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Anyone feel the headlights are factory adjusted too low?

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Old 12-10-14, 12:21 PM
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Yea I'm surprised even the basic Corolla comes with LED headlight.
Old 12-10-14, 12:25 PM
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Originally Posted by ItzFilyO
Yea I'm surprised even the basic Corolla comes with LED headlight.
But are they any good...?
They could just be aesthetically pleasing but have bad output.
Old 12-10-14, 01:09 PM
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I believe the Lincoln MKZ has standard LED headlights as well.
Old 12-10-14, 01:28 PM
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Originally Posted by dchar
But are they any good...?
They could just be aesthetically pleasing but have bad output.
The LED headlight output on the Corolla are good enough, at least the same with the IS led headlight. They might not look fancy as Audi A7 but lid up the road very well. I got both car as loaner a month ago and their output are whiter than HID even with a single projector on each side. That's when I found out the Corolla have LED headlight. lol

My Prius with LED headlight output are better because it got 2 projector on each side.

For dry road or snowy the white LED will lid up things much better but not on wet surface road. But I'll take the LED headlight without a blink.

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Old 12-10-14, 01:32 PM
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Yea the problem with white/blue headlights is on a rainy night u have zero visibility.
Old 12-10-14, 01:42 PM
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I had to adjust mine after I lowered my car. Very easy to do.
Old 12-10-14, 05:15 PM
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Perfecto! Raising my headlights' beam upward just 2" [at 12'] made a much needed and a very positive visibility performance change.
Old 12-12-14, 08:10 PM
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I took my car out for a drive tonight on the freeway and yes the light beam is too low. I rarely drove this thing at night and I couldn't see jack!! lol

Adjusted it 3 turns upwards and now it's good. I only saw 1 adjustment screw for each light, I didn't see anything near the fender though, it has the indicator on the covers but I didn't see the actual screws. So I just adjusted the one behind the projector and it moved up and down, the sides didn't change so that's good. I think it looks better now.
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Old 12-12-14, 10:43 PM
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I wanna try this but before I do I have a few questions.

1. How many turns is everyone using, and im assuming counter clockwise right?
2 is the car suppose to be on or off? cause when I turn the car on the lights move so not sure.
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Originally Posted by HiepNotik
I wanna try this but before I do I have a few questions.

1. How many turns is everyone using, and im assuming counter clockwise right?
2 is the car suppose to be on or off? cause when I turn the car on the lights move so not sure.
Maybe you missed THIS POST.
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I did 3 turns on mine and didn't adjust the fender one cause I didn't see any changes in the vertical. I turned off my car.
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Originally Posted by ItzFilyO
I did 3 turns on mine and didn't adjust the fender one cause I didn't see any changes in the vertical. I turned off my car.
Adjusting the headlights upward is a vertical movement. Did you mean to say that you did not see any need to adjust the headlights L-R (left-right) or horizontally?
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Originally Posted by bclexus
Adjusting the headlights upward is a vertical movement. Did you mean to say that you did not see any need to adjust the headlights L-R (left-right) or horizontally?
Yes I meant that. lol. I always get confused.
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Ok so I turn that side screw 3x too, the same as the bottom one and I don't see any difference at all. Here's what mine looks like now after the adjustment.







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