Whether you feel you can’t see good enough at nighttime, whether 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 correction may seem to be simple thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a complete correction is much more complex than this common manipulation, and in this article, we will discover how to adjust the low beam lights of your Volkswagen Transporter 4? For this, first we will discover why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Volkswagen Transporter 4.

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Why set the low beam lights of your Volkswagen Transporter 4?

So let’s start our article with the advantage of adjusting the low beam lights of your Volkswagen Transporter 4. For many of us these lights are good enough adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. However this is not necessarily the case and checking out this setting, either because the low beams of your Volkswagen Transporter 4 are not lighting up well, or because you have the feeling that they are too low or too powerful is a wise decision .

Adjusting the low beam of your Volkswagen Transporter 4 for security is a wise decision.

To begin, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Volkswagen Transporter 4 must be done for a ordinary security reason. It doesn’t matter if it’s for you, or for the other drivers you come across during your night journeys. In reality, if you don’t see enough, the risk is to miss an obstacle on the route, or to predict a curve badly. However, if your lights are too powerful, you risk dazzling the drivers 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 Transporter 4 for law reasons

In addition to security, there is a law that controls 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 controls 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 Transporter 4?

We will now go forward to the part that interests you the most in this article, how to adjust the low beams of his Volkswagen Transporter 4? This setting may seem to be a bit complex, but if you follow the instructions you should be able to do it without too much issue.

Preparations to set the low beam of a Volkswagen Transporter 4

To start, you will need to prepare your car to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to apply:

  • Place your car on a floor 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
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  • 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.

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

Once your car is in place, 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 back your car up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the task here are the basic steps to follow:

  • Open your bonnet, situate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Volkswagen Transporter 4 (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 some thing 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
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  • 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, verify that the low beam setting of your Volkswagen Transporter 4 is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to verify that it has been driven, on occasion it may move.

If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Volkswagen Transporter 4, please go through our article on this subject.

To get more tips on the Volkswagen Transporter 4, take a look at the Volkswagen Transporter 4 category.