Having read through previous topics a lot of people have upgraded lights. However as my SR180 is a company car I'm not allowed to change these. I'm finding that the lights are really poor to the point oncoming cars completely drown out my lights and I can't see where i'm going, they don't light up a car in front of me if it's any further than 15 metres ahead of me, and on an unlit road they are as useless as an ashtray on a motorbike!

Has anyone else had this issue, if so did you resolve it or is this just something I'm going to have to put up with?

cheers

Make sure the headlamp aim setting on dash is at "0". If its still por then ask the dealer to check the aim on a beam tester. May have come from factory a little to low.

[quote name='Marj' post='944917' date='Nov 16 2009, 10:39 PM']Having read through previous topics a lot of people have upgraded lights. However as my SR180 is a company car I'm not allowed to change these. I'm finding that the lights are really poor to the point oncoming cars completely drown out my lights and I can't see where i'm going, they don't light up a car in front of me if it's any further than 15 metres ahead of me, and on an unlit road they are as useless as an ashtray on a motorbike!

Has anyone else had this issue, if so did you resolve it or is this just something I'm going to have to put up with?

cheers[/quote]

My lights where like this when we got the T180, all i did was adjust them higher up the road (under the bonnet as they was set very low) and they are great now.

[quote name='Marj' post='944917' date='Nov 16 2009, 10:39 PM']Having read through previous topics a lot of people have upgraded lights. However as my SR180 is a company car I'm not allowed to change these. I'm finding that the lights are really poor to the point oncoming cars completely drown out my lights and I can't see where i'm going, they don't light up a car in front of me if it's any further than 15 metres ahead of me, and on an unlit road they are as useless as an ashtray on a motorbike!

Has anyone else had this issue, if so did you resolve it or is this just something I'm going to have to put up with?

cheers[/quote]
Simply adjust it as Rickd4d has mentioned. I also did the same. After the adjustment I figured out Auris has very efficient headlights.

Make sure you car is on flat ground and maybe have the light shining on a wall when you do it, if I remember right ist a 8mm socket and small extension or maybe get Toyota to do it if you can blag warranty for this or I am sure they would do it free on a service.

Is there some common problem with RHD car light's? My LHD Auris with factory HID:s is more than satisfying and my wife's Auris with halogens feels better than Megane 2. I visited Cyprus last month and their lights felt kind a weak, maybe I looked to wrong direction but those nights felt really dark :-)

In Finland Auris xenons are real pain nowadays. The light pattern on lamp glass is too small, like letter U 2" high and 1 3/4 wide, line thickness less than 1/2" and we have plenty of impurities in the air, my black car was painted grey after a weeks drive in local highways, here's no snow at all and it's raining and all proud Finns are using studded tyres, which remove all asphalt substancies from road surface. When it's snowing, those darn xenons run too cold and my bulbs get 1" of pure snow on them... I'll confess that those sucking xenons are however better alternatives than any H bulbs, but...

Normal halogen's light pattern is about 3" circle and there's in practice more visible light left when my xenons are mudded out. I don't recommend any aftermarket xenons into halogen headlights, those weak factory halogens are already too glaring. I met my wife driving my auris and vice versa, she complained about glaring lights and I didn't notice anything but blue xenons...

J

J is right, but aftermarket hids are much more better than halogen; meanwhile i installed hids on my car, after i changed one of them i switched on the lights and i could see the difference between hids and halo...the difference is like bicycle headlight and car headlight (without any dramatization)

anyway, if you want to adjust the headlamps, you can do it in this way;
wait for the sunset and the night come down, then park the car near the wall at 25 meters [url="http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/2971/positioning.jpg"]distance[/url]
then cover the other headlamp (or unplug the connector) that you don't adjust to first, take a screwdriver and proceed as follow:
backside of each lamp you will find two adjusting bolts, one is for [url="http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/3977/verticaladj.jpg"]vertical adjustment[/url] and another for [url="http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/6844/horizontaladj.jpg"]horizontal adjustment[/url]
good luck !

x

[quote name='Marj' post='944917' date='Nov 16 2009, 09:39 PM']Having read through previous topics a lot of people have upgraded lights. However as my SR180 is a company car I'm not allowed to change these. I'm finding that the lights are really poor to the point oncoming cars completely drown out my lights and I can't see where i'm going, they don't light up a car in front of me if it's any further than 15 metres ahead of me, and on an unlit road they are as useless as an ashtray on a motorbike!

Has anyone else had this issue, if so did you resolve it or is this just something I'm going to have to put up with?

cheers[/quote]

Since you aren't able to upgrade your lights to full HID then your next best thing is to just replace the OEM bulbs with Osram Night breakers. Surely you are allowed to do this.
[url="http://www.powerbulbs.com/product_detail.asp?prod=113"]http://www.powerbulbs.com/product_detail.asp?prod=113[/url]

I had these for a while before upgrading mine to HID.

Anyways I use this method to align my lights:

[img]http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/4032/hidlightsadjuster.jpg[/img]

[quote name='tavy' post='945857' date='Nov 21 2009, 01:36 PM']anyway, if you want to adjust the headlamps, you can do it in this way;
wait for the sunset and the night come down, then park the car near the wall at 25 meters distance,
[img]http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/2971/positioning.jpg[/img]
then cover the other headlamp (or unplug the connector) that you don't adjust to first, take a screwdriver and proceed as follow:
backside of each lamp you will find two adjusting bolts, one is for vertical and another for horizontal adj., like in pic bellow
vertical adjustment
[img]http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/3977/verticaladj.jpg[/img]
horizontal adjustment
[img]http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/6844/horizontaladj.jpg[/img]
good luck ![/quote]

Verry useful, didn´t know it have horizontal adjustment. Thanks

[quote]Verry useful, didn´t know it have horizontal adjustment. Thanks[/quote]
you're welcome