Whether you feel you can’t see good enough after dark, regardless you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these cases, there’s only one component of your car to blame – your low beams. Despite the fact this adjustment may appear easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a full adjustment is much more complex than this common realignment, and in this document, we will see how to adjust the low beam lights of your volvo v40? For this, first of all we will see why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your volvo v40.
Why adjust the low beam lights of your volvo v40?
So let’s commence our document with the benefit of adjusting the low beam lights of your volvo v40. For many people these lights are sufficiently adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. However this is not always the case and checking out this setting, either because the low beams of your volvo v40 are not illuminating well, or because you have the sense that they are too weak or too powerful is a good idea .
Adjusting the low beam of your volvo v40 for safety is a good idea.
To begin, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an volvo v40 must be done for a basic safety reason. Regardless it’s for you, or for the other users you encounter during your night journeys. In reality, if you don’t see enough, the real danger is to fail to see an obstacle on the road, or to predict a curve badly. Alternatively, if your lights are too powerful, you risk dazzling the car owners in front of you, and thus putting yourself at risk. It is consequently necessary for others as well as for you to have an ideal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an volvo v40 for legal justifications
Moreover 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 illuminate at least 30 meters. Another law 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 volvo v40?
We will now move on to the part that interests you the more in this document, how to adjust the low beams of his volvo v40? This setting may appear to be a bit complicated, but if you stick to the recommendations you should be able to do it without too much issue.
Preparations to set the low beam of a volvo v40
First of all, you will need to prepare your car to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to put in place:
- Place your car on a area in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
- Check your tire pressure rigorously.
- Check that the height adjustment knob for the lights is set to 0
- 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.
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The setting of the low beam headlights of his volvo v40
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 step back your car up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the operation here are the guidelines to stick to:
- Open your bonnet, identify the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your volvo v40 (they are in general marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side handles the horizontality of the adjustment).
- Use a cloth or anything 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 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 complete, verify that the low beam setting of your volvo v40 is consistent on the road, do not be reluctant to verify that it has been driven, in some cases it may move.
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If you want to adjust the fog lights on your volvo v40, please browse our document on this subject.
If you want more guides on the volvo v40, go to our volvo v40 category.
