Regardless whether you feel you can’t see properly at night, regardless 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. Although this correction may look easy to do thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a complete correction is much more complex than this common modification, and in this content page, we will discover how to adjust the low beam lights of your Nissan Pathfinder? 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 Pathfinder.
Why adjust the low beam lights of your Nissan Pathfinder?
So let’s start our content page with the point of adjusting the low beam lights of your Nissan Pathfinder. For most people these lights are well enough adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. Unfortunately this is not automatically the case and looking at this setting, either because the low beams of your Nissan Pathfinder 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 Nissan Pathfinder for safety is a wise decision.
Firstly, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Nissan Pathfinder must be done for a elementary safety cause. Regardless whether it’s for you, or for the other drivers you encounter during your night trips. Indeed, if you don’t see enough, the risk is to miss an obstacle on the road, or to anticipate a curve badly. On the flip side, if your lights are too powerful, you risk dazzling the car owners in front of you, and thus putting yourself at risk. It is consequently important for others as well as for you to have an optimal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Nissan Pathfinder for legal justifications
In addition 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 minimum , 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 Pathfinder?
We will now go forward to the section that concerns you the more in this content page, how to adjust the low beams of his Nissan Pathfinder? This setting may appear a bit difficult, but if you stick to the instructions you should be able to do it without too much difficulty.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Nissan Pathfinder
Firstly, you will need to prepare your car to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to do:
- 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 Nissan Pathfinder
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 step back your car up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the operation here are the steps to stick to:
- Open your bonnet, identify the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Nissan Pathfinder (they are usually marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side controls the horizontality of the adjustment).
- Use a cloth or something else to hide the light on which you are not making the adjustment.
- Using the screws to make the horizontal adjustment, 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 finished, check that the low beam setting of your Nissan Pathfinder is consistent on the road, do not be reluctant 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 Pathfinder, please examine our content page on this subject.
If you have any additional questions about the Nissan Pathfinder, do not hesitate to consult our Nissan Pathfinder category.
