You do not find how to turn on the full headlights on your Volkswagen Beetle. Rest assured we are here to help you.
Today new vehicle models have slightly more elaborate systems and it is often difficult to know how to turn on full headlights or commonly referred to as high beams.
However, it could become annoying at night when the road is poorly lit. Quite simply because it can make it difficult for you to anticipate the elements such as an animal on the road.
In another article we guided you to understand how to activate the daytime running lights on your Volkswagen Beetle now let's study the high beams.
In order to be able to assist you, we will first teach you why activate full headlights on my Volkswagen Beetle. Then we will help you to know how to activate and deactivate the full headlights on my Volkswagen Beetle? and we will finish by checking if the headlights are correctly activated in the paragraph How do I know if the high beam is on on my Volkswagen Beetle?
1- Why activate full headlights on my Volkswagen Beetle
To begin with, it is important to know that there are 4 types of major headlights on your Volkswagen Beetle
- Traffic lights
- Position lights
- Fog lights
- High beam
Each of them have a particular specificity, to be able to summarize this here is the table below because it will quickly explain the function of all the headlights on your Volkswagen Beetle.
| Type of headlight on Volkswagen Beetle | Use on your Volkswagen Beetle | Light range from your Volkswagen Beetle |
|---|---|---|
| Traffic lights | Allow you to be seen (without blinding potential motorists) and to see the road, they can be used in all circumstances, on some Volkswagen Beetle models they are even programmed. Be aware that driving without activated headlights may be punished with a fine. | 30 meters |
| Position lights | Are intended to be seen by potential motorists, when natural light is poor, for example at the end of the day. So they don't have a light range | - |
| Fog lights | Will come in handy in bad weather such as snow or fog to be seen. Be careful not to use them in other conditions because they dazzle other motorists. So they don't have a light range. | - |
| High beam | Allow the road to be seen over a long distance, however they can blind potential motorists. So during an intersection with a car you will have to deactivate them and put the low beam back on. | 100 meters |
In this way each of them have a functionality to drive your Volkswagen Beetle safely according to the provisions.
Now you have to find out how to handle them, especially the full headlights of your Volkswagen Beetle.
2-How to activate and deactivate the full headlights on my Volkswagen Beetle?
Although some headlights such as the daytime running lights (see the article “how to activate my daytime running lights on my Volkswagen Beetle”) or the sidelamps and dipped beams have become automatic, they all have a manual control on your Volkswagen Beetle.
This command is even more useful for the high beam which must be deactivated at each crossing with a second driver.
This is why it is usually positioned next to the steering wheel to simplify activation or deactivation.
First of all, we advise you to do the test when stationary to avoid errors due to a lack of attention and therefore risk creating an accident with your Volkswagen Beetle.
Then, important to know: the dipped beam headlights, the sidelamps and the main beam headlights (full headlights) cannot be activated at the same time, any activation of one will automatically deactivate the previous one. Only the fog lights can be activated at the same time as the dipped beam headlights.
Therefore when you want to have better visibility and you do not meet other drivers on the road, to be able to start the full headlights of your Volkswagen Beetle, you will have to:
- First turn on the sidelights by turning the stalk located just next to the steering wheel. It is recognizable with the help of the drawings described in the highway code.
- So once you have once turned the lever, repeat the operation to activate the low beam.
- Finally, you are able to activate the full headlights by pulling the lever back towards you or for some models you have to push the lever.
Once the high beams are activated on your Volkswagen Beetle you have the possibility to check their activation.
3- How do I know if the high beams are activated on my Volkswagen Beetle?
So of course you will see directly if your Volkswagen Beetle lights the road adequately, however for full headlights, since you will have to deactivate them when you come across another driver, you also have a warning light which allows you to know what type of lights is working.
Indeed, inside your car, at the level of the steering wheel, you have a dashboard which also lights up when your headlights are activated (because that means that the brightness is low in this way you are able to to see the image that is illuminated.
This indicator light will have a color defined according to the activated light:
- Low beam = green
- Position lights = green
- Fog lights (front) = green
- High beam = blue
Now you can easily activate and deactivate the appropriate headlights on your Volkswagen Beetle.
If when you have managed to turn on your full headlights you realize that they are not properly adjusted, consider consulting the article How to adjust the headlights on Volkswagen Beetle.
If you ever want to go a little further in the maintenance of your Volkswagen Beetle, we invite you to consult our other articles on the Volkswagen Beetle.
