It doesn’t matter if you feel you can’t see properly through the night, whether 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 adjustment may look simple thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a complete adjustment is much more complicated than this ordinary modification, and in this document, we will find out how to adjust the low beam lights of your Toyota Corolla Verso? For this, first we will find out why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Toyota Corolla Verso.
Why adjust the low beam lights of your Toyota Corolla Verso?
So let’s begin our document with the advantage of adjusting the low beam lights of your Toyota Corolla Verso. For many of us these lights are good enough adjusted, and it seems 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 Toyota Corolla Verso are not illuminating well, or because you have the feeling that they are too low or too strong is a wise decision .
Adjusting the low beam of your Toyota Corolla Verso for safety is a wise decision.
First of all, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Toyota Corolla Verso must be done for a elementary safety cause. Whether it’s for you, or for the other users you come across 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 contrary, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the drivers in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is therefore imperative for others as well as for you to have an ideal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Toyota Corolla Verso for legal justifications
Furthermore 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 light up at least 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 floor, and that they must be at least 600 mm apart.
How to adjust the low-beam headlamps of a Toyota Corolla Verso?
We will now move on to the part that interests you the more in this document, how to adjust the low beams of his Toyota Corolla Verso? This setting may appear a bit difficult, but if you stick to the recommendations you should be able to do it without too much problem.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Toyota Corolla Verso
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 do:
- Place your motor vehicle on a area in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
- Verify your tire pressure carefully.
- Verify 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 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 Toyota Corolla Verso
Once your motor vehicle is into position, 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 move back your motor vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the procedure here are the simple steps to stick to:
- Open your bonnet, situate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Toyota Corolla Verso (they are generally 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
- 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 completed, examine that the low beam setting of your Toyota Corolla Verso is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to examine that it has been driven, sometimes it may move.
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If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Toyota Corolla Verso, please browse our document on this subject.
If you want more tutorials on the Toyota Corolla Verso, go to our Toyota Corolla Verso category.
