Whether you feel you can’t see good enough through the night, whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these cases, there’s only one part of your vehicle to blame – your low beams. Despite the fact this correction may appear easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a complete correction is much more complicated than this common realignment, and in this article, we will see how to adjust the low beam lights of your Renault Twingo? For this, first we will see why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Renault Twingo.
Why adjust the low beam lights of your Renault Twingo?
So let’s begin our article with the interest of adjusting the low beam lights of your Renault Twingo. For the majority 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 looking at this setting, either because the low beams of your Renault Twingo 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 for safety is a wise decision.
First of all, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Renault Twingo must be done for a ordinary safety purpose. It doesn’t matter if it’s for you, or for the other drivers you encounter during your night trips. In fact, if you don’t see enough, the risk is to miss an obstacle on the road, or to predict a curve badly. On the other hand, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the car owners in front of you, and thus putting yourself at risk. It is as a consequence 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 Twingo for law motives
Additionally to safety, there is a law that controls 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 regulation controls 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?
We will now move on to the section that interests you the most in this article, how to adjust the low beams of his Renault Twingo? This setting may sound a bit complicated, but if you follow the recommendations you should be able to do it without too much issue.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Renault Twingo
Firstly, you will need to prepare your vehicle to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to do:
- Place your vehicle on a floor in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
- Check your tire pressure precisely.
- Check 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 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 Twingo
Once your vehicle is in 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 step back your 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, identify the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Renault Twingo (they are usually marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side manages the horizontality of the adjustment).
- Use a cloth or something 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 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 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, check that the low beam setting of your Renault Twingo is consistent on the road, do not be reluctant 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, please browse our article on this subject.
If you need more guides on the Renault Twingo, go to our Renault Twingo category.
