Whether you feel you can’t see good enough through the night, regardless you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these cases, there’s only one part of your vehicle to blame – your low beams. Although this correction may look easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a full correction is much more complex than this common realignment, and in this content, we will discover how to adjust the low beam lights of your Volkswagen Golf 7? 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 7.

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Why adjust the low beam lights of your Volkswagen Golf 7?

So let’s begin our content with the advantage of adjusting the low beam lights of your Volkswagen Golf 7. For most people these lights are good enough adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. Sadly this is not constantly the case and examining this setting, either because the low beams of your Volkswagen Golf 7 are not lighting up well, or because you have the feeling that they are too weak or too powerful is a good option .

Adjusting the low beam of your Volkswagen Golf 7 for safety is a good option.

To begin, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Volkswagen Golf 7 must be done for a simple safety cause. Whether 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 route, or to anticipate a curve badly. On the contrary, if your lights are too powerful, you risk dazzling the people in front of you, and thus putting yourself at risk. It is therefore essential 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 7 for legal motives

Furthermore to safety, 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 legislation 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 7?

We will now move on to the part that concerns you the more in this content, how to adjust the low beams of his Volkswagen Golf 7? This setting may seem to be a bit difficult, but if you follow the instructions you should be able to do it without too much problem.

Preparations to set the low beam of a Volkswagen Golf 7

To start, you will need to set up your vehicle to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to do:

  • Place your vehicle on a floor in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
  • Verify your tire pressure cautiously.
  • Verify 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 unneeded weight from the vehicle, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.

The setting of the low beam headlights of his Volkswagen Golf 7

Once your vehicle is into 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 step back your vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the operation here are the steps to follow:

  • Open your bonnet, situate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Volkswagen Golf 7 (they are in most cases marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side handles the horizontality of the adjustment).
  • Use a cloth or some thing 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 strong 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 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 accomplished, examine that the low beam setting of your Volkswagen Golf 7 is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to examine that it has been driven, in some cases it may move.

If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Volkswagen Golf 7, please go through our content on this subject.

If you want more guides on the Volkswagen Golf 7, go to our Volkswagen Golf 7 category.