jlee403

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Hey, I just recently bought a 2007 IS250, my first lexus, and I'm loving almost all of it. When I turn on my headlights, not only do my outer HID lights come on, but my inner halogen lights also come on. I really dislike the contrast between the yellow and white lighting within my headlights. Is there any way to turn off the halogen headlights from inside the car, or do I have to manually take out the halogen headlight/replace it with HID.

Also, I'd really like to change my halogen foglights to HID lights. anyone have any suggestions on what lights to buy?

completely new subject here, but what would get my is250 sounding better if i had to choose between the two? An F-Sport intake, or F-Sport exhaust?

Jetfire

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the inner lights are your parking lights. you need a 168/194 LED bulb to change the colour.

you can turn them off by disconnecting the bulb.

what colour temp are you looking for in fog lights?

jlee403

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will the 168/194 make the headlights white?
and i want to make the foglights a white color; closest to the stock hid headlights as possible.

jlee403

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And which bulb will give me a white light thats closest to the stock lexus hid headlight? 168 or 194?

Jetfire

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they're the same wedge bulb. you just have to look for one that's 4300k.

check out www.v-leds.com

brociouz has a bulb replacement guide somewhere.

this one should work

http://www.v-leds.com/Exterior-LED/C...85865-1-2.html

flektone

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wait, your fog lights are actualy bulbs, not LED's. Do they make replacement bulbs that will match HID color? Or do you need one of these LEDs? Also do you have to wire in some kind on new socket within the fogs? I dont get it

new.era.13

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^ the fogs are regular bulbs. i would recommend hid for the fogs if you want to match the color.

brociouz

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The LED parking light Jetfire linked to is ideal for matching stock 4300K HIDs. If you want it slightly brighter, http://www.v-leds.com/Interior-LED/G...04828-1-2.html also works - same color, just brighter.

To get a good match for your fogs you should find a 4300K HID kit. If you're really **** about matching, you should also do a custom projector foglight retrofit, but that takes a considerable amount of skill. Check out DDM Tuning, Xenon Depot and HIDExtra for HID kits. The last two are both forum vendors.

If you had to choose, the exhaust. I'd really suggest both though, they play well off of each other with the exhaust handling the low end, the intake the high end of the RPMs.

XenonDepot

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jlee403,

Your vehicle use s 194/168 bulb for the parking light. Here are some pics of our 194/168 LED bulbs installed in a Lexus GS:




Upgrading fogs to HID: Your vehicle uses a halogen 9006 bulb for the fog lights meaning that if you wanted to upgrade them to HID you would need to get a 9006 HID conversion kit. Your vehicle uses 4300 D4S bulbs for the low beams so I would most likely go with a 4300k HID kit in the fogs to match your stock D4S HID low beams. You can get 9006 style LED bulbs however they offer very very little useable light output.

Steve

brociouz

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^ Do you have a lumen output number for that parking light? Thanks.

flektone

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im not interested in buying an HID kit and wiring in ballasts and what not. There arent replacement bulbs out there that I can pop into the existing fog light socket and have it match my HIDs? There's gotta be something, if not totally match it there has to be a whiter light.

Synetix250

flektone, another member on this forum used piaa extreme white plus halogen bulbs for his fogs and it matched his stock hid lows pretty close. not a perfect match, but way better than anything else ive seen. try that..

brociouz

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^ No halogen bulb will match your HIDs that well. Silverstar Ultra, PIAA Xtreme White Plus and others are whiter, but far from a match IMO.

https://www.clublexus.com/forums/is-...ng-lights.html

If installing an HID kit for your fogs is not an option, perhaps you should just go yellow.

600rr05

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i just bought some 168 bulbs for the same reason i bought mine from another member on here i think he might have 1 set left if this is what your looking for..

https://www.clublexus.com/forums/is2...led-bulbs.html

flektone

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yeah thats what i was just reseaching. Ill try either PIAA'a or the Sylvania Ