Headlights OEM Toyota or OEM Porsche

On my 2023 Highlander I was getting flashed by about 50% of oncoming traffic. I parked near a wall in the dark, put tape on the wall at the brightest spot. I lowered the lights a bit, perhaps about 1 1/2 inch, parked about 12 feet from the wall. I now get flashed by less than 1%.

I know for a fact that the lights on my Sienna platinum and my Model Y are extremely bright and very likely blinding. I know they are adjusted properly.

I just replaced mine on my 2013 with these OEM ones from ToyotaPartsDeal.com

Part No.: 81150-04220

Part No.: 81110-04220

~$465 shipped and no complaints

My lights looked about like yours before, and replacing them gave me a dramatic improvement in visibility. I knew the haziness was affecting my visibility, but jeez it ended up being a much bigger difference than I thought.

Install wasn’t bad, but you will need to adjust them after install, which is fairly easy.

If I had a Corolla where a pair of replacement lights can be had for around $100 and I have the mechanical ability to do the replacement myself I wouldn't fuss with restoring.

Is this one in Germany as well?

We have a 10-year old Toyota Vios (2014 model). I\u2019ve only recently gotten to a point where I had enough money to start putting effort into our car. I\u2019m very new to these kind of stuff and honestly doing research on headlights is very overwhelming.

Toyota and Ford SUVs are notorious for this. I owned a Landcruiser Prado and was getting high beamed all the time. I went to Toyota and they said nothing was wrong but only when i begged them to adjust them a couple of clicks down did things change for the better. Night driving wasnt affected for me and I never got high beamed again. I then became very aware of the vehicles blinding me at night using their low beams.

That’s terrible, but I’m not surprised. The lens on my 992 cracked and Porsche wanted $6300 for a new headlight (they don’t sell just the lens).

My indy Porsche mechanic told me they had to charge a Cayenne owner 3500+ to replace a headlight. He said even the headlight has a microchip now. Just unnecessary complexity.

I particularly hate the Porsche headlights with the 4 dots of light, they create a weird afterimage for several minutes.