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 situations, there’s only one part of your car responsible – your headlights, also often known as high beams. Although this adjustment may appear 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 discover how to adjust the headlights of your Kia Venga? To achieve this, first we will discover why you need to adjust your high beams, and secondly how to adjust the headlights of your Kia Venga.
Why adjust the headlights of your Kia Venga?
So let’s begin our content page with the interest of adjusting the headlights of your Kia Venga. For many of us, our headlights are adjusted well enough, and they appear to light up enough at night. Unfortunately this is not always the case and examining this setting, either because the headlights on your Kia Venga 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 Venga for safety
First of all, the headlight adjustment of a Kia Venga must be done for a very easy security explanation. Whether 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 miss an obstacle driving, or to anticipate a curve badly. On the other hand, if your headlights are too powerful, regardless 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 Venga . It is consequently important for others as well as for you to have an optimal adjustment of your headlights.
Adjusting the headlights of a Kia Venga 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 Venga?
We will now proceed to the section that concerns you the most in this post, how to adjust the headlights of his Kia Venga? This adjustment may appear a bit complicated, but by simply following the guidelines you should be able to perform it without too much problem.
Preparations to adjust the headlights of a Kia Venga
First of all, you’ll need to prepare your car to adjust your high beams in good conditions, here are the preparations to put in place:
- 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 attentively.
- Verify that the height adjustment knob for the lights is set to 0
- Try doing that with half a full tank.
- Take out all needless weight from the vehicle, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.
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The headlight adjustment of his Kia Venga
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 stick to:
- Open your hood, locate the screws for horizontal and vertical control of the headlights of your Kia Venga (they are in most cases designated, and those on top must adjust 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 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 down below.
- Once finished, check that the headlights setting of your Kia Venga is logical, do not hesitate to check 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 Venga, please go through our content page on this subject.
If you need more tutorials on the Kia Venga, go to our Kia Venga category.
