Regardless you feel you can’t see as well through the night, regardless you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these situations, there’s only one component of your motor vehicle to blame – your low beams. Although this correction may seem to be easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a complete correction is much more complex than this common manipulation, and in this content, we will see how to adjust the low beam lights of your Opel Crossland? For this, first of all we will see why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Opel Crossland.
Why adjust the low beam lights of your Opel Crossland?
So let’s start our content with the benefit of adjusting the low beam lights of your Opel Crossland. For a lot of people these lights are sufficiently adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. However this is not necessarily the case and looking at this setting, either because the low beams of your Opel Crossland are not illuminating well, or because you have the sense that they are too weak or too powerful is a good plan .
Adjusting the low beam of your Opel Crossland for safety is a good plan.
First of all, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Opel Crossland must be done for a basic safety purpose. Whether 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 miss an obstacle on the route, or to anticipate a curve badly. On the flip side, if your lights are too powerful, you risk dazzling the drivers in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is consequently imperative for others as well as for you to have an ideal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Opel Crossland for law reasons
Additionally 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 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 floor, and that they must be at least 600 mm apart.
How to adjust the low-beam headlamps of a Opel Crossland?
We will now move on to the part that concerns you the most in this content, how to adjust the low beams of his Opel Crossland? This setting may sound a bit difficult, but if you stick to the recommendations you should be able to do it without too much difficulty.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Opel Crossland
Firstly, you will need to prepare your motor vehicle to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to apply:
- Place your motor vehicle on a area in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
- Examine your tire pressure cautiously.
- 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 motor 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 Crossland
Once your motor vehicle is in 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 move back your motor vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the process here are the simple steps to stick to:
- Open your bonnet, identify the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Opel Crossland (they are almost always marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side adjusts the horizontality of the adjustment).
- Use a cloth or some thing else to hide the light on which you are not making the modification.
- Using the screws to make the horizontal modification, 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 modification, 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 completed, examine that the low beam setting of your Opel Crossland is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to examine that it has been driven, in some cases it may move.
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If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Opel Crossland, please browse our content on this subject.
If you want more tutorials on the Opel Crossland, go to our Opel Crossland category.
