What’s the latest and greatest OEM style headlight bucket replacement?

My headlight buckets are in really bad shape. OEM style is fine but...

Genuine Toyota is $348.29 each.

The cheap Chinese ones are $90 each.

I don’t want to pay $767 total for genuine but I don’t want crap either.

Any recommendations? I’d like tinted lenses if possible.

 

Try cleaning up what you have with cerakote headlight product.

Then find the thread by @crashnburn80 on the ultimate headlight upgrade in the 2nd gen forum. Assuming you actually want usable light.

 

This won't clean up well, not to mention I dropped a BULB down in there and it won't come out unless the bucket is removed....

 

You can definitely find a better deal even for OEM than that price. What it sounds like is you’re seeing the MSRP for the assemblies but guaranteed if you search your nearest Toyota dealership parts website it will have a ‘discount’ from that MSRP. I just paid $450 for new OeM headlights (still not cheap, but better than $700+) by searching my local go-to Toyota dealerships website, and this is pretty common with most dealership parts website. Plus I saved on shipping by just going an picking them up.

 

Here’s like of a picture of what I’m talking about. When I bought mine they were even cheaper than this but like almost all dealership websites have this kind of discount:

 

I ordered OEMs from a parts website and if I recall they were about $217 each and I want to say $75 shipping. They both came from a Toyota dealer in Iowa and shipped in separate boxes. I ended up sending one back twice because the mounting bracket was broken. You know something doesn't sound right when the box rattles before it is opened. They did pay for return shipping in both cases. As fragile as the headlights are they were packaged poorly with very minimal packaging material.
My local Toyota dealer was over $300, didn't have them and the parts person was hinting at some type of retrofitted headlight.

 

I bought a pair off of RockAuto.com a few years ago. They weren’t very expensive at all. Still holding up great.

 

Haven't got around to installing them yet, but I will before heading back to AZ and NM in mid November.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/headlights-for-a-2006.792122/#post-28366807

 

If you’re not in a rush, I’ll have a set of OEM 05-11 units available in a week or two.

Anymore pics of your headlights?

 

Is the burn spot because of the DRL?