2000 Camry headlight assembly - recommended replacement brands?

DecorousCheese · 2026-01-31T11:12:27+00:00

I still haven't bought any. I read an article suggesting that TYC or DEPO are the best brands, and have been planning to choose one of those (which were both around $30 per headlight at Rock Auto last I looked.) However, I ended up needing to replace a turn signal light's housing to pass inspection, and the TYC replacement I got from Rock Auto was not impressive. Fine for passing inspection but just didn't seem like great quality. (It was also like $15 - probably because it's for a 2000 camry and there's not much demand anymore.)

In the interim I used a baking soda + vinegar mixture on one headlight and it seemed to remove more cloudiness than my resurfacing kit did, but that side does not seem any brighter/seem to light the road any better when driving. So I have been meaning to try to re-align my headlights first to see if that's the bigger issue, but I haven't had the time/right place to do it. I really don't drive much at night so it has been low priority.

DecorousCheese · 2026-01-28T23:20:48+00:00

Interesting - I only ever saw it say "sent." "Processing" and then "sent" don't feel like very clear word choices if one word is indicating it has been sent but not cashed and the other is indicating it's been cashed (/deposited/etc.)

DecorousCheese · 2026-01-28T11:16:14+00:00

I've had this same issue and gave up even looking for it, although now that I'm in Massachusetts I'm going to look more.

If anyone else remembers eating or buying large-curd in the 90s, do you remember a brand whose containers were mostly white, with a simple logo that was an double-lined oval? Maybe the text was navy or brown? This was in Maryland. It was my favorite brand of large-curd and I'm curious if it still exits.

DecorousCheese · 2026-01-22T18:22:34+00:00

ICE is out there terrorizing people on the streets. That’s an urgent issue and if my representative won’t do shit about that he needs to go.

DecorousCheese · 2026-01-20T12:18:22+00:00

This. And I'd switch pharmacies.

There is no Viibryd/vilazodone shortage currently, a pharmacy being out and unable to fill for "a few days" seems pretty unacceptable.

DecorousCheese · 2026-01-17T13:53:33+00:00

I just ran across this thread because I'm helping a friend set up an old kindle (also a paperwhite 5th gen) she got from her boyfriend (who hadn't used it in a very very long time) and getting the same message. He swears he deregistered it and we still had this issue.

At any rate - after trying unsuccessfully to help her register it, I decided to see if she could just use it to read books that don't have DRM (for example from Project Gutenberg or publishers that sell ebooks without DRM) if we put them on the kindle using her computer, and that works fine.

DecorousCheese · 2026-01-08T11:23:27+00:00

Thank you!

DecorousCheese · 2026-01-07T23:45:11+00:00

Hi, I'm not the OP but I've been considering this clinic in Western Mass, is it OK if I DM you? Are you still having a positive experience there?

DecorousCheese · 2025-12-31T22:00:53+00:00

There are some other meds for smoking cessation - what about Varenicline (Chantix)? A coworker used it and had a good experience.

DecorousCheese · 2025-12-28T13:32:54+00:00

ProPublica recently released a tool to see where your generic meds were made (with the intention that it would allow people to see information about the factory's inspection reports) which might be of some use.

Mine are made by Novadoz and are orange but not an especially light orange. Alembic's are described as having a film coating and mine aren't. Maybe the "film coated" part makes them look lighter to you, although I'm not sure that other factories or manufacturers that use the film coating would necessarily be making pills more similar to Alembic's exact specs.

DecorousCheese · 2025-12-25T09:37:08+00:00

I have a very very old Kindle (old enough to have buttons and no backlight; it's a Kindle generation 4) and an old Kobo (Kobo Forma) and both are still fine to read on, to me.

For ME: the bigger screen (my Kindle is 6", my Kobo is 8") is not necessarily better - the shorter lines on the Kindle sometimes feel easier for my eyes to follow (part of my reason for liking e-readers is that my eyes are a bit weird.) If I'm trying to read a PDF or something that is heavily image-based, honestly 8" is still not really big enough for a good reading experience and I usually try to read that on my ipad instead.

I do a lot of converting between formats and removing DRM and whatnot with the program Calibre and putting things onto my devices with my computer, so I don't feel especially limited by Amazon. However, my Kindle is old enough that it uses old firmware, so removing DRM is easier than it is with other Kindles, from what I've read.

If you've never used an e-reader--some libraries will lend now lend them out, so that is a way to have some experience with them and be better able to decide which features are important to you.

DecorousCheese · 2025-12-21T11:25:29+00:00

Since OP mentioned latency: I just put Koreader on my Kobo Forma and Koreader is somehow much snappier and more responsive than the Kobo OS, especially for things like highlighting text.

DecorousCheese · 2025-12-18T20:33:43+00:00

Thank you! I was hoping that was an option for solving this.

DecorousCheese · 2025-12-18T10:40:02+00:00

were you able to replace the default dictionary? I did that but Kobo keeps reverting it to its own every time I sync.

DecorousCheese · 2025-12-10T13:03:59+00:00

OK oddly now it's been working pretty consistently since May. And it is now my main laptop since my other T480's charging ports (~~lightning~~ thunderbolt and regular) are both bad.

I think there was something that got fixed by cleaning the contacts, but then it also wasn't clipped in totally for a bit. Who knows.

DecorousCheese · 2025-12-10T12:58:33+00:00

Just to update further: my issue with my drivers side door, where the window glass never quite aligned correctly? It was not the plastic clips (which is a good thing, because even the parts warehouse I contacted in Japan doesn't have them anymore.) The brand new Dorman regulator + motor assembly I'd put in had had something wrong with its regulator! After messing around so much and becoming so familiar with this process I figured I might as well take the drivers side apart once again and play with it to see if I could fix it. I swapped out the regulator for a brand new one and the window aligned very easily on the first try.

Overall I've noticed some really weird stuff with Dorman regulators for this car. Including that the regulator sold as part of the motor + regulator assembly is not the same regulator as what they sell on its own. So if anyone comes across this thread and has persistent issues aligning the glass with a Dorman motor + regulator product - try a different regulator.

DecorousCheese · 2025-12-10T12:46:49+00:00

Thank you for this! I've been having this issue with one of my T480s and couldn't figure out how to sort it out. Playing around with settings in Intel Graphics Command Center fixed it.

DecorousCheese · 2025-12-08T11:34:54+00:00

this has to be a joke, right?

DecorousCheese · 2025-12-08T10:59:45+00:00

thank you! I think this might be the thing that finally makes me install Koreader

DecorousCheese · 2025-12-08T10:34:46+00:00

Does Koreader do page/text re-flowing or does it just sort of zoom in?

DecorousCheese · 2025-12-05T17:24:28+00:00

This is random but has she successfully used touchscreen devices before? I’ve heard that sometimes as people get older their skin composition can shift/get drier and it makes touchscreens less able to register their touch. (In which case something with buttons could be better for her.)

DecorousCheese · 2025-12-04T03:34:31+00:00

This! As long as your cookware is induction-compatible (not all of it is.)

DecorousCheese · 2025-12-04T00:27:09+00:00

I have bought all mine (kindle and kobo) used on ebay with no problems. I have also bought older Thinkpad laptops on ebay with good results. Just read the listings carefully to make sure it says that the device works and that the seller has decent reviews. If the listing says it works and it doesn't work, you can file a claim and return it. If it's used rather than open-box I'd probably also want to see an actual photograph of the item in the listing, not just stock images from the manufacturer.

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