Whether you feel you can’t see good enough at night, regardless you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these circumstances, there’s only one part of your vehicle to blame – your low beams. Even though this correction may look easy to do thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a complete correction is much more technical than this basic manipulation, and in this document, we will discover how to adjust the low beam lights of your Citroen C4 Aircross? For this, first we will discover why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Citroen C4 Aircross.
Why adjust the low beam lights of your Citroen C4 Aircross?
So let’s begin our document with the advantage of adjusting the low beam lights of your Citroen C4 Aircross. For the majority of us these lights are well enough adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. Unfortunately this is not necessarily the case and examining this setting, either because the low beams of your Citroen C4 Aircross are not illuminating well, or because you have the sense that they are too low or too strong is a good option .
Adjusting the low beam of your Citroen C4 Aircross for security is a good option.
Firstly, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Citroen C4 Aircross must be done for a basic security cause. It doesn’t matter if it’s for you, or for the other drivers you encounter during your night journeys. Indeed, if you don’t see enough, the risk is to fail to see an obstacle on the route, or to predict a curve badly. On the flip side, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the drivers in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is as a consequence necessary for others as well as for you to have an optimal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Citroen C4 Aircross 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 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 Citroen C4 Aircross?
We will now go forward to the part that interests you the more in this document, how to adjust the low beams of his Citroen C4 Aircross? This setting may seem to be a bit complicated, but if you stick to the recommendations you should be able to do it without too much difficulty.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Citroen C4 Aircross
To start, you will need to prepare your vehicle to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to apply:
- Place your vehicle on a surface 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 unneeded 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 C4 Aircross
Once your 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 vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the operation here are the basic steps to stick to:
- Open your bonnet, identify the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Citroen C4 Aircross (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 manipulation.
- Using the screws to make the horizontal manipulation, 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
- With regard to vertical modification, 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, verify that the low beam setting of your Citroen C4 Aircross 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 Citroen C4 Aircross, please examine our document on this subject.
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