Whether you feel you can’t see as well during the night, regardless you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these cases, there’s only one part of your car to blame – your low beams. Although this adjustment may seem to be easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a whole adjustment is much more complex than this basic realignment, and in this document, we will find out how to adjust the low beam lights of your Ram ProMaster City? For this, first we will find out why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Ram ProMaster City.
Why set the low beam lights of your Ram ProMaster City?
So let’s commence our document with the benefit of adjusting the low beam lights of your Ram ProMaster City. For a lot of people these lights are well enough adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. However this is not necessarily the case and checking this setting, either because the low beams of your Ram ProMaster City are not lighting up well, or because you have the sense that they are too low or too powerful is a good plan .
Adjusting the low beam of your Ram ProMaster City for safety is a good plan.
To start, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Ram ProMaster City must be done for a basic safety reason. Whether it’s for you, or for the other users you come across during your night trips. In fact, if you don’t see enough, the risk is to miss an obstacle on the route, or to anticipate a curve badly. On the contrary, if your lights are too powerful, you risk dazzling the car owners in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is therefore fundamental for others as well as for you to have an ideal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Ram ProMaster City for legal justifications
Additionally to safety, 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 light up at least 30 meters. Another legislation 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 Ram ProMaster City?
We will now move on to the part that concerns you the more in this document, how to adjust the low beams of his Ram ProMaster City? This setting may appear to be a bit difficult, 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 ProMaster City
Firstly, you will need to prepare 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 precisely.
- 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 car, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.
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The setting of the low beam headlights of his Ram ProMaster City
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 task here are the basic steps to follow:
- Open your bonnet, locate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Ram ProMaster City (they are usually marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side controls 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
- 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 accomplished, verify that the low beam setting of your Ram ProMaster City 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 Ram ProMaster City, please go through our document on this subject.
If you need more guides on the Ram ProMaster City, go to our Ram ProMaster City category.
