It doesn’t matter if 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 occasions, there’s only one component of your car to blame – your low beams. Although this correction may look easy to do thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a full correction is much more complex than this common realignment, and in this content page, we will find out how to adjust the low beam lights of your smart forfour? For this, first we will find out why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your smart forfour.
Why set the low beam lights of your smart forfour?
So let’s commence our content page with the interest of adjusting the low beam lights of your smart forfour. For many people these lights are well enough adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. Unfortunately this is not constantly the case and checking this setting, either because the low beams of your smart forfour are not lighting up well, or because you have the feeling that they are too low or too powerful is a wise decision .
Adjusting the low beam of your smart forfour for safety is a wise decision.
First of all, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an smart forfour must be done for a elementary safety purpose. Whether it’s for you, or for the other users you encounter during your night journeys. Indeed, if you don’t see enough, the real danger is to fail to see an obstacle on the road, or to predict a curve badly. On the other hand, if your lights are too powerful, you risk dazzling the car owners in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is subsequently necessary for others as well as for you to have an optimal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an smart forfour for law justifications
In addition to safety, 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 regulation 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 floor, and that they must be at least 600 mm apart.
How to adjust the low-beam headlamps of a smart forfour?
We will now go forward to the part that interests you the most in this content page, how to adjust the low beams of his smart forfour? This setting may seem a bit difficult, 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 smart forfour
First of all, you will need to set up your car to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to put in place:
- Place your car on a surface 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 unneeded 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 smart forfour
Once your car 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 move back your car 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 smart forfour (they are in most cases marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side controls 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 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 completed, check that the low beam setting of your smart forfour is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to check that it has been driven, on occasion it may move.
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If you want to adjust the fog lights on your smart forfour, please browse our content page on this subject.
If you want more guides on the smart forfour, go to our smart forfour category.
