Regardless whether you feel you can’t see as well during the night, regardless whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these circumstances, there’s only one component of your vehicle to blame – your low beams. Although this adjustment may seem to be simple thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a whole adjustment is much more complex than this simple manipulation, and in this document, we will see how to adjust the low beam lights of your Volkswagen Transporter 6? For this, first we will see why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Volkswagen Transporter 6.
Why set the low beam lights of your Volkswagen Transporter 6?
So let’s commence our document with the interest of adjusting the low beam lights of your Volkswagen Transporter 6. For most of us these lights are good enough adjusted, and it seems that they light up enough at night. However this is not necessarily the case and looking at this setting, either because the low beams of your Volkswagen Transporter 6 are not illuminating well, or because you have the sense that they are too low or too powerful is a good idea .
Adjusting the low beam of your Volkswagen Transporter 6 for safety is a good idea.
To start, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Volkswagen Transporter 6 must be done for a simple safety reason. Regardless it’s for you, or for the other users you encounter during your night journeys. In fact, if you don’t see enough, the risk is to miss an obstacle on the road, or to predict a curve badly. In contrast, if your lights are too powerful, you risk dazzling the people in front of you, and thus putting yourself at risk. It is consequently 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 6 for law reasons
Furthermore 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 legislation 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 Transporter 6?
We will now go forward to the section that concerns you the most in this document, how to adjust the low beams of his Volkswagen Transporter 6? This setting may appear to be a bit complicated, but if you follow the instructions you should be able to do it without too much difficulty.
Preparations to set the low beam of a Volkswagen Transporter 6
To start, you will need to set up your vehicle to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to put in place:
- Place your vehicle on a surface in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
- Verify your tire pressure rigorously.
- 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 Transporter 6
Once your vehicle is set up, 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 vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the procedure here are the guidelines to follow:
- Open your bonnet, locate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Volkswagen Transporter 6 (they are usually marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side controls 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 intense part of the beam which should be a little to the right of the vertical line marked on the wall
- With regard to vertical manipulation, 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 Transporter 6 is consistent on the road, do not hesitate to verify that it has been driven, on occasion it may move.
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If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Volkswagen Transporter 6, please go through our document on this subject.
To find more tips on the Volkswagen Transporter 6, take a look at the Volkswagen Transporter 6 category.
