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 vehicle responsible – your headlights, as well named high beams. Nevertheless this adjustment might seem easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a complete adjustment is much more complex than this simple manipulation, and in this post, we are going to find out how to adjust the headlights of your Kia E Niro? 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 E Niro.

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Why adjust the headlights of your Kia E Niro?

So let’s start our article with the interest of adjusting the headlights of your Kia E Niro. For many people, our headlights are adjusted sufficiently, and they appear to light up enough at nighttime. Regrettably this is not always the circumstance and checking this setting, either because the headlights on your Kia E Niro 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 E Niro for safety

First of all, the headlight adjustment of a Kia E Niro must be done for a very easy security motive. Regardless 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, regardless if you are expected to switch to low beam lights when you pass a car, 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 Kia E Niro . 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 E Niro for legal reasons

In addition to security, there is a law that regulates the power, the adjustment of car 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 identical to that of the dipped headlights and that the maximum luminosity must be 225, 000 cd.

How to adjust the headlights of a Kia E Niro?

We will now move on to the part that interests you the most in this post, how to adjust the headlights of his Kia E Niro? This adjustment might seem a bit complex, but by following the instructions you should be able to do it without too much issue.

Preparations to adjust the headlights of a Kia E Niro

First of all, 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 unneeded weight from the vehicle, just one person should be in the driver’s seat.

The headlight adjustment of his Kia E Niro

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 horizontal. 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 modification of the headlights of your Kia E Niro (they are in general 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 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 component of the beam which should be a little to the right of the vertical line marked on the wall
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  • 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, verify that the headlights setting of your Kia E Niro is logical, do not think twice to verify it after you have driven it, in some cases it may move.

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If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Kia E Niro, please browse our article on this subject matter.

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