Regardless whether you feel you can’t see properly at nighttime, whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these occasions, there’s only one component of your vehicle to blame – your low beams. Despite the fact this adjustment may look simple thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a complete adjustment is much more complicated than this common modification, and in this article, we will see how to adjust the low beam lights of your Citroen Berlingo? For this, first we will see why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Citroen Berlingo.
Why set the low beam lights of your Citroen Berlingo?
So let’s begin our article with the interest of adjusting the low beam lights of your Citroen Berlingo. For many people these lights are well enough adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. Sadly this is not necessarily the case and looking at this setting, either because the low beams of your Citroen Berlingo are not lighting up well, or because you have the feeling that they are too weak or too strong is a good idea .
Adjusting the low beam of your Citroen Berlingo for security is a good idea.
Firstly, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Citroen Berlingo must be done for a simple security cause. It doesn’t matter if it’s for you, or for the other users you encounter during your night journeys. In fact, if you don’t see enough, the risk is to miss an obstacle on the route, or to predict a curve badly. On the other hand, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the people in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is as a consequence important for others as well as for you to have an optimal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Citroen Berlingo for law motives
Additionally 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 light up at minimum , 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 Citroen Berlingo?
We will now go forward to the section that concerns you the most in this article, how to adjust the low beams of his Citroen Berlingo? This setting may seem to be a bit complicated, but if you stick to the guidelines you should be able to do it without too much problem.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Citroen Berlingo
Firstly, you will need to set up your vehicle to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to do:
- 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 rigorously.
- Verify 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 vehicle, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.
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The setting of the low beam headlights of his Citroen Berlingo
Once your vehicle 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 move back your vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the procedure here are the guidelines to stick to:
- Open your bonnet, identify the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Citroen Berlingo (they are generally 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 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 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 carried out, verify that the low beam setting of your Citroen Berlingo is consistent on the road, do not be reluctant to verify that it has been driven, in some cases it may move.
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If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Citroen Berlingo, please go through our article on this subject.
If you need more guides on the Citroen Berlingo, go to our Citroen Berlingo category.
