Whether you feel you can’t see as well through the night, regardless whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these situations, there’s only one component of your motor vehicle to blame – your low beams. Despite the fact this correction may look easy to do thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a complete correction is much more complicated than this ordinary manipulation, and in this content, we will discover how to adjust the low beam lights of your Renault Master 2? For this, first we will discover why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Renault Master 2.
Why set the low beam lights of your Renault Master 2?
So let’s begin our content with the point of adjusting the low beam lights of your Renault Master 2. For most of us these lights are well enough adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. Unfortunately this is not necessarily the case and checking this setting, either because the low beams of your Renault Master 2 are not illuminating well, or because you have the feeling that they are too low or too strong is a good plan .
Adjusting the low beam of your Renault Master 2 for security is a good plan.
First of all, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Renault Master 2 must be done for a simple security purpose. Whether it’s for you, or for the other drivers you encounter during your night trips. In reality, if you don’t see enough, the real danger is to fail to see an obstacle on the route, or to predict a curve badly. Alternatively, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the drivers in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is as a consequence imperative for others as well as for you to have an optimal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Renault Master 2 for legal motives
In addition to security, 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 law 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 floor, and that they must be at least 600 mm apart.
How to adjust the low-beam headlamps of a Renault Master 2?
We will now go forward to the section that concerns you the most in this content, how to adjust the low beams of his Renault Master 2? This setting may seem 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 Renault Master 2
First of all, you will need to set up 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.
- 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 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 Renault Master 2
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 operation here are the basic steps to follow:
- Open your bonnet, locate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Renault Master 2 (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 modification.
- Using the screws to make the horizontal modification, you should have the most powerful part of the beam which should be a little to the right of the vertical line marked on the wall
- With regard to vertical modification, 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, check that the low beam setting of your Renault Master 2 is consistent on the road, do not be reluctant to check that it has been driven, sometimes it may move.
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If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Renault Master 2, please browse our content on this subject.
If you wish more guides on the Renault Master 2, go to our Renault Master 2 category.
