Regardless whether you feel you can’t see properly at nighttime, whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these circumstances, there’s only one component of your car to blame – your low beams. Even though this correction may look easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a complete correction is much more technical than this basic realignment, and in this document, we will find out how to adjust the low beam lights of your Opel Zafira Tourer? 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 Zafira Tourer.
Why set the low beam lights of your Opel Zafira Tourer?
So let’s commence our document with the point of adjusting the low beam lights of your Opel Zafira Tourer. For most of us these lights are sufficiently adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. Sadly this is not always the case and checking out this setting, either because the low beams of your Opel Zafira Tourer are not illuminating well, or because you have the feeling that they are too weak or too powerful is a good plan .
Adjusting the low beam of your Opel Zafira Tourer for safety is a good plan.
Firstly, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Opel Zafira Tourer must be done for a basic safety reason. 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. However, if your lights are too powerful, you risk dazzling the car owners in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is consequently necessary for others as well as for you to have an ideal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Opel Zafira Tourer for legal reasons
Furthermore 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 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 ground, and that they must be at least 600 mm apart.
How to adjust the low-beam headlamps of a Opel Zafira Tourer?
We will now move on to the section that interests you the most in this document, how to adjust the low beams of his Opel Zafira Tourer? This setting may sound a bit complex, but if you follow the instructions you should be able to do it without too much issue.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Opel Zafira Tourer
First of all, you will need to set up your car to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to do:
- Place your car on a area in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
- Verify your tire pressure rigorously.
- 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 car, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.
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The setting of the low beam headlights of his Opel Zafira Tourer
Once your car is set up, 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 car up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the task here are the steps to follow:
- Open your bonnet, identify the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Opel Zafira Tourer (they are usually marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side adjusts the horizontality of the adjustment).
- Use a cloth or anything 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
- 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 done, examine that the low beam setting of your Opel Zafira Tourer 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 Zafira Tourer, please examine our document on this subject.
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