Regardless you feel you can’t see properly at nighttime, regardless 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. Although this correction may seem to be easy to do thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a full correction is much more complicated than this common modification, and in this content page, we will see how to adjust the low beam lights of your Honda E? For this, first we will see why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Honda E.
Why set the low beam lights of your Honda E?
So let’s commence our content page with the interest of adjusting the low beam lights of your Honda E. For the majority of us these lights are sufficiently adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. Sadly this is not always the case and examining this setting, either because the low beams of your Honda E are not illuminating well, or because you have the feeling that they are too weak or too powerful is a good option .
Adjusting the low beam of your Honda E for security is a good option.
First of all, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Honda E must be done for a elementary security reason. Whether it’s for you, or for the other drivers you come across during your night journeys. Indeed, if you don’t see enough, the real danger is to miss an obstacle on the road, or to predict a curve badly. On the flip side, if your lights are too powerful, you risk dazzling the car owners in front of you, and thus putting yourself at risk. It is therefore 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 E for legal justifications
Furthermore to security, 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 light up at minimum , 30 meters. Another regulation 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 E?
We will now move on to the section that interests you the more in this content page, how to adjust the low beams of his Honda E? This setting may appear to be a bit complicated, 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 E
First of all, 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 floor in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
- Examine your tire pressure rigorously.
- Examine that the height adjustment knob for the lights is set to 0
- 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.
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The setting of the low beam headlights of his Honda E
Once your vehicle is in position, 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 move back your vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the operation here are the steps to stick to:
- Open your bonnet, locate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Honda E (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 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 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 accomplished, verify that the low beam setting of your Honda E is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to verify that it has been driven, sometimes it may move.
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If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Honda E, please read our content page on this subject.
If you need more tutorials on the Honda E, go to our Honda E category.
