Whether you feel you can’t see good enough at nighttime, regardless you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these situations, there’s only one part of your car to blame – your low beams. Even though this adjustment may seem to be simple thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a full adjustment is much more technical than this ordinary manipulation, and in this content page, we will find out how to adjust the low beam lights of your Toyota Tacoma? 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 Toyota Tacoma.
Why set the low beam lights of your Toyota Tacoma?
So let’s commence our content page with the interest of adjusting the low beam lights of your Toyota Tacoma. For most of us these lights are well enough adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. Unfortunately this is not constantly the case and looking at this setting, either because the low beams of your Toyota Tacoma are not illuminating well, or because you have the sense that they are too weak or too powerful is a wise decision .
Adjusting the low beam of your Toyota Tacoma for safety is a wise decision.
First of all, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Toyota Tacoma must be done for a elementary safety cause. It doesn’t matter if it’s for you, or for the other users you encounter during your night trips. In fact, if you don’t see enough, the risk is to fail to see an obstacle on the road, or to predict a curve badly. Alternatively, if your lights are too powerful, you risk dazzling the people in front of you, and thus putting yourself at risk. It is subsequently fundamental for others as well as for you to have an ideal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Toyota Tacoma for law reasons
Additionally 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 least 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 ground, and that they must be at least 600 mm apart.
How to adjust the low-beam headlamps of a Toyota Tacoma?
We will now move on to the part that concerns you the more in this content page, how to adjust the low beams of his Toyota Tacoma? This setting may appear a bit difficult, but if you follow the guidelines you should be able to do it without too much problem.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Toyota Tacoma
To start, you will need to prepare 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 carefully.
- 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 Toyota Tacoma
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 step back your car up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the process here are the guidelines to follow:
- Open your bonnet, situate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Toyota Tacoma (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 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 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 Toyota Tacoma is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to check that it has been driven, in some cases it may move.
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If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Toyota Tacoma, please read our content page on this subject.
If perhaps you have any additional questions about the Toyota Tacoma, do not hesitate to consult our Toyota Tacoma category.
