Regardless you feel you can’t see good enough at night, regardless you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these situations, there’s only one component of your vehicle to blame – your low beams. Although this correction may appear simple thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a whole correction is much more complicated than this ordinary modification, and in this content, we will see how to adjust the low beam lights of your Jaguar E-Pace? For this, first we will see why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Jaguar E-Pace.
Why set the low beam lights of your Jaguar E-Pace?
So let’s start our content with the advantage of adjusting the low beam lights of your Jaguar E-Pace. For many of us these lights are sufficiently adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. Sadly this is not automatically the case and examining this setting, either because the low beams of your Jaguar E-Pace are not illuminating well, or because you have the sense that they are too low or too strong is a good option .
Adjusting the low beam of your Jaguar E-Pace for security is a good option.
First of all, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Jaguar E-Pace must be done for a basic security cause. Whether it’s for you, or for the other drivers you come across during your night trips. In reality, if you don’t see enough, the real danger is to miss an obstacle on the route, or to predict a curve badly. On the contrary, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the drivers in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is consequently important for others as well as for you to have an ideal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Jaguar E-Pace for legal motives
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 light up at minimum , 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 ground, and that they must be at least 600 mm apart.
How to adjust the low-beam headlamps of a Jaguar E-Pace?
We will now go forward to the part that concerns you the most in this content, how to adjust the low beams of his Jaguar E-Pace? This setting may seem a bit complicated, but if you stick to the instructions you should be able to do it without too much problem.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Jaguar E-Pace
First of all, you will need to prepare your vehicle to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to do:
- Place your vehicle on a area in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
- Verify your tire pressure cautiously.
- Verify 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 vehicle, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.
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The setting of the low beam headlights of his Jaguar E-Pace
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 back your vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the procedure here are the steps to stick to:
- Open your bonnet, situate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Jaguar E-Pace (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 some thing 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 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 modification, 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 Jaguar E-Pace is consistent on the road, do not be reluctant to verify 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 Jaguar E-Pace, please read our content on this subject.
If you need more guides on the Jaguar E-Pace, go to our Jaguar E-Pace category.
