Got my 2024 Crosstrek Wilderness about a month ago but only recently had opportunity to drive at night. First, seeing the lights adjust and align at engine start is pretty cool. As well as seeing the lights adjust for corners. Pretty sweet! But I noticed something peculiar regarding alignment. Now bear with me. When driving there are two dark spots where the headlights shine BUT they appear to be in front of the driver side. This is not a problem because you see the light spot around the dark spot (I hope this is making sense). Now, when you turn left, you see the dark spot angle to the left, taking the light beam with it. Straighten the wheel and it comes back in front of the driver side. Here's the issue. Turn right, and again the dark spot angles to the right, but returns to the driver side when straighting out. I feel like it should either return to a place in front of the passenger side, or they both should be centered between the passenger and and driver. Is it just me, or does this seem misaligned? Or are the headlights aligned to be more in front of the driver? TIA.
CanadianRogue
Steering Responsive Headlight SRH Issue?
I believe this is intentional. Looking at other forums (Toyota) is sounds like this is for glare protection for oncoming drivers. This makes sense considering they line up on that drivers side. The spots do seem to line up a bit low on the road though.
24+ Crosstreks have new LED projectors, shared with (made by) Toyota. The little black square inside the hotspot has been documented across multiple fora, and justifiably so made quite a few people fume given that it's quite distracting (night vision tends to react/be attracted to lateral visual contrast movement in the field of view) - and at absolute odds with a proper (European) beam pattern.
Nothing simple/cheap can be done about it.
Nothing simple/cheap can be done about it.
I don't think the notches have anything to do with not blinding oncoming drivers.
I think it is to provide a specific left to right aiming mark.
The top cut-off works for verticle adjustment.
There is no cut-off for horizontal adjustment, so there has to be some way to know where the horizontal center point is located.
I think it is to provide a specific left to right aiming mark.
The top cut-off works for verticle adjustment.
There is no cut-off for horizontal adjustment, so there has to be some way to know where the horizontal center point is located.
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