It doesn’t matter if you feel you can’t see properly through the night, regardless 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. Although this correction may seem simple thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a whole correction is much more technical than this common modification, and in this article, we will see how to adjust the low beam lights of your Mercedes Benz GLK? 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 Mercedes Benz GLK.
Why set the low beam lights of your Mercedes Benz GLK?
So let’s start our article with the advantage of adjusting the low beam lights of your Mercedes Benz GLK. For many people these lights are well enough adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. However this is not constantly the case and examining this setting, either because the low beams of your Mercedes Benz GLK are not illuminating well, or because you have the sense that they are too weak or too strong is a wise decision .
Adjusting the low beam of your Mercedes Benz GLK for safety is a wise decision.
To begin, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Mercedes Benz GLK must be done for a ordinary safety cause. It doesn’t matter if it’s for you, or for the other drivers you encounter during your night journeys. Indeed, 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. However, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the drivers in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is consequently necessary 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 GLK for legal reasons
Furthermore to safety, 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 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 floor, and that they must be at least 600 mm apart.
How to adjust the low-beam headlamps of a Mercedes Benz GLK?
We will now go forward to the part that concerns you the more in this article, how to adjust the low beams of his Mercedes Benz GLK? This setting may appear to be 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 Mercedes Benz GLK
To start, you will need to prepare 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 surface in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
- Examine your tire pressure carefully.
- Examine that the height adjustment knob for the lights is set to 0
- Try doing that with half a full tank.
- Remove all unneeded 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 GLK
Once your motor 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 step back your motor vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the operation here are the basic steps to stick to:
- Open your bonnet, situate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Mercedes Benz GLK (they are in most cases 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 correction.
- Using the screws to make the horizontal correction, 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 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, examine that the low beam setting of your Mercedes Benz GLK is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to examine 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 GLK, please browse our article on this subject.
If you want more guides on the Mercedes Benz GLK, go to our Mercedes Benz GLK category.
