Whether you feel you can’t see good enough at 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 motor vehicle to blame – your low beams. Despite the fact this correction may appear easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a whole correction is much more complex than this ordinary modification, and in this document, we will find out how to adjust the low beam lights of your Ford C-max? 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 Ford C-max.
Why set the low beam lights of your Ford C-max?
So let’s start our document with the interest of adjusting the low beam lights of your Ford C-max. For most of us these lights are good enough adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. Sadly this is not constantly the case and checking this setting, either because the low beams of your Ford C-max are not lighting up well, or because you have the sense that they are too weak or too strong is a good plan .
Adjusting the low beam of your Ford C-max for security is a good plan.
First of all, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Ford C-max must be done for a basic security purpose. Regardless whether it’s for you, or for the other users you come across during your night trips. Indeed, 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 car owners in front of you, and thus putting yourself at risk. It is therefore imperative for others as well as for you to have an optimal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Ford C-max for law motives
Moreover to security, 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 Ford C-max?
We will now go forward to the part that interests you the most in this document, how to adjust the low beams of his Ford C-max? This setting may sound a bit difficult, 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 Ford C-max
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 do:
- Place your motor vehicle on a surface in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
- Check your tire pressure cautiously.
- Check 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 Ford C-max
Once your motor 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 step back your motor vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the procedure here are the basic steps to stick to:
- Open your bonnet, locate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Ford C-max (they are almost always marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side manages 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 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 done, check that the low beam setting of your Ford C-max is consistent on the road, do not be reluctant 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 Ford C-max, please examine our document on this subject.
If you wish more tutorials on the Ford C-max, go to our Ford C-max category.
