Regardless whether you feel you can’t see good enough through the night, whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these situations, there’s only one component of your motor vehicle to blame – your low beams. Even though this adjustment may seem easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a complete adjustment is much more complex than this ordinary manipulation, and in this content page, we will find out how to adjust the low beam lights of your Citroen Berlingo 2? 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 Citroen Berlingo 2.

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Why set the low beam lights of your Citroen Berlingo 2?

So let’s start our content page with the advantage of adjusting the low beam lights of your Citroen Berlingo 2. For many people these lights are good enough adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. However this is not automatically the case and checking out this setting, either because the low beams of your Citroen Berlingo 2 are not illuminating well, or because you have the sense that they are too low or too powerful is a good option .

Adjusting the low beam of your Citroen Berlingo 2 for security is a good option.

To begin, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Citroen Berlingo 2 must be done for a elementary security purpose. Whether it’s for you, or for the other drivers you come across during your night trips. In reality, if you don’t see enough, the risk is to miss an obstacle on the route, or to anticipate a curve badly. On the contrary, if your lights are too powerful, you risk dazzling the people in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is subsequently imperative for others as well as for you to have an ideal setting of your parking lights.

Setting the low beam headlights of an Citroen Berlingo 2 for law justifications

In addition 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 light up at least 30 meters. Another regulation 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 ground, and that they must be at least 600 mm apart.

How to adjust the low-beam headlamps of a Citroen Berlingo 2?

We will now go forward to the section that interests you the most in this content page, how to adjust the low beams of his Citroen Berlingo 2? This setting may seem a bit complicated, 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 Citroen Berlingo 2

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

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

The setting of the low beam headlights of his Citroen Berlingo 2

Once your motor vehicle is into position, 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 task here are the steps to follow:

  • Open your bonnet, locate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Citroen Berlingo 2 (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 some thing else to hide the light on which you are not making the modification.
  • Using the screws to make the horizontal modification, 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 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 done, check that the low beam setting of your Citroen Berlingo 2 is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to check that it has been driven, in some cases it may move.

If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Citroen Berlingo 2, please read our content page on this subject.

If you want more tutorials on the Citroen Berlingo 2, go to our Citroen Berlingo 2 category.