When should you turn on your low beam lights?
If you are driving with your high-beam lights on, you must dim them at least 500 ft from any oncoming vehicle, so you don’t blind the oncoming driver. You must use low-beam lights if you are within 200-300 ft of the vehicle you are following.
When to switch from high beams to low beams?
Another vehicle is approaching in the opposite direction. Each state may require you to switch from high beams to low beams when you are within a specific distance from an approaching vehicle. Check your local headlight laws for more information.
What can cause a low beam headlight to be dim?
If it is, use a voltmeter to see how much power, if any, is reaching the headlights. If there is no power reaching them, there is a break in the wiring somewhere between the fuse panel and the headlights themselves. Thanks! What can cause the light to be dim except when on the high beam setting?
What to do when your low beam light goes out?
Disconnect the battery. Be sure you remember which side of the car has a blown out low beam bulb before disconnecting the battery. To disconnect it, use a hand or socket wrench of the appropriate size to loosen the nut holding the ground cable onto the negative terminal of the battery.
Can a high beam light bulb be blown out on the same side?
If the high beam on the same side is also out, it may be one bulb. You do not need to purchase specific bulbs for each side, but identifying which is the blown out bulb will help you to replace it without having to start the vehicle again.
Another vehicle is approaching in the opposite direction. Each state may require you to switch from high beams to low beams when you are within a specific distance from an approaching vehicle. Check your local headlight laws for more information.
How is auto high beam supposed to work?
If you switch the lights to Auto and then push the stalk forward to where you would normally have manual high beam, if you are driving in the town with street lights, the high beam won’t come on. Go into a dark section of road, no street lights and the high beam comes on, the blue high beam light comes on and that’s fine.
If it is, use a voltmeter to see how much power, if any, is reaching the headlights. If there is no power reaching them, there is a break in the wiring somewhere between the fuse panel and the headlights themselves. Thanks! What can cause the light to be dim except when on the high beam setting?
Disconnect the battery. Be sure you remember which side of the car has a blown out low beam bulb before disconnecting the battery. To disconnect it, use a hand or socket wrench of the appropriate size to loosen the nut holding the ground cable onto the negative terminal of the battery.