Regardless whether you feel you can’t see good enough at night, whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these situations, there’s only one part of your automobile to blame – your low beams. Despite the fact this correction may seem easy to do thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a whole correction is much more technical than this ordinary manipulation, and in this document, we will find out how to adjust the low beam lights of your Mini Countryman? 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 Mini Countryman.
Why set the low beam lights of your Mini Countryman?
So let’s commence our document with the advantage of adjusting the low beam lights of your Mini Countryman. For many of us these lights are good enough adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. Unfortunately this is not necessarily the case and examining this setting, either because the low beams of your Mini Countryman are not lighting up well, or because you have the sense that they are too weak or too powerful is a good option .
Adjusting the low beam of your Mini Countryman for safety is a good option.
Firstly, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Mini Countryman must be done for a ordinary safety purpose. Regardless it’s for you, or for the other drivers you encounter during your night journeys. In reality, if you don’t see enough, the real danger is to miss 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 as a consequence important for others as well as for you to have an optimal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Mini Countryman for law reasons
In addition 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 Mini Countryman?
We will now go forward to the section that concerns you the more in this document, how to adjust the low beams of his Mini Countryman? 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
Firstly, you will need to prepare your automobile to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to put in place:
- Place your automobile 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 needless weight from the automobile, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.
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The setting of the low beam headlights of his Mini Countryman
Once your automobile 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 move back your automobile up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the operation here are the basic steps to follow:
- Open your bonnet, identify the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Mini Countryman (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 anything else to hide the light on which you are not making the manipulation.
- Using the screws to make the horizontal manipulation, 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 manipulation, 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, verify that the low beam setting of your Mini Countryman is consistent on the road, do not be reluctant to verify 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 Mini Countryman, please go through our document on this subject.
To get more tips on the Mini Countryman, take a look at the Mini Countryman category.
