Whether you feel you can’t see as well at nighttime, 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 correction may appear easy to do thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a whole correction is much more complex than this ordinary realignment, and in this document, we will discover how to adjust the low beam lights of your Volkswagen Golf 4? 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 4.

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Why adjust the low beam lights of your Volkswagen Golf 4?

So let’s commence our document with the advantage of adjusting the low beam lights of your Volkswagen Golf 4. For many of us these lights are good enough adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. Unfortunately this is not necessarily the case and examining this setting, either because the low beams of your Volkswagen Golf 4 are not illuminating well, or because you have the feeling that they are too low or too strong is a good plan .

Adjusting the low beam of your Volkswagen Golf 4 for security is a good plan.

To start, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Volkswagen Golf 4 must be done for a elementary security purpose. Regardless it’s for you, or for the other users you come across during your night journeys. In fact, if you don’t see enough, the risk is to fail to see an obstacle on the road, or to anticipate a curve badly. On the flip side, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the car owners in front of you, and thus putting yourself at risk. 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 Volkswagen Golf 4 for law reasons

Moreover to security, there is a law that regulates 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 law regulates 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 4?

We will now go forward to the section that concerns you the more in this document, how to adjust the low beams of his Volkswagen Golf 4? This setting may seem a bit complex, 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 Volkswagen Golf 4

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 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
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  • Try doing that with half a full tank.
  • Remove all unnecessary weight from the motor vehicle, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.

The setting of the low beam headlights of his Volkswagen Golf 4

Once your motor vehicle is in position, 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 move back your motor vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the process here are the basic steps to stick to:

  • Open your bonnet, situate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Volkswagen Golf 4 (they are usually 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 adjustment.
  • Using the screws to make the horizontal adjustment, 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
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  • With regard to vertical correction, 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 complete, examine that the low beam setting of your Volkswagen Golf 4 is consistent on the road, do not be reluctant to examine that it has been driven, on occasion it may move.

If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Volkswagen Golf 4, please examine our document on this subject.

If you want more guides on the Volkswagen Golf 4, go to our Volkswagen Golf 4 category.