Regardless 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 occasions, there’s only one part of your automobile to blame – your low beams. Despite the fact this correction may look simple thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a full correction is much more complicated than this ordinary manipulation, and in this document, we will find out how to adjust the low beam lights of your BMW X6? 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 X6.
Why adjust the low beam lights of your BMW X6?
So let’s start our document with the benefit of adjusting the low beam lights of your BMW X6. For most people these lights are sufficiently adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. However this is not necessarily the case and verifying this setting, either because the low beams of your BMW X6 are not illuminating well, or because you have the feeling that they are too weak or too powerful is a good option .
Adjusting the low beam of your BMW X6 for safety is a good option.
Firstly, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an BMW X6 must be done for a elementary safety cause. It doesn’t matter if it’s for you, or for the other drivers you come across during your night trips. In fact, if you don’t see enough, the real danger is to miss an obstacle on the route, or to predict a curve badly. On the other hand, if your lights are too powerful, you risk dazzling the people in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is therefore fundamental for others as well as for you to have an ideal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an BMW X6 for legal justifications
Additionally 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 BMW X6?
We will now go forward to the part that concerns you the more in this document, how to adjust the low beams of his BMW X6? This setting may seem to be a bit difficult, but if you stick to the recommendations you should be able to do it without too much issue.
Preparations to set the low beam of a BMW X6
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 do:
- Place your automobile on a floor 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
- 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.
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The setting of the low beam headlights of his BMW X6
Once your automobile is set up, 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 automobile up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the task here are the basic steps to stick to:
- Open your bonnet, situate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your BMW X6 (they are almost always marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side adjusts the horizontality of the adjustment).
- Use a cloth or some thing 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 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 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 accomplished, verify that the low beam setting of your BMW X6 is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to verify that it has been driven, on occasion it may move.
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If you want to adjust the fog lights on your BMW X6, please go through our document on this subject.
If you need more guides on the BMW X6, go to our BMW X6 category.
