It doesn’t matter if you feel you can’t see properly at night, whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these circumstances, there’s only one component of your car to blame – your low beams. Even though this correction may seem simple thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a full correction is much more complicated than this common modification, and in this document, we will see how to adjust the low beam lights of your Toyota Hilux? For this, first we will see why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Toyota Hilux.
Why adjust the low beam lights of your Toyota Hilux?
So let’s commence our document with the advantage of adjusting the low beam lights of your Toyota Hilux. For the majority of us these lights are good enough adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. Sadly this is not always the case and verifying this setting, either because the low beams of your Toyota Hilux are not lighting up well, or because you have the sense that they are too weak or too powerful is a good plan .
Adjusting the low beam of your Toyota Hilux for safety is a good plan.
To begin, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Toyota Hilux must be done for a elementary safety cause. Whether it’s for you, or for the other users you come across during your night trips. In reality, if you don’t see enough, the risk is to miss an obstacle on the route, or to predict a curve badly. In contrast, 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 crucial for others as well as for you to have an optimal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Toyota Hilux for legal justifications
Moreover 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 minimum , 30 meters. Another law 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 Hilux?
We will now move on to the section that concerns you the most in this document, how to adjust the low beams of his Toyota Hilux? This setting may appear to be a bit complex, but if you stick to the recommendations you should be able to do it without too much difficulty.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Toyota Hilux
Firstly, you will need to prepare your car to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to apply:
- Place your car on a floor in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
- Verify your tire pressure rigorously.
- Verify 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 Toyota Hilux
Once your car is in 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 car up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the operation here are the basic steps to stick to:
- Open your bonnet, situate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Toyota Hilux (they are in most cases marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side manages the horizontality of the adjustment).
- Use a cloth or something 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 intense 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 done, check that the low beam setting of your Toyota Hilux is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to check that it has been driven, sometimes it may move.
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If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Toyota Hilux, please go through our document on this subject.
In the event that you have any additional questions about the Toyota Hilux, do not hesitate to consult our Toyota Hilux category.
