Headlight alignment

A correct alignment of the headlights of our car It allows us to have optimal lighting of the road and avoid dazzling the driver coming in the opposite direction, the headlights lose their alignment due to various factors such as.

• Deformations in the bodywork or frontal damage that divert the headlights from their position.
• Inadvertent misplacement of bulbs when replacing.
• Wrongly turning adjusting screws instead of retaining screws when changing bulbs.
• Over load in the rear quarter of the vehicle.

The range of the lights of the car headlights It varies depending on the make of the car, model, and each country may have its own regulations, but generally the range of the high beam or high beam of the car is about 100 meters, illuminating both sides of the road, that is, it also covers the opposite lane. , but in the low beam or low beam they focus more lighting on the lane where we are traveling, producing a well-marked shadow area in the opposite lane to avoid dazzling the other driver, it should be noted that the low beam or low beam have less brightness since it is not necessary to illuminate so much area and also facilitates visibility to the other driver.

To adjust the headlights, follow the steps below.

• The vehicle is placed very close to a wall vertically on a flat road, the high and low lights are turned on and we proceed to mark on the wall in the most illuminated place both low and high (high beam, high beam). crossing).
• The car is moved perpendicular to the wall at a distance of 7.5 meters (the road must be horizontal) we turn on the high beams that must have descended in relation to the mark we made on the wall in a variation of 4 to 5 centimeters if not If this were the case, by turning the regulation screws we must obtain this variation.
• Turning on the dipped or low beams, they must descend in relation to the mark on the wall in a variation of 17 to 18 centimeters.
• if necessary, use the adjustment screws to make the necessary adjustments.

You can check the brightness adjustment by moving the car from front to back.