Headlight aiming diagram? - Toyota Nation Forum : Toyota Car and Truck Forums

gladis · 01-10-2010, 02:59 AM

Hey all havent been here for a long while. I've been doing a winter cleanup/maintenance lately on the 96 (now routinely driven by my brother), and i noticed the headlights are off...

Anyhow, I already know that you aim by turning some screws (as I found out a couple years ago when i mistakenly thot the screw was for removing the housing

) But I'm having trouble finding a diagram of how to align it... instead of the nice crisp pattern i get on my other cars... the beams on the camry look like this:

Far:

Near:

And an imprint of what looks like a pine leaf, its not on the outside, believe me! spooky...

Anyway, so now I'm trying to see if there's an actual diagram regarding how to adjust our headlights, like one wit an actual little Camry drawn in... cuz I'm not so sure how I'm supposed to do it...

Also, I read a daniel stern article about adjusting lights, and it mentioned something like likes being marked with VO, VOR, or VOL... but I couldnt find those markings on te lens itself...

Gibson99 · 01-10-2010, 10:54 AM

that almost looks like the lamp may not be completely inserted into the housing. double-check that, but otherwise you should be getting a little "flare" up and to the right. at least, i think my 95 had that... i can't remember...

the imprint is just static electricity attracting dust. perfectly normal and won't affect light output. you see those all the time inside plastic computer cases (both desktop and laptop, and even some servers!), and they more often look like snowflakes.

gladis · 01-10-2010, 02:34 PM

Could be possible, since I used the 9005 conversation and jacked the o-ring from the 9006 bulb..., but I dont think it makes that much of a difference. I know for sure the bulb is inserted correctly... I'll stick the o-ring back on and see if it gives me a better pattern...

Gibson99 · 01-10-2010, 07:53 PM

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Originally Posted by gladis

Could be possible, since I used the 9005 conversation and jacked the o-ring from the 9006 bulb..., but I dont think it makes that much of a difference. I know for sure the bulb is inserted correctly... I'll stick the o-ring back on and see if it gives me a better pattern...

i don't remember the beam pattern changing when i swapped in 9005s in my 95... maybe just to test you could pop in a 9006 and see if it changes the focus of the beam?