Whether you feel you can’t see good enough at night, whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these situations, there’s only one part of your car to blame – your low beams. Although this correction may seem to be easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a whole correction is much more complicated than this common modification, and in this document, we will find out how to adjust the low beam lights of your Citroen Jumpy 2? 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 Jumpy 2.
Why adjust the low beam lights of your Citroen Jumpy 2?
So let’s commence our document with the benefit of adjusting the low beam lights of your Citroen Jumpy 2. For many of us these lights are well enough adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. Unfortunately this is not automatically the case and verifying this setting, either because the low beams of your Citroen Jumpy 2 are not illuminating well, or because you have the feeling that they are too low or too powerful is a good plan .
Adjusting the low beam of your Citroen Jumpy 2 for security is a good plan.
Firstly, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Citroen Jumpy 2 must be done for a simple security cause. It doesn’t matter if it’s for you, or for the other users you encounter during your night trips. In reality, if you don’t see enough, the risk is to miss an obstacle on the road, or to predict a curve badly. On the contrary, if your lights are too powerful, you risk dazzling the people in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is subsequently 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 Jumpy 2 for legal justifications
In addition 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 light up at least 30 meters. Another regulation 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 Jumpy 2?
We will now go forward to the section that interests you the most in this document, how to adjust the low beams of his Citroen Jumpy 2? This setting may seem a bit difficult, but if you follow the guidelines you should be able to do it without too much issue.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Citroen Jumpy 2
Firstly, you will need to set up your car to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to apply:
- Place your car on a area in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
- Verify your tire pressure carefully.
- Verify 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 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 Jumpy 2
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 step back your car up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the procedure here are the simple steps to follow:
- Open your bonnet, identify the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Citroen Jumpy 2 (they are almost always marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side manages 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
- With regard to vertical adjustment, 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 carried out, verify that the low beam setting of your Citroen Jumpy 2 is consistent on the road, do not be reluctant to verify 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 Jumpy 2, please examine our document on this subject.
To find more tips on the Citroen Jumpy 2, take a look at the Citroen Jumpy 2 category.
