Whether you feel you can’t see properly at night, whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these occasions, there’s only one component of your vehicle to blame – your low beams. Even though this correction may look easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a whole correction is much more complicated than this ordinary modification, and in this document, we will see how to adjust the low beam lights of your Honda Accord? For this, first we will see why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Honda Accord.
Why set the low beam lights of your Honda Accord?
So let’s begin our document with the point of adjusting the low beam lights of your Honda Accord. For many of us these lights are well enough adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. However this is not always the case and checking out this setting, either because the low beams of your Honda Accord are not lighting up well, or because you have the sense that they are too weak or too powerful is a good plan .
Adjusting the low beam of your Honda Accord for safety is a good plan.
To start, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Honda Accord must be done for a elementary safety purpose. Regardless whether it’s for you, or for the other drivers you encounter during your night trips. Indeed, if you don’t see enough, the real danger is to fail to see 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 people in front of you, and thus putting yourself at risk. It is subsequently important for others as well as for you to have an ideal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Honda Accord for legal reasons
In addition to safety, there is a law that regulates 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 legislation regulates 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 Honda Accord?
We will now move on to the part that concerns you the more in this document, how to adjust the low beams of his Honda Accord? 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 Honda Accord
Firstly, you will need to prepare 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.
- 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 vehicle, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.
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The setting of the low beam headlights of his Honda Accord
Once your vehicle is in place, 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 task here are the basic steps to stick to:
- Open your bonnet, locate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Honda Accord (they are almost always 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 adjustment.
- Using the screws to make the horizontal adjustment, 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 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 complete, examine that the low beam setting of your Honda Accord is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to examine 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 Honda Accord, please go through our document on this subject.
In the event that you have any further questions about the Honda Accord, do not hesitate to consult our Honda Accord category.
