Whether you feel you can’t see as well at night, whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these occasions, there’s only one component of your vehicle to blame – your low beams. Even though this adjustment may appear easy to do thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a whole adjustment is much more complex than this basic modification, and in this article, we will find out how to adjust the low beam lights of your Nissan Xterra? 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 Xterra.
Why set the low beam lights of your Nissan Xterra?
So let’s start our article with the point of adjusting the low beam lights of your Nissan Xterra. For the majority of us these lights are sufficiently adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. Unfortunately this is not always the case and verifying this setting, either because the low beams of your Nissan Xterra are not lighting up well, or because you have the feeling that they are too weak or too strong is a good idea .
Adjusting the low beam of your Nissan Xterra for security is a good idea.
To start, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Nissan Xterra must be done for a ordinary security cause. 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 risk is to miss an obstacle on the road, 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 in danger. It is consequently crucial for others as well as for you to have an optimal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Nissan Xterra for law justifications
Furthermore 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 illuminate at least 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 Xterra?
We will now move on to the section that concerns you the more in this article, how to adjust the low beams of his Nissan Xterra? This setting may appear a bit complicated, 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 Xterra
Firstly, you will need to set up your vehicle to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to do:
- Place your vehicle on a area in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
- Examine your tire pressure precisely.
- 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 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 Xterra
Once your vehicle is into position, 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 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 Xterra (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 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 done, check that the low beam setting of your Nissan Xterra 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 Xterra, please read our article on this subject.
If you have any further questions about the Nissan Xterra, do not hesitate to consult our Nissan Xterra category.
