Regardless whether you feel you can’t see properly at nighttime, whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these situations, there’s only one part of your car to blame – your low beams. Even though this adjustment may look easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a complete adjustment is much more technical than this simple modification, and in this article, we will find out how to adjust the low beam lights of your seat altea? For this, first we will find out why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your seat altea.
Why adjust the low beam lights of your seat altea?
So let’s commence our article with the point of adjusting the low beam lights of your seat altea. For the majority of us these lights are good enough adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. Sadly this is not always the case and checking out this setting, either because the low beams of your seat altea are not lighting up well, or because you have the feeling that they are too low or too powerful is a good option .
Adjusting the low beam of your seat altea for safety is a good option.
First of all, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an seat altea must be done for a elementary safety reason. It doesn’t matter if it’s for you, or for the other users you encounter during your night trips. In fact, if you don’t see enough, the real danger is to fail to see an obstacle on the route, or to predict 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 at risk. It is therefore necessary for others as well as for you to have an ideal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an seat altea for legal justifications
In addition 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 light up at minimum , 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 ground, and that they must be at least 600 mm apart.
How to adjust the low-beam headlamps of a seat altea?
We will now go forward to the section that concerns you the most in this article, how to adjust the low beams of his seat altea? This setting may appear a bit complex, but if you stick to the guidelines you should be able to do it without too much issue.
Preparations to set the low beam of a seat altea
To start, you will need to set up your car to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to do:
- Place your car on a floor in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
- Check your tire pressure carefully.
- Check 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 seat altea
Once your car is set up, 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 operation here are the guidelines to stick to:
- Open your bonnet, locate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your seat altea (they are in most cases marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side adjusts 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 adjustment, 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 accomplished, examine that the low beam setting of your seat altea is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to examine 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 seat altea, please go through our article on this subject.
If perhaps you have any additional questions about the seat altea, do not hesitate to consult our seat altea category.
