It doesn’t matter if you feel you can’t see properly after dark, whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these cases, there’s only one part of your car to blame – your low beams. Even though this correction may appear easy to do thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a complete correction is much more complicated than this simple modification, and in this content page, we will see how to adjust the low beam lights of your Infiniti QX80? For this, first of all we will see why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Infiniti QX80.
Why set the low beam lights of your Infiniti QX80?
So let’s start our content page with the interest of adjusting the low beam lights of your Infiniti QX80. For many people these lights are good enough adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. However this is not automatically the case and examining this setting, either because the low beams of your Infiniti QX80 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 Infiniti QX80 for security is a good plan.
To begin, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Infiniti QX80 must be done for a ordinary security reason. Regardless whether it’s for you, or for the other users you come across during your night journeys. In reality, 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 other hand, 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 imperative for others as well as for you to have an ideal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Infiniti QX80 for legal reasons
Moreover to security, 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 illuminate at minimum , 30 meters. Another law 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 ground, and that they must be at least 600 mm apart.
How to adjust the low-beam headlamps of a Infiniti QX80?
We will now go forward to the part that concerns you the more in this content page, how to adjust the low beams of his Infiniti QX80? This setting may appear to be a bit complex, but if you follow the instructions you should be able to do it without too much issue.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Infiniti QX80
First of all, 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 floor 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 unneeded weight from the car, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.
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The setting of the low beam headlights of his Infiniti QX80
Once your car is into 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 move back your car up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the operation here are the simple steps to follow:
- Open your bonnet, locate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Infiniti QX80 (they are in most cases marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side adjusts the horizontality of the adjustment).
- Use a cloth or something 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 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 done, check that the low beam setting of your Infiniti QX80 is consistent on the road, do not be reluctant 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 QX80, please examine our content page on this subject.
If you need more guides on the Infiniti QX80, go to our Infiniti QX80 category.
