Regardless you feel you can’t see as well through the night, regardless whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these situations, there’s only one part of your automobile to blame – your low beams. Despite the fact this correction may seem to be easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a whole correction is much more technical than this simple realignment, and in this content, we will discover how to adjust the low beam lights of your Mercedes AMG GT? For this, first we will discover why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Mercedes AMG GT.
Why adjust the low beam lights of your Mercedes AMG GT?
So let’s begin our content with the interest of adjusting the low beam lights of your Mercedes AMG GT. For most of us these lights are good enough adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. However this is not automatically the case and checking this setting, either because the low beams of your Mercedes AMG GT are not lighting up well, or because you have the feeling that they are too low or too powerful is a good idea .
Adjusting the low beam of your Mercedes AMG GT for security is a good idea.
First of all, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Mercedes AMG GT must be done for a simple security reason. Whether it’s for you, or for the other drivers you encounter during your night trips. Indeed, if you don’t see enough, the real danger is to miss an obstacle on the road, or to predict a curve badly. On the contrary, if your lights are too powerful, you risk dazzling the car owners in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is as a consequence important for others as well as for you to have an ideal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Mercedes AMG GT for legal motives
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 light up 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 floor, and that they must be at least 600 mm apart.
How to adjust the low-beam headlamps of a Mercedes AMG GT?
We will now move on to the section that interests you the most in this content, how to adjust the low beams of his Mercedes AMG GT? This setting may sound a bit difficult, but if you follow the recommendations you should be able to do it without too much problem.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Mercedes AMG GT
To start, you will need to set up your automobile to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to apply:
- Place your automobile on a floor in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
- Examine your tire pressure rigorously.
- Examine 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 automobile, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.
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The setting of the low beam headlights of his Mercedes AMG GT
Once your automobile 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 move back your automobile up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the procedure here are the steps to follow:
- Open your bonnet, identify the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Mercedes AMG GT (they are commonly marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side adjusts 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 strong 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, check that the low beam setting of your Mercedes AMG GT is consistent on the road, do not be reluctant to check 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 Mercedes AMG GT, please go through our content on this subject.
If you want more tutorials on the Mercedes AMG GT, go to our Mercedes AMG GT category.
