Regardless you feel you can’t see properly through the night, whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these situations, there’s only one component of your car to blame – your low beams. Although this correction may appear simple thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a complete correction is much more complex than this simple realignment, and in this content page, we will find out how to adjust the low beam lights of your Fiat Doblo? 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 Fiat Doblo.
Why adjust the low beam lights of your Fiat Doblo?
So let’s commence our content page with the advantage of adjusting the low beam lights of your Fiat Doblo. For most of us these lights are well enough adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. Unfortunately this is not constantly the case and verifying this setting, either because the low beams of your Fiat Doblo are not lighting up well, or because you have the feeling that they are too weak or too strong is a wise decision .
Adjusting the low beam of your Fiat Doblo for safety is a wise decision.
Firstly, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Fiat Doblo must be done for a simple safety cause. It doesn’t matter if it’s for you, or for the other users you encounter during your night journeys. In reality, if you don’t see enough, the real danger is to fail to see an obstacle on the road, or to anticipate a curve badly. On the flip side, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the people in front of you, and thus putting yourself at risk. It is therefore fundamental for others as well as for you to have an ideal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Fiat Doblo for legal reasons
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 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 ground, and that they must be at least 600 mm apart.
How to adjust the low-beam headlamps of a Fiat Doblo?
We will now move on to the section that interests you the most in this content page, how to adjust the low beams of his Fiat Doblo? This setting may seem a bit complicated, but if you stick to the guidelines you should be able to do it without too much problem.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Fiat Doblo
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.
- Examine your tire pressure rigorously.
- Examine 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 Fiat Doblo
Once your car is in 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 back your car up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the task here are the steps to stick to:
- Open your bonnet, locate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Fiat Doblo (they are almost always marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side handles 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 modification, 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 accomplished, examine that the low beam setting of your Fiat Doblo 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 Fiat Doblo, please read our content page on this subject.
If you need more guides on the Fiat Doblo, go to our Fiat Doblo category.
