Regardless whether you feel you can’t see properly through the night, regardless you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these situations, there’s only one part of your car to blame – your low beams. Despite the fact this correction may appear simple thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a complete correction is much more complex than this simple modification, and in this article, we will find out how to adjust the low beam lights of your Hyundai Santa Fe? 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 Hyundai Santa Fe.

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Why set the low beam lights of your Hyundai Santa Fe?

So let’s commence our article with the advantage of adjusting the low beam lights of your Hyundai Santa Fe. For most of us these lights are good enough adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. However this is not always the case and checking this setting, either because the low beams of your Hyundai Santa Fe are not illuminating well, or because you have the sense that they are too weak or too powerful is a good idea .

Adjusting the low beam of your Hyundai Santa Fe for safety is a good idea.

To start, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Hyundai Santa Fe must be done for a basic safety reason. Regardless it’s for you, or for the other users you encounter during your night journeys. In fact, if you don’t see enough, the real danger is to miss an obstacle on the route, or to predict a curve badly. However, if your lights are too powerful, you risk dazzling the people 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 optimal setting of your parking lights.

Setting the low beam headlights of an Hyundai Santa Fe for legal justifications

Additionally to safety, there is a law that supervises the power, the adjustment of low beams of cars, here is what it specifies: have between 2 and 4 headlights that light up at least 30 meters. Another legislation supervises 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 floor, and that they must be at least 600 mm apart.

How to adjust the low-beam headlamps of a Hyundai Santa Fe?

We will now go forward to the part that concerns you the most in this article, how to adjust the low beams of his Hyundai Santa Fe? This setting may appear a bit complicated, but if you stick to the recommendations you should be able to do it without too much issue.

Preparations to set the low beam of a Hyundai Santa Fe

To start, you will need to set up your car to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to apply:

  • 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
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  • 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.

The setting of the low beam headlights of his Hyundai Santa Fe

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 procedure here are the guidelines to stick to:

  • Open your bonnet, locate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Hyundai Santa Fe (they are usually marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side adjusts the horizontality of the adjustment).
  • Use a cloth or anything 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 correction, 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 completed, verify that the low beam setting of your Hyundai Santa Fe is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to verify that it has been driven, sometimes it may move.

If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Hyundai Santa Fe, please read our article on this subject.

Whenever you have any additional questions about the Hyundai Santa Fe, do not hesitate to consult our Hyundai Santa Fe category.