Whether you feel you can’t see as well 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. Although this correction may seem easy to do thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a complete correction is much more complex than this basic realignment, and in this document, we will see how to adjust the low beam lights of your Genesis G80? For this, first we will see why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Genesis G80.

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Why adjust the low beam lights of your Genesis G80?

So let’s begin our document with the point of adjusting the low beam lights of your Genesis G80. For a lot of people these lights are sufficiently adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. Sadly this is not constantly the case and checking out this setting, either because the low beams of your Genesis G80 are not illuminating 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 Genesis G80 for security is a good option.

First of all, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Genesis G80 must be done for a elementary security purpose. Whether 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 miss an obstacle on the road, or to anticipate a curve badly. On the flip side, if your lights are too powerful, you risk dazzling the people in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is subsequently fundamental for others as well as for you to have an optimal setting of your parking lights.

Setting the low beam headlights of an Genesis G80 for legal reasons

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 Genesis G80?

We will now move on to the section that interests you the more in this document, how to adjust the low beams of his Genesis G80? This setting may seem to be a bit difficult, but if you stick to the guidelines you should be able to do it without too much difficulty.

Preparations to set the low beam of a Genesis G80

First of all, you will need to prepare 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.
  • Examine your tire pressure cautiously.
  • Examine 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 unneeded weight from the motor vehicle, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.

The setting of the low beam headlights of his Genesis G80

Once your motor vehicle is in place, you will turn 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 motor vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the process here are the simple steps to stick to:

  • Open your bonnet, locate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Genesis G80 (they are in general 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 modification.
  • Using the screws to make the horizontal modification, 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
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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, verify that the low beam setting of your Genesis G80 is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to verify that it has been driven, on occasion it may move.

If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Genesis G80, please go through our document on this subject.

If perhaps you have any additional questions about the Genesis G80, do not hesitate to consult our Genesis G80 category.