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 component of your car to take responsibility – your headlights, as well called 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 Ram ProMaster? 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 Ram ProMaster.
Why adjust the headlights of your Ram ProMaster?
So let’s begin our article with the benefit of adjusting the headlights of your Ram ProMaster. For most of us, our headlights are adjusted sufficiently, and they seem to light up enough after dark. Unfortunately this is not constantly the case and looking at this setting, either because the headlights on your Ram ProMaster 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 Ram ProMaster for safety
First of all, the headlight adjustment of a Ram ProMaster must be achieved for a very easy security 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 strong, even if you are meant 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 Ram ProMaster . It is consequently important for others as well as for you to have an ideal adjustment of your headlights.
Adjusting the headlights of a Ram ProMaster for legal reasons
Furthermore to security, 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 very same to that of the dipped headlights and that the maximum luminosity must be 225, 000 cd.
How to adjust the headlights of a Ram ProMaster?
We will now move on to the part that interests you the most in this post, how to adjust the headlights of his Ram ProMaster? This setting may seem a bit difficult, but by following the recommendations you should have the ability to do it without too much trouble.
Preparations to adjust the headlights of a Ram ProMaster
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.
- 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 unnecessary weight from the automobile, just one person should be in the driver’s seat.
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The headlight adjustment of his Ram ProMaster
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. Verify 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 stick to:
- Open your bonnet, find the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the headlights of your Ram ProMaster (they are in most cases designated, and those on top must adjust the verticality and the one on the side controls the horizontality of the adjustment).
- Use a cloth or another thing 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 component of the beam which should be a little to the right of the vertical line marked 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 below.
- Once finished, verify that the headlights setting of your Ram ProMaster is logical, 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 Ram ProMaster, please browse our article on this subject.
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