Dipped headlamp light beam - align

Operation 5540B39 · Headlamps

Prepare the vehicle complete with spare wheel, tools, fluids, fuel reserve and driver on board.

Check that the tyre inflation pressure is correct.

Place the headlamp alignment switch in position '0'.

Position the vehicle on a flat surface, perpendicular to a screen or an opaque surface, 10 metres away, which contains the following lines.

1. V - V: vertical line corresponding to the plot of the plane of symmetry of the vehicle.

2. C - C: plots of the vertical planes passing through the reference centres of the lights clusters.

3. HC - HC: horizontal line corresponding to the height from the ground of the reference centres for the lights clusters.

4. AC - AC: horizontal line 12 cm below the HC - HC line.

5. Lines inclined at 15° as illustrated in the diagram.

Switch on the dipped headlamps.

1. Switch on the dipped headlamps. Adjust the light cluster's vertical adjustment screw so that the horizontal section of the demarcation line between the area which is dark and the area which is lit up by the light beam coincides with the line AC - AC on the screen.

2. Horizontal alignment. Adjust the light cluster's horizontal adjustment screw so that the point where the two horizontal and inclined demarcation lines intersect coincides with the point where lines C - C and AC - AC intersect on the screen.