Whether you feel you can’t see as well after dark, regardless you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these cases, there’s only one component of your motor vehicle to blame – your low beams. Despite the fact this correction may appear simple thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a full correction is much more complex than this simple realignment, and in this document, we will find out how to adjust the low beam lights of your Nissan Versa? 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 Versa.

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Why adjust the low beam lights of your Nissan Versa?

So let’s commence our document with the point of adjusting the low beam lights of your Nissan Versa. For many people these lights are good enough adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. However this is not necessarily the case and checking out this setting, either because the low beams of your Nissan Versa are not illuminating well, or because you have the sense that they are too weak or too strong is a good idea .

Adjusting the low beam of your Nissan Versa for safety is a good idea.

Firstly, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Nissan Versa must be done for a basic safety cause. It doesn’t matter if 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 real danger is to miss an obstacle on the route, or to anticipate a curve badly. Alternatively, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the car owners in front of you, and thus putting yourself at risk. It is consequently essential for others as well as for you to have an optimal setting of your parking lights.

Setting the low beam headlights of an Nissan Versa for legal reasons

Furthermore to safety, there is a law that regulates 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 regulates 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 Versa?

We will now move on to the section that concerns you the most in this document, how to adjust the low beams of his Nissan Versa? This setting may seem to be a bit complex, but if you follow the recommendations you should be able to do it without too much problem.

Preparations to set the low beam of a Nissan Versa

First of all, 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 area in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
  • Check your tire pressure rigorously.
  • Check 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 motor vehicle, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.

The setting of the low beam headlights of his Nissan Versa

Once your motor 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 motor vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the operation here are the basic steps to follow:

  • Open your bonnet, situate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Nissan Versa (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 strong 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 complete, verify that the low beam setting of your Nissan Versa is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to verify that it has been driven, sometimes it may move.

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

If you want more tutorials on the Nissan Versa, go to our Nissan Versa category.