Whether you experience you can’t see as well at night, or you experience you’re lighting too low, or too high, in all these scenarios, there’s only one component of your car guilty – your headlights, as well named high beams. Nevertheless this adjustment might seem easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a whole adjustment is much more complex than this simple manipulation, and in this article, we are going to find out how to adjust the headlights of your Citroen Berlingo 2? To get this done, first we will find out why you need to adjust your high beams, and secondly how to adjust the headlights of your Citroen Berlingo 2.
Why adjust the headlights of your Citroen Berlingo 2?
So let’s start our article with the benefit of adjusting the headlights of your Citroen Berlingo 2. For many of us, our headlights are adjusted well enough, and they seem to light up enough at nighttime. Regrettably this is not always the circumstance and looking at this setting, either because the headlights on your Citroen Berlingo 2 are not bright enough, or because you have the sensation that they are too weak is a good idea .
Adjusting the high beams of your Citroen Berlingo 2 for safety
First of all, the headlight adjustment of a Citroen Berlingo 2 must be conducted for a basic safety reason. If 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 fail to see an obstacle on your way, or to anticipate a curve badly. Alternatively, if your headlights are too strong, regardless if you are meant to switch to low beam lights when you cross a vehicle, the time required to make this switch will most of the time expose the driver in front of you to the headlight beam of your Citroen Berlingo 2 . It is therefore important for others as well as for you to have an ideal adjustment of your headlights.
Adjusting the headlights of a Citroen Berlingo 2 for legal reasons
Furthermore to safety, 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 suggests: have between 2 and 4 headlights that illuminate at least 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 Citroen Berlingo 2?
We will now move on to the section that concerns you the most in this article, how to adjust the headlights of his Citroen Berlingo 2? This adjustment might seem a bit difficult, but by following the guidance you should have the ability to accomplish it without too much problem.
Preparations to adjust the headlights of a Citroen Berlingo 2
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.
- Verify your tire pressure carefully.
- Verify that the height adjustment knob for the lights is set to 0
- Try doing that with half a full tank.
- Take out all unnecessary weight from the automobile, just one person should be in the driver’s seat.
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The headlight adjustment of his Citroen Berlingo 2
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. Verify 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 process here are the steps to stick to:
- Open your hood, identify the screws for horizontal and vertical control of the headlights of your Citroen Berlingo 2 (they are generally designated, and those on top must adjust the verticality and the one on the side manages the horizontality of the adjustment).
- Use a cloth or another thing to hide the projector on which you are not making the correction.
- Using the screws to make the horizontal correction, you should have the most intense component of the beam which should be a little to the right of the vertical line noted on the wall
- With regard to vertical correction, 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 down below.
- Once finished, verify that the headlights setting of your Citroen Berlingo 2 is logical, do not hesitate to verify it after you have driven it, oftentimes it may move.
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If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Citroen Berlingo 2, please go through our article on this subject.
If you need more guides on the Citroen Berlingo 2, go to our Citroen Berlingo 2 category.
