It doesn’t matter if you feel you can’t see as well at nighttime, regardless you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these circumstances, there’s only one part of your motor vehicle to blame – your low beams. Although 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 ordinary manipulation, and in this document, we will discover how to adjust the low beam lights of your Fiat Ducato? For this, first we will discover why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Fiat Ducato.
Why set the low beam lights of your Fiat Ducato?
So let’s begin our document with the advantage of adjusting the low beam lights of your Fiat Ducato. For the majority of us these lights are sufficiently adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. Sadly this is not necessarily the case and checking out this setting, either because the low beams of your Fiat Ducato are not lighting up well, or because you have the feeling that they are too low or too powerful is a good option .
Adjusting the low beam of your Fiat Ducato for safety is a good option.
Firstly, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Fiat Ducato must be done for a simple safety purpose. Regardless it’s for you, or for the other drivers you come across during your night journeys. In reality, if you don’t see enough, the risk is to miss an obstacle on the route, or to predict a curve badly. On the contrary, if your lights are too powerful, you risk dazzling the people in front of you, and thus putting yourself at risk. It is therefore imperative for others as well as for you to have an ideal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Fiat Ducato for legal motives
Moreover 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 minimum , 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 Ducato?
We will now move on to the section that interests you the more in this document, how to adjust the low beams of his Fiat Ducato? This setting may seem 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 Ducato
To start, you will need to set up your motor vehicle to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to put in place:
- Place your motor vehicle on a floor in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
- Verify your tire pressure rigorously.
- Verify that the height adjustment knob for the lights is set to 0
- Try doing that with half a full tank.
- Remove all unneeded 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 Ducato
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 operation here are the simple steps to follow:
- Open your bonnet, situate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Fiat Ducato (they are in general 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 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 accomplished, examine that the low beam setting of your Fiat Ducato is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to examine that it has been driven, on occasion it may move.
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If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Fiat Ducato, please examine our document on this subject.
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