Whether you feel you can’t see as well during the night, regardless you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these cases, there’s only one component of your motor vehicle to blame – your low beams. Although this correction may seem easy to do thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a whole correction is much more complicated than this ordinary manipulation, and in this content, we will discover how to adjust the low beam lights of your Kia E Niro? For this, first of all we will discover why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Kia E Niro.
Why adjust the low beam lights of your Kia E Niro?
So let’s begin our content with the interest of adjusting the low beam lights of your Kia E Niro. For most people these lights are good enough adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. Sadly this is not necessarily the case and checking out this setting, either because the low beams of your Kia E Niro are not illuminating well, or because you have the feeling that they are too weak or too strong is a good plan .
Adjusting the low beam of your Kia E Niro for security is a good plan.
To start, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Kia E Niro must be done for a basic security purpose. It doesn’t matter if it’s for you, or for the other users you encounter during your night trips. In fact, if you don’t see enough, the risk is to miss an obstacle on the road, 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 therefore essential for others as well as for you to have an optimal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Kia E Niro for law 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 least 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 Kia E Niro?
We will now move on to the part that concerns you the more in this content, how to adjust the low beams of his Kia E Niro? This setting may sound a bit complicated, 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 Kia E Niro
First of all, 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 area in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
- Examine your tire pressure cautiously.
- Examine 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 Kia E Niro
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 step back your motor vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the procedure here are the guidelines to follow:
- Open your bonnet, locate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Kia E Niro (they are in most cases marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side manages the horizontality of the adjustment).
- Use a cloth or anything 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 powerful 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, check that the low beam setting of your Kia E Niro 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 Kia E Niro, please go through our content on this subject.
If you want more tutorials on the Kia E Niro, go to our Kia E Niro category.
