Regardless you feel you can’t see as well at nighttime, whether you feel you’re lighting too low or too high, in all of these circumstances, there’s only one part of your vehicle to blame – your low beams. Even though this correction may seem easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a whole correction is much more complex than this ordinary modification, and in this content, we will discover how to adjust the low beam lights of your Volvo XC90? For this, first we will discover why you should adjust your lights, and, secondly, how to adjust the low beam lights of your Volvo XC90.
Why set the low beam lights of your Volvo XC90?
So let’s commence our content with the interest of adjusting the low beam lights of your Volvo XC90. For many people these lights are good enough adjusted, and it looks like that they light up enough at night. Unfortunately this is not necessarily the case and checking this setting, either because the low beams of your Volvo XC90 are not lighting up well, or because you have the sense that they are too weak or too strong is a good plan .
Adjusting the low beam of your Volvo XC90 for safety is a good plan.
To start, the adjusting of the dipped headlights of an Volvo XC90 must be done for a basic safety reason. Regardless whether it’s for you, or for the other drivers you encounter during your night journeys. In fact, if you don’t see enough, the real danger is to miss an obstacle on the road, or to predict a curve badly. On the other hand, if your lights are too strong, you risk dazzling the drivers in front of you, and thus putting yourself in danger. It is as a consequence crucial for others as well as for you to have an ideal setting of your parking lights.
Setting the low beam headlights of an Volvo XC90 for legal motives
Additionally to safety, 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 light up 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 Volvo XC90?
We will now go forward to the part that concerns you the most in this content, how to adjust the low beams of his Volvo XC90? This setting may seem a bit difficult, 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 Volvo XC90
Firstly, you will need to prepare your vehicle to adjust your low beam lights in good conditions, here are the preparations to apply:
- Place your vehicle on a floor in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
- Check your tire pressure cautiously.
- Check 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 vehicle, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.
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The setting of the low beam headlights of his Volvo XC90
Once your 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 back your 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, locate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the lights of your Volvo XC90 (they are usually marked, and those above must adjust the verticality and those on the side adjusts the horizontality of the adjustment).
- Use a cloth or some thing else to hide the light on which you are not making the manipulation.
- Using the screws to make the horizontal manipulation, 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 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 accomplished, verify that the low beam setting of your Volvo XC90 is consistent on the road, do not be reluctant 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 Volvo XC90, please go through our content on this subject.
To get more tips on the Volvo XC90, take a look at the Volvo XC90 category.
