9月27日
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
In 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.