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9月27日

Adjusting Your Toyota Headlights


headlights

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While looking for quality Toyota headlights at Toyota Parts Online, I found this article on eHow.com that provide steps and tips on how to adjust headlights using a screwdriver to make sure that both of them are pointing in the right direction and ensure safety while driving in the dark.


Here are the steps:


1. Park your car on level ground with the headlights about 10 to 15 feet (3 to 4.5 m) from a wall or garage door.


2. Find the adjusting screws for the headlights. They will probably be inset adjacent to the headlight. You'll find a horizontal and a vertical adjusting screw, with small springs behind them. Some cars come equipped with a small level (like a carpenter's level) attached to the top of the headlight under the hood to help you get the correct adjustment.


3. Turn the headlights on.


4. Notice where the light shines, using the wall or garage door as your gauge. Check for uneven or cross-eyed light beams.


5. Turn the adjusting screws with a Phillips screwdriver while looking at the wall. Turn slowly and continue to check the wall  until the light beams are even and tilted slightly downward (so your car's headlights won't blind oncoming traffic).


6. Test-drive in the dark and repeat steps 1 through 5 as necessary.


Tips:
Turn the adjusting screws slowly and review the beam's location frequently to avoid adjusting the headlights in the wrong direction.

9月22日

Toyota: On a Roll…and not stopping anytime soon

Toyota logoIn stark contrast to the gloom facing Detroit, Toyota’s future now look brighter than ever as the company, now the world's No. 2 automaker, announced plans to boost overseas production by 40% of its 2005 level to 5 million vehicles by 2008.


Media reports say that Toyota intends to up production in North America, the world's largest auto market, by 20% to 1.84 million vehicles in that period as well as raise production for the first time above 1 million vehicles in Asia, excluding Japan and China.


Only last Monday the automaker – in what seemed to be an ironic coincidence, unveiled the long-bed versions of its redesigned 2007 Tundra full size pickup in Dearborn, Michigan – the Big Three’s turf. The Japanese automaker has also recently rolled off its five-millionth Camry – still the number one selling sedan in the U.S. four years in a row and eight of the last nine, in its Kentucky assembly plant, the company’s largest manufacturing facility in North America.

 

 

9月20日

Toyota Announced the MSRP for the Third Scion xA Limited Edition


2006 Scion Xa Release 3

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Toyota Motor Sales USA has announced the manufacturer’s suggested retail prices (MRSP) for the Scion xA Release Series 3.0, the third limited edition vehicle for the Scion xA.


The Scion xA Release Series 3.0 will arrive in dealer showrooms carrying a MSRP of $1,840 plus the base price of the xA, which is $12,780. Exterior Body styling for the xA Release Series 3.0 comes with a Stingray Metallic light blue paint along with the KenStyle front & rear ground effects, color keyed rear spoiler, Release Series wheel covers, and individually numbered xA Release Series badging for distinction. Interior highlights include color tuned seat fabric, keyless Scion Security System with a radar intrusion sensor, and XM Satellite Radio Tuner.


Toyota will only produce 2,100 units of the Scion xA Release Series 3.0 so better watch out for it and grab one when it comes to dealer showrooms in October. For quality Toyota Parts, just visit Toyota Parts Online.

9月19日

More Good News for Toyota


2007 Toyota Tundra

Well, what else is new?


Toyota continues to rock US auto sales while GM is exerting great efforts to keep their head high above the water. According to Toyota executive Iry Miller during an interview done by Reuters, the company is expecting 3% to 5% increase on U.S. sales.


A striking 11% increase in the company’s sales was noted. This was based on last year’s records. Now, Toyota is also looking forward to the release of its new Tundra which will be released early next year.


And come the following year, who knows? GM might already be replaced by Toyota as the world’s largest automaker.


 

9月16日

Scion to launch Art Cars


Scion Art Car

When the Specialty Equipment Market Association show in Las Vegas opens on October 31, Scion will launch its 2006 Art Cars, to be customized by the artists David Choe, Mike Giant and invisible:man.


Toyota's youth brand will also be launching a dealership design competition where the first-place winner will win $5,000 and the chance to create the next-generation, 750-foot Scion showroom. Details can be found at the Scion Floorplan Web site.


And last but not the least Scion will launch what it calls the "Scion X Bounty Hunter" contest beginning September 10. How it works? Contestants will have to search for a missing Scion, with a chance to earn $10,000. Contestants will comprise eight teams of two, with one member from each team being a current Scion owner. The event will start at Nixon's Farm, West Friendship, Maryland, on September 10th.


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9月15日

What is an Oxygen Sensor?


Oxygen Sensor

An oxygen sensor is an electronic device, located in the exhaust system that measures the proportion of oxygen or air/fuel mixture and send the information to the powertrain control module.


In automobiles, oxygen sensors are also called O2 sensor, lambda probe, lambda sensor, lambda sond or EGO (exhaust gas oxygen) sensor. Oxygen sensors are placed in the exhaust system of a vehicle that uses petrol engines. The main purpose of oxygen sensors is to measure the oxygen remaining in the exhaust gas to allow the efficiency of the combustion process in the engine.


Most of today’s vehicles have their oxygen sensors attached on the exhaust manifold of the engine to determine the level of fuel entering the engine system. Oxygen sensors also reduced the pollutants emitted by the exhaust system.


Faulty or damaged sensors can cause your vehicles to have less gas mileage, failed emissions test, bad smell from the exhaust, and poor acceleration.


9月7日

Toyota to Release the new Yaris TS


new Toyota Yaris TS

Toyota is ready to unveil the Yaris TS at the Paris Motor Show this fall. The car boasts of a brand new four-cylinder 1.8-liter Dual VVT-i engine capable of 132 horsepower. Top speed? The little car can go up to 120 mph.


The spicy TS is equipped with front fog lights integrated into the bumper, a black mesh grille deep side skirts, chromed exhaust, new 17-inch wheels and pipes. The interior has no changes yet but the suspension has been retuned.


The undeniably hot car from Toyota will be out in the Europe market in early 2007.