Regardless whether you feel you can’t see as well during the night, whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these occasions, there’s only one part of your 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 full correction is much more complicated than this basic realignment, and in this article, we will find out how to adjust the low beam lights of your Lexus GX? For this, first of all we will find out why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Lexus GX.
Why set the low beam lights of your Lexus GX?
So let’s commence our article with the advantage of adjusting the low beam lights of your Lexus GX. For many of us these lights are sufficiently adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. Unfortunately this is not automatically the case and checking this setting, either because the low beams of your Lexus GX are not illuminating well, or because you have the sense that they are too low or too powerful is a good idea .
Adjusting the low beam of your Lexus GX for security is a good idea.
First of all, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Lexus GX must be done for a ordinary security reason. Regardless whether it’s for you, or for the other users you encounter during your night journeys. In reality, if you don’t see enough, the risk is to fail to see an obstacle on the road, or to predict a curve badly. On the other hand, if your lights are too powerful, you risk dazzling the drivers in front of you, and thus putting yourself at risk. It is therefore necessary for others as well as for you to have an optimal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Lexus GX for legal reasons
In addition to security, 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 light up at least 30 meters. Another legislation 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 ground, and that they must be at least 600 mm apart.
How to adjust the low-beam headlamps of a Lexus GX?
We will now go forward to the section that interests you the most in this article, how to adjust the low beams of his Lexus GX? This setting may sound a bit complicated, but if you stick to the guidelines you should be able to do it without too much issue.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Lexus GX
First of all, you will need to prepare your vehicle to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to do:
- Place your vehicle on a area 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 vehicle, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.
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The setting of the low beam headlights of his Lexus GX
Once your vehicle is in place, 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 move back your vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the process here are the steps to stick to:
- Open your bonnet, locate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Lexus GX (they are commonly 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 modification.
- Using the screws to make the horizontal modification, 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 modification, 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, examine that the low beam setting of your Lexus GX is consistent on the road, do not be reluctant to examine that it has been driven, sometimes it may move.
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If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Lexus GX, please browse our article on this subject.
If you want more guides on the Lexus GX, go to our Lexus GX category.
