It doesn’t matter if you feel you can’t see good enough 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 vehicle to blame – your low beams. Even though this adjustment may seem easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a complete adjustment is much more complex than this simple manipulation, and in this document, we will find out how to adjust the low beam lights of your Skoda Kodiaq? 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 Skoda Kodiaq.

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Why set the low beam lights of your Skoda Kodiaq?

So let’s commence our document with the interest of adjusting the low beam lights of your Skoda Kodiaq. For the majority of us these lights are sufficiently adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. However this is not always the case and checking out this setting, either because the low beams of your Skoda Kodiaq 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 Skoda Kodiaq for security is a good idea.

Firstly, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Skoda Kodiaq must be done for a ordinary security purpose. Regardless it’s for you, or for the other drivers you encounter during your night trips. Indeed, if you don’t see enough, the risk is to fail to see an obstacle on the road, or to predict a curve badly. However, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the car owners in front of you, and thus putting yourself at risk. It is consequently essential for others as well as for you to have an ideal setting of your parking lights.

Setting the low beam headlights of an Skoda Kodiaq for law motives

Additionally to security, 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 minimum , 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 Skoda Kodiaq?

We will now move on to the section that concerns you the most in this document, how to adjust the low beams of his Skoda Kodiaq? This setting may sound a bit difficult, but if you follow the instructions you should be able to do it without too much problem.

Preparations to set the low beam of a Skoda Kodiaq

First of all, you will need to set up 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.
  • Check your tire pressure precisely.
  • Check that the height adjustment knob for the lights is set to 0
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  • Try doing that with half a full tank.
  • Remove all unnecessary weight from the vehicle, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.

The setting of the low beam headlights of his Skoda Kodiaq

Once your vehicle is into 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 vehicle 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 Skoda Kodiaq (they are commonly marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side manages 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 powerful part of the beam which should be a little to the right of the vertical line marked on the wall
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  • With regard to vertical manipulation, 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 Skoda Kodiaq is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to check that it has been driven, sometimes it may move.

If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Skoda Kodiaq, please read our document on this subject.

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