Regardless whether you feel you can’t see good enough at night, whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these situations, there’s only one part of your car to blame – your low beams. Despite the fact this correction may appear easy to do thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a whole correction is much more complex than this simple modification, and in this content, we will see how to adjust the low beam lights of your Renault Espace? 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 Espace.
Why adjust the low beam lights of your Renault Espace?
So let’s begin our content with the advantage of adjusting the low beam lights of your Renault Espace. For most people these lights are good enough adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. Unfortunately this is not always the case and checking out this setting, either because the low beams of your Renault Espace are not illuminating well, or because you have the sense that they are too weak or too strong is a good idea .
Adjusting the low beam of your Renault Espace for safety is a good idea.
To begin, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Renault Espace must be done for a basic safety purpose. Regardless whether it’s for you, or for the other drivers you come across during your night trips. Indeed, if you don’t see enough, the risk is to miss an obstacle on the road, or to predict a curve badly. On the flip side, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the people in front of you, and thus putting yourself at risk. It is consequently essential for others as well as for you to have an optimal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Renault Espace for legal justifications
Moreover 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 minimum , 30 meters. Another regulation 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 Renault Espace?
We will now go forward to the section that interests you the more in this content, how to adjust the low beams of his Renault Espace? This setting may sound a bit complex, but if you follow the instructions you should be able to do it without too much problem.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Renault Espace
To start, you will need to prepare your car to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to put in place:
- Place your car on a area 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 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 Renault Espace
Once your car is set up, 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 car up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the procedure here are the simple steps to follow:
- Open your bonnet, locate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Renault Espace (they are generally marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side handles the horizontality of the adjustment).
- Use a cloth or anything 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 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 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 accomplished, verify that the low beam setting of your Renault Espace is consistent on the road, do not be reluctant to verify 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 Espace, please read our content on this subject.
If you need more guides on the Renault Espace, go to our Renault Espace category.
