Regardless you feel you can’t see properly at night, regardless whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these situations, there’s only one component of your vehicle to blame – your low beams. Although this adjustment may look easy to do thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a full adjustment is much more complicated than this ordinary modification, and in this article, we will discover how to adjust the low beam lights of your Volkswagen Golf 2? 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 Volkswagen Golf 2.
Why set the low beam lights of your Volkswagen Golf 2?
So let’s start our article with the interest of adjusting the low beam lights of your Volkswagen Golf 2. For many of us these lights are sufficiently adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. Sadly this is not automatically the case and verifying this setting, either because the low beams of your Volkswagen Golf 2 are not lighting up well, or because you have the feeling that they are too weak or too strong is a wise decision .
Adjusting the low beam of your Volkswagen Golf 2 for safety is a wise decision.
First of all, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Volkswagen Golf 2 must be done for a basic safety cause. Regardless whether it’s for you, or for the other drivers you encounter during your night journeys. In reality, if you don’t see enough, the real danger is to fail to see an obstacle on the road, or to anticipate a curve badly. On the other hand, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the car owners in front of you, and thus putting yourself at risk. It is as a consequence crucial for others as well as for you to have an optimal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Volkswagen Golf 2 for law reasons
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 light up 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 ground, and that they must be at least 600 mm apart.
How to adjust the low-beam headlamps of a Volkswagen Golf 2?
We will now move on to the part that interests you the more in this article, how to adjust the low beams of his Volkswagen Golf 2? This setting may seem to be a bit difficult, but if you stick to the instructions you should be able to do it without too much problem.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Volkswagen Golf 2
First of all, you will need to prepare your vehicle to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to put in place:
- Place your vehicle on a area in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
- Verify your tire pressure precisely.
- Verify that the height adjustment knob for the lights is set to 0
- Try doing that with half a full tank.
- Remove all unnecessary weight from the vehicle, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.
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The setting of the low beam headlights of his Volkswagen Golf 2
Once your vehicle 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 vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the procedure here are the guidelines to stick to:
- Open your bonnet, locate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Volkswagen Golf 2 (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 something 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 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 adjustment, 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 Volkswagen Golf 2 is consistent on the road, do not be reluctant 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 Volkswagen Golf 2, please read our article on this subject.
If you need more tutorials on the Volkswagen Golf 2, go to our Volkswagen Golf 2 category.
