Whether 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 situations, there’s only one part of your vehicle to blame – your low beams. Despite the fact this correction may seem to be simple thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a whole correction is much more complicated than this simple manipulation, and in this content page, we will find out how to adjust the low beam lights of your Peugeot e-2008? For this, first of all we will find out why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Peugeot e-2008.
Why set the low beam lights of your Peugeot e-2008?
So let’s begin our content page with the advantage of adjusting the low beam lights of your Peugeot e-2008. For a lot of people these lights are sufficiently adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. Sadly this is not always the case and verifying this setting, either because the low beams of your Peugeot e-2008 are not illuminating well, or because you have the sense that they are too low or too powerful is a good option .
Adjusting the low beam of your Peugeot e-2008 for security is a good option.
First of all, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Peugeot e-2008 must be done for a ordinary security cause. Whether it’s for you, or for the other drivers you come across during your night trips. Indeed, if you don’t see enough, the real danger is to fail to see an obstacle on the route, or to predict a curve badly. Alternatively, if your lights are too powerful, you risk dazzling the people in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is as a consequence necessary for others as well as for you to have an optimal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Peugeot e-2008 for legal justifications
Moreover 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 least 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 floor, and that they must be at least 600 mm apart.
How to adjust the low-beam headlamps of a Peugeot e-2008?
We will now move on to the part that interests you the more in this content page, how to adjust the low beams of his Peugeot e-2008? This setting may seem to be a bit difficult, but if you stick to the recommendations you should be able to do it without too much issue.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Peugeot e-2008
First of all, you will need to set up your vehicle to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to do:
- Place your vehicle on a surface 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
- 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 e-2008
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 back your vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the task here are the steps to stick to:
- Open your bonnet, locate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Peugeot e-2008 (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 manipulation.
- Using the screws to make the horizontal manipulation, you should have the most powerful 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 completed, verify that the low beam setting of your Peugeot e-2008 is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to verify 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 e-2008, please browse our content page on this subject.
If you wish more tutorials on the Peugeot e-2008, go to our Peugeot e-2008 category.
