Whether you feel you can’t see properly through the night, regardless 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 adjustment may seem to be easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a whole adjustment is much more complicated than this common realignment, and in this document, we will find out how to adjust the low beam lights of your Citroen Jumpy? For this, first of all we will find out why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Citroen Jumpy.
Why set the low beam lights of your Citroen Jumpy?
So let’s start our document with the advantage of adjusting the low beam lights of your Citroen Jumpy. For many people these lights are good enough adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. Unfortunately this is not always the case and verifying this setting, either because the low beams of your Citroen Jumpy are not lighting up well, or because you have the feeling that they are too weak or too powerful is a good idea .
Adjusting the low beam of your Citroen Jumpy for security is a good idea.
Firstly, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Citroen Jumpy must be done for a ordinary security cause. Whether it’s for you, or for the other users you come across during your night journeys. Indeed, if you don’t see enough, the real danger is to miss an obstacle on the route, or to predict a curve badly. In contrast, 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 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 Jumpy for legal reasons
In addition to security, 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 regulation 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 floor, and that they must be at least 600 mm apart.
How to adjust the low-beam headlamps of a Citroen Jumpy?
We will now go forward to the section that concerns you the more in this document, how to adjust the low beams of his Citroen Jumpy? This setting may appear a bit complicated, but if you follow the recommendations you should be able to do it without too much problem.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Citroen Jumpy
Firstly, you will need to set up your car to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to put in place:
- 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 precisely.
- Verify 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 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
Once your car 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 move back your car up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the procedure here are the basic steps to follow:
- Open your bonnet, identify the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Citroen Jumpy (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 something else to hide the light on which you are not making the adjustment.
- Using the screws to make the horizontal adjustment, 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
- 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 complete, examine that the low beam setting of your Citroen Jumpy is consistent on the road, do not be reluctant to examine 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 Jumpy, please browse our document on this subject.
Whenever you have any additional questions about the Citroen Jumpy, do not hesitate to consult our Citroen Jumpy category.
