Whether you feel you can’t see good enough through 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 motor vehicle to blame – your low beams. Despite the fact this correction may seem to be simple thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a full correction is much more complicated than this ordinary realignment, and in this document, we will find out how to adjust the low beam lights of your Mercedes Benz GLE Class? 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 Mercedes Benz GLE Class.
Why adjust the low beam lights of your Mercedes Benz GLE Class?
So let’s commence our document with the point of adjusting the low beam lights of your Mercedes Benz GLE Class. For a lot of people these lights are well enough adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. Sadly this is not constantly the case and checking this setting, either because the low beams of your Mercedes Benz GLE Class are not lighting up well, or because you have the feeling that they are too low or too strong is a good plan .
Adjusting the low beam of your Mercedes Benz GLE Class for security is a good plan.
First of all, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Mercedes Benz GLE Class must be done for a basic security reason. Regardless whether it’s for you, or for the other drivers you encounter during your night journeys. In fact, if you don’t see enough, the risk is to fail to see an obstacle on the road, or to anticipate a curve badly. On the other hand, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the car owners in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is therefore crucial for others as well as for you to have an ideal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Mercedes Benz GLE Class for law justifications
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 illuminate at least 30 meters. Another law 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 GLE Class?
We will now go forward to the section that concerns you the more in this document, how to adjust the low beams of his Mercedes Benz GLE Class? This setting may sound a bit complex, 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 Benz GLE Class
Firstly, you will need to set up your motor vehicle to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to put in place:
- Place your motor vehicle on a floor 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 unnecessary weight from the motor 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 GLE Class
Once your motor 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 back your motor vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the task here are the simple steps to follow:
- Open your bonnet, identify the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Mercedes Benz GLE Class (they are almost always marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side manages the horizontality of the adjustment).
- Use a cloth or anything 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 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 complete, check that the low beam setting of your Mercedes Benz GLE 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 GLE Class, please browse our document on this subject.
If you want more tutorials on the Mercedes Benz GLE Class, go to our Mercedes Benz GLE Class category.
