Regardless whether you feel you can’t see properly at 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 vehicle to blame – your low beams. Despite the fact this correction may appear simple thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a complete correction is much more complicated than this simple realignment, and in this document, we will discover how to adjust the low beam lights of your Fiat Stilo? For this, first we will discover why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Fiat Stilo.

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Why adjust the low beam lights of your Fiat Stilo?

So let’s start our document with the benefit of adjusting the low beam lights of your Fiat Stilo. For a lot of people these lights are well enough adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. Sadly this is not automatically the case and verifying this setting, either because the low beams of your Fiat Stilo are not lighting up well, or because you have the sense that they are too low or too strong is a good idea .

Adjusting the low beam of your Fiat Stilo for safety is a good idea.

Firstly, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Fiat Stilo must be done for a elementary safety reason. Whether it’s for you, or for the other users you encounter during your night journeys. Indeed, if you don’t see enough, the risk is to miss an obstacle on the route, or to anticipate a curve badly. On the contrary, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the drivers in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is therefore essential for others as well as for you to have an ideal setting of your parking lights.

Setting the low beam headlights of an Fiat Stilo for legal justifications

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

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

We will now move on to the part that interests you the most in this document, how to adjust the low beams of his Fiat Stilo? This setting may sound a bit difficult, but if you follow the instructions you should be able to do it without too much difficulty.

Preparations to set the low beam of a Fiat Stilo

To start, you will need to set up your vehicle to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to apply:

  • Place your vehicle on a surface 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 Stilo

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

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

If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Fiat Stilo, please read our document on this subject.

Whenever you have any additional questions about the Fiat Stilo, do not hesitate to consult our Fiat Stilo category.