Regardless whether you feel you can’t see as well after dark, regardless you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these situations, there’s only one part of your vehicle to blame – your low beams. Despite the fact this correction may appear easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a full correction is much more complicated than this simple modification, and in this content, we will see how to adjust the low beam lights of your Kia Optima? For this, first we will see why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Kia Optima.

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Why set the low beam lights of your Kia Optima?

So let’s begin our content with the benefit of adjusting the low beam lights of your Kia Optima. For many people these lights are sufficiently adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. Sadly this is not automatically the case and checking out this setting, either because the low beams of your Kia Optima 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 Kia Optima for safety is a good option.

To start, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Kia Optima must be done for a elementary safety reason. Regardless whether it’s for you, or for the other users you encounter during your night trips. Indeed, if you don’t see enough, the risk is to miss an obstacle on the road, or to predict a curve badly. However, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the people in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is as a consequence fundamental for others as well as for you to have an optimal setting of your parking lights.

Setting the low beam headlights of an Kia Optima for legal justifications

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 least 30 meters. Another law 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 Kia Optima?

We will now go forward to the section that interests you the more in this content, how to adjust the low beams of his Kia Optima? This setting may appear 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 Optima

Firstly, 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 precisely.
  • Examine that the height adjustment knob for the lights is set to 0
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  • Try doing that with half a full tank.
  • Remove all unnecessary weight from the vehicle, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.

The setting of the low beam headlights of his Kia Optima

Once your 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 move 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, identify the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Kia Optima (they are almost always 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
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  • 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, verify that the low beam setting of your Kia Optima is consistent on the road, do not be reluctant to verify that it has been driven, on occasion it may move.

If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Kia Optima, please read our content on this subject.

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