Regardless you feel you can’t see as well after dark, regardless whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these cases, there’s only one component of your vehicle to blame – your low beams. Even though this adjustment may look easy to do thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a full adjustment is much more complex than this simple realignment, and in this article, we will find out how to adjust the low beam lights of your Citroen C4 Picasso? For this, first we will find out why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Citroen C4 Picasso.
Why set the low beam lights of your Citroen C4 Picasso?
So let’s begin our article with the advantage of adjusting the low beam lights of your Citroen C4 Picasso. For most people these lights are sufficiently adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. However this is not necessarily the case and examining this setting, either because the low beams of your Citroen C4 Picasso 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 for security is a wise decision.
To start, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Citroen C4 Picasso must be done for a simple security reason. Regardless it’s for you, or for the other drivers you encounter during your night trips. In fact, if you don’t see enough, the risk is to fail to see an obstacle on the road, 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 therefore necessary for others as well as for you to have an ideal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Citroen C4 Picasso for legal motives
Furthermore to security, there is a law that supervises 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 law supervises 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?
We will now go forward to the part that concerns you the most in this article, how to adjust the low beams of his Citroen C4 Picasso? This setting may seem to be a bit complex, 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 C4 Picasso
To start, 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 surface in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
- Check your tire pressure cautiously.
- Check 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 Citroen C4 Picasso
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 steps to follow:
- Open your bonnet, situate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Citroen C4 Picasso (they are almost always marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side controls 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 manipulation, 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 completed, check that the low beam setting of your Citroen C4 Picasso is consistent on the road, do not hesitate 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 Citroen C4 Picasso, please examine our article on this subject.
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