Levin - Trueno Questions

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"Also the light switch of a trueno has an extra mode to pop-up the lights without engaging the lights. The reason for this is obvious: when you need to change the lightbulbs or wish to ruin the streamline of your car during daylight."

Actually not that reason. The last position is not there to raise the headlamps, it is there to turn off the headlights without closing them. You can only reach that position after the lamps are ON and RAISED, so what you are doing is only changing the ON to OFF. This is to ensure the headlamps are not literally covered by ice or freezing snow, preventing them from re-opening in a place where there is winter weather.

So you can park the car in the winter, turn off the lights, and not have to worry about being unable to raise them when you get back in.

Toyota seems to lack experience with winter weather. Since this issue was known and done by other car makers we can assume Toyota fortunately copied it.

But most all of their newer cars have been made with what we in the US call "the ice cube tray". That is, in a misguided effort to lower air drag, Toyota recesses the wiper arms into a "tray" at the bottom of the windshield.

Yes, in winter weather that tray regularly fills with water melting off the front windshield and snow and freezes as the car cools, trapping the wiper arms.

That's why so many cars since the 70's have had the wipers hiding under the rear edge of the hood. Aerodynamic, but can't ice up as easily.

I guess Toyota never hired anyone from real snow country. The AE88 heater could never defrost the rear side windows in cold weather, either.

Oh wait (smack!) you're supposed to buy a LandCruiser for winter use, aren't you? <G>