If you experience you can’t see as well at night, or you experience you’re lighting too low, or too high, in all these situations, there’s only one component of your car to blame – your headlights, as well known as high beams. Nevertheless this adjustment might seem easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a complete adjustment is much more technical than this elementary manipulation, and in this post, we are going to see how to adjust the headlights of your BENTLEY CONTINENTAL ? To do this, first we will see why you need to adjust your high beams, and secondly how to adjust the headlights of your BENTLEY CONTINENTAL .
Why adjust the headlights of your BENTLEY CONTINENTAL ?
So let’s begin our article with the interest of adjusting the headlights of your BENTLEY CONTINENTAL . For many of us, our headlights are adjusted well enough, and they appear to light up enough after dark. Regrettably this is not constantly the circumstance and examining this setting, either because the headlights on your BENTLEY CONTINENTAL are not bright enough, or because you have the impression that they are too weak is a good idea .
Adjusting the high beams of your BENTLEY CONTINENTAL for safety
First of all, the headlight adjustment of a BENTLEY CONTINENTAL must be made for a simple security reason. Whether it’s for you, or for the other users you come across during your night trips. In truth, if you don’t see enough, the risk is to miss an obstacle while traveling, or to anticipate a curve badly. Alternatively, if your headlights are too powerful, regardless if you are expected to switch to low beam lights when you pass a car, the time required to make this change will generally expose the driver in front of you to the headlight beam of your BENTLEY CONTINENTAL . It is consequently necessary for others as well as for you to have an ideal adjustment of your headlights.
Adjusting the headlights of a BENTLEY CONTINENTAL for legal reasons
Furthermore to security, there is a law that regulates the power, the adjustment of motor vehicle headlights (articles R313-2 of the Highway Code), here is what it specifies: have between 2 and 4 headlights that illuminate at minimum 100 meters. Another legislation regulates their use, the European one (directive 76/756/EEC), which stipulates that there is no maximum height for the adjustment of the headlights, but that the maximum width of the beam must be equivalent to that of the dipped headlights and that the maximum luminosity must be 225, 000 cd.
How to adjust the headlights of a BENTLEY CONTINENTAL ?
We will now move on to the part that interests you the most in this post, how to adjust the headlights of his BENTLEY CONTINENTAL ? This adjustment might seem a bit complicated, but by simply following the recommendations you should be able to do it without too much issue.
Preparations to adjust the headlights of a BENTLEY CONTINENTAL
First of all, you’ll need to prepare your car to adjust your high beams in good conditions, here are the preparations to executed:
- Place your car on a surface in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
- Check your tire pressure carefully.
- 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 vehicle, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.
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The headlight adjustment of his BENTLEY CONTINENTAL
Once your car is in position, 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. Check with a level that both parts of the cross are horizontal. Then back your car 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 modification of the headlights of your BENTLEY CONTINENTAL (they are generally marked, and those on top must modify the verticality and the one on the side handles the horizontality of the adjustment).
- Use a cloth or something else to hide the projector on which you are not making the adjustment.
- Using the screws to make the horizontal adjustment, you should have the most intense component of the beam which should be a little to the right of the vertical line marked on the wall
- 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 finished, verify that the headlights setting of your BENTLEY CONTINENTAL is logical, do not hesitate to verify it after you have driven it, occasionally it may move.
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