Whether 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 situations, there’s only one component of your vehicle to blame – your low beams. Despite the fact this correction may appear easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a whole correction is much more technical than this common modification, and in this document, we will discover how to adjust the low beam lights of your Mercedes Benz CLA Class? For this, first we will discover why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Mercedes Benz CLA Class.
Why adjust the low beam lights of your Mercedes Benz CLA Class?
So let’s commence our document with the benefit of adjusting the low beam lights of your Mercedes Benz CLA Class. For many people these lights are good enough adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. Sadly this is not always the case and verifying this setting, either because the low beams of your Mercedes Benz CLA Class 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 Mercedes Benz CLA Class for security is a wise decision.
First of all, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Mercedes Benz CLA Class must be done for a basic security purpose. 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 real danger is to fail to see an obstacle on the road, or to predict a curve badly. On the contrary, if your lights are too powerful, you risk dazzling the people in front of you, and thus putting yourself at risk. It is therefore imperative for others as well as for you to have an optimal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Mercedes Benz CLA Class for law motives
Furthermore 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 minimum , 30 meters. Another regulation 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 Mercedes Benz CLA Class?
We will now go forward to the part that concerns you the more in this document, how to adjust the low beams of his Mercedes Benz CLA Class? This setting may seem to be a bit complicated, but if you stick to the guidelines you should be able to do it without too much problem.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Mercedes Benz CLA Class
To start, you will need to prepare your vehicle to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to put in place:
- Place your vehicle on a surface in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
- Check your tire pressure carefully.
- 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 vehicle, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.
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The setting of the low beam headlights of his Mercedes Benz CLA Class
Once your vehicle is in place, 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 move back your vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the operation here are the simple steps to stick to:
- Open your bonnet, identify the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Mercedes Benz CLA Class (they are usually marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side handles the horizontality of the adjustment).
- Use a cloth or something else to hide the light on which you are not making the adjustment.
- Using the screws to make the horizontal adjustment, 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 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 complete, check that the low beam setting of your Mercedes Benz CLA Class 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 Mercedes Benz CLA Class, please go through our document on this subject.
If perhaps you have any additional questions about the Mercedes Benz CLA Class, do not hesitate to consult our Mercedes Benz CLA Class category.
