Whether you feel you can’t see as well at night, or you feel you’re lighting too low, or too high, in all these circumstances, there’s only one part of your vehicle responsible – your headlights, also identified as high beams. Although this adjustment may seem easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a whole adjustment is much more complex than this basic manipulation, and in this article, we are going to see how to adjust the headlights of your CUPRA FORMENTOR? 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 CUPRA FORMENTOR.
Why adjust the headlights of your CUPRA FORMENTOR?
So let’s start our content page with the interest of adjusting the headlights of your CUPRA FORMENTOR. For most people, our headlights are adjusted sufficiently, and they seem to light up enough at night. Unfortunately this is not always the case and looking at this setting, either because the headlights on your CUPRA FORMENTOR are not bright enough, or because you have the feeling that they are too weak is a wise decision .
Adjusting the high beams of your CUPRA FORMENTOR for safety
First of all, the headlight adjustment of a CUPRA FORMENTOR must be made for a simple safety motive. Whether it’s for you, or for the other users you come across during your night trips. In fact, if you don’t see enough, the risk is to fail to see an obstacle on your way, or to predict a curve badly. However, if your headlights are too strong, regardless if you are meant to switch to low beam lights when you cross a car, the time needed to make this switch will generally expose the driver in front of you to the headlight beam of your CUPRA FORMENTOR . It is consequently necessary for others as well as for you to have an ideal adjustment of your headlights.
Adjusting the headlights of a CUPRA FORMENTOR 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 identical to that of the dipped headlights and that the maximum luminosity must be 225, 000 cd.
How to adjust the headlights of a CUPRA FORMENTOR?
We will now move on to the part that concerns you the most in this article, how to adjust the headlights of his CUPRA FORMENTOR? This setting may seem a bit complex, but by simply following the recommendations you should have the ability to complete it without too much issue.
Preparations to adjust the headlights of a CUPRA FORMENTOR
First of all, you’ll need to prepare your vehicle to adjust your high beams in good conditions, here are the preparations to executed:
- 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 cautiously.
- Verify that the height adjustment knob for the lights is set to 0
- Try doing that with half a full tank.
- Take out all unneeded weight from the car, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.
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The headlight adjustment of his CUPRA FORMENTOR
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. 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 stick to:
- Open your bonnet, identify the screws for horizontal and vertical control of the headlights of your CUPRA FORMENTOR (they are usually marked, and those on top must adjust the verticality and the one on the side controls the horizontality of the adjustment).
- Use a cloth or another thing 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 noted 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 below.
- Once finished, check that the headlights setting of your CUPRA FORMENTOR 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 CUPRA FORMENTOR, please read our content page on this subject matter.
If you have any further questions about the CUPRA FORMENTOR, do not hesitate to consult our CUPRA FORMENTOR category.
