Regardless whether you feel you can’t see properly through the night, whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these circumstances, there’s only one component of your car to blame – your low beams. Despite the fact this correction may seem to be easy to do thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a whole correction is much more complicated than this simple realignment, and in this document, we will see how to adjust the low beam lights of your Kia Rio 3? For this, first we will see why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Kia Rio 3.
Why adjust the low beam lights of your Kia Rio 3?
So let’s commence our document with the interest of adjusting the low beam lights of your Kia Rio 3. For most of us these lights are well enough adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. Sadly this is not constantly the case and checking out this setting, either because the low beams of your Kia Rio 3 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 Kia Rio 3 for security is a good option.
Firstly, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Kia Rio 3 must be done for a ordinary security cause. 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 fail to see an obstacle on the route, or to predict a curve badly. On the contrary, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the people in front of you, and thus putting yourself at risk. It is as a consequence crucial for others as well as for you to have an ideal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Kia Rio 3 for legal justifications
In addition to security, 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 illuminate at least 30 meters. Another legislation 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 floor, and that they must be at least 600 mm apart.
How to adjust the low-beam headlamps of a Kia Rio 3?
We will now move on to the section that concerns you the more in this document, how to adjust the low beams of his Kia Rio 3? This setting may appear to be a bit complicated, 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 Rio 3
To start, you will need to set up your car to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to do:
- Place your car on a area in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
- Check your tire pressure cautiously.
- Check 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 car, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.
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The setting of the low beam headlights of his Kia Rio 3
Once your car is into 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 car up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the task here are the simple steps to follow:
- Open your bonnet, locate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Kia Rio 3 (they are in general 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 adjustment.
- Using the screws to make the horizontal adjustment, 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 complete, verify that the low beam setting of your Kia Rio 3 is consistent on the road, do not be reluctant to verify 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 Rio 3, please examine our document on this subject.
To find more tips on the Kia Rio 3, take a look at the Kia Rio 3 category.
