Forest Boy

I had this as well!. It was rolling around after a left or right turn. It drove me nuts for a few days trying to figure out where it was coming from. The shape of the inside of a car messes with the acoustics and makes it difficult to locate a sound. I thought it was coming from the centre console. I ended up taking the console apart! It was a nut from a tree, it was in the metal channel under the carpet of the passenger seat.

2008 ACV40 I use 36 PSI on front, 34 on rear. I've noticed that after a service, the Toyota guys fill the pressue up to about 35. I've also read elsewhere that recommended pressure on the placard is too heavily influenced by comfort(ie. to sell the car), and that a higher pressure means better fuel economy, more road contact (ie. safer) and longer tyre life. My neighber is over 60, he has his Aurion at 28 PSI because he values comfort, he had a Cressida before that, so that's the kind of driver he is (I'm late 30's if it makes any difference) Cheers

Mtbrider, the reason the there was such a big improvement is because presumably the orignal bulbs fitted to my Camry were faulty (see my earlier pictures above). If the bulbs on your Grande are not faulty, there probably will be less of an improvement. and yep, I did find them hard to get in without touching the glass

Indeed, they were faulty bulbs. I ordered some Philips Xtreme Power bulbs from PowerBulbsDirect on Monday morning, arrived in Friday's post ! Here are my "garage-door" shots for comparison: Faulty original bulbs: Philips Xtreme power: 'nuff said.

DJKOR, I understand your point about the focus, but the reach of the headlights is poor as well. It is not just that the lights "appear" to be dull due to the focus, I am certain that the lights "actually" are dull. Often cars driving behind me will light up trees and signposts in front of me (well not directly in front, there is just a murky yelllow illumination directly in front!) I'm just suprised that a fairly popular, modern car can have such crap headlights. It's bordering on dangerous. I don't want to get ito HID/xenon, as there seems to be ambiguity about their legality (NSW) The bulbs are actually H7. I'd read good things about Philips X-treme Power and Osram night breaker, so was about order some from PowerBulbs. Anyway, I decided to pull the orignal bulbs to make sure they are not too hard to replace, and found this.. I don't claim to know that much about auto bulbs, but thay grey coating on the inside sure goes a long to explaining why the lights are so dull !

I have 2008 Altise, and I think there is a problem with the headlights - they are not very bright! Hi-beam is fine. Are projector headlights meant to be brighter than normal ones, or just more focused ? I had a 99 Sonata before this and it's headlight's were way brighter. I was driving around last night, and basically every other car on the road has brighter head-lights, even 15 year old hatchbacks. We've had the car since late 2008, my wife drives it mostly, but I didn't notice until I drove it a round a few times at night. When I mentioned it to her, she says that sometimes she has to flick the hi-beams on in urban areas just to see what is ahead (yep, I explained to her it is illegal and dangerous). I'll be taking it in for a service soon, but it will be hard to illustrate the problem in the middle of the day. In summary, if you have a gen7 Camry, have you noticed the headlight are not very bright ? Thanks in advance for your opinions.