Regardless you feel you can’t see good enough through the night, regardless you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these circumstances, there’s only one part of your motor vehicle to blame – your low beams. Despite the fact this correction may look simple thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a full correction is much more complicated than this simple realignment, and in this content page, we will discover how to adjust the low beam lights of your Seat Ateca? 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 Seat Ateca.
Why set the low beam lights of your Seat Ateca?
So let’s commence our content page with the interest of adjusting the low beam lights of your Seat Ateca. For many of us these lights are well enough adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. Sadly this is not automatically the case and checking this setting, either because the low beams of your Seat Ateca are not illuminating well, or because you have the feeling that they are too low or too strong is a good idea .
Adjusting the low beam of your Seat Ateca for security is a good idea.
To start, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Seat Ateca must be done for a elementary security purpose. It doesn’t matter if it’s for you, or for the other drivers 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 predict a curve badly. On the contrary, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the drivers in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is consequently 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 Ateca for law reasons
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 illuminate 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 ground, and that they must be at least 600 mm apart.
How to adjust the low-beam headlamps of a Seat Ateca?
We will now go forward to the section that interests you the more in this content page, how to adjust the low beams of his Seat Ateca? This setting may seem to be a bit complex, but if you stick to the instructions you should be able to do it without too much issue.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Seat Ateca
First of all, you will need to set up your motor vehicle to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to put in place:
- Place your motor vehicle on a surface 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 unneeded weight from the motor vehicle, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.
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The setting of the low beam headlights of his Seat Ateca
Once your motor vehicle 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 move back your motor vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the task here are the steps to stick to:
- Open your bonnet, situate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Seat Ateca (they are generally 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 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 finished, check that the low beam setting of your Seat Ateca is consistent on the road, do not be reluctant to check that it has been driven, sometimes it may move.
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If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Seat Ateca, please read our content page on this subject.
Whenever you have any additional questions about the Seat Ateca, do not hesitate to consult our Seat Ateca category.
