Regardless you feel you can’t see good enough at night, regardless you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these occasions, there’s only one part of your motor vehicle to blame – your low beams. Even though this correction may seem to be easy to do thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a complete correction is much more complex than this basic modification, and in this article, we will find out how to adjust the low beam lights of your Land Rover Freelander? For this, first we will find out why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Land Rover Freelander.
Why set the low beam lights of your Land Rover Freelander?
So let’s begin our article with the benefit of adjusting the low beam lights of your Land Rover Freelander. For many of us these lights are good enough adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. Unfortunately this is not necessarily the case and checking this setting, either because the low beams of your Land Rover Freelander are not illuminating well, or because you have the feeling that they are too low or too powerful is a good plan .
Adjusting the low beam of your Land Rover Freelander for safety is a good plan.
Firstly, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Land Rover Freelander must be done for a simple safety purpose. Whether it’s for you, or for the other users you encounter during your night journeys. Indeed, if you don’t see enough, the real danger is to fail to see an obstacle on the road, or to anticipate 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 fundamental for others as well as for you to have an optimal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Land Rover Freelander for law motives
In addition 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 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 floor, and that they must be at least 600 mm apart.
How to adjust the low-beam headlamps of a Land Rover Freelander?
We will now move on to the part that interests you the more in this article, how to adjust the low beams of his Land Rover Freelander? This setting may appear a bit complicated, but if you follow the instructions you should be able to do it without too much issue.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Land Rover Freelander
To start, 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 surface in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
- Verify your tire pressure rigorously.
- Verify that the height adjustment knob for the lights is set to 0
- Try doing that with half a full tank.
- Remove all unneeded weight from the motor vehicle, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.
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The setting of the low beam headlights of his Land Rover Freelander
Once your motor vehicle is set up, 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 motor vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the operation here are the simple steps to follow:
- Open your bonnet, identify the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Land Rover Freelander (they are in most cases marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side manages the horizontality of the adjustment).
- Use a cloth or something 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 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 accomplished, check that the low beam setting of your Land Rover Freelander is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to check that it has been driven, on occasion it may move.
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If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Land Rover Freelander, please read our article on this subject.
If you wish more tutorials on the Land Rover Freelander, go to our Land Rover Freelander category.
