Whether you feel you can’t see good enough at night, regardless whether 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 seem easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a complete correction is much more complex than this ordinary manipulation, and in this document, we will discover how to adjust the low beam lights of your Kia Niro? For this, first we will discover why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Kia Niro.
Why adjust the low beam lights of your Kia Niro?
So let’s start our document with the point of adjusting the low beam lights of your Kia Niro. For most of us these lights are well enough adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. Unfortunately this is not necessarily the case and checking out this setting, either because the low beams of your Kia Niro are not lighting up well, or because you have the feeling that they are too low or too powerful is a good idea .
Adjusting the low beam of your Kia Niro for security is a good idea.
First of all, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Kia Niro must be done for a basic security reason. Regardless 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 miss an obstacle on the route, or to predict a curve badly. On the flip side, 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 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 Niro for law justifications
Furthermore 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 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 Niro?
We will now go forward to the section that interests you the most in this document, how to adjust the low beams of his Kia Niro? This setting may sound a bit complex, but if you follow the recommendations you should be able to do it without too much problem.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Kia Niro
First of all, you will need to prepare your vehicle to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to put in place:
- Place your vehicle on a floor 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 needless 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 Kia Niro
Once your vehicle is in place, 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 task here are the steps to follow:
- Open your bonnet, situate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Kia Niro (they are commonly marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side manages 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 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 adjustment, 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, verify that the low beam setting of your Kia Niro is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to verify that it has been driven, sometimes it may move.
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If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Kia Niro, please browse our document on this subject.
If you need more guides on the Kia Niro, go to our Kia Niro category.
