Regardless whether you feel you can’t see good enough during the night, regardless whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these cases, there’s only one part of your motor vehicle to blame – your low beams. Even though this correction may seem easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a whole correction is much more technical than this simple realignment, and in this content, we will discover how to adjust the low beam lights of your Peugeot 309? For this, first of all we will discover why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Peugeot 309.
Why set the low beam lights of your Peugeot 309?
So let’s commence our content with the point of adjusting the low beam lights of your Peugeot 309. For most people these lights are sufficiently adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. Unfortunately this is not always the case and checking this setting, either because the low beams of your Peugeot 309 are not illuminating 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 309 for security is a good plan.
Firstly, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Peugeot 309 must be done for a basic security cause. Regardless it’s for you, or for the other users you encounter during your night journeys. Indeed, if you don’t see enough, the real danger is to miss an obstacle on the road, or to predict a curve badly. Alternatively, if your lights are too strong, 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 ideal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Peugeot 309 for law reasons
Furthermore to security, there is a law that regulates 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 legislation regulates 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 309?
We will now go forward to the part that interests you the more in this content, how to adjust the low beams of his Peugeot 309? This setting may appear a bit difficult, but if you stick to the instructions you should be able to do it without too much problem.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Peugeot 309
To start, you will need to prepare your motor vehicle to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to apply:
- Place your motor 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 unneeded weight from the motor 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 309
Once your motor 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 move back your motor vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the task here are the guidelines to stick to:
- Open your bonnet, situate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Peugeot 309 (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 some thing 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 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 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, verify that the low beam setting of your Peugeot 309 is consistent on the road, do not be reluctant to verify 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 309, please read our content on this subject.
If perhaps you have any further questions about the Peugeot 309, do not hesitate to consult our Peugeot 309 category.
