Regardless whether you feel you can’t see good enough at night, regardless you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these circumstances, there’s only one component of your motor vehicle to blame – your low beams. Although this adjustment may appear easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a whole adjustment is much more complicated than this common manipulation, and in this document, we will see how to adjust the low beam lights of your Fiat 500 L? For this, first we will see why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Fiat 500 L.
Why set the low beam lights of your Fiat 500 L?
So let’s begin our document with the interest of adjusting the low beam lights of your Fiat 500 L. For a lot of people these lights are sufficiently adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. Unfortunately this is not always the case and examining this setting, either because the low beams of your Fiat 500 L are not illuminating well, or because you have the sense that they are too low or too strong is a good option .
Adjusting the low beam of your Fiat 500 L for safety is a good option.
First of all, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Fiat 500 L must be done for a simple safety reason. It doesn’t matter if it’s for you, or for the other users you come across during your night trips. In reality, if you don’t see enough, the risk 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 people in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is subsequently necessary for others as well as for you to have an ideal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Fiat 500 L for legal 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 illuminate 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 Fiat 500 L?
We will now move on to the part that interests you the more in this document, how to adjust the low beams of his Fiat 500 L? This setting may appear to be a bit complicated, but if you follow the instructions you should be able to do it without too much problem.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Fiat 500 L
First of all, you will need to prepare your motor vehicle to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to apply:
- Place your motor vehicle on a surface in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
- Examine your tire pressure cautiously.
- Examine 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 motor vehicle, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.
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The setting of the low beam headlights of his Fiat 500 L
Once your motor vehicle is set up, 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 motor vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the task here are the basic steps to follow:
- Open your bonnet, identify the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Fiat 500 L (they are in general marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side manages the horizontality of the adjustment).
- Use a cloth or some thing 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 strong 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 Fiat 500 L 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 Fiat 500 L, please browse our document on this subject.
If you have any further questions about the Fiat 500 L, do not hesitate to consult our Fiat 500 L category.
