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Hi! New to this forum. Hoping to compare what my headlights are doing with your experience. 2024 Lexus RXh. I hit a deer and my car has been in the bodyshop for the past 4 months getting repaired. I FINALLY got my car back this week.
I think they either installed the headlights wrong, or the Lexus dealership calibrated them wrong (auto body shop took it to dealership for calibration as the last step of their repairs).
High beams still work great, but low beams don't seem to project out as far as they used to, and are almost 'U" shaped in projection where the outsides (ditch or oncoming traffic) have the most light (or furthest light), and directly in the middle straight ahead has the least. Pictures attached. It's hard to take a photo of it , but when looking at the car from the front with the low beams on, the outside of the 3 LEDs are much brighter than the 2 inside LEDs (same on each side).
If anything I would think that the inside LEDs should be brighter than the outer one.
Show us pictures of the headlamps against a wall...
Both on, then one at a time (place a towel or blanket over one side).
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Our USA 500h's pattern against our garage is kind of unique. (There are different headlamp configurations depending on trim and country, so I'm not sure about your BC-spec car)
Individual beam patterns are low on the left side, with a 'dip' in the middle, then highest on the right side.
US cars have a black blanking cover on the outboard lower part of the because adaptive lights are not legal here.
So my RX went to the dealership for them to check headline calibration.
they swore up and down that they were fine and there was nothing wrong. I swore louder that there WAS something wrong. So eventually the dealership GM took my car for evening to test at night against his own RX. Sure enough, my low beams didn’t project anywhere close to the same distance as his. Even tho the system thought the lights were at the right height they were not. From what I understand they manually raised the lights and then reprogrammed the system to make that location default 0.
So my RX went to the dealership for them to check headline calibration.
they swore up and down that they were fine and there was nothing wrong. I swore louder that there WAS something wrong. So eventually the dealership GM took my car for evening to test at night against his own RX. Sure enough, my low beams didn’t project anywhere close to the same distance as his. Even tho the system thought the lights were at the right height they were not. From what I understand they manually raised the lights and then reprogrammed the system to make that location default 0.
Sounds exactly like a Lexus dealer. Out of curiosity, are you in the US ? Which part ?
So my RX went to the dealership for them to check headline calibration.
they swore up and down that they were fine and there was nothing wrong. I swore louder that there WAS something wrong. So eventually the dealership GM took my car for evening to test at night against his own RX. Sure enough, my low beams didn’t project anywhere close to the same distance as his. Even tho the system thought the lights were at the right height they were not. From what I understand they manually raised the lights and then reprogrammed the system to make that location default 0.
Are the outer bulbs still brighter than the others?
Low beam headlights
