It doesn’t matter if you feel you can’t see properly after dark, whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these circumstances, there’s only one part of your automobile to blame – your low beams. Even though this correction may look easy to do thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a full correction is much more complicated than this common manipulation, and in this article, we will discover how to adjust the low beam lights of your Renault Twizy? 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 Twizy.
Why adjust the low beam lights of your Renault Twizy?
So let’s commence our article with the benefit of adjusting the low beam lights of your Renault Twizy. For most of us these lights are sufficiently adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. Unfortunately this is not necessarily the case and checking this setting, either because the low beams of your Renault Twizy are not illuminating well, or because you have the sense that they are too low or too strong is a good plan .
Adjusting the low beam of your Renault Twizy for safety is a good plan.
Firstly, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Renault Twizy must be done for a basic safety cause. Regardless it’s for you, or for the other users you encounter during your night journeys. In reality, if you don’t see enough, the real danger is to miss 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 at risk. It is consequently important for others as well as for you to have an ideal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Renault Twizy for legal reasons
Furthermore 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 law 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 floor, and that they must be at least 600 mm apart.
How to adjust the low-beam headlamps of a Renault Twizy?
We will now go forward to the section that interests you the more in this article, how to adjust the low beams of his Renault Twizy? This setting may appear a bit complicated, but if you stick to the instructions you should be able to do it without too much problem.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Renault Twizy
First of all, you will need to prepare your automobile to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to put in place:
- Place your automobile on a surface 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 unneeded 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 Twizy
Once your automobile 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 automobile up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the operation here are the guidelines to stick to:
- Open your bonnet, identify the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Renault Twizy (they are in general marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side handles the horizontality of the adjustment).
- Use a cloth or anything 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 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 carried out, verify that the low beam setting of your Renault Twizy is consistent on the road, do not be reluctant to verify 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 Twizy, please go through our article on this subject.
If you have any further questions about the Renault Twizy, do not hesitate to consult our Renault Twizy category.
