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My daughter just bought a new RAV and it has the LED lights with the Euro type sharp cutoff lines. The lights are set way too high and it’s very obvious. Other drives aren’t happy either coming the other way. I’ve been doing gay own lights since the 70 s and sure can’t see the adjustments for these lights anyplace. I’ve also looked all over the web for info and come up dry except people complaining about lights set too high. I did find an online manual showing a vertical adjuster dead center straight down the back center with a Phillips head adjusted in the usual manner. I don’t see anything down there. So what’s the secret to these unusual lights?
 
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Ok without the car here I can’t go look so I’m workin off memory here. Like I said said hers seems to have nothing straight down where it ought to be. I might have missed it but it’s pretty doubtful since I know what I’m looking for more or less. I was all over with a 12” long screw driver down there and didn’t encounter anything . I’ll look again when it’s back here.
Now that picture on the link with the 10 MM, that’s unusual to me. That’s looking directly forward is it ? I can see a back adjuster doing the left right but not up/down. Is that some different sort with a horizontal control moving the vertical? If so is clockwise Up or down?
I sure do love that headlight aside from that though. That Euro design is head and shoulders above our SAE antiquated designs.
 
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The screwdriver channel is not straight down. It's at an angle...it's there trust me. I think you missed it because you were looking where it ought to be and not where it could be LOL. That 10mm nut is on the back of the headlight and only controls vertical movement. On that nut there is also teeth. The teeth are how you adjust it from the top and the nut lets you do it from the back. Most headlights on cars I've had give you the option of adjusting from the top or back. I'm getting the feeling you're used to adjusting sealed beam headlights with the screws on the front LOL. Also these euro design headlights have been around on USA cars since the 90s LOL. Just a projector using leds.
 
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Rav4system3 said:
The screwdriver channel is not straight down. It's at an angle...it's there trust me. I think you missed it because you were looking where it ought to be and not where it could be LOL. That 10mm nut is on the back of the headlight and only controls vertical movement. On that nut there is also teeth. The teeth are how you adjust it from the top and the nut lets you do it from the back. Most headlights on cars I've had give you the option of adjusting from the top or back. I'm getting the feeling you're used to adjusting sealed beam headlights with the screws on the front LOL. Also these euro design headlights have been around on USA cars since the 90s LOL. Just a projector using leds.
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I just found that a few minutes ago in a prior post, probably the one that pic was in. I’ll be knocking those headlights , particularly the left with the nut as soon as I get my hands on the car.
That style with the straight cutoff was always really rare in the us. SAE didn’t approve them yet some of the cars made in Canada seemed to have them and get in. I see on that other thread the experts hate those LEDS! Just another reason to take experts with a huge grain of salt. That RAV lights up the deer gauntlet like fog lights on steroids. I can’t see how anyone wouldn’t love them. The only thing I’ve ever seen better was turning the take down light bar on with our police vehicles. I’ve got to see if I can retrofit LED bulbs into our Sonata. Any idea about drop ins fitting. I’m still stuck in the halogen:crying:crying era.........
 
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One of the first cars I had with projectors was a 2003 Saturn L300. Many people don't like projectors because of the cutoff, but love em. I retrofitted Acura tl projectors into my Rav4. My headlights blows the led lights out of the water LOL. As far as your sonata goes led lights are a waste. If your sonata uses projectors then it most likely uses an h11 bulb. Led bulbs are not as good as halogen for the most part and can't hold a candle to factory led lights. Your best bet is a quality hid setup. I only use Morimoto which I buy from The Retrofit Source. With hid parts if you buy cheap parts you get cheap results.
 
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Are we sure all these LED posts are from misaligned lights from the factory or just users not familiar with the new light technology? The performance at night is really impressive and one of my favorite features of the package.
 
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TOY4WD said:
Are we sure all these LED posts are from misaligned lights from the factory or just users not familiar with the new light technology? The performance at night is really impressive and one of my favorite features of the package.
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When people are high beaming you then your headlights are set too high. These are good lights for sure, but they can easily be set too high.
 
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Rav4system3 said:
When people are high beaming you then your headlights are set too high. These are good lights for sure, but they can easily be set too high.
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In our case those puppies are so high they are on the horizon. Or more. She had to leav hers on high all the time so oncoming cars would see them drop . Even then she often still got flashed out of spite. She did get a nice view of the trees though. Asking around that’s a pretty common issue.
 
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