Regardless whether you feel you can’t see properly at night, regardless whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these situations, there’s only one component of your automobile to blame – your low beams. Despite the fact this correction may seem easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a complete correction is much more technical than this common realignment, and in this document, we will find out how to adjust the low beam lights of your Citroen Ds4? 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 Ds4.

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Why set the low beam lights of your Citroen Ds4?

So let’s commence our document with the benefit of adjusting the low beam lights of your Citroen Ds4. For many people these lights are sufficiently adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. Sadly this is not always the case and verifying this setting, either because the low beams of your Citroen Ds4 are not lighting up well, or because you have the feeling that they are too weak or too powerful is a good plan .

Adjusting the low beam of your Citroen Ds4 for safety is a good plan.

First of all, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Citroen Ds4 must be done for a ordinary safety reason. Regardless whether it’s for you, or for the other drivers you encounter during your night trips. Indeed, if you don’t see enough, the real danger is to fail to see an obstacle on the route, or to predict a curve badly. On the other hand, if your lights are too powerful, you risk dazzling the car owners in front of you, and thus putting yourself at risk. It is therefore fundamental for others as well as for you to have an ideal setting of your parking lights.

Setting the low beam headlights of an Citroen Ds4 for legal justifications

In addition to safety, there is a law that controls 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 controls 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 Ds4?

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 Ds4? This setting may appear to be a bit complex, but if you stick to the instructions you should be able to do it without too much issue.

Preparations to set the low beam of a Citroen Ds4

Firstly, you will need to set up your automobile to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to apply:

  • Place your automobile on a surface in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
  • Examine your tire pressure cautiously.
  • Examine 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 needless weight from the automobile, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.

The setting of the low beam headlights of his Citroen Ds4

Once your automobile 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 automobile up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the operation here are the simple steps to stick to:

  • Open your bonnet, situate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Citroen Ds4 (they are usually 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 correction.
  • Using the screws to make the horizontal correction, 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
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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 completed, check that the low beam setting of your Citroen Ds4 is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to check that it has been driven, in some cases it may move.

If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Citroen Ds4, please read our document on this subject.

In the event that you have any further questions about the Citroen Ds4, do not hesitate to consult our Citroen Ds4 category.