Regardless whether 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 occasions, there’s only one part of your car to blame – your low beams. Although this adjustment may appear easy to do thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a whole adjustment is much more complicated than this simple manipulation, and in this content page, we will see how to adjust the low beam lights of your Jaguar XE? 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 Jaguar XE.
Why set the low beam lights of your Jaguar XE?
So let’s commence our content page with the interest of adjusting the low beam lights of your Jaguar XE. For most of us these lights are sufficiently adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. Unfortunately this is not automatically the case and looking at this setting, either because the low beams of your Jaguar XE are not illuminating well, or because you have the sense that they are too low or too strong is a good idea .
Adjusting the low beam of your Jaguar XE for security is a good idea.
To start, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Jaguar XE must be done for a simple security reason. Regardless whether it’s for you, or for the other drivers you encounter during your night journeys. In reality, if you don’t see enough, the risk is to fail to see an obstacle on the road, or to predict a curve badly. On the other hand, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the drivers in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is subsequently necessary for others as well as for you to have an optimal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Jaguar XE for law 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 least 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 floor, and that they must be at least 600 mm apart.
How to adjust the low-beam headlamps of a Jaguar XE?
We will now go forward to the section that interests you the more in this content page, how to adjust the low beams of his Jaguar XE? 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 difficulty.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Jaguar XE
To start, you will need to prepare your car to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to put in place:
- 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 rigorously.
- Check that the height adjustment knob for the lights is set to 0
- 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.
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The setting of the low beam headlights of his Jaguar XE
Once your car is set up, 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 car up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the process here are the steps to follow:
- Open your bonnet, situate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Jaguar XE (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 adjustment.
- Using the screws to make the horizontal adjustment, 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
- 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, examine that the low beam setting of your Jaguar XE is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to examine that it has been driven, sometimes it may move.
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If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Jaguar XE, please browse our content page on this subject.
In the event that you have any further questions about the Jaguar XE, do not hesitate to consult our Jaguar XE category.
