It doesn’t matter if you feel you can’t see properly during the night, regardless you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these cases, there’s only one part of your vehicle to blame – your low beams. Despite the fact this adjustment may look easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a complete adjustment 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 Peugeot 208? For this, first we will find out why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Peugeot 208.
Why adjust the low beam lights of your Peugeot 208?
So let’s begin our document with the point of adjusting the low beam lights of your Peugeot 208. For most of us these lights are good enough adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. Sadly this is not constantly the case and checking out this setting, either because the low beams of your Peugeot 208 are not lighting up 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 Peugeot 208 for security is a good plan.
To start, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Peugeot 208 must be done for a elementary security purpose. Regardless 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 anticipate a curve badly. However, if your lights are too powerful, you risk dazzling the drivers in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. 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 208 for law justifications
In addition 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 light up at least 30 meters. Another legislation 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 Peugeot 208?
We will now move on to the part that concerns you the most in this document, how to adjust the low beams of his Peugeot 208? This setting may sound a bit complicated, but if you stick to the guidelines you should be able to do it without too much problem.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Peugeot 208
To start, you will need to prepare your vehicle to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to put in place:
- Place your vehicle 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 unnecessary 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 208
Once your 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 step back your vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the procedure here are the basic steps to stick to:
- Open your bonnet, locate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Peugeot 208 (they are in general marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side handles 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 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 done, check that the low beam setting of your Peugeot 208 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 208, please go through our document on this subject.
If you want more tutorials on the Peugeot 208, go to our Peugeot 208 category.
