It doesn’t matter if you feel you can’t see properly at nighttime, 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. Despite the fact this correction may appear easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a complete correction is much more complicated than this common manipulation, and in this document, we will discover how to adjust the low beam lights of your Citroen C8? For this, first of all we will discover why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Citroen C8.

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Why set the low beam lights of your Citroen C8?

So let’s start our document with the benefit of adjusting the low beam lights of your Citroen C8. For a lot of people these lights are good enough adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. Sadly this is not automatically the case and looking at this setting, either because the low beams of your Citroen C8 are not illuminating well, or because you have the sense that they are too low or too powerful is a good plan .

Adjusting the low beam of your Citroen C8 for security is a good plan.

First of all, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Citroen C8 must be done for a elementary security purpose. 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 real danger is to fail to see an obstacle on the route, or to anticipate a curve badly. On the contrary, if your lights are too powerful, you risk dazzling the car owners in front of you, and thus putting yourself at risk. It is consequently 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 C8 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 minimum , 30 meters. Another legislation 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 C8?

We will now go forward to the section that concerns you the most in this document, how to adjust the low beams of his Citroen C8? This setting may seem 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 C8

Firstly, 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 area in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
  • Verify your tire pressure precisely.
  • Verify 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 unnecessary weight from the vehicle, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.

The setting of the low beam headlights of his Citroen C8

Once your vehicle is in position, 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 back your vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the task here are the guidelines to follow:

  • Open your bonnet, locate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Citroen C8 (they are commonly marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side controls the horizontality of the adjustment).
  • Use a cloth or some thing 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 intense 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 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 finished, check that the low beam setting of your Citroen C8 is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to check that it has been driven, on occasion it may move.

If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Citroen C8, please browse our document on this subject.

If perhaps you have any further questions about the Citroen C8, do not hesitate to consult our Citroen C8 category.