2010 Prius V headlight question

The inside one is high beam halogen. The outside two are low beam LED lights. One LED light isn't powerful enough so they incorporated two. Sadly LED's although efficient aren't as strong as HID's

 

Actually it's 3 LEDs each side to make up the beam. You only see 2 projectors per side. Each one has a LED bulb behind it. However, there is also a 3rd LED light which is a traditional reflector type located above those two projector lights. Each one has different beam pattern and all 3 combined to to make a one beam and required 55W or so output.

 

Can anyone email me a link or instructions on how to get the RH / pass headlamp assy out?
Trying to replace the projection H11 bulb on the right side and my hands are too large to put it in correctly. 2010 Prius II

I searched forum and cant find instructions for the 2010. I removed the two screws in the top and the plastic clip - but there has to be more holding it in there.
I removed the bolt to the air intake also.

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Does anyone know if these bulbs are serviceable? What if an LED goes out, do you replace the whole assembly?

 

All I know is that the manual section dealing with headlight bulb replacement just says to let the dealer do LED replacement. Also, just from what I've read: the LED headlights are supposed to last longer.

My Canadian touring model is similar to the V, as far as having the LED's.

 

I read that too. Anyone approach the dealer yet and see how much a replacement LED is? I'm thinking this will be $$$$$$$

 

I'd bet it's in the low hundreds per LED element (there are 3 on each side). No worries though - LED lifetimes are measured in tens of thousands of hours. Even if you use them all the time, you'll probably have several hundred thousand miles on the car, if not more, before they approach that lifetime. Unless you use your car to illuminate the exterior of your house all night or something.

 

I have found them to be very good. The pattern spread is less intense than my wife's TSX, but just as wide.

 

Very cool ... where did this come from?

 

My wife got a 2010 package V several months back. I drove it the other night and found it hard to see with only the lowbeam headlights on...High beam has plenty of light...Is there a way to put brighter LEDs in the headlamp? I have very good eyesight but driving this car on a dimly lit road with only low beams seems dangerous.

 

Strange ... I find the LED low beams on my V to be amazingly bright and highly functional.

 

That hasn't been my experience, and I do not much like driving at night (advanced decrepitude ;->, way too many NM drunk drivers). They are better in comparison to other cars I've owned. But then the previous time I bought a car was in 2000, other contemporary cars may be better.

The range is a little limited, but the V is supposed to be self-leveling in this regard. There is also an old thread here about manually adjusting the headlights.

In Europe there is (or used to be?) a dashboard adjustment to manually raise and lower the light angle. Set too high, and you'll get a lot of oncoming cars flashing at you.

 

Thanks, I'll try to adjust and see if that helps but they really seemed dim...I was driving on a back road with no street lights...It could be that the LEDs just don't shoot out as far as other types of lights...Appreciate all of your thoughts.

 

The individual headlight assemblies must be correctly adjusted manually, refer to post #15 of this thread:

http://priuschat.com/forums/gen-iii...aded-lights-getting-me-down-2.html#post966977

The auto leveling feature only compensates for changes in load, a proper manual adjustment is required as a baseline.

Probably most of the LED equipped cars did leave the factory with the lights correctly adjusted but quite a few of us received cars with the lights adjusted far to low to be safe.

 

I was curious so I asked the Parts guy at my local dealer. He could not find a part for just the LED's themselves. He thinks that you have to replace the entire assembly, which is basically the entire headlight. The price on that part is $800. Of course, the high beam is just a standard halogen bulb.

Are they covered by the standard or extended warranties if they burn out? Normally, light bulbs are not covered, but these are some pretty expensive lights and if they are supposed to last 15 years, but burn out in 3 or 4 then do I have to pay $800 to get one replaced?