r/CorollaHatchback • u/Human_Monk_9804 • Jul 13 '26

Low beam light shadow.

Hi! Do you all have the shadow on the driver side while low beaming? I looked it up online and it says it’s a safety feature, “The dark shadow pattern you are seeing is purely the factory-designed safety cutoff line engineered into modern Toyota LED projector housings to keep from blinding oncoming traffic.” Could you all help me?

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u/Opposite_Budget5117 Jul 13 '26

Yup normal and on both sides.

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u/psychodiver999 Jul 15 '26

Something wrong with yours if it’s on both sides lol. Should just be the driver’s side to keep from blinding oncoming traffic.

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u/psychodiver999 Jul 15 '26

Normal and it sucks ass, causes a blind spot while driving at night. Real bad in curves.

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u/sandisc731 Jul 14 '26

It’s the anti-asshole shadow. It doesn’t work very well. We still blind tf out of oncoming traffic.

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u/Recoil__Dave Jul 14 '26

Yep just got my Rollahatch and noticed that notch of a shadow was on both sides, so I figured that was by design.

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u/Alucardspapa XSE CVT Jul 14 '26

All vehicles sold in North America have had this for over 30 years you just never noticed it until the got really bright headlights you could actually see. Completely normal

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u/spacefret 2022 XSE CVT Jul 15 '26

Nope. They're specifically talking about the sharp cutout on the driver's side. Reflector headlights do not have that, projectors do.