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 component of your car to blame – your low beams. Even though this adjustment may seem to be easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a full adjustment is much more technical than this simple manipulation, and in this document, we will see how to adjust the low beam lights of your Mercedes Benz E Class? For this, first we will see why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Mercedes Benz E Class.
Why adjust the low beam lights of your Mercedes Benz E Class?
So let’s commence our document with the advantage of adjusting the low beam lights of your Mercedes Benz E Class. For most of us these lights are sufficiently adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. However this is not necessarily the case and examining this setting, either because the low beams of your Mercedes Benz E Class are not illuminating well, or because you have the feeling that they are too weak or too powerful is a good option .
Adjusting the low beam of your Mercedes Benz E Class for security is a good option.
First of all, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Mercedes Benz E Class must be done for a elementary security reason. Regardless whether it’s for you, or for the other users you encounter during your night journeys. Indeed, if you don’t see enough, the risk is to fail to see an obstacle on the route, 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 in danger. It is subsequently crucial 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 E Class for law justifications
In addition to security, 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 least 30 meters. Another regulation 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 Mercedes Benz E Class?
We will now move on to the section that interests you the more in this document, how to adjust the low beams of his Mercedes Benz E Class? This setting may appear to be a bit difficult, but if you follow the recommendations you should be able to do it without too much issue.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Mercedes Benz E Class
First of all, you will need to prepare 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.
- Verify your tire pressure cautiously.
- Verify 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 Mercedes Benz E Class
Once your car is in position, 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 car up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the process here are the steps to follow:
- Open your bonnet, situate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Mercedes Benz E Class (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 some thing 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 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 correction, 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 done, check that the low beam setting of your Mercedes Benz E Class is consistent on the road, do not hesitate 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 Benz E Class, please read our document on this subject.
In the event that you have any additional questions about the Mercedes Benz E Class, do not hesitate to consult our Mercedes Benz E Class category.
