Regardless you feel you can’t see properly through the night, regardless whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these cases, there’s only one component of your vehicle to blame – your low beams. Although this correction may look simple thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a whole correction is much more technical than this simple modification, and in this content, we will discover how to adjust the low beam lights of your Kia Picanto 3? For this, first we will discover why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Kia Picanto 3.

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Why set the low beam lights of your Kia Picanto 3?

So let’s begin our content with the point of adjusting the low beam lights of your Kia Picanto 3. For a lot of people these lights are sufficiently adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. Unfortunately this is not necessarily the case and looking at this setting, either because the low beams of your Kia Picanto 3 are not illuminating well, or because you have the feeling that they are too low or too powerful is a good option .

Adjusting the low beam of your Kia Picanto 3 for safety is a good option.

Firstly, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Kia Picanto 3 must be done for a basic safety reason. Regardless it’s for you, or for the other drivers you come across during your night journeys. In reality, if you don’t see enough, the risk is to fail to see an obstacle on the route, or to predict a curve badly. On the other hand, if your lights are too powerful, you risk dazzling the people in front of you, and thus putting yourself at risk. It is as a consequence important for others as well as for you to have an optimal setting of your parking lights.

Setting the low beam headlights of an Kia Picanto 3 for legal justifications

Furthermore to safety, there is a law that controls 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 controls 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 Picanto 3?

We will now move on to the section that concerns you the more in this content, how to adjust the low beams of his Kia Picanto 3? This setting may seem to be a bit difficult, but if you follow the recommendations you should be able to do it without too much difficulty.

Preparations to set the low beam of a Kia Picanto 3

Firstly, you will need to set up your vehicle to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to do:

  • 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 cautiously.
  • 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 unneeded weight from the vehicle, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.

The setting of the low beam headlights of his Kia Picanto 3

Once your vehicle is into position, 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 operation here are the basic steps to follow:

  • Open your bonnet, identify the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Kia Picanto 3 (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 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 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 finished, check that the low beam setting of your Kia Picanto 3 is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to check that it has been driven, in some cases it may move.

If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Kia Picanto 3, please browse our content on this subject.

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