It doesn’t matter if you feel you can’t see good enough during the night, whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these circumstances, there’s only one part of your car to blame – your low beams. Despite the fact this adjustment may seem simple thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a complete adjustment is much more technical than this basic realignment, and in this content page, we will see how to adjust the low beam lights of your Peugeot 508? For this, first we will see why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Peugeot 508.

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Why adjust the low beam lights of your Peugeot 508?

So let’s start our content page with the point of adjusting the low beam lights of your Peugeot 508. For the majority of us these lights are sufficiently adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. Unfortunately this is not necessarily the case and verifying this setting, either because the low beams of your Peugeot 508 are not lighting up well, or because you have the feeling that they are too low or too strong is a good plan .

Adjusting the low beam of your Peugeot 508 for security is a good plan.

To begin, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Peugeot 508 must be done for a basic security reason. Regardless it’s for you, or for the other users you encounter during your night journeys. In reality, if you don’t see enough, the risk is to fail to see an obstacle on the road, or to anticipate a curve badly. On the contrary, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the car owners in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is subsequently imperative for others as well as for you to have an ideal setting of your parking lights.

Setting the low beam headlights of an Peugeot 508 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 illuminate at least 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 floor, and that they must be at least 600 mm apart.

How to adjust the low-beam headlamps of a Peugeot 508?

We will now go forward to the section that concerns you the more in this content page, how to adjust the low beams of his Peugeot 508? This setting may appear to be a bit complicated, but if you follow the recommendations you should be able to do it without too much problem.

Preparations to set the low beam of a Peugeot 508

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 apply:

  • Place your car on a area in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
  • Examine your tire pressure carefully.
  • Examine that the height adjustment knob for the lights is set to 0
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  • 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.

The setting of the low beam headlights of his Peugeot 508

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 back your car up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the operation here are the guidelines to follow:

  • Open your bonnet, identify the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Peugeot 508 (they are generally 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 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
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  • 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 complete, verify that the low beam setting of your Peugeot 508 is consistent on the road, do not be reluctant to verify that it has been driven, in some cases it may move.

If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Peugeot 508, please go through our content page on this subject.

If you have any further questions about the Peugeot 508, do not hesitate to consult our Peugeot 508 category.