Regardless you feel you can’t see properly at nighttime, regardless whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these occasions, there’s only one part of your car to blame – your low beams. Although this adjustment may seem easy to do thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a whole adjustment is much more complicated than this simple manipulation, and in this document, we will see how to adjust the low beam lights of your Ford E Series? For this, first we will see why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Ford E Series.
Why set the low beam lights of your Ford E Series?
So let’s start our document with the interest of adjusting the low beam lights of your Ford E Series. For the majority of us these lights are sufficiently adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. Unfortunately this is not necessarily the case and verifying this setting, either because the low beams of your Ford E Series are not illuminating well, or because you have the feeling that they are too low or too powerful is a good idea .
Adjusting the low beam of your Ford E Series for safety is a good idea.
To begin, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Ford E Series must be done for a simple safety purpose. It doesn’t matter if it’s for you, or for the other users you come across during your night trips. In reality, if you don’t see enough, the real danger is to miss an obstacle on the route, or to predict a curve badly. On the flip side, if your lights are too powerful, you risk dazzling the drivers in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is as a consequence essential for others as well as for you to have an ideal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Ford E Series for legal motives
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 illuminate at minimum , 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 E Series?
We will now move on to the part that concerns you the more in this document, how to adjust the low beams of his Ford E Series? This setting may appear to be a bit complex, but if you follow the recommendations you should be able to do it without too much difficulty.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Ford E Series
To start, you will need to set up your car to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to do:
- 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 precisely.
- Examine that the height adjustment knob for the lights is set to 0
- Try doing that with half a full tank.
- Remove all needless 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 Ford E Series
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 operation here are the simple steps to follow:
- Open your bonnet, locate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Ford E Series (they are in most cases 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 adjustment.
- Using the screws to make the horizontal adjustment, 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
- With regard to vertical manipulation, 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 complete, examine that the low beam setting of your Ford E Series 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 Ford E Series, please browse our document on this subject.
If you want more guides on the Ford E Series, go to our Ford E Series category.
