Regardless whether you feel you can’t see properly after dark, regardless whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these occasions, there’s only one part of your vehicle to blame – your low beams. Although this correction may seem easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a whole correction is much more complex than this simple modification, and in this article, we will see how to adjust the low beam lights of your Citroen Ds5? 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 Ds5.
Why set the low beam lights of your Citroen Ds5?
So let’s commence our article with the benefit of adjusting the low beam lights of your Citroen Ds5. For a lot of people these lights are well enough adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. Sadly this is not constantly the case and checking out this setting, either because the low beams of your Citroen Ds5 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 Ds5 for security is a wise decision.
Firstly, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Citroen Ds5 must be done for a elementary security reason. It doesn’t matter if it’s for you, or for the other users you come across during your night trips. Indeed, if you don’t see enough, the real danger is to fail to see an obstacle on the road, or to anticipate a curve badly. However, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the people in front of you, and thus putting yourself at risk. 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 Ds5 for law justifications
Moreover 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 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 floor, and that they must be at least 600 mm apart.
How to adjust the low-beam headlamps of a Citroen Ds5?
We will now move on to the section that interests you the most in this article, how to adjust the low beams of his Citroen Ds5? This setting may seem a bit complex, but if you stick to the recommendations you should be able to do it without too much issue.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Citroen Ds5
First of all, 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.
- Examine your tire pressure carefully.
- Examine that the height adjustment knob for the lights is set to 0
- 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.
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The setting of the low beam headlights of his Citroen Ds5
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 back your vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the procedure here are the basic steps to stick to:
- Open your bonnet, locate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Citroen Ds5 (they are in general marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side adjusts the horizontality of the adjustment).
- Use a cloth or some thing 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 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 correction, 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 Ds5 is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to check 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 Ds5, please read our article on this subject.
To find more tips on the Citroen Ds5, take a look at the Citroen Ds5 category.
