It doesn’t matter if you feel you can’t see properly during the night, whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these occasions, there’s only one component of your motor vehicle to blame – your low beams. Even though this adjustment may seem to be easy to do thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a whole adjustment is much more complicated than this common realignment, and in this document, we will see how to adjust the low beam lights of your Kia Sorento? For this, first of all we will see why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Kia Sorento.

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Why set the low beam lights of your Kia Sorento?

So let’s commence our document with the advantage of adjusting the low beam lights of your Kia Sorento. For most people these lights are sufficiently adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. Unfortunately this is not necessarily the case and verifying this setting, either because the low beams of your Kia Sorento are not illuminating well, or because you have the feeling that they are too weak or too powerful is a wise decision .

Adjusting the low beam of your Kia Sorento for safety is a wise decision.

Firstly, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Kia Sorento must be done for a ordinary safety reason. It doesn’t matter if it’s for you, or for the other users you come across 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. Alternatively, if your lights are too powerful, you risk dazzling the drivers in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is therefore 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 Sorento for law justifications

Moreover to safety, 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 illuminate at minimum , 30 meters. Another regulation 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 floor, and that they must be at least 600 mm apart.

How to adjust the low-beam headlamps of a Kia Sorento?

We will now go forward to the part that interests you the most in this document, how to adjust the low beams of his Kia Sorento? This setting may appear to be a bit difficult, but if you stick to the recommendations you should be able to do it without too much difficulty.

Preparations to set the low beam of a Kia Sorento

First of all, you will need to set up your motor vehicle to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to put in place:

  • Place your motor vehicle on a floor in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
  • Verify your tire pressure carefully.
  • Verify 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 needless weight from the motor vehicle, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.

The setting of the low beam headlights of his Kia Sorento

Once your motor 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 step back your motor vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the procedure here are the basic steps to stick to:

  • Open your bonnet, identify the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Kia Sorento (they are almost always 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 manipulation.
  • Using the screws to make the horizontal manipulation, 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 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 Sorento is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to verify that it has been driven, sometimes it may move.

If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Kia Sorento, please examine our document on this subject.

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