It doesn’t matter if you feel you can’t see as well during 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. Despite the fact this adjustment may look simple thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a complete adjustment is much more complex than this ordinary realignment, and in this article, we will discover how to adjust the low beam lights of your Renault Scenic 2? For this, first of all we will discover why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Renault Scenic 2.
Why set the low beam lights of your Renault Scenic 2?
So let’s start our article with the interest of adjusting the low beam lights of your Renault Scenic 2. For many people these lights are sufficiently adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. Sadly this is not necessarily the case and checking out this setting, either because the low beams of your Renault Scenic 2 are not lighting up well, or because you have the feeling that they are too weak or too strong is a good idea .
Adjusting the low beam of your Renault Scenic 2 for safety is a good idea.
To start, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Renault Scenic 2 must be done for a elementary safety purpose. Regardless 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 anticipate a curve badly. On the contrary, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the people in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is as a consequence crucial for others as well as for you to have an ideal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Renault Scenic 2 for law motives
In addition to safety, there is a law that supervises 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 supervises 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 Scenic 2?
We will now go forward to the section that interests you the most in this article, how to adjust the low beams of his Renault Scenic 2? This setting may seem to be a bit complicated, but if you stick to the recommendations you should be able to do it without too much issue.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Renault Scenic 2
To start, you will need to set up your car to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to do:
- 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 rigorously.
- 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 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 Scenic 2
Once your car is into position, 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 guidelines to stick to:
- Open your bonnet, locate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Renault Scenic 2 (they are commonly 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 manipulation.
- Using the screws to make the horizontal manipulation, 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 complete, check that the low beam setting of your Renault Scenic 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 Scenic 2, please examine our article on this subject.
If you need more guides on the Renault Scenic 2, go to our Renault Scenic 2 category.
