How-To Tuesday: Adjusting Your AFS After Lowering Your Lexus
Occasionally, a DIY project may be just a bit above your skills, so you wisely leave it up to the professionals. This is not one of those times.
Today’s How-To Tuesday article, and the corresponding video below, deals with the AFS, aka the Adaptive Front Lighting System. Like the clever feature’s title might suggest, the AFS allows your headlights to adapt to the road. It’s a brilliant feature, not just for the joy of driving, but also for the safety of it.
But when you lower your car, the AFS often doesn’t realize it, so the headlights get all wonky, and the warning light goes on. And it stays on, and the AFS stays on the fritz. Unless you do something about it or spend some hard-earned cash having a mechanic do something about it. But again, don’t do that.
Seriously, this 15-minute fix is about as easy as they get. All you need is a 10mm socket wrench and today’s How-To Tuesday article. Then it’s just as easy as Step 1 — Park your car on a flat surface; Step 2 — Locate the AFS sensor; and Step 3 — Adjust the AFS sensor.
This How-To is particularly useful for those of you who have installed lowering springs on your Lexus IS, GS, ES, or RX between the years 2005 and 2013. If that’s you, then what are you waiting for? It’s time to DIY that AFS.
