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 scenarios, there’s only one component of your car to take responsibility – your headlights, also often known as high beams. Nevertheless this adjustment may appear easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a whole adjustment is much more complex than this elementary manipulation, and in this post, we are going to find out how to adjust the headlights of your Kia Carens? To do this, first we will find out why you need to adjust your high beams, and secondly how to adjust the headlights of your Kia Carens.

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Why adjust the headlights of your Kia Carens?

So let’s begin our content with the interest of adjusting the headlights of your Kia Carens. For many people, our headlights are adjusted well enough, and they seem to light up enough at night. Unfortunately this is not constantly the case and looking at this setting, either because the headlights on your Kia Carens 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 Kia Carens for safety

First of all, the headlight adjustment of a Kia Carens must be made for a simple security motive. Whether 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 fail to see an obstacle on your way, or to predict a curve badly. Alternatively, if your headlights are too strong, even if you are supposed to switch to low beam lights when you pass a vehicle, the time needed to make this change will most of the time expose the driver in front of you to the headlight beam of your Kia Carens . It is therefore important for others as well as for you to have an optimal adjustment of your headlights.

Adjusting the headlights of a Kia Carens for legal reasons

In addition 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 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 Kia Carens?

We will now move on to the part that interests you the most in this post, how to adjust the headlights of his Kia Carens? This setting may appear a bit complex, but by following the recommendations you should have the ability to do it without too much trouble.

Preparations to adjust the headlights of a Kia Carens

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 cautiously.
  • 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 vehicle, just one person should be in the driver’s seat.

The headlight adjustment of his Kia Carens

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 car 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, locate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the headlights of your Kia Carens (they are in most cases 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 different things 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 noted on the wall
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  • 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 down below.
  • Once finished, verify that the headlights setting of your Kia Carens is coherent, do not think twice to verify it after you have driven it, occasionally it may move.

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If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Kia Carens, please go through our content on this subject matter.

If you have any further questions about the Kia Carens, do not hesitate to consult our Kia Carens category.