It doesn’t matter if you feel you can’t see good enough during the night, whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these situations, there’s only one component of your motor vehicle to blame – your low beams. Despite the fact this correction may appear easy to do thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a complete correction is much more technical than this ordinary modification, and in this document, we will discover how to adjust the low beam lights of your Suzuki Sx4? 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 Suzuki Sx4.

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Why adjust the low beam lights of your Suzuki Sx4?

So let’s start our document with the point of adjusting the low beam lights of your Suzuki Sx4. For most people these lights are sufficiently adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. However this is not always the case and checking this setting, either because the low beams of your Suzuki Sx4 are not lighting up well, or because you have the feeling that they are too weak or too powerful is a good idea .

Adjusting the low beam of your Suzuki Sx4 for safety is a good idea.

First of all, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Suzuki Sx4 must be done for a elementary safety reason. Regardless it’s for you, or for the other users you encounter during your night journeys. In fact, if you don’t see enough, the real danger is to miss an obstacle on the route, or to anticipate a curve badly. Alternatively, if your lights are too powerful, you risk dazzling the drivers in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is therefore essential for others as well as for you to have an optimal setting of your parking lights.

Setting the low beam headlights of an Suzuki Sx4 for law justifications

Moreover 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 least 30 meters. Another legislation 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 floor, and that they must be at least 600 mm apart.

How to adjust the low-beam headlamps of a Suzuki Sx4?

We will now move on to the part that interests you the more in this document, how to adjust the low beams of his Suzuki Sx4? This setting may seem to be 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 Suzuki Sx4

Firstly, 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 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 needless weight from the motor vehicle, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.

The setting of the low beam headlights of his Suzuki Sx4

Once your motor vehicle is in place, 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 motor vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the process here are the guidelines to stick to:

  • Open your bonnet, situate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Suzuki Sx4 (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 anything else to hide the light on which you are not making the modification.
  • Using the screws to make the horizontal modification, 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
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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 carried out, check that the low beam setting of your Suzuki Sx4 is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to check that it has been driven, in some cases it may move.

If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Suzuki Sx4, please go through our document on this subject.

If perhaps you have any additional questions about the Suzuki Sx4, do not hesitate to consult our Suzuki Sx4 category.