It doesn’t matter if you feel you can’t see properly during the night, regardless whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these circumstances, there’s only one component of your vehicle 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 common realignment, and in this content, we will find out how to adjust the low beam lights of your Fiat Doblo Cargo? For this, first we will find out why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Fiat Doblo Cargo.

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Why set the low beam lights of your Fiat Doblo Cargo?

So let’s commence our content with the point of adjusting the low beam lights of your Fiat Doblo Cargo. For many of us these lights are sufficiently adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. However this is not constantly the case and verifying this setting, either because the low beams of your Fiat Doblo Cargo are not illuminating well, or because you have the sense that they are too low or too strong is a good plan .

Adjusting the low beam of your Fiat Doblo Cargo for safety is a good plan.

Firstly, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Fiat Doblo Cargo must be done for a simple safety purpose. Whether it’s for you, or for the other drivers you come across during your night trips. In fact, if you don’t see enough, the risk is to miss an obstacle on the route, or to predict a curve badly. On the other hand, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the car owners in front of you, and thus putting yourself at risk. It is consequently important for others as well as for you to have an optimal setting of your parking lights.

Setting the low beam headlights of an Fiat Doblo Cargo for legal reasons

Furthermore to safety, 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 illuminate at minimum , 30 meters. Another legislation 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 floor, and that they must be at least 600 mm apart.

How to adjust the low-beam headlamps of a Fiat Doblo Cargo?

We will now go forward to the part that interests you the more in this content, how to adjust the low beams of his Fiat Doblo Cargo? This setting may sound a bit complicated, but if you stick to the guidelines you should be able to do it without too much issue.

Preparations to set the low beam of a Fiat Doblo Cargo

Firstly, you will need to prepare your vehicle to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to do:

  • Place your vehicle on a floor 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
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  • Try doing that with half a full tank.
  • Remove all unnecessary weight from the vehicle, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.

The setting of the low beam headlights of his Fiat Doblo Cargo

Once your vehicle is set up, 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 move back your vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the process here are the simple steps to stick to:

  • Open your bonnet, situate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Fiat Doblo Cargo (they are commonly 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 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
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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 done, verify that the low beam setting of your Fiat Doblo Cargo is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to verify that it has been driven, on occasion it may move.

If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Fiat Doblo Cargo, please go through our content on this subject.

If you need more tutorials on the Fiat Doblo Cargo, go to our Fiat Doblo Cargo category.