It doesn’t matter if you feel you can’t see properly at nighttime, regardless whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these situations, there’s only one component of your motor vehicle to blame – your low beams. Even though this adjustment may look simple thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a complete adjustment 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 Jeep Grand Cherokee? For this, first we will find out why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Jeep Grand Cherokee.
Why adjust the low beam lights of your Jeep Grand Cherokee?
So let’s start our document with the advantage of adjusting the low beam lights of your Jeep Grand Cherokee. For most of us these lights are sufficiently adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. Unfortunately this is not necessarily the case and examining this setting, either because the low beams of your Jeep Grand Cherokee are not lighting up well, or because you have the feeling that they are too weak or too strong is a good option .
Adjusting the low beam of your Jeep Grand Cherokee for safety is a good option.
To begin, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Jeep Grand Cherokee must be done for a basic safety cause. Whether it’s for you, or for the other drivers you encounter during your night journeys. Indeed, 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. Alternatively, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the drivers in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is as a consequence imperative for others as well as for you to have an ideal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Jeep Grand Cherokee for law reasons
Additionally to safety, 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 ground, and that they must be at least 600 mm apart.
How to adjust the low-beam headlamps of a Jeep Grand Cherokee?
We will now move on to the part that concerns you the more in this document, how to adjust the low beams of his Jeep Grand Cherokee? This setting may seem a bit complicated, but if you follow the guidelines you should be able to do it without too much problem.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Jeep Grand Cherokee
To start, you will need to prepare your motor vehicle to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to do:
- Place your motor vehicle on a surface in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
- Examine your tire pressure rigorously.
- Examine 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 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 Jeep Grand Cherokee
Once your motor vehicle is in place, 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 motor vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the procedure here are the simple steps to follow:
- Open your bonnet, locate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Jeep Grand Cherokee (they are in general 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 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
- 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 Jeep Grand Cherokee is consistent on the road, do not be reluctant to check 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 Jeep Grand Cherokee, please read our document on this subject.
If you want more guides on the Jeep Grand Cherokee, go to our Jeep Grand Cherokee category.
