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 cases, there’s only one part of your vehicle to blame – your headlights, as well called high beams. Nevertheless this adjustment may appear easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a whole adjustment is much more technical than this basic manipulation, and in this article, we are going to see how to adjust the headlights of your Citroen Cactus? To do this, first we will see why you need to adjust your high beams, and secondly how to adjust the headlights of your Citroen Cactus.

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Why adjust the headlights of your Citroen Cactus?

So let’s start our content with the interest of adjusting the headlights of your Citroen Cactus. For many people, our headlights are adjusted sufficiently, and they seem to light up enough during the night. Sadly this is not constantly the circumstance and looking at this setting, either because the headlights on your Citroen Cactus are not bright enough, or because you have the impression that they are too weak is a wise decision .

Adjusting the high beams of your Citroen Cactus for safety

To begin with, the headlight adjustment of a Citroen Cactus must be made for a very easy safety motive. 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 predict a curve badly. Alternatively, if your headlights are too powerful, regardless if you are expected to switch to low beam lights when you cross a vehicle, the time needed to make this change will generally expose the driver in front of you to the headlight beam of your Citroen Cactus . It is therefore necessary for others as well as for you to have an ideal adjustment of your headlights.

Adjusting the headlights of a Citroen Cactus for legal reasons

Furthermore to safety, there is a law that supervises the power, the adjustment of car 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 supervises 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 Cactus?

We will now go forward to the part that interests you the most in this article, how to adjust the headlights of his Citroen Cactus? This setting may appear a bit complex, but by following the guidance you should be able to perform it without too much concern.

Preparations to adjust the headlights of a Citroen Cactus

To begin with, you’ll need to prepare your vehicle to adjust your high beams 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 carefully.
  • Verify that the height adjustment knob for the lights is set to 0
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  • 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.

The headlight adjustment of his Citroen Cactus

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 vehicle up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the process here are the steps to follow:

  • Open your bonnet, find the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the headlights of your Citroen Cactus (they are in most cases marked, and those on top must modify the verticality and the one on the side manages the horizontality of the adjustment).
  • Use a cloth or something else 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 part of the beam which should be a little to the right of the vertical line noted on the wall
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  • 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, check that the headlights setting of your Citroen Cactus is logical, do not hesitate to check it after you have driven it, in some cases it may move.

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