Whether you feel you can’t see properly after dark, regardless whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these circumstances, there’s only one part of your vehicle to blame – your low beams. Although this adjustment may seem to be simple thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a complete adjustment is much more complicated than this simple modification, and in this article, we will see how to adjust the low beam lights of your Peugeot 205? 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 205.
Why set the low beam lights of your Peugeot 205?
So let’s commence our article with the interest of adjusting the low beam lights of your Peugeot 205. For the majority of us these lights are well enough adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. Sadly this is not necessarily the case and checking out this setting, either because the low beams of your Peugeot 205 are not illuminating well, or because you have the feeling that they are too low or too powerful is a good option .
Adjusting the low beam of your Peugeot 205 for security is a good option.
Firstly, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Peugeot 205 must be done for a ordinary security cause. Regardless 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. Alternatively, if your lights are too powerful, you risk dazzling the drivers in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is as a consequence important for others as well as for you to have an optimal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Peugeot 205 for law justifications
Additionally 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 illuminate at minimum , 30 meters. Another law 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 ground, and that they must be at least 600 mm apart.
How to adjust the low-beam headlamps of a Peugeot 205?
We will now go forward to the section that interests you the more in this article, how to adjust the low beams of his Peugeot 205? This setting may appear a bit complicated, but if you stick to the instructions you should be able to do it without too much difficulty.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Peugeot 205
Firstly, you will need to prepare your vehicle to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to apply:
- Place your vehicle on a floor in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
- Verify your tire pressure cautiously.
- 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 Peugeot 205
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 back your vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the process here are the basic steps to stick to:
- Open your bonnet, identify the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Peugeot 205 (they are in most cases marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side controls 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 complete, check that the low beam setting of your Peugeot 205 is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to check that it has been driven, on occasion it may move.
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If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Peugeot 205, please read our article on this subject.
To find more tips on the Peugeot 205, take a look at the Peugeot 205 category.
