Whether you feel you can’t see as well through 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. Although this adjustment may look simple thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a full adjustment is much more complicated than this common realignment, and in this content, we will find out how to adjust the low beam lights of your Ram P/U? 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 Ram P/U.

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Why adjust the low beam lights of your Ram P/U?

So let’s begin our content with the interest of adjusting the low beam lights of your Ram P/U. For many of us these lights are good enough adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. Unfortunately this is not automatically the case and examining this setting, either because the low beams of your Ram P/U are not lighting up well, or because you have the feeling that they are too low or too powerful is a good option .

Adjusting the low beam of your Ram P/U for safety is a good option.

First of all, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Ram P/U must be done for a elementary safety cause. Whether it’s for you, or for the other users you come across during your night journeys. In reality, if you don’t see enough, the real danger is to miss an obstacle on the road, or to anticipate a curve badly. In contrast, if your lights are too powerful, you risk dazzling the people in front of you, and thus putting yourself at risk. It is subsequently essential for others as well as for you to have an ideal setting of your parking lights.

Setting the low beam headlights of an Ram P/U for legal motives

Additionally to safety, 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 Ram P/U?

We will now move on to the section that interests you the more in this content, how to adjust the low beams of his Ram P/U? This setting may sound a bit complex, but if you follow the guidelines you should be able to do it without too much problem.

Preparations to set the low beam of a Ram P/U

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 put in place:

  • Place your car on a surface in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
  • Verify your tire pressure rigorously.
  • 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 needless weight from the car, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.

The setting of the low beam headlights of his Ram P/U

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

  • Open your bonnet, situate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Ram P/U (they are in general marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side handles the horizontality of the adjustment).
  • Use a cloth or some thing 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 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, examine that the low beam setting of your Ram P/U 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 Ram P/U, please go through our content on this subject.

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