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Old Nov 9, 2007 | 03:08 PM
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It seems that the driver side headlight is a little slow at returning to the front position after exiting a curve. I brought the car to the dealer today, the tech put in on the computer ad said everything was OK--no codes being thrown.

The tech ran a diagnostic program which cycled the headlights seperatly.
I noticed that the driver side headlight travels a few degrees to the left and right more than the passenger side.
can anyone tell me if this is normal? The tech made a comment like "this is a 1500.00 headlight, inferring that they were in no hurry to replace it.
Hopefuly a lexus tech can chime in.
something tells me if i was out of warranty the light would have been out of spec.
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Old Nov 9, 2007 | 09:56 PM
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I think that is normal because the left headlamp can rotate up to 15 degrees (compared to 5 degrees on the right).

Has that always happened, or is this recent?
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Old Nov 10, 2007 | 07:41 AM
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thanks robin,
it makes sense that the driver side light would act as the track light, more than the pass side. I just started noticing it last week, seemed a little sluggish. But the tech said that everything was within spec.
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