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 cases, there’s only one part of your car to blame – your headlights, as well named high beams. Nevertheless this adjustment may appear easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a whole adjustment is much more technical than this basic manipulation, and in this post, we are going to discover how to adjust the headlights of your Maserati Ghibli? To achieve this, first we will discover why you need to adjust your high beams, and secondly how to adjust the headlights of your Maserati Ghibli.

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Why adjust the headlights of your Maserati Ghibli?

So let’s start our article with the interest of adjusting the headlights of your Maserati Ghibli. For many people, our headlights are adjusted good enough, and they seem to light up enough after dark. However this is not constantly the case and checking this setting, either because the headlights on your Maserati Ghibli are not bright enough, or because you have the feeling that they are too weak is a great idea .

Adjusting the high beams of your Maserati Ghibli for safety

First of all, the headlight adjustment of a Maserati Ghibli must be done for a very easy safety explanation. If 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 out an obstacle on your way, or to predict a curve badly. On the other hand, if your headlights are too powerful, even if you are expected to switch to low beam lights when you pass a car, the time needed to make this switch will most of the time expose the driver in front of you to the headlight beam of your Maserati Ghibli . It is therefore important for others as well as for you to have an optimal adjustment of your headlights.

Adjusting the headlights of a Maserati Ghibli for legal reasons

In addition to safety, there is a law that regulates 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 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 Maserati Ghibli?

We will now move on to the part that interests you the most in this post, how to adjust the headlights of his Maserati Ghibli? This setting may appear a bit difficult, but by following the instructions you should have the ability to perform it without too much problem.

Preparations to adjust the headlights of a Maserati Ghibli

First of all, you’ll need to prepare your car to adjust your high beams in good conditions, here are the preparations to set up:

  • Place your car on a surface in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
  • Check your tire pressure carefully.
  • Check that the height adjustment knob for the lights is set to 0
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  • Try doing that with half a full tank.
  • Remove all needless weight from the vehicle, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.

The headlight adjustment of his Maserati Ghibli

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. Check with a level that both parts of the cross are straight. Then back your car 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, identify the screws for horizontal and vertical control of the headlights of your Maserati Ghibli (they are in general designated, and those on top must modify the verticality and the one on the side handles the horizontality of the adjustment).
  • Use a cloth or something else to hide the projector on which you are not making the correction.
  • Using the screws to make the horizontal correction, 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
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  • With regard to vertical correction, 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 Maserati Ghibli is coherent, 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 Maserati Ghibli, please read our article on this subject matter.

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