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My Hyundai Santa Fe’s low beam and high beam can be raised or lowered.
In order to adjust the headlights when the mark was hung on the wall, open the hood of your Hyundai Santa Fe. To change the height, find the nearby optic screw and spin it from right to left. To effectively illuminate the road without dazzling, your Hyundai Santa Fe’s light beams should be just below the mark. Once everything has been adjusted appropriately, you can close the hood and perform a night test.
We encourage you to read our other articles on the Hyundai Santa Fe to find additional instructions on the vehicle.
His Hyundai Santa Fe’s headlamp settings
Once you have parked your car, turn on your dipped beam and make a cross-shaped mark in the middle of the beam that will be projected onto the wall. The cross should have one horizontal and one vertical portion. Verify with a level that the cross’s two components are horizontal. After that, back up to a distance of between 7 and 10 meters. Here are the actions to take for the remaining part of the procedure:
- The screws for your Hyundai Santa Fe’s headlights’ horizontal and vertical adjustment are located under the hood (they are in most cases marked, and those on top must modify the verticality and the one on the side handles the horizontality of the adjustment).
- Cover the projector you aren’t performing the repair on with a cloth or something else.
- The most intense portion of the beam should be slightly to the right of the vertical line drawn on the wall using the screws to fix the horizontal alignment.
- You will need to use the screw to try to position the upper end of the beam at, or just below, the horizontal marking on the wall for vertical adjustment.
- Once you’re done, make sure your Hyundai Santa Fe’s headlamp settings are consistent. Don’t hesitate to check them after you’ve driven it because they may have moved.
. Please read our article on this topic if you want to know how to change the fog lights on your Hyundai Santa Fe.
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How do I manually change my headlights?
Have the helper turn off the headlights while you are standing in front of the vehicle. Next, have the assistant switch on one headlight while you cover the other with the dark cloth or cardboard. Locate the adjusting screw and slowly move it in either the clockwise or counterclockwise direction to change the height of the lights.
How are the left and right headlights adjusted?
While keeping an eye on the beam on the wall, slowly spin one of the screws to determine which direction it is adjusting. If it isn’t going in the direction you desire, turn the screw back to its original position and use the other screw.
Do Hyundai Santa Fe headlights contain LEDs?
The external design of the 2019 Hyundai Santa Fe can make you fall in love at first sight. There is no questioning the attention to detail in the design, which included numerous aspects into something as basic as the window glass. You’ll also fawn over chic additions like the shark fin roof antenna. To understand more about the external design elements and specifics of the 2019 Hyundai Santa Fe, continue reading below.
How do I brighten my headlights?
The brightest headlight bulbs are those made of light-emitting diodes (LEDs). They last five to ten times longer, use half the energy, and are 500% brighter than halogen bulbs. LED bulbs emit a clean white light, which vastly increases vision at night, in contrast to halogens, which produce a dim, yellowish light. For these reasons, switching to LED bulbs is the best method to drastically enhance the lighting systems in your car.
New luxury vehicles like Bentleys, Rolls Royces, BMWs, and Audis now outfit some high-end versions with LED headlights due to their exceptional performance. You’ve probably seen their blazing lights, which provide a strong white glare. The good news is that the headlights on your vehicle may be just as bright.
Using an LED headlight conversion kit, stock halogen headlights can be changed over to LED. Since the LED bulbs fit perfectly into your halogen housing and connect directly to your headlight power harness, the conversion process is actually fairly easy. Even your grandma can do this; it’s no different from simply changing a halogen bulb!
How can I verify the alignment of my headlights?
You must first determine whether the headlamp alignment is correct and whether it has to be adjusted. This can be done in a few simple steps.
Remove any extra weight first, such as objects in the boot, as these could cause your reading to be off. Additionally, make sure your tires are inflated to the pressure recommended by the manufacturer. Once parked, keep your vehicle around 60 cm from any walls or garage doors.
Now you can turn on the headlights, making sure they are not set to the beam or the fog light settings but rather the regular option. On the wall, the headlights will appear as a circle. Use two pieces of tape or a pencil to draw a plus symbol on the wall. Both lines should run horizontally from side to side and vertically from the top of the circular to the bottom. The center of your headlights is where the two lines converge in the middle.
