It doesn’t matter if you feel you can’t see good enough after dark, whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these situations, there’s only one part of your car to blame – your low beams. Although this correction may appear easy to do thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a complete correction is much more technical than this common realignment, and in this article, we will see how to adjust the low beam lights of your Lexus IS? 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 Lexus IS.
Why set the low beam lights of your Lexus IS?
So let’s start our article with the advantage of adjusting the low beam lights of your Lexus IS. For most of us these lights are good enough adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. Sadly this is not automatically the case and checking this setting, either because the low beams of your Lexus IS are not lighting up well, or because you have the sense that they are too low or too strong is a wise decision .
Adjusting the low beam of your Lexus IS for security is a wise decision.
To begin, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Lexus IS must be done for a ordinary security cause. Whether it’s for you, or for the other users you come across during your night journeys. Indeed, if you don’t see enough, the real danger is to miss an obstacle on the route, or to anticipate a curve badly. On the other hand, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the people in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is as a consequence 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 IS for law reasons
Furthermore 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 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 Lexus IS?
We will now move on to the section that concerns you the most in this article, how to adjust the low beams of his Lexus IS? This setting may sound a bit complicated, 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 Lexus IS
Firstly, 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 floor 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 needless 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 Lexus IS
Once your car is set up, 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 back your car up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the procedure here are the steps to stick to:
- Open your bonnet, situate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Lexus IS (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 manipulation.
- Using the screws to make the horizontal manipulation, 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 manipulation, 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 Lexus IS is consistent on the road, do not be reluctant to verify that it has been driven, in some cases it may move.
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If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Lexus IS, please browse our article on this subject.
To discover more tips on the Lexus IS, take a look at the Lexus IS category.
