Regardless you feel you can’t see good enough after dark, whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these circumstances, there’s only one component of your car to blame – your low beams. Even though this adjustment may appear easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a full adjustment is much more technical than this common modification, and in this document, we will find out how to adjust the low beam lights of your Scion tC? 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 Scion tC.
Why adjust the low beam lights of your Scion tC?
So let’s start our document with the advantage of adjusting the low beam lights of your Scion tC. For most of us these lights are good enough adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. However this is not automatically the case and verifying this setting, either because the low beams of your Scion tC are not lighting up 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 Scion tC for security is a good plan.
Firstly, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Scion tC must be done for a basic security purpose. 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 predict a curve badly. However, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the drivers 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 Scion tC for legal justifications
In addition 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 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 Scion tC?
We will now go forward to the section that concerns you the more in this document, how to adjust the low beams of his Scion tC? This setting may sound a bit difficult, 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 Scion tC
Firstly, 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.
- Examine your tire pressure carefully.
- Examine 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 car, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.
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The setting of the low beam headlights of his Scion tC
Once your car 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 car up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the task here are the simple steps to follow:
- Open your bonnet, situate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Scion tC (they are in most cases 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 modification.
- Using the screws to make the horizontal modification, 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 modification, 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 Scion tC is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to check 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 Scion tC, please browse our document on this subject.
If you wish more tutorials on the Scion tC, go to our Scion tC category.
