Regardless you feel you can’t see as well during the night, regardless whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these circumstances, there’s only one part of your automobile to blame – your low beams. Even though this correction may look simple thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a full 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 Ds Ds 7 Crossback? For this, first we will find out why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Ds Ds 7 Crossback.

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Why adjust the low beam lights of your Ds Ds 7 Crossback?

So let’s begin our document with the interest of adjusting the low beam lights of your Ds Ds 7 Crossback. For most people these lights are good enough adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. Sadly this is not necessarily the case and verifying this setting, either because the low beams of your Ds Ds 7 Crossback are not illuminating 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 Ds Ds 7 Crossback for security is a wise decision.

First of all, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Ds Ds 7 Crossback must be done for a basic security purpose. Regardless it’s for you, or for the other drivers you come across during your night journeys. In fact, if you don’t see enough, the real danger is to miss an obstacle on the route, or to anticipate a curve badly. On the other hand, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the drivers in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is as a consequence necessary for others as well as for you to have an ideal setting of your parking lights.

Setting the low beam headlights of an Ds Ds 7 Crossback for legal motives

Additionally 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 light up at least 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 ground, and that they must be at least 600 mm apart.

How to adjust the low-beam headlamps of a Ds Ds 7 Crossback?

We will now go forward to the section that interests you the more in this document, how to adjust the low beams of his Ds Ds 7 Crossback? This setting may seem a bit complex, but if you follow the recommendations you should be able to do it without too much difficulty.

Preparations to set the low beam of a Ds Ds 7 Crossback

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 floor in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
  • Check your tire pressure carefully.
  • Check 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 Ds Ds 7 Crossback

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

  • Open your bonnet, locate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Ds Ds 7 Crossback (they are commonly 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 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
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  • 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 complete, verify that the low beam setting of your Ds Ds 7 Crossback is consistent on the road, do not be reluctant to verify that it has been driven, on occasion it may move.

If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Ds Ds 7 Crossback, please go through our document on this subject.

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