Whether you feel you can’t see as well at nighttime, whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these situations, there’s only one component of your car to blame – your low beams. Despite the fact this adjustment may seem to be simple thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a complete adjustment is much more technical than this simple realignment, and in this document, we will discover how to adjust the low beam lights of your Renualt Express? For this, first we will discover why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Renualt Express.
Why set the low beam lights of your Renualt Express?
So let’s commence our document with the interest of adjusting the low beam lights of your Renualt Express. For the majority of us these lights are good enough adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. Unfortunately this is not always the case and verifying this setting, either because the low beams of your Renualt Express are not illuminating well, or because you have the feeling that they are too low or too powerful is a good plan .
Adjusting the low beam of your Renualt Express for security is a good plan.
To begin, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Renualt Express must be done for a elementary security cause. It doesn’t matter if it’s for you, or for the other users you come across during your night journeys. In reality, if you don’t see enough, the risk is to miss an obstacle on the route, or to anticipate a curve badly. On the other hand, if your lights are too powerful, you risk dazzling the people in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is therefore crucial for others as well as for you to have an ideal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Renualt Express for legal reasons
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 minimum , 30 meters. Another legislation 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 floor, and that they must be at least 600 mm apart.
How to adjust the low-beam headlamps of a Renualt Express?
We will now go forward to the section that interests you the more in this document, how to adjust the low beams of his Renualt Express? This setting may appear a bit complex, but if you follow the guidelines you should be able to do it without too much difficulty.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Renualt Express
Firstly, you will need to set up your car to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to put in place:
- Place your car on a surface in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
- Verify your tire pressure rigorously.
- 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 Renualt Express
Once your car 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 step back your car up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the procedure here are the basic steps to follow:
- Open your bonnet, locate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Renualt Express (they are usually marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side controls the horizontality of the adjustment).
- Use a cloth or something 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 intense 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 done, check that the low beam setting of your Renualt Express 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 Renualt Express, please go through our document on this subject.
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