the low beams of his BMW X1? This setting may seem a bit complicated, 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 BMW X1

First of all, you will need to set up your automobile to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to apply:

  • Place your automobile on a area in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
  • Check your tire pressure precisely.
  • 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 automobile, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.

The setting of the low beam headlights of his BMW X1

Once your automobile 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 back your automobile up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the process here are the simple steps to stick to:

  • Open your bonnet, identify the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your BMW X1 (they are commonly marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side controls 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 intense 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 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 finished, check that the low beam setting of your BMW X1 is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to check that it has been driven, sometimes it may move.

If you want to adjust the fog lights on your BMW X1, please browse our article on this subject.

If perhaps you have any additional questions about the BMW X1, do not hesitate to consult our BMW X1 category.