The headlights (lowbeams and highbeams) are LED, there are no bulbs to be replaced, or "upgraded".

The LED headlights in my Corolla are plenty bright and I imagine the ones in the Signia are at least equivalent, if not better.

There is mention in the owner's manual of a headlight aiming/adjustment procedure, however, I imagine that the headlights should be properly aimed out of the factory.

 

What about the DRL? Anyway to get them brighter? My concern has always been night driving where my eyes don't pick up as much light like before.

 

You want to turn down the lighting inside your vehicle down really dim. If the dashboard backlighting is too bright, it will cause your irises to constrict, making your pupils smaller, which in turn limits the amount of light that enters your eyes.

Similar to how your pupils get smaller when you shine a bright light at them.

Making your exterior lights brighter, just causes extra glare to other drivers in front of and approaching you.

 

I was thinking the exact opposite! Just commented today how bright our Signia's headlights are. Nighttime driving is so much easier now.

 

Yes, I also think the headlights are very good. As someone else mentioned ensure the dash lights and the display brightness are turned down.

 

The XLE has a headlight “leveling“ dial on the left dash. Dealer never pointed it out. Mine was aimed at it lowest aiming point. Once I found the dial and raised them they were great.

 

Where on the left dash is this dial? Is it button or touch spot? Does any know if the 23 Limited also has this ability to aim the headlights?

 

I think the brightness is just fine. I haven’t had any isues in my Limited. They do get dirty though, especially in the snow, so I have to clean them often. What I do get is a lot of comments from people that my headlights aren’t on. At least 3 times people have approached to tell me I’ve been driving with only my fog lights on. I guess because they are mounted so low. When I tell them the car has no fog lights and those are the headlights they are always surprised. They thought the headlights would pop up where the running lights are. so no brightness issue, but certainly a position issue.

 

IIHS just rated the 2025 Signia as a Top Safety Pick, so I don't know about any "issues". It's the safest vehicle I've ever owned, that is for certain. I feel like I'm riding in a bank vault when I'm driving it.

2025 Toyota Crown Signia 4-door SUV

2025 Toyota Crown Signia 4-door SUV - midsize SUV

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I feel like I'm riding in a bank vault when I'm driving it.

2025 Toyota Crown Signia 4-door SUV

2025 Toyota Crown Signia 4-door SUV - midsize SUV

www.iihs.org

@dklanecky, perhaps it's all that cash in your wallet.

 

Picked up the Limited today and while driving it at night find the lighting adequate. Wouldn't mind it if the DRL was brighter though. Overall, happy with it.

 

DRL’s are daytime running lights. If you have your light switch set to “Auto”, your headlights will turn on when it gets dark outside. The LED headlights are much brighter than your DRL’s. The LED headlights on my Crown are very bright, so I’m sure they are bright on your Signia as well.

 

 

The headlight manual adjustment is only on the XLE the Limited has automatic adjusting headlights.

I think the headlight are pretty good, I don't think there's a lot that could be done to make them better as low as they are on the front of the car. The lights on our Tundra are much better because they are about four feet high.

 

I hate vehicles with high mounted headlights, like Tacomas, 4Runners, and Sequoias/Tundras. Especially when they mount auxiliary off-road lighting as well (super bright foglights, LED lightbars, etc) and use them on public roads.

 

I think the brightness is good enough...but I wish I could point them a little higher with the headlight leveling dial (got an XLE).

I traded a Volvo XC40 for the CS -- the headlights on that model were way better than those on the Signia. The XC40 also had fog lights, so when you add those to the equation then I would have to say that the XC40 blows the Signia out of the water.

 

I think the brightness is good enough...but I wish I could point them a little higher with the headlight leveling dial (got an XLE).

I traded a Volvo XC40 for the CS -- the headlights on that model were way better than those on the Signia. The XC40 also had fog lights, so when you add those to the equation then I would have to say that the XC40 blows the Signia out of the water.

You can adjust them up under the hood quite easily. Philips screw driver turn each side an even number of turns. Not too many. Point lights at wall at knight and turn screws.

 

My 2025 Crown XLE says the headlights adjust automatically. It has no dial.

My 2025 Crown XLE says the headlights adjust automatically. It has no dial.

Crown Signia XLE.

 

Yea, being new here, my mistake. Too many differences between Crown and Crown Signia.

 

Another fan of the adjustable settings on my XLE. It took a night or two to get them where I am happy with them....keeping in mind that any heavy loads would require them to be lowered a tad. We had something similar on our Tundra Platinum which I used regularly when towing.

 

Not sure how I posted twice interface here seems to be a bit confusing.

 

They are bright enough but I have to say the ones on my 2024 Venza that I traded in on it, and the ones on my 2016 Prius are brighter. Fun fact, the 2013 Prius C I used to own I think were the brightest high beams oh ever experienced and they were incandescent.

 

IIHS disagrees with your opinion, but thanks for letting us know what you think.

IIHS just rated the 2025 Signia as a Top Safety Pick, so I don't know about any "issues". It's the safest vehicle I've ever owned, that is for certain. I feel like I'm riding in a bank vault when I'm driving it.

2025 Toyota Crown Signia 4-door SUV

2025 Toyota Crown Signia 4-door SUV - midsize SUV

www.iihs.org

I have adjusted the headlights using the dashboard leveling dial. The headlights are still inadequate. They don’t have enough range or spread.

 

It would have been much better if they had put the headlights up higher like on the crown sedan. So much of a vehicles exterior comes down to design over function.

 

Yes, and put foglights where the headlights are now, or a little lower than where the headlights are now.

 

We also have a 2018 Highlander. I think the Signia has better headlights than the Highlander. I guess personal preference.

 

I agree the placement of the headlights is terrible. And my driver side headlight has 2 dead spots in it that make dips in the road look like animals coming across the road at night. Frustrating. I'll try adjusting the lights with the screws since I have the Crown Signia XLE model. Light redesign is needed to compensate for the low placement.

 

Are you aware that you can adjust the level of the headlights with a thumb turn control to the left of your steering wheel? There's nothing you can do about the beam pattern. I had a Venza, and on Venza chatl lines lots of people are upset about a little dark spot on the upper left part of the beam pattern I have both headlights. I suspect they're there so when the headlights are being alone do you merge the two dark spots from the two separate headlights to bring them in to synchronicity. So sounds like Toyota projector headlamps can have some quirky beam patterns.

 

Headlight lenses are designed in certain patterns of light dispersion to focus light where it is needed most with other areas where light would cause issues with oncoming traffic. I have a 2018 Highlander and those headlight are as bright as my Signia.

 

Those of you adjusting your headlights to aim higher may actually cause your car to fail a safety inspection. Here in New England (I've lived in MA, NH & ME), when they pull your car into the inspection bay, there are typically lines on a white wall in front of the car and if your headlights go higher than that, the car fails.

They do this because highlights aimed upward can blind oncoming drivers. It's also pretty rude to do this to those drivers.

 

I have the same issue, and have found that turning on the automatic high beams really helps.

 

This is the first vehicle I have owned where auto high-beam function is responsive and actually useful. It activates every time I would and dims them as needed. Headlights are very good overall.

 

My 2018 Highlander's headlights aren't as responsive as my Signia.

 

I'm finding them to be adequate , if you turn on the auto button it will go to brights on a dark road and dim down if an oncoming car is seen- pretty cool.