Regardless whether you feel you can’t see properly during the night, regardless whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these circumstances, there’s only one component of your car to blame – your low beams. Even though this correction may look simple thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a whole correction is much more complicated than this simple modification, and in this content, we will find out how to adjust the low beam lights of your Mitsubishi Outlander? 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 Outlander.
Why adjust the low beam lights of your Mitsubishi Outlander?
So let’s start our content with the point of adjusting the low beam lights of your Mitsubishi Outlander. For a lot of people these lights are sufficiently adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. However this is not always the case and verifying this setting, either because the low beams of your Mitsubishi Outlander are not illuminating well, or because you have the feeling that they are too weak or too powerful is a wise decision .
Adjusting the low beam of your Mitsubishi Outlander for safety is a wise decision.
Firstly, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Mitsubishi Outlander must be done for a elementary safety reason. Regardless it’s for you, or for the other drivers you come across during your night journeys. In fact, if you don’t see enough, the risk is to miss an obstacle on the route, or to predict a curve badly. On the flip side, if your lights are too powerful, you risk dazzling the people in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is therefore essential for others as well as for you to have an optimal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Mitsubishi Outlander for law reasons
Moreover to safety, there is a law that controls 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 controls 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 Mitsubishi Outlander?
We will now go forward to the part that interests you the most in this content, how to adjust the low beams of his Mitsubishi Outlander? This setting may seem to be a bit difficult, but if you stick to the instructions you should be able to do it without too much issue.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Mitsubishi Outlander
First of all, you will need to prepare your car to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to put in place:
- Place your car on a floor in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
- Check your tire pressure cautiously.
- Check 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 car, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.
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The setting of the low beam headlights of his Mitsubishi Outlander
Once your car is set up, 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 car up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the task here are the guidelines to stick to:
- Open your bonnet, identify the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Mitsubishi Outlander (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 modification.
- Using the screws to make the horizontal modification, 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 finished, verify that the low beam setting of your Mitsubishi Outlander is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to verify that it has been driven, sometimes it may move.
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If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Mitsubishi Outlander, please examine our content on this subject.
To find more tips on the Mitsubishi Outlander, take a look at the Mitsubishi Outlander category.
