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 cases, there’s only one part of your car to blame – your low beams. Despite the fact this correction may appear easy to do thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a whole correction is much more complicated than this ordinary modification, and in this article, we will see how to adjust the low beam lights of your Peugeot 1007? 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 Peugeot 1007.
Why adjust the low beam lights of your Peugeot 1007?
So let’s begin our article with the point of adjusting the low beam lights of your Peugeot 1007. For a lot of people these lights are well enough adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. Unfortunately this is not necessarily the case and looking at this setting, either because the low beams of your Peugeot 1007 are not lighting up well, or because you have the feeling that they are too weak or too strong is a good plan .
Adjusting the low beam of your Peugeot 1007 for security is a good plan.
To begin, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Peugeot 1007 must be done for a basic security reason. Whether 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 fail to see an obstacle on the road, or to predict a curve badly. On the flip side, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the car owners in front of you, and thus putting yourself at risk. It is therefore imperative for others as well as for you to have an optimal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Peugeot 1007 for legal motives
Furthermore to security, there is a law that controls the power, the adjustment of low beams of cars, here is what it specifies: have between 2 and 4 headlights that light up at minimum , 30 meters. Another legislation controls 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 Peugeot 1007?
We will now go forward to the section that concerns you the more in this article, how to adjust the low beams of his Peugeot 1007? This setting may appear to be a bit complicated, 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 Peugeot 1007
To start, 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 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 needless 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 Peugeot 1007
Once your car 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 car 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 Peugeot 1007 (they are in general marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side controls the horizontality of the adjustment).
- Use a cloth or something 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 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 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 finished, check that the low beam setting of your Peugeot 1007 is consistent on the road, do not be reluctant to check 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 Peugeot 1007, please read our article on this subject.
To get more tips on the Peugeot 1007, take a look at the Peugeot 1007 category.
