Whether you feel you can’t see properly during the night, regardless you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these occasions, there’s only one component of your vehicle to blame – your low beams. Despite the fact this correction may appear easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a whole correction is much more complex than this common realignment, and in this article, we will see how to adjust the low beam lights of your seat cordoba? For this, first of all we will see why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your seat cordoba.
Why set the low beam lights of your seat cordoba?
So let’s begin our article with the interest of adjusting the low beam lights of your seat cordoba. For the majority of us these lights are well enough adjusted, and it seems 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 seat cordoba are not lighting up well, or because you have the feeling that they are too weak or too strong is a wise decision .
Adjusting the low beam of your seat cordoba for safety is a wise decision.
Firstly, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an seat cordoba must be done for a basic safety reason. Regardless whether 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 fail to see an obstacle on the road, or to anticipate a curve badly. On the other hand, 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 optimal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an seat cordoba for law reasons
Moreover to safety, there is a law that regulates 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 legislation regulates 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 seat cordoba?
We will now go forward to the part that interests you the more in this article, how to adjust the low beams of his seat cordoba? This setting may appear a bit complicated, but if you stick to the recommendations you should be able to do it without too much issue.
Preparations to set the low beam of a seat cordoba
First of all, you will need to prepare your vehicle to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to apply:
- Place your vehicle on a floor in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
- Examine your tire pressure cautiously.
- 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 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 cordoba
Once your vehicle 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 vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the process here are the basic steps to stick to:
- Open your bonnet, identify the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your seat cordoba (they are almost always marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side handles the horizontality of the adjustment).
- Use a cloth or some thing else to hide the light on which you are not making the correction.
- Using the screws to make the horizontal correction, 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 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 seat cordoba is consistent on the road, do not be reluctant to verify 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 cordoba, please go through our article on this subject.
To find more tips on the seat cordoba, take a look at the seat cordoba category.
