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Old 07-30-08, 10:06 AM
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so my car is lowered on coilovers, its been lowered for about 5000kms so far.
i hit a bump on the road now my passenger headlight aims up higher than the drivers side
dealer said front sensor is bent and they wont fix it... does anyone have a pic of where this sensor is? so i can bend it back
thanks
Old 07-30-08, 10:14 AM
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anyone i just wanna see what this part looks like
Old 07-30-08, 10:34 AM
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Similar thing happened to me, except I drove over a crater sized HOLE on the freeway. It bumped my driver side headlight beam up in the air.

I'm ASSUMING you have factory HID w/ AFS.

So that night I was able to accidently get the headlight to re-adjust itself back. I went to visit a friend who lives on a VERY VERY steep incline. I was leaving his house at night, and as I approach the bottom of the incline, due to the angle of the car, the projector actually adjusted back to normal by itself.

SO, it's a YMMV, but maybe you can find a very steep incline, drive up it and drive back down VERY SLOWLY with headlights on. It might just knock it back.
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Hey cant help you at work right now

But if you do a search on DYI spring install on the 2IS, you can find a few threads, and in the bigggest one, read through it, there are 3 diagrams of the sensor position, 2 pictures, and one official layout from Lexus. It helped me to make sure that I didnt have this prob when I got my spring installed.
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Originally Posted by DaveyIS
so my car is lowered on coilovers, its been lowered for about 5000kms so far.
i hit a bump on the road now my passenger headlight aims up higher than the drivers side
dealer said front sensor is bent and they wont fix it... does anyone have a pic of where this sensor is? so i can bend it back
thanks
This happened to me as well. Just readjust the headlight back into position. There is a DIY posted.

https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sho...&highlight=aim
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here is the sensor schematics, its on the driver side front and rear wheels wells, they are a small metal arms that looks like this

https://www.clublexus.com/forums/att...1&d=1195189506

they are bolted onto your control arm right behind the shock struts

If they aren't position like diagram above, then you've got issues
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