Use a tape measure to make sure the plus signs’ centers are the same height. If they aren’t the same height, you might need to decrease one plus sign.
Reverse your automobile so that it is around eight meters from the wall once you are satisfied with your marks and they are both the same height. You don’t need to modify anything if the middle of your headlights still falls within your marks. You must readjust your headlights if they are dropping above, below, or to the side of the plus symbols.
What is the ideal height for headlight adjustment?
Your vehicle’s ride height can be subtly altered by suspension issues or a large cargo load, which may also cause one or both headlights to move. Your lights may become out of alignment as a result of a collision or running over a road obstruction.
Parking the car on a level surface and shining the headlights on a wall or garage door 25 feet in front of you can help determine whether the headlights are accurately aimed (some cars may require a different distance). For the majority of vehicles, the top of the low beam that shines on the wall should be at or just slightly below the height of the center of the headlight lens. You can anticipate that the light pattern will be lower on the driver’s side to avoid blinding other cars and higher on the passenger’s right side to highlight traffic signs. This should help you determine whether the beams on both sides are pointed in the right directions.
Another approach is to park the car five feet from the wall and then mark the wall’s vertical and horizontal light beam centers with masking tape. Reposition the car 25 feet back. The light beams should be around the same height both vertically and horizontally with the help of the tape line.
For adjusting headlight height, vehicles typically feature a screw or bolt on the headlight assembly. Some vehicles additionally include a screw for adjusting horizontal aim. A bubble level is also included in some cars to aid in modifications.
Without taking apart components like the battery, you might not have much room or even be able to reach the adjusters on some vehicles. Additionally, the vehicle must be perpendicular to the surface you’re shining the headlights on, be on properly level ground, and have no damage to the suspension system, flat tires, or baggage that would impact the ride height.
The owner’s manuals of many vehicles offer scant or no advice on headlight aiming. Ask a repair business to check if you’re unsure. A dealership may inspect the headlight aim and align it for free if the car is still under the basic warranty.
View the video below for a visual representation of everything mentioned above. Additionally, remember to regularly clean your headlights.
My headlights are different in brightness; why?
Your lights are pointed at different heights. One appears to be brighter as a result of this. Although the dealer can quickly align them for you, you can probably do it yourself. Your lightbulb is pointed higher than the other.
Will difficulties result from headlights that are pointed too high?
Have you ever been behind the wheel of a car with headlights that were so badly aimed you could hardly see anything? Did you realize that headlights pointed too low or too high can both significantly impair visibility?
Your ability to see far down the road is negatively impacted by glare on the road caused by your headlights directed at the ground. Your headlights may be beaming into space and reflecting off nothing if they are pointed a little too high, making them all but useless.
It’s downright scientific, but correctly aiming your headlights is harder than you may imagine. If you have never measured your beam properly, there is a good risk that they are out of alignment and improperly focused.
I just went to Detroit, Michigan, for the 2017 DVN (Driving Vision News) USA workshop. Future Lighting Technologies and Standardization, Safety and Regulatory Affairs was the main focus. One of the debates involved the difficulty of maintaining correctly directed headlights and how it related to regulatory requirements.
Headlights are misaimed 9.9% of the time, which results in 3% to 30% more glare than is ideal.
AML Systems’ Hassan Koulouh demonstrated calculations based on research and survey data that demonstrated that over 10% of the time any car is on the road, the headlights are misaimed, creating between 3% and 30% more glare than is permitted by NHTSA aiming regulations and IIHS guidelines. The interesting thing is that, while headlamp misaim occasionally results from a vehicle adjustment system that is physically aimed wrongly, more frequently it results from:
- a trunk full with luggage
- Headlight lens heat as a result of the light being on
- Fuel level in a gas tank: weight
- problems with the road’s flatness
- tire inflation
- Of course, the driver’s or the technician’s mechanical headlight housing aim is also important.
Koulouh works at Johnson Electric-owned AML Systems, which produces and distributes LuMEMS – Auto leveling utilizing MEMS sensors, a novel headlight aiming technology. They assert that the majority, if not all, problems that result in headlight misaim will be resolved when more vehicles adopt their intelligent actuator technology. There would be a decrease in nighttime traffic accidents, eye strain, and oncoming driver glare if headlight misaim could be fixed.