Whether you feel you can’t see good enough during the night, whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these occasions, there’s only one component of your automobile 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 complex than this basic manipulation, and in this document, we will find out how to adjust the low beam lights of your Renault Twingo 2? 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 Twingo 2.
Why set the low beam lights of your Renault Twingo 2?
So let’s start our document with the advantage of adjusting the low beam lights of your Renault Twingo 2. For many people these lights are good enough adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. Sadly this is not constantly the case and verifying this setting, either because the low beams of your Renault Twingo 2 are not lighting up well, or because you have the sense that they are too weak or too strong is a wise decision .
Adjusting the low beam of your Renault Twingo 2 for safety is a wise decision.
To start, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Renault Twingo 2 must be done for a elementary safety cause. Regardless it’s for you, or for the other drivers you encounter during your night journeys. 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. Alternatively, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the drivers in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is therefore imperative for others as well as for you to have an ideal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Renault Twingo 2 for legal justifications
Furthermore 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 least 30 meters. Another legislation 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 Twingo 2?
We will now go forward to the section that interests you the most in this document, how to adjust the low beams of his Renault Twingo 2? This setting may seem to be a bit complicated, but if you follow the guidelines you should be able to do it without too much issue.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Renault Twingo 2
Firstly, you will need to set up your automobile to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to do:
- Place your automobile on a surface in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
- Check your tire pressure carefully.
- Check 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 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 Twingo 2
Once your automobile is into position, you will switch 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 basic steps to follow:
- Open your bonnet, identify the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Renault Twingo 2 (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 some thing else to hide the light on which you are not making the adjustment.
- Using the screws to make the horizontal adjustment, 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 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 finished, verify that the low beam setting of your Renault Twingo 2 is consistent on the road, do not be reluctant 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 Twingo 2, please examine our document on this subject.
If you have any additional questions about the Renault Twingo 2, do not hesitate to consult our Renault Twingo 2 category.
