Whether you feel you can’t see properly during the night, regardless you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these situations, there’s only one component of your vehicle to blame – your low beams. Even though this adjustment may appear simple thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a full adjustment is much more technical than this ordinary manipulation, and in this document, we will see how to adjust the low beam lights of your Renault Clio 2? 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 Renault Clio 2.
Why adjust the low beam lights of your Renault Clio 2?
So let’s commence our document with the interest of adjusting the low beam lights of your Renault Clio 2. For most people these lights are well enough adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. Unfortunately this is not always the case and looking at this setting, either because the low beams of your Renault Clio 2 are not illuminating well, or because you have the sense that they are too weak or too powerful is a good plan .
Adjusting the low beam of your Renault Clio 2 for safety is a good plan.
First of all, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Renault Clio 2 must be done for a basic safety purpose. Regardless whether it’s for you, or for the other users you come across during your night trips. 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. On the other hand, if your lights are too powerful, you risk dazzling the drivers in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is consequently fundamental for others as well as for you to have an optimal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Renault Clio 2 for law motives
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 illuminate 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 Renault Clio 2?
We will now go forward to the part that concerns you the more in this document, how to adjust the low beams of his Renault Clio 2? This setting may appear to be a bit complicated, but if you follow the instructions you should be able to do it without too much difficulty.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Renault Clio 2
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 apply:
- 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 cautiously.
- Examine that the height adjustment knob for the lights is set to 0
- Try doing that with half a full tank.
- Remove all unnecessary 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 Renault Clio 2
Once your 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 vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the process here are the steps to follow:
- Open your bonnet, identify the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Renault Clio 2 (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 correction.
- Using the screws to make the horizontal correction, 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 manipulation, 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 complete, check that the low beam setting of your Renault Clio 2 is consistent on the road, do not be reluctant to check that it has been driven, on occasion it may move.
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If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Renault Clio 2, please read our document on this subject.
To get more tips on the Renault Clio 2, take a look at the Renault Clio 2 category.
