Test Diagram for Low Beam

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Check the following:

-- With the low beam switched on check whether the horizontal light-dark border of the setting line -1- contacts the test surface.

Fig 1: Identifying Headlamp Adjustment Setting Line -1-, Break-Away Point -2- And Center Point/Mark -3-

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-- whether the break-away point -2- between the left horizontal part and the rising part on the right of the light-dark border runs vertically through the central point -3-. The bright core of the light beam must be on the right of the vertical line.

NOTE:

To make it easier to find break-away point -2- cover and uncover left half of headlamp (as viewed when looking forward) a few times. Then check low beam again.

After correct adjustment of lowbeams the center point of the main beam must lie on the center mark -3-.