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 situations, there’s only one part of your vehicle responsible – your headlights, also named 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 post, we are going to see how to adjust the headlights of your Kia Sorento? 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 Kia Sorento.
Why adjust the headlights of your Kia Sorento?
So let’s start our content with the interest of adjusting the headlights of your Kia Sorento. For the majority of us, our headlights are adjusted well enough, and they appear to light up enough during the night. Unfortunately this is not always the case and checking this setting, either because the headlights on your Kia Sorento are not bright enough, or because you have the feeling that they are too weak is a good idea .
Adjusting the high beams of your Kia Sorento for safety
To begin with, the headlight adjustment of a Kia Sorento must be conducted for a very easy safety reason. Regardless 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 ignore an obstacle on the road, or to anticipate a curve badly. However, if your headlights are too strong, regardless if you are meant to switch to low beam lights when you pass a car, the time needed to make this switch will generally expose the driver in front of you to the headlight beam of your Kia Sorento . 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 Sorento for legal reasons
In addition 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 suggests: have between 2 and 4 headlights that illuminate at least 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 Kia Sorento?
We will now go forward to the section that concerns you the most in this post, how to adjust the headlights of his Kia Sorento? This adjustment may seem a bit difficult, but by simply following the guidelines you should be able to do it without too much problem.
Preparations to adjust the headlights of a Kia Sorento
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.
- Check your tire pressure attentively.
- Check 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 car, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.
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The headlight adjustment of his Kia Sorento
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. Check 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 follow:
- Open your bonnet, find the screws for horizontal and vertical control of the headlights of your Kia Sorento (they are usually marked, and those on top must modify the verticality and the one on the side adjusts the horizontality of the adjustment).
- Use a cloth or something else 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 below.
- Once finished, check that the headlights setting of your Kia Sorento is logical, do not hesitate to check it after you have driven it, sometimes it may move.
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If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Kia Sorento, please go through our content on this subject matter.
If you need more guides on the Kia Sorento, go to our Kia Sorento category.
