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Tips to Increase Visibility on the Road
By Product Expert | Posted in Tips & Tricks on Wednesday, November 30th, 2016 at 7:03 pm
How to Clean Your Headlights and When to Use Them
While we were about to gain an extra hour of sleep thanks to Daylight Saving Time, we lost an hour of our precious summer sunlight. Whereas we could enjoy the bright outdoors of summer until the late hours of the evening, night time is coming much earlier than we’re used to. With a few more months of this change, it is as important as ever to make sure we have our headlights working efficiently in necessary situations. Here are a few ways to clean your headlights and some times you should be using them.
How to Get Them Bright
Clean Your Headlights
While often overlooked, one of the simplest ways to increase the brightness of your headlights is to clean them. This can also be done right from home! Headlights can often get dirty, foggy or damaged in other ways. By using some common household items such as toothpaste, baking soda and vinegar or even bug spray, you can clean your headlights to make sure they’re as bright as can be.
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Tips for Headlight Usage
Turn on Your Headlights in Any Case of Losing Daylight
Turning your headlights on when it gets dark is a no-brainer, but if you start to sense the sun setting, it is smart to have your lights on. Even if you can still see perfectly later in the evening, others might not be so lucky. Having your lights on will eliminate most moments of confusion of where someone is in relation to you. So if you debate whether it is dark enough outside to justify your lights being on for yourself, help out your fellow drivers by throwing them on.
Turn on Your Headlights in Any Inclement Weather
If you notice a raindrop, snowflake or any other kind of bad weather condition, turn your lights on immediately. Rainstorms and blizzards can get nasty in a hurry, and with the possibility of panicked drivers on the road with you, it is best to visually show where you are on the road. Windshield wipers can only do so much, so turning on your lights with any bad weather is appreciated.
More tips on how to drive carefully in winter.
The world around us also tends to turn foggy or muggy before the weather hits, and because of this, the color of your car might be harder to see for others. Your nice black or silver Nissan won’t be able to stand out against the background, and headlights are the perfect remedy to ensure safety around you.
What if other people’s headlights are too bright to see?
So you have your clean, bright new lights on when it’s dark or dreary outside. But what if everyone else now does the same and it is too hard to see the road ahead of me? Whether someone still has their brights on or their headlight beams are too powerful, a great way to see where you are on the road is by looking down at the corner of it. Instead of staring these rays in the face, your lights will be able to illuminate the road before you so you can clearly see where you are in your lane.
Another great way to ensure proper visibility, in addition to learning how to clean your headlights, is with the LED lights or High Intensity Discharge (HID) bi-functional xenon headlights on a new Nissan. Come visit Glendale Nissan to see them for yourself or for any questions on headlight maintenance, when to use them and repair.
