Regardless whether you feel you can’t see properly after dark, regardless you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these cases, there’s only one part of your vehicle to blame – your low beams. Despite the fact this correction may seem easy to do thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a whole correction is much more complex than this basic manipulation, and in this content, we will discover how to adjust the low beam lights of your Opel Corsa? 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 Opel Corsa.
Why adjust the low beam lights of your Opel Corsa?
So let’s start our content with the benefit of adjusting the low beam lights of your Opel Corsa. For many of us these lights are sufficiently adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. However this is not always the case and examining this setting, either because the low beams of your Opel Corsa are not lighting up well, or because you have the feeling that they are too low or too strong is a wise decision .
Adjusting the low beam of your Opel Corsa for safety is a wise decision.
First of all, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Opel Corsa must be done for a basic safety cause. It doesn’t matter if it’s for you, or for the other drivers you encounter during your night journeys. Indeed, if you don’t see enough, the risk is to fail to see an obstacle on the road, or to anticipate a curve badly. On the flip side, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the drivers in front of you, and thus putting yourself at risk. It is therefore crucial for others as well as for you to have an optimal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Opel Corsa for law reasons
Moreover 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 illuminate 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 Opel Corsa?
We will now go forward to the part that concerns you the most in this content, how to adjust the low beams of his Opel Corsa? This setting may sound 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 Opel Corsa
To start, you will need to prepare your vehicle to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to put in place:
- Place your vehicle on a surface in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
- Verify your tire pressure precisely.
- Verify 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 vehicle, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.
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The setting of the low beam headlights of his Opel Corsa
Once your vehicle is in 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 follow:
- Open your bonnet, situate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Opel Corsa (they are in most cases 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 intense 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 accomplished, verify that the low beam setting of your Opel Corsa is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to verify that it has been driven, sometimes it may move.
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If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Opel Corsa, please read our content on this subject.
If you need more tutorials on the Opel Corsa, go to our Opel Corsa category.
