Regardless you feel you can’t see properly at nighttime, whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these occasions, there’s only one part of your motor vehicle to blame – your low beams. Even though this adjustment may appear easy to do thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a full adjustment is much more technical than this simple manipulation, and in this content page, we will find out how to adjust the low beam lights of your Volkswagen Touareg? For this, first we will find out why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Volkswagen Touareg.
Why set the low beam lights of your Volkswagen Touareg?
So let’s begin our content page with the advantage of adjusting the low beam lights of your Volkswagen Touareg. For most of us these lights are well enough adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. Sadly this is not always the case and looking at this setting, either because the low beams of your Volkswagen Touareg are not illuminating well, or because you have the feeling that they are too weak or too powerful is a wise decision .
Adjusting the low beam of your Volkswagen Touareg for safety is a wise decision.
To start, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Volkswagen Touareg must be done for a elementary safety purpose. Whether 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 real danger is to miss an obstacle on the route, or to anticipate a curve badly. Alternatively, if your lights are too powerful, you risk dazzling the drivers in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is therefore crucial for others as well as for you to have an ideal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Volkswagen Touareg for legal motives
Additionally 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 minimum , 30 meters. Another regulation 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 Touareg?
We will now go forward to the part that concerns you the most in this content page, how to adjust the low beams of his Volkswagen Touareg? This setting may seem a bit complicated, but if you follow the guidelines you should be able to do it without too much difficulty.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Volkswagen Touareg
First of all, you will need to set up your motor vehicle to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to apply:
- Place your motor vehicle on a surface in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
- Verify your tire pressure carefully.
- Verify that the height adjustment knob for the lights is set to 0
- Try doing that with half a full tank.
- Remove all needless weight from the motor 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 Touareg
Once your motor 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 motor vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the procedure here are the steps to follow:
- Open your bonnet, identify the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Volkswagen Touareg (they are commonly marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side handles 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 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 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 completed, verify that the low beam setting of your Volkswagen Touareg is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to verify that it has been driven, sometimes it may move.
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If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Volkswagen Touareg, please go through our content page on this subject.
If you have any further questions about the Volkswagen Touareg, do not hesitate to consult our Volkswagen Touareg category.
