Toyota’s lighting team is really good at their job

"TheTurbochargedSquirrel" (thatsquirrel)
11/04/2019 at 17:34 • Filed to: None

I love the way the headlights look on my car. I do wish I could have the DRLs be the 3 swoops without the main beam but it only lets you have everything or nothing.

DISCUSSION (10)

facw > TheTurbochargedSquirrel
11/04/2019 at 17:43

IIHS isn’t impressed though: https://www.iihs.org/ratings/vehicle/toyota/corolla-4-door-hatchback/2019#headlights

Acceptable for preferred package curve-adaptive lights and marginal for the lights on SE and manual XSE.

someoneatacura > TheTurbochargedSquirrel
11/04/2019 at 17:45

yeah toyota is going LED crazy, putting them on all the cars even in base trim. They’re not testing all that great at IIHS but I’ll take these over any halogen reflector.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > facw
11/04/2019 at 18:06

They are miles better than the headlights on any of my previous cars so I’m happy.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > someoneatacura
11/04/2019 at 18:07

They are way better than any of my previous cars (especially the Mini which had absolutely horrible low beams) so I’m happy with them.

ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability > TheTurbochargedSquirrel
11/04/2019 at 18:15

I just bought rally lights coz the low beams are so shit.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability
11/04/2019 at 19:01

Pre-facelift Mini headlights are borderline dangerous. The facelifted cars are only marginally better.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > facw
11/04/2019 at 20:00

Looking closer at those graphs now there’s a clear difference between the drivers side and passenger’s side spread. Driving the car you can see the driver’ s side is cut off noticeably lower than the passenger’s. You can see it in the graphs too, the driver’s side spreads noticeably shorter. I wonder if this has anything to do with the previous generation of Corolla which has a nasty habit of blinding oncoming drivers.

facw > TheTurbochargedSquirrel
11/04/2019 at 20:01

Maybe, they did say that glare wasn’t an issue for this one.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > facw
11/04/2019 at 20:02

It just looks to me like they may be being overly cautious about glare.

Old Red Wagon > TheTurbochargedSquirrel
11/05/2019 at 09:32

If only they would add some LED headlights to the 4runner. The fact that thing costs $50k for a TRD Pro and it still only comes with halogen headlights is absolutely ridiculous.