All tires must have rated air pressure.
Place the car on level ground and rock it a few times by pressing on the front and rear bumpers.
Make sure the car is not loaded (nothing but spare tire, jack, tools, full engine coolant, engine oil and fuel). Place a load in the driver's seat that is appropriate for the weight of an adult.
Pic. 1.231. Adjusting screws: 1 - adjustment in the vertical plane; 2 - adjustment in the horizontal plane
Wash the headlight lenses and turn on the dipped or high beam headlights.
Open the hood.
On the adjustment screen, draw a horizontal line and vertical lines (passing through the center of each headlight).
Then draw a line parallel to and 30mm below the horizontal line to adjust the headlights.
Pic. 1.232. Headlight adjustment scheme
Adjust the dipped beam illumination boundary line at the level of the parallel line using a Phillips screwdriver (pic. 1.232).
Adjust the dipped beam illumination boundary line on each vertical line with a Phillips screwdriver.
Adjusting the beam of light after replacing the headlight assembly
Pic. 1.233. Headlights, direction indicators and front marker lights: 1 - direction indicators; 2 - front marker lights; 3 - headlights (dipped beam); 4 - headlights (high beam); 5 - front fog lights
If during the body repair of the front part of the car body the headlights as an assembly were replaced, it is necessary to check the adjustment of the headlight beam using the screen, as shown in Figure 1.232. Turn on the headlight switch (to the position of the low or high beam).
Adjust the beam of headlights so that the own axis of the beam of light is parallel to the center line of the car body and coincides at the point «R», shown in Figure 1.232.
The dotted lines in Figure 1.232 indicate the centers of the headlights.
Specifications
«H» - the distance from the horizontal center line of the headlights to the ground.
- Dipped beam: 883 mm.
- High beam: 869 mm.
«W» - the distance between the centers of the headlights.
- Dipped beam: 1402 mm.
- High beam: 1144 mm.
«L» – distance between the headlights and the screen on which they are checked: 3000 mm.