Regardless whether you feel you can’t see good enough after dark, whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these occasions, there’s only one part of your car to blame – your low beams. Even though this correction may seem to be easy to do thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a full correction is much more complicated than this simple manipulation, and in this article, we will see how to adjust the low beam lights of your Citroen Jumper? For this, first we will see why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Citroen Jumper.
Why set the low beam lights of your Citroen Jumper?
So let’s commence our article with the benefit of adjusting the low beam lights of your Citroen Jumper. 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 looking at this setting, either because the low beams of your Citroen Jumper are not lighting up well, or because you have the sense that they are too low or too powerful is a wise decision .
Adjusting the low beam of your Citroen Jumper for safety is a wise decision.
Firstly, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Citroen Jumper must be done for a elementary safety reason. It doesn’t matter if it’s for you, or for the other drivers you come across during your night journeys. In reality, if you don’t see enough, the real danger is to miss an obstacle on the road, or to anticipate a curve badly. Alternatively, if your lights are too powerful, you risk dazzling the car owners in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is consequently 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 Jumper for law motives
Additionally 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 light up 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 Jumper?
We will now move on to the part that interests you the more in this article, how to adjust the low beams of his Citroen Jumper? This setting may seem a bit complicated, but if you follow the guidelines you should be able to do it without too much difficulty.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Citroen Jumper
First of all, you will need to prepare your car to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to do:
- Place your car on a floor in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
- Verify your tire pressure cautiously.
- Verify 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 car, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.
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The setting of the low beam headlights of his Citroen Jumper
Once your car is into 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 car up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the task here are the simple steps to follow:
- Open your bonnet, identify the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Citroen Jumper (they are usually marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side adjusts the horizontality of the adjustment).
- Use a cloth or something 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
- With regard to vertical modification, 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 Jumper is consistent on the road, do not be reluctant 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 Jumper, please go through our article on this subject.
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