Whether you feel you can’t see as well at nighttime, whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these situations, there’s only one part of your motor vehicle to blame – your low beams. Although this adjustment may look easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a whole adjustment is much more technical than this ordinary modification, and in this document, we will see how to adjust the low beam lights of your Bmw X2? For this, first we will see why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Bmw X2.

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Why adjust the low beam lights of your Bmw X2?

So let’s begin our document with the point of adjusting the low beam lights of your Bmw X2. For most of us these lights are well enough adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. Sadly this is not always the case and verifying this setting, either because the low beams of your Bmw X2 are not lighting up well, or because you have the feeling that they are too low or too powerful is a good idea .

Adjusting the low beam of your Bmw X2 for security is a good idea.

To start, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Bmw X2 must be done for a elementary security purpose. Regardless whether it’s for you, or for the other users you come across during your night journeys. In fact, if you don’t see enough, the risk is to miss an obstacle on the road, or to anticipate a curve badly. Alternatively, if your lights are too powerful, you risk dazzling the car owners in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is as a consequence imperative for others as well as for you to have an ideal setting of your parking lights.

Setting the low beam headlights of an Bmw X2 for legal reasons

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 X2?

We will now move on to the part that concerns you the more in this document, how to adjust the low beams of his Bmw X2? This setting may appear to be a bit complex, but if you follow the instructions you should be able to do it without too much difficulty.

Preparations to set the low beam of a Bmw X2

To start, you will need to set up your motor vehicle to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to do:

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

The setting of the low beam headlights of his Bmw X2

Once your motor 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 move back your motor vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the procedure here are the steps to follow:

  • Open your bonnet, identify the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Bmw X2 (they are commonly marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side manages the horizontality of the adjustment).
  • Use a cloth or something else to hide the light on which you are not making the correction.
  • Using the screws to make the horizontal correction, 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
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  • With regard to vertical adjustment, 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, examine that the low beam setting of your Bmw X2 is consistent on the road, do not be reluctant to examine that it has been driven, on occasion it may move.

If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Bmw X2, please read our document on this subject.

If you have any additional questions about the Bmw X2, do not hesitate to consult our Bmw X2 category.