Regardless you feel you can’t see properly through the night, regardless whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these situations, there’s only one part of your vehicle to blame – your low beams. Even though this correction may look easy to do thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a full correction is much more complicated than this ordinary modification, and in this content page, we will find out how to adjust the low beam lights of your Opel Mokka? 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 Opel Mokka.
Why set the low beam lights of your Opel Mokka?
So let’s commence our content page with the advantage of adjusting the low beam lights of your Opel Mokka. For the majority of us these lights are good enough adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. Sadly this is not necessarily the case and verifying this setting, either because the low beams of your Opel Mokka are not lighting up 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 Opel Mokka for security is a wise decision.
To start, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Opel Mokka must be done for a ordinary security purpose. It doesn’t matter if it’s for you, or for the other drivers 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 road, or to anticipate a curve badly. In contrast, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the drivers in front of you, and thus putting yourself at risk. It is subsequently necessary for others as well as for you to have an optimal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Opel Mokka for law reasons
Additionally 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 law 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 Mokka?
We will now move on to the section that interests you the most in this content page, how to adjust the low beams of his Opel Mokka? This setting may appear a bit difficult, but if you stick to the guidelines you should be able to do it without too much difficulty.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Opel Mokka
First of all, you will need to prepare your vehicle to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to do:
- Place your vehicle on a surface 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 needless 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 Mokka
Once your 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 step back your vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the procedure here are the guidelines to stick to:
- Open your bonnet, locate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Opel Mokka (they are almost always marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side manages the horizontality of the adjustment).
- Use a cloth or anything else to hide the light on which you are not making the manipulation.
- Using the screws to make the horizontal manipulation, 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 accomplished, check that the low beam setting of your Opel Mokka 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 Opel Mokka, please examine our content page on this subject.
In the event that you have any further questions about the Opel Mokka, do not hesitate to consult our Opel Mokka category.
