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, also often known as high beams. Although this adjustment might seem easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a complete adjustment is much more complex than this elementary manipulation, and in this article, we are going to see how to adjust the headlights of your Citroen Jumper? To get this done, first we will see why you need to adjust your high beams, and secondly how to adjust the headlights of your Citroen Jumper.
Why adjust the headlights of your Citroen Jumper?
So let’s begin our content with the benefit of adjusting the headlights of your Citroen Jumper. For many people, our headlights are adjusted sufficiently, and they appear to light up enough after dark. Sadly this is not always the circumstance and checking this setting, either because the headlights on your Citroen Jumper 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 Citroen Jumper for safety
To begin with, the headlight adjustment of a Citroen Jumper must be conducted for a basic safety explanation. If it’s for you, or for the other users you come across during your night trips. Obviously, if you don’t see enough, the risk is to miss an obstacle while traveling, or to predict a curve badly. On the other hand, if your headlights are too strong, even if you are expected to switch to low beam lights when you cross a car, the time required to make this change will most of the time expose the driver in front of you to the headlight beam of your Citroen Jumper . It is consequently important for others as well as for you to have an optimal adjustment of your headlights.
Adjusting the headlights of a Citroen Jumper for legal reasons
In addition to safety, there is a law that supervises 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 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 Jumper?
We will now move on to the section that interests you the most in this article, how to adjust the headlights of his Citroen Jumper? This setting might seem a bit complicated, but by following the guidance you should be able to complete it without too much trouble.
Preparations to adjust the headlights of a Citroen Jumper
To begin with, you’ll need to prepare your vehicle to adjust your high beams in good conditions, here are the preparations to set up:
- 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
- Try doing that with half a full tank.
- Take out all unnecessary weight from the automobile, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.
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The headlight adjustment of his Citroen Jumper
Once your vehicle 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. Verify 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 stick to:
- Open your hood, identify the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the headlights of your Citroen Jumper (they are in general designated, and those on top must adjust the verticality and the one on the side handles the horizontality of the adjustment).
- Use a cloth or different things to hide the projector on which you are not making the modification.
- Using the screws to make the horizontal modification, you should have the most intense 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 down below.
- Once finished, check that the headlights setting of your Citroen Jumper is logical, do not think twice to check it after you have driven it, often it may move.
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If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Citroen Jumper, please read our content on this subject.
If you need more guides on the Citroen Jumper, go to our Citroen Jumper category.
