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 circumstances, there’s only one part of your vehicle at fault – your headlights, as well named high beams. Nevertheless this adjustment may seem easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a complete adjustment is much more technical than this basic manipulation, and in this post, we are going to see how to adjust the headlights of your PORSCHE 718? To achieve this, first we will see why you need to adjust your high beams, and secondly how to adjust the headlights of your PORSCHE 718.
Why adjust the headlights of your PORSCHE 718?
So let’s begin our article with the interest of adjusting the headlights of your PORSCHE 718. For many of us, our headlights are adjusted sufficiently, and they appear to light up enough during the night. Unfortunately this is not always the circumstance and checking this setting, either because the headlights on your PORSCHE 718 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 PORSCHE 718 for safety
To begin with, the headlight adjustment of a PORSCHE 718 must be made for a simple safety motive. Whether 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 on your way, or to predict a curve badly. However, if your headlights are too strong, 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 PORSCHE 718 . It is consequently essential for others as well as for you to have an ideal adjustment of your headlights.
Adjusting the headlights of a PORSCHE 718 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 specifies: 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 identical to that of the dipped headlights and that the maximum luminosity must be 225, 000 cd.
How to adjust the headlights of a PORSCHE 718?
We will now proceed to the part that interests you the most in this post, how to adjust the headlights of his PORSCHE 718? This adjustment may seem a bit complicated, but by simply following the recommendations you should be able to accomplish it without too much trouble.
Preparations to adjust the headlights of a PORSCHE 718
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.
- Verify your tire pressure carefully.
- 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 car, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.
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The headlight adjustment of his PORSCHE 718
Once your vehicle 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 process here are the steps to stick to:
- Open your hood, locate the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the headlights of your PORSCHE 718 (they are usually designated, and those on top must modify 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 adjustment.
- Using the screws to make the horizontal adjustment, 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 adjustment, 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, verify that the headlights setting of your PORSCHE 718 is logical, do not think twice to verify it after you have driven it, sometimes it may move.
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If you want to adjust the fog lights on your PORSCHE 718, please go through our article on this subject.
In the event that you have any additional questions about the PORSCHE 718, do not hesitate to consult our PORSCHE 718 category.
