Whether you feel you can’t see properly during the night, whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these occasions, there’s only one component of your motor vehicle to blame – your low beams. Despite the fact this adjustment may appear easy to do thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a whole adjustment is much more complicated than this common manipulation, and in this content page, we will find out how to adjust the low beam lights of your Nissan Murano? 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 Nissan Murano.
Why adjust the low beam lights of your Nissan Murano?
So let’s begin our content page with the benefit of adjusting the low beam lights of your Nissan Murano. For most of us these lights are sufficiently adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. Sadly this is not automatically the case and verifying this setting, either because the low beams of your Nissan Murano are not illuminating well, or because you have the feeling that they are too low or too strong is a wise decision .
Adjusting the low beam of your Nissan Murano for safety is a wise decision.
To begin, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Nissan Murano must be done for a simple safety reason. Whether it’s for you, or for the other users you come across during your night journeys. In reality, if you don’t see enough, the risk is to fail to see an obstacle on the route, or to predict a curve badly. On the other hand, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the people in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is therefore necessary for others as well as for you to have an optimal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Nissan Murano for legal motives
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 least 30 meters. Another regulation 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 Nissan Murano?
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 Nissan Murano? This setting may appear a bit difficult, but if you stick to the recommendations you should be able to do it without too much difficulty.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Nissan Murano
Firstly, you will need to set up your motor vehicle to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to do:
- Place your motor vehicle on a surface 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
- Try doing that with half a full tank.
- Remove all unnecessary weight from the motor vehicle, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.
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The setting of the low beam headlights of his Nissan Murano
Once your motor vehicle is in 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 move back your motor vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the task here are the simple steps to stick to:
- Open your bonnet, identify the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Nissan Murano (they are usually marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side handles 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
- 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 done, check that the low beam setting of your Nissan Murano is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to check that it has been driven, sometimes it may move.
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If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Nissan Murano, please examine our content page on this subject.
To find more tips on the Nissan Murano, take a look at the Nissan Murano category.
