Whether you feel you can’t see as well after dark, regardless you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these situations, there’s only one component of your vehicle to blame – your low beams. Even though this adjustment may seem to be simple thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a whole adjustment is much more complex than this common realignment, and in this document, we will see how to adjust the low beam lights of your Citroen C4 Picasso 2? 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 Citroen C4 Picasso 2.
Why adjust the low beam lights of your Citroen C4 Picasso 2?
So let’s start our document with the advantage of adjusting the low beam lights of your Citroen C4 Picasso 2. For most of us these lights are good enough adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. Unfortunately this is not constantly the case and checking out this setting, either because the low beams of your Citroen C4 Picasso 2 are not lighting up well, or because you have the sense that they are too low or too strong is a wise decision .
Adjusting the low beam of your Citroen C4 Picasso 2 for security is a wise decision.
To begin, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Citroen C4 Picasso 2 must be done for a simple security reason. Whether it’s for you, or for the other users you come across during your night trips. 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. Alternatively, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the people in front of you, and thus putting yourself at risk. It is as a consequence crucial 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 Picasso 2 for legal 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 ground, and that they must be at least 600 mm apart.
How to adjust the low-beam headlamps of a Citroen C4 Picasso 2?
We will now go forward to the part that interests you the most in this document, how to adjust the low beams of his Citroen C4 Picasso 2? 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 problem.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Citroen C4 Picasso 2
First of all, you will need to prepare 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.
- 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 Picasso 2
Once your vehicle is set up, 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 step back your vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the task here are the steps to stick to:
- Open your bonnet, locate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Citroen C4 Picasso 2 (they are almost always marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side handles the horizontality of the adjustment).
- Use a cloth or anything 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
- 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 accomplished, examine that the low beam setting of your Citroen C4 Picasso 2 is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to examine 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 C4 Picasso 2, please go through our document on this subject.
If you want more tutorials on the Citroen C4 Picasso 2, go to our Citroen C4 Picasso 2 category.
