CanadianRX

Now that you mention it how do you use them? I thought it was automatic when you use your washer fluid. Time to pull out the 80 pound Lexus Bible.

kitlz

The headlight washers will operate when the headlights are on and you activate the windshield wash or by pressing the button on the far left in the picture below.

GrandSedanFan

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I honestly don't like bi-xenons. I had them in my 3G RX, IS250, and now in my Mustang. I use flash-to-pass a LOT during the day because people here have a nasty habit for left lane cruising and HID ballasts should be allowed to warm up every time they're fired. I'd rather the high beams be halogens so I'm not hammering the ballasts every time I bright someone.

Also, it's nice to have high beams that are separate bulbs because I live in hilly suburbs. People who come over a crest under my HID cutoff get the same amount of blinding light that people in front of me get with my high beams on. So they bright me back thinking I'm being a ****. If the high beams were separate bulbs, I could bright them back to let them know that I'm not being a ****. With bi-xenons, all that happens is the cutoff moves up. Oncoming traffic below the cutoff would have no idea that I'm flashing my high beams at them because they're already getting maximum light. So then I'm stuck driving into high beams as well.


TL;DR - Bi-Xenons may be fancy, but are less functional in the real world.

konradsa

Don't really think this is an issue. Bi-xenons work on full high beam all the time, and a screen is moved in and out to create the cutoff for the low beams.

07LexusGuy

I believe you're misunderstood panyo64's post. What he means to say is the bi-xenon will make the same amount of light regardless if its in high beam mode or not. A separate halogen high beam setup, it will actually add more light when the high beams are on.

That way, when someone is below your HID light cutoff, turning on a bi-xenon high beam makes no difference to them while with a halogen high beam, they will immediately notice you're flashing them.

mbrahmer

I'd say the levelers in the light housings should mitigate most of the blinding light to oncoming traffic.

CometVR4

BMW I drove a 07 335i with bi-xenon headlights. When using the flash to pass, it activated the inner halogen light only. When actually using the high beams, it utilized the bi-xenon. Sadly, my 2009 doesn't behave this way operates the xenon when flashing.



The self leveling can't compensate when cresting big hills. It's for small movements such as braking, accelerating, or load changes.

konradsa

That's the kind of solution I would have expected from lexus too, especially for 2013 and later, not the mediocre compromise they did there that required silently dropping some features.

tromly

Yeah, I remember the ad, shame they deleted it.