It doesn’t matter if you feel you can’t see as well at night, regardless whether 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. Although this correction may seem to be simple thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a complete correction is much more complex than this simple manipulation, and in this content, we will see how to adjust the low beam lights of your Peugeot Rifter? For this, first we will see why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Peugeot Rifter.
Why adjust the low beam lights of your Peugeot Rifter?
So let’s begin our content with the benefit of adjusting the low beam lights of your Peugeot Rifter. For many people 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 this setting, either because the low beams of your Peugeot Rifter are not lighting up well, or because you have the feeling that they are too weak or too powerful is a good idea .
Adjusting the low beam of your Peugeot Rifter for security is a good idea.
First of all, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Peugeot Rifter must be done for a ordinary security purpose. Whether it’s for you, or for the other drivers you encounter during your night journeys. Indeed, 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. Alternatively, if your lights are too powerful, you risk dazzling the people in front of you, and thus putting yourself at risk. It is as a consequence fundamental for others as well as for you to have an ideal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Peugeot Rifter for legal motives
In addition 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 Rifter?
We will now move on to the part that interests you the more in this content, how to adjust the low beams of his Peugeot Rifter? This setting may seem a bit complex, 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 Rifter
First of all, 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 floor in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
- Verify your tire pressure carefully.
- Verify that the height adjustment knob for the lights is set to 0
- Try doing that with half a full tank.
- Remove all needless 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 Rifter
Once your motor vehicle is in place, 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 process here are the simple steps to stick to:
- Open your bonnet, identify the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Peugeot Rifter (they are in general 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 modification.
- Using the screws to make the horizontal modification, 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 correction, 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, verify that the low beam setting of your Peugeot Rifter is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to verify that it has been driven, sometimes it may move.
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If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Peugeot Rifter, please read our content on this subject.
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