Whether you experience you can’t see as well at night, or you experience you’re lighting too low, or too high, in all these cases, there’s only one component of your vehicle responsible – your headlights, also identified 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 basic manipulation, and in this post, we are going to see how to adjust the headlights of your Peugeot 4007? 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 Peugeot 4007.

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Why adjust the headlights of your Peugeot 4007?

So let’s begin our article with the benefit of adjusting the headlights of your Peugeot 4007. For the majority of us, our headlights are adjusted well enough, and they seem to light up enough at night. Unfortunately this is not always the case and checking this setting, either because the headlights on your Peugeot 4007 are not bright enough, or because you have the impression that they are too weak is a good idea .

Adjusting the high beams of your Peugeot 4007 for safety

First of all, the headlight adjustment of a Peugeot 4007 must be carried out for a basic safety reason. Regardless it’s for you, or for the other users you come across during your night trips. Indeed, 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 strong, regardless if you are expected to switch to low beam lights when you cross a vehicle, the time needed to make this switch will generally expose the driver in front of you to the headlight beam of your Peugeot 4007 . It is consequently essential for others as well as for you to have an ideal adjustment of your headlights.

Adjusting the headlights of a Peugeot 4007 for legal reasons

Furthermore 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 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 Peugeot 4007?

We will now proceed to the part that interests you the most in this post, how to adjust the headlights of his Peugeot 4007? This adjustment may appear a bit complicated, but by simply following the guidance you should be able to do it without too much trouble.

Preparations to adjust the headlights of a Peugeot 4007

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

  • 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 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.
  • Remove all needless weight from the automobile, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.

The headlight adjustment of his Peugeot 4007

Once your car is in place, 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 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, identify the screws for horizontal and vertical modification of the headlights of your Peugeot 4007 (they are generally 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 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 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 Peugeot 4007 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 Peugeot 4007, please read our article on this subject.

In the event that you have any further questions about the Peugeot 4007, do not hesitate to consult our Peugeot 4007 category.