Whether you feel you can’t see properly at night, regardless you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these cases, there’s only one part of your motor vehicle to blame – your low beams. Despite the fact this correction may seem easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a full correction is much more complex than this ordinary realignment, and in this document, we will find out how to adjust the low beam lights of your Infiniti QX60? For this, first we will find out why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Infiniti QX60.
Why adjust the low beam lights of your Infiniti QX60?
So let’s commence our document with the point of adjusting the low beam lights of your Infiniti QX60. For many of us these lights are sufficiently adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. Unfortunately this is not constantly the case and checking out this setting, either because the low beams of your Infiniti QX60 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 Infiniti QX60 for security is a good idea.
Firstly, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Infiniti QX60 must be done for a simple security cause. Whether it’s for you, or for the other users you encounter during your night journeys. In fact, if you don’t see enough, the risk is to miss an obstacle on the route, or to anticipate a curve badly. In contrast, 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 fundamental for others as well as for you to have an optimal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Infiniti QX60 for legal motives
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 illuminate at minimum , 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 floor, and that they must be at least 600 mm apart.
How to adjust the low-beam headlamps of a Infiniti QX60?
We will now go forward to the part that concerns you the more in this document, how to adjust the low beams of his Infiniti QX60? This setting may seem to be a bit complex, but if you follow the instructions you should be able to do it without too much problem.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Infiniti QX60
To start, you will need to set up your motor vehicle to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to apply:
- Place your motor vehicle on a area in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
- Check your tire pressure cautiously.
- Check 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 motor vehicle, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.
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The setting of the low beam headlights of his Infiniti QX60
Once your motor vehicle 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 motor vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the process here are the simple steps to follow:
- Open your bonnet, situate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Infiniti QX60 (they are almost always marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side adjusts the horizontality of the adjustment).
- Use a cloth or some thing 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 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 carried out, check that the low beam setting of your Infiniti QX60 is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to check that it has been driven, on occasion it may move.
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If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Infiniti QX60, please go through our document on this subject.
If you wish more tutorials on the Infiniti QX60, go to our Infiniti QX60 category.
