It doesn’t matter if you feel you can’t see good enough during the night, whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these circumstances, there’s only one part of your vehicle to blame – your low beams. Despite the fact this correction may seem to be easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a full correction is much more technical than this common realignment, and in this content page, we will find out how to adjust the low beam lights of your Mitsubishi Mirage? 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 Mitsubishi Mirage.
Why set the low beam lights of your Mitsubishi Mirage?
So let’s start our content page with the advantage of adjusting the low beam lights of your Mitsubishi Mirage. For most people these lights are good enough adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. Sadly this is not constantly the case and examining this setting, either because the low beams of your Mitsubishi Mirage are not illuminating well, or because you have the feeling that they are too low or too powerful is a good plan .
Adjusting the low beam of your Mitsubishi Mirage for safety is a good plan.
To begin, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Mitsubishi Mirage must be done for a basic safety cause. It doesn’t matter if it’s for you, or for the other drivers you come across during your night trips. 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. Alternatively, if your lights are too powerful, you risk dazzling the drivers in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is as a consequence fundamental for others as well as for you to have an optimal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Mitsubishi Mirage for legal justifications
Additionally to safety, 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 illuminate at minimum , 30 meters. Another law 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 Mitsubishi Mirage?
We will now go forward to the section that interests you the more in this content page, how to adjust the low beams of his Mitsubishi Mirage? This setting may appear to be a bit complex, but if you stick to the recommendations you should be able to do it without too much problem.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Mitsubishi Mirage
Firstly, you will need to prepare your vehicle to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to do:
- Place your vehicle on a surface 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 unnecessary weight from the vehicle, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.
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The setting of the low beam headlights of his Mitsubishi Mirage
Once your vehicle is in 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 vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the operation here are the guidelines to stick to:
- Open your bonnet, situate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Mitsubishi Mirage (they are generally 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 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 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 finished, verify that the low beam setting of your Mitsubishi Mirage is consistent on the road, do not be reluctant to verify that it has been driven, on occasion it may move.
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If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Mitsubishi Mirage, please go through our content page on this subject.
In the event that you have any further questions about the Mitsubishi Mirage, do not hesitate to consult our Mitsubishi Mirage category.
