Whether you feel you can’t see properly through the night, whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these occasions, there’s only one part of your automobile to blame – your low beams. Even though this adjustment may seem easy to do thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a whole adjustment is much more complicated than this basic manipulation, and in this article, we will find out how to adjust the low beam lights of your Nissan Qashqai 2? For this, first we will find out why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Nissan Qashqai 2.
Why set the low beam lights of your Nissan Qashqai 2?
So let’s begin our article with the advantage of adjusting the low beam lights of your Nissan Qashqai 2. For most people these lights are well enough adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. Unfortunately this is not necessarily the case and verifying this setting, either because the low beams of your Nissan Qashqai 2 are not illuminating well, or because you have the feeling that they are too weak or too strong is a wise decision .
Adjusting the low beam of your Nissan Qashqai 2 for security is a wise decision.
To start, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Nissan Qashqai 2 must be done for a basic security reason. Whether it’s for you, or for the other drivers you encounter 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 contrary, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the car owners in front of you, and thus putting yourself at risk. 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 Qashqai 2 for legal reasons
Additionally to security, 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 Qashqai 2?
We will now go forward to the part that interests you the most in this article, how to adjust the low beams of his Nissan Qashqai 2? This setting may sound a bit complicated, but if you follow the guidelines you should be able to do it without too much difficulty.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Nissan Qashqai 2
To start, you will need to set up your automobile to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to do:
- Place your automobile 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
- Try doing that with half a full tank.
- Remove all unneeded weight from the automobile, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.
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The setting of the low beam headlights of his Nissan Qashqai 2
Once your automobile 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 automobile up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the procedure here are the steps to follow:
- Open your bonnet, situate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Nissan Qashqai 2 (they are almost always 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 adjustment.
- Using the screws to make the horizontal adjustment, 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 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, check that the low beam setting of your Nissan Qashqai 2 is consistent on the road, do not be reluctant to check that it has been driven, on occasion it may move.
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If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Nissan Qashqai 2, please examine our article on this subject.
If you need more tutorials on the Nissan Qashqai 2, go to our Nissan Qashqai 2 category.
