Regardless you feel you can’t see good enough at night, regardless whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these cases, there’s only one part of your car to blame – your low beams. Even though this correction may appear easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a complete correction is much more complex than this ordinary manipulation, and in this content, we will discover how to adjust the low beam lights of your Nissan NV200? For this, first of all we will discover why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Nissan NV200.

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Why adjust the low beam lights of your Nissan NV200?

So let’s commence our content with the point of adjusting the low beam lights of your Nissan NV200. For most people these lights are well enough 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 NV200 are not lighting up well, or because you have the feeling that they are too low or too powerful is a wise decision .

Adjusting the low beam of your Nissan NV200 for security is a wise decision.

To start, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Nissan NV200 must be done for a simple security reason. Whether it’s for you, or for the other users 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 route, or to anticipate a curve badly. Alternatively, if your lights are too powerful, you risk dazzling the drivers in front of you, and thus putting yourself at risk. It is as a consequence necessary for others as well as for you to have an ideal setting of your parking lights.

Setting the low beam headlights of an Nissan NV200 for law reasons

Moreover to security, 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 minimum , 30 meters. Another regulation 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 NV200?

We will now go forward to the part that interests you the more in this content, how to adjust the low beams of his Nissan NV200? This setting may seem to be a bit difficult, 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 NV200

To start, 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 area 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 needless weight from the car, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.

The setting of the low beam headlights of his Nissan NV200

Once your car is in place, 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 back your car up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the process here are the guidelines to follow:

  • Open your bonnet, identify the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Nissan NV200 (they are in general marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side controls 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 intense 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 correction, 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, examine that the low beam setting of your Nissan NV200 is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to examine that it has been driven, on occasion it may move.

If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Nissan NV200, please read our content on this subject.

To get more tips on the Nissan NV200, take a look at the Nissan NV200 category.