Piece of Cr*p

[Blackhawk3D]

I was trying to adjust my Camry's headlights tonight. I pulled the car back from the garage door and turned on the lows, to find that my left headlight is significantly higher at only halfway down my driveway. Thinking, "There's no way I can leave it like that, I don't want to blind anyone." I get out my stubby screwdriver and try to turn the vertical adjustment screw (The horizontal one pointing back from the headlight assembly). I give a small amount of pressure, no luck. I give a little more, and SNAP, the dang plastick phillips head split. Now what do I do? This really sucks.

[Toysrme]

Ours (ES 300) have a level and an adjustment gauge. When mine snapped off I just grab the little metal stick it sits on and turn it.

Make sure the bulbs are in correctly too. You can shove them in the wrong position if you're extremely unlucky. That throws the light way off.

[Blackhawk3D]

I did do the 9005 mod, but the other one was in perfect, and this one didn't have a strange pattern or anything, just high. Getting a new car is not an option at this point, I don't have a job yet. I may be able to get a 94 Volvo 960, leather, rear wheel drive, nice car next school year, I will be working on one donated to the shop, bad engine because the owner ran the coolant dry.

[BlueFusion6851]

buy a new headlight assy. or find one from a wrecked Cam. at a junkyard or something.

[Knailgun]

if you need the passenger side light for a Gen3...I have one for sale, PM me on it.

That aside, I broke my driver side one and went and got the new depo light GB

[Blackhawk3D]

Is there a way to free those screws up so that I can more easily adjust them? WD 40?

Thanks,
Nathan

[MadDawg]

wait wait wait....

theres two head light adjusters... on the top of the headlight, on the corners, its a metal phillips screw driver thing... on the back side underneath the metal frame rail behind the battery.... theres a plastic head... DO NOT USE A SCREW DRIVER ON THAT!

use a ratchet thingy on it....

the metal one on the top makes it go up and down... the white plastic tip one makes the lights turn left or right...

does that help?

and if and infact you broke one of the plastic ones, take it to a toyota dealership and have one of the parts guys check it out.

[Blackhawk3D]

Dang it, somewhere along the line I got them mixed up. Now, if it is a ratchet (Stupid to put a phillips head screw slot on it then), then I should be able to glue it back together and still adjust right?

[Blackhawk3D]

I was looking at it and I think that I can glue it together just fine. It is not compeletely split as I had thought, one face of the six was just cracked off, I still have it (It didn't come all the way off.)