Whether you feel you can’t see as well at nighttime, regardless you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these situations, there’s only one part of your motor vehicle to blame – your low beams. Even though this correction may seem to be easy to do thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a full correction is much more complicated than this simple modification, and in this document, we will see how to adjust the low beam lights of your Peugeot e-208? 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 e-208.

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Why set the low beam lights of your Peugeot e-208?

So let’s commence our document with the point of adjusting the low beam lights of your Peugeot e-208. For many of us these lights are good enough adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. Sadly this is not always the case and checking this setting, either because the low beams of your Peugeot e-208 are not illuminating well, or because you have the sense that they are too low or too strong is a wise decision .

Adjusting the low beam of your Peugeot e-208 for safety is a wise decision.

To start, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Peugeot e-208 must be done for a basic safety cause. Regardless whether it’s for you, or for the other users you come across during your night trips. Indeed, if you don’t see enough, the risk is to miss an obstacle on the route, or to predict a curve badly. However, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the people in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is as a consequence 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 e-208 for legal motives

Additionally to safety, 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 minimum , 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 e-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 e-208? This setting may seem a bit complicated, but if you stick to the instructions you should be able to do it without too much issue.

Preparations to set the low beam of a Peugeot e-208

To start, you will need to set up your motor vehicle to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to do:

  • Place your motor vehicle on a area 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
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  • 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.

The setting of the low beam headlights of his Peugeot e-208

Once your motor vehicle is in position, you will switch 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 motor 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, situate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Peugeot e-208 (they are in most cases marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side adjusts the horizontality of the adjustment).
  • Use a cloth or anything 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 strong 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 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 finished, examine that the low beam setting of your Peugeot e-208 is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to examine that it has been driven, in some cases it may move.

If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Peugeot e-208, please browse our document on this subject.

If you have any additional questions about the Peugeot e-208, do not hesitate to consult our Peugeot e-208 category.