It doesn’t matter if you feel you can’t see as well at night, regardless you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these cases, there’s only one part of your car to blame – your low beams. Although this correction may seem to be simple thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a whole correction is much more complicated than this ordinary modification, and in this content page, we will see how to adjust the low beam lights of your Mini Countryman 2? 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 Mini Countryman 2.

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Why set the low beam lights of your Mini Countryman 2?

So let’s start our content page with the point of adjusting the low beam lights of your Mini Countryman 2. For many of us these lights are good enough adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. However this is not automatically the case and looking at this setting, either because the low beams of your Mini Countryman 2 are not illuminating well, or because you have the feeling that they are too weak or too strong is a good option .

Adjusting the low beam of your Mini Countryman 2 for security is a good option.

To begin, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Mini Countryman 2 must be done for a simple security cause. Regardless it’s for you, or for the other drivers you come across during your night journeys. In reality, if you don’t see enough, the risk is to miss an obstacle on the route, or to anticipate a curve badly. On the contrary, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the car owners in front of you, and thus putting yourself at risk. It is consequently imperative for others as well as for you to have an ideal setting of your parking lights.

Setting the low beam headlights of an Mini Countryman 2 for law motives

Moreover 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 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 Mini Countryman 2?

We will now move on to the part that interests you the most in this content page, how to adjust the low beams of his Mini Countryman 2? 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 problem.

Preparations to set the low beam of a Mini Countryman 2

First of all, you will need to prepare your car to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to apply:

  • Place your car on a area in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
  • Verify your tire pressure carefully.
  • Verify that the height adjustment knob for the lights is set to 0
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  • Try doing that with half a full tank.
  • Remove all unneeded weight from the car, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.

The setting of the low beam headlights of his Mini Countryman 2

Once your car is into position, 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 back your car up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the process here are the guidelines to follow:

  • Open your bonnet, identify the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Mini Countryman 2 (they are in most cases 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
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  • 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, examine that the low beam setting of your Mini Countryman 2 is consistent on the road, do not be reluctant to examine that it has been driven, in some cases it may move.

If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Mini Countryman 2, please read our content page on this subject.

If you wish more tutorials on the Mini Countryman 2, go to our Mini Countryman 2 category.