so - it is this time of the year again, when some little things need fixing. My car - Toyota Avensis T25 2006 - had its first repair (Injectors). It took the official car repair shop practically 3 weeks to figure out why I had so many cases when the engine went in fail-safe mode. They changed the Electric-Valve, the Rail and because it still went into fail-safe mode, finally the Injectors.
Of course they wanted me to pay for all of the parts, even though it was only the Injectors that were broken. Hence - I refused to pay for the Rail and the Electric Valve. After quite some negotiation, they accepted my reasons:
I don't pay for anything that is not necessary. The Rail and the Electric Valve are not broken, put them back in.

In the end it seemed to complicated apparently to change the electric valve - and they left it in, but put back the old rail. My car now flies again.

On the other hand - my better half told me that when using my car, she barely sees at night. I had that checked by the official car repair-shop from Toyota, and they acknowledged that these needed to be replaced, for 1320,- Euro *lol*
I thanked them and told them that I won't pay that sum for something, that apparently is a known construction flaw of the Xenon headlights of that model. It is a very known problem in Germany, however Toyota seems to handle this differently in France - the country where people are tagged second class citizen and they don't have to be "service" friendly.
I had expected Toyota to at least participate for the headlight parts, or at least send me new reflectors and lenses. They didn't.

Looking for alternatives I noticed that some folks had replaced the entire head-light units of their same cars with H7/H1 models. That's what I did. Ordered a bunch of headlights (for my car), and I finally found the time to replace these. Took me 3 hours for both sides (and I did not even take the original parts from Toyota - they were almost as expensive as the Xenon parts). So - for 200 euro incl. H7 bulbs (I could use all the other old ones from the Xenon lights) + 3 hours hands-on, I can now see at night again.