Regardless whether you feel you can’t see good enough after dark, regardless 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. Although this adjustment may appear easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a whole adjustment is much more complex than this simple modification, and in this content page, we will find out how to adjust the low beam lights of your Renault Twingo 3? 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 3.
Why set the low beam lights of your Renault Twingo 3?
So let’s start our content page with the benefit of adjusting the low beam lights of your Renault Twingo 3. For most people these lights are well enough adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. However this is not necessarily the case and checking this setting, either because the low beams of your Renault Twingo 3 are not lighting up well, or because you have the feeling that they are too weak or too strong is a good option .
Adjusting the low beam of your Renault Twingo 3 for security is a good option.
To begin, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Renault Twingo 3 must be done for a ordinary security purpose. Regardless 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 risk 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 car owners in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is consequently 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 Twingo 3 for legal justifications
Furthermore to security, 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 Twingo 3?
We will now go forward to the section that interests you the more in this content page, how to adjust the low beams of his Renault Twingo 3? This setting may appear to be a bit complex, 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 Twingo 3
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 floor in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
- Verify your tire pressure precisely.
- Verify 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 Twingo 3
Once your car is in place, 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 move back your car up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the operation here are the simple steps to stick to:
- Open your bonnet, situate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Renault Twingo 3 (they are generally marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side controls 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 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 complete, check that the low beam setting of your Renault Twingo 3 is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to check 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 Twingo 3, please examine our content page on this subject.
Whenever you have any further questions about the Renault Twingo 3, do not hesitate to consult our Renault Twingo 3 category.
