prius headlight bulb too bright

With HID, the change from low beam to high beam is caused by a mechanical shutter which adjusts how high the light pattern is cast. The brightness of the light does not change between low and high.

 

Sounds like the highbeam is stuck on and there is nothing wrong with your low beam bulb.

 

I don't think you understand how HID lights work, as your post makes no sense. Refer post #2 by Patrick.

 

I am pretty sure I do understand, but thanks for your concern. I'm attaching a video that should help clear it up for you or to anyone else. While HID headlamps have been standard equipment on many cars since the 90's they are still new to many. Note that not all cars have 'bi-level' style lamps - that is where one HID bulb, with one filament provides the lighting for both your low beams and high beams.

 

There was no sound on that video so wasn't especially able to understand what the guy was explaining. But from what I could see, he seemed to be showing how high beam is achieved by the moving of the shutter. There is only one lamp, and the change from low beam to high beam is caused by a mechanical shutter which adjusts how high the light pattern is cast, as demonstrated in the video.

As far as I understand, if the lamp is not "bi-xenon", it is low beam only.

I would be interested if you could point me to information of the dual lamp HID's (i. e. a discrete lamp for each of the high and low beams) to which you allude.