2008-03-07

How to maintain vehicle headlamps

Check the vehicle lamps light bulbs burn fault is a very rapidly and simple task. However, the car lights to conduct a comprehensive maintenance on the system is not so simple.

Timely maintenance of the vehicle lighting is essential for drivers, not only because it affects travel comfort, but also directly related to traffic safety. Usually be reminded before the owners realize that it is difficult headlights, taillights, turn signal lights or has been unable to carry out normal work. Incidentally, the work of replacement bulbs burn very simple, DIY less than the cost of maintenance station lighting system maintenance fees.

More often, the lights fault absolutely not limited to light bulbs burn, or plug socket corrosion damage this type of small issues that often need to take professional diagnostic techniques to analyze the root causes of the fault. Even those who have low-cost vehicles, its internal and external lighting is from the main computer control, and those luxury cars, their headlights on only three computers to control.


If your car has the lights of DRLs (Daytime Running Lamps), you must first understand the working principles of these devices. For example, some of the lights in the engine before the start, the lights can not open; some of the lights, if not yet in the car braking cancelled, even though the engine has started, the lights still do not work. If a vehicle equipped with a photo-controlled lights (that is, when the light to dim to a certain extent, the system automatically opened with the functions of the former headlamps), may wish to check the photo from the weakest to the strongest state in the process of the work lights, of course, also not to overlook inspection timer to shut down automatically. If the system is equipped with a timer, you set it as the largest delay.

If the headlights damaged, usually adopts a similar lamp replacement. Some cars are equipped with high-intensity discharge headlights HID, the equipment through its pre-designed electronic system to produce high-pressure arc discharge light source generating high density. Note that ordinary quartz - Halogen Lamps not in this application. In addition, we should also check whether there is a pre-lens headlamps crack, because although the surface cracks and will not affect the performance of the lighting headlights, but moisture infiltration lights will be along the crack, it is bound to reduce bulb life.

Headlights light direction calibration maintenance projects should be included in the list, because in order to ensure the greatest drivers traffic safety, headlights must be able to provide a good vehicle for travelling to the former lighting.

I seize the key, but also must not forget the other lights of the testing, such as turn, and vehicle license plate light, showing the width lights, the lights, reversing light and brake lights (including intermediate high brake lights CHMSL). In addition, many vehicles will fog lights as standard equipment or popular option, fog lamps installed in the vehicles generally lower on the location of the stones therefore vulnerable to injury, in their maintenance, in addition to inspection lighting systems itself, the lights crack lens should not be overlooked.

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