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 scenarios, there’s only one component of your vehicle to take responsibility – your headlights, as well called high beams. Although this adjustment may appear easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a whole adjustment is much more technical than this elementary manipulation, and in this post, we are going to find out how to adjust the headlights of your Seat Arona? To achieve this, first we will find out why you need to adjust your high beams, and secondly how to adjust the headlights of your Seat Arona.
Why adjust the headlights of your Seat Arona?
So let’s begin our article with the interest of adjusting the headlights of your Seat Arona. For many of us, our headlights are adjusted well enough, and they appear to light up enough at nighttime. Sadly this is not always the circumstance and checking this setting, either because the headlights on your Seat Arona 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 Seat Arona for safety
First of all, the headlight adjustment of a Seat Arona must be conducted for a very easy safety motive. Regardless it’s for you, or for the other users you come across during your night trips. In actual fact, if you don’t see enough, the risk is to fail to see an obstacle on the road, or to anticipate a curve badly. Alternatively, if your headlights are too powerful, regardless if you are meant to switch to low beam lights when you pass a vehicle, 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 Seat Arona . It is therefore necessary for others as well as for you to have an ideal adjustment of your headlights.
Adjusting the headlights of a Seat Arona for legal reasons
Furthermore 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 matching to that of the dipped headlights and that the maximum luminosity must be 225, 000 cd.
How to adjust the headlights of a Seat Arona?
We will now proceed to the part that concerns you the most in this post, how to adjust the headlights of his Seat Arona? This setting may appear a bit difficult, but by simply following the guidelines you should be able to perform it without too much trouble.
Preparations to adjust the headlights of a Seat Arona
First of all, you’ll need to prepare your vehicle to adjust your high beams in good conditions, here are the preparations to put in place:
- 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 attentively.
- Verify that the height adjustment knob for the lights is set to 0
- Try doing that with half a full tank.
- Remove all unnecessary weight from the automobile, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.
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The headlight adjustment of his Seat Arona
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 horizontal. 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 stick to:
- Open your bonnet, find the screws for horizontal and vertical modification of the headlights of your Seat Arona (they are usually marked, and those on top must adjust the verticality and the one on the side manages the horizontality of the adjustment).
- Use a cloth or different things 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 Seat Arona 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 Seat Arona, please read our article on this subject.
If perhaps you have any further questions about the Seat Arona, do not hesitate to consult our Seat Arona category.
