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Old Mar 16, 2012 | 08:26 PM
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Does lexus charge to adjust headlight aim, at night people keep hight beaming me because my headlight are up, if they do how much is it?
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Old Mar 16, 2012 | 08:54 PM
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Dealer charge for $150 to align ur headlights.
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Old Mar 16, 2012 | 08:54 PM
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Thats rape :O
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Old Mar 16, 2012 | 10:15 PM
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Lube included?
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Old Mar 16, 2012 | 11:11 PM
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just remove your engine covers and use a phillip screw driver to adjust your low beams. there is one bolt on each headlight and a spot on the bolt to put your screwdriver to adjust. just keep twisting till you get the height you like.
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Old Mar 16, 2012 | 11:24 PM
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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 12:26 AM
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is there a video on how to do this?
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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 12:46 AM
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Any pics Wer to screw?
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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 12:47 AM
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https://www.clublexus.com/forums/is-...success-2.html
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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 10:14 AM
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Originally Posted by Fuzzie
just remove your engine covers and use a phillip screw driver to adjust your low beams. there is one bolt on each headlight and a spot on the bolt to put your screwdriver to adjust. just keep twisting till you get the height you like.
there's two bolts per headlight. Only adjusting one will move the light but leave you misaligned overall.

The owners manual covers this.

Though for folks with AFS it might be easier if simply looking to raise/lower the height a bit to adjust the AFS arm by the right rear tire as I think that other thread mentions on later pages.
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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 02:22 PM
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Interesting this thread came up. I have been wanting to adjust mine higher
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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 02:36 PM
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i had the dealer re-adjust mine under warranty. no charge.
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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 06:46 PM
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how do you adjust the passanger side headlight aim
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Old Mar 18, 2012 | 03:29 PM
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Is the driver's-side cutoff supposed to be slightly lower than the passenger-side cutoff? When I pull up in front of a wall or garage door I notice the driver's-side cutoff is roughly an inch or so lower than the passenger-side. I read somewhere this is supposed to be normal: oncoming traffic (on the left/driver's side) won't be blinded and we're able to better see road signs at night (since these are always on the right/passenger-side of the road when driving). Truth or myth?
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Old Mar 18, 2012 | 04:52 PM
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is true is about 2 inch of difference i finally decided to open engine cover up for first time and monkey around with the headlight and it was easier than i thought, i never knew that the daytime running is adjustable as well love it, just waiting for it to be night so i can go test it out
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