Whether you feel you can’t see good enough at nighttime, regardless you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these occasions, there’s only one component of your vehicle 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 complex than this ordinary modification, and in this content page, we will see how to adjust the low beam lights of your Nissan Micra? For this, first we will see why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Nissan Micra.

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Why adjust the low beam lights of your Nissan Micra?

So let’s commence our content page with the interest of adjusting the low beam lights of your Nissan Micra. For the majority of us these lights are sufficiently adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. Unfortunately this is not constantly the case and checking out this setting, either because the low beams of your Nissan Micra are not lighting up well, or because you have the feeling that they are too weak or too strong is a good plan .

Adjusting the low beam of your Nissan Micra for safety is a good plan.

Firstly, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Nissan Micra must be done for a elementary safety purpose. It doesn’t matter if it’s for you, or for the other users you come across during your night journeys. Indeed, 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 strong, you risk dazzling the car owners in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is therefore fundamental for others as well as for you to have an ideal setting of your parking lights.

Setting the low beam headlights of an Nissan Micra for legal justifications

Moreover 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 light up at least 30 meters. Another legislation 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 ground, and that they must be at least 600 mm apart.

How to adjust the low-beam headlamps of a Nissan Micra?

We will now go forward to the part that interests you the most in this content page, how to adjust the low beams of his Nissan Micra? This setting may sound a bit complex, but if you follow the guidelines you should be able to do it without too much problem.

Preparations to set the low beam of a Nissan Micra

To start, you will need to set up your vehicle to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to do:

  • Place your vehicle on a floor 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
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  • 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.

The setting of the low beam headlights of his Nissan Micra

Once your vehicle is into position, you will turn 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 vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the process here are the steps to follow:

  • Open your bonnet, identify the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Nissan Micra (they are almost always marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side manages 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 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 finished, check that the low beam setting of your Nissan Micra is consistent on the road, do not be reluctant to check that it has been driven, in some cases it may move.

If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Nissan Micra, please go through our content page on this subject.

If you have any further questions about the Nissan Micra, do not hesitate to consult our Nissan Micra category.