Headlight Adjustment

[Nicolai]

I can find a pic of the button in the manual but no recommendations as to settings with one, two, three or five passengers.

I've always thought the light is a bit off: when turning right at a T-junction, the right side is lit up very late I think. As if the right cone is adjusted too much to the left... if that makes any sense...

[FROSTYBALLS]

Are you saying the headlights need adjustment on the horizontal plane rather than the vertical?

[Nicolai]

Part one of the question is if someone knows what the recommended setting is on the manual adjustment button for vertical adjustment with 1,2,3,4 or 5 persons in the car.

the rest relates to me thinking the headlights may need horrisontal adjustment but I take it that's a trip to the dealer?

[FROSTYBALLS]

For the headlight adjustment, do you have a dial or a button?

If it is a dial the settings will be similar to:

Occupants Luggage load Dial position

Driver None 0

Driver & front

passenger None 0

All seats

occupied None 1.5

All seats

occupied Full luggage loading 2.5

Driver Full luggage loading 3.5

If it is a horizontal adjustment, then probably is a trip to the dealer.

[Nicolai]

Cool, thanks. Yeah, it's a dial.

Edited March 23, 2014 by Nicolai

[Opifex]

Regarding the horizontal adjustment are you in a right or left hand drive car, and are you asking about dipped or full beam headlights?

[FROSTYBALLS]

Nicolai lives in Denmark - so his car is left hand drive

[Nicolai]

Sorry, not sure what you mean by "dipped"?

[FROSTYBALLS]

Low beam

[Mike169]

Hi Nicolai, ok i am trying to explain 'dipped' another way. On you light switch, click/position 1 are side lights, usually the 5 w bulbs front and back are on, click/position 2 are the dipped lights this is where the same rear 5 w side lights come on but the front headlights are now on usually 55 w so the first of the bright ones if you like, this is the position you probably drive about on at night especially down darker lit roads.....if you push the light stalk away or rotate the switch another click depending on your set up you end up on full beam, the brightest of all the lights (Where the blue warning light comes on your dashboard) used for say country lanes or this is the same filament in the bulb if you 'flash' somebody when you pull the stalk towards yourself, the light that if left on 'blinds' people coming towards you...........so dipped is the bright lights you will mostly drive about on giving you light to see where you are going.

Regards Mike169

[Nicolai]

Right, thank you for explaining in details. I don't use the full beam that often, so I have noticed more when using the dipped lights. That said, the dipped light do light up a pretty broad space next to the road on the passenger's site, so perhaps everything is allright. When I make a 90 degree right turn, however (again: mine is LHD), I feel that the headlights light up the "new part of the new road" a bit too late...