It doesn’t matter if you feel you can’t see as well at night, regardless whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these cases, there’s only one part of your automobile 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 technical than this basic manipulation, and in this article, we will find out how to adjust the low beam lights of your Renault Scenic? For this, first of all we will find out why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Renault Scenic.
Why adjust the low beam lights of your Renault Scenic?
So let’s begin our article with the interest of adjusting the low beam lights of your Renault Scenic. For most people these lights are sufficiently adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. Unfortunately this is not automatically the case and checking this setting, either because the low beams of your Renault Scenic are not illuminating well, or because you have the feeling that they are too low or too powerful is a good idea .
Adjusting the low beam of your Renault Scenic for safety is a good idea.
To start, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Renault Scenic must be done for a ordinary safety cause. Whether it’s for you, or for the other drivers you encounter during your night trips. In fact, if you don’t see enough, the real danger is to miss an obstacle on the route, or to anticipate a curve badly. However, if your lights are too powerful, you risk dazzling the car owners in front of you, and thus putting yourself at risk. It is therefore crucial for others as well as for you to have an optimal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Renault Scenic for legal justifications
Additionally 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 law 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?
We will now move on to the part that interests you the more in this article, how to adjust the low beams of his Renault Scenic? This setting may seem 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 Scenic
To start, you will need to prepare your automobile to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to do:
- Place your automobile on a floor 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 needless weight from the automobile, 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
Once your automobile is in 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 back your automobile up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the process here are the simple steps to follow:
- Open your bonnet, situate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Renault Scenic (they are in most cases 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 complete, verify that the low beam setting of your Renault Scenic 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 Renault Scenic, please examine our article on this subject.
In the event that you have any additional questions about the Renault Scenic, do not hesitate to consult our Renault Scenic category.
