Whether you feel you can’t see properly through the night, whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these cases, there’s only one part of your vehicle to blame – your low beams. Even though this adjustment may appear easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a full adjustment is much more complicated than this basic manipulation, and in this content, we will see how to adjust the low beam lights of your Cadillac XTS? For this, first of all we will see why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Cadillac XTS.
Why set the low beam lights of your Cadillac XTS?
So let’s begin our content with the point of adjusting the low beam lights of your Cadillac XTS. For many people these lights are sufficiently adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. Sadly this is not constantly the case and checking this setting, either because the low beams of your Cadillac XTS are not illuminating well, or because you have the feeling that they are too weak or too strong is a wise decision .
Adjusting the low beam of your Cadillac XTS for safety is a wise decision.
First of all, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Cadillac XTS must be done for a ordinary safety purpose. Regardless whether it’s for you, or for the other drivers 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. In contrast, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the car owners in front of you, and thus putting yourself at risk. It is as a consequence fundamental for others as well as for you to have an optimal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Cadillac XTS for law reasons
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 illuminate 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 ground, and that they must be at least 600 mm apart.
How to adjust the low-beam headlamps of a Cadillac XTS?
We will now go forward to the section that interests you the more in this content, how to adjust the low beams of his Cadillac XTS? This setting may sound a bit complicated, but if you follow the recommendations you should be able to do it without too much issue.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Cadillac XTS
Firstly, you will need to set up your vehicle to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to put in place:
- Place your vehicle on a floor in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
- Verify your tire pressure precisely.
- 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 vehicle, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.
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The setting of the low beam headlights of his Cadillac XTS
Once your vehicle is in 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 move back your vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the procedure here are the simple steps to follow:
- Open your bonnet, identify the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Cadillac XTS (they are in general marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side controls the horizontality of the adjustment).
- Use a cloth or something 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
- 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, check that the low beam setting of your Cadillac XTS is consistent on the road, do not be reluctant to check that it has been driven, on occasion it may move.
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If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Cadillac XTS, please go through our content on this subject.
To find more tips on the Cadillac XTS, take a look at the Cadillac XTS category.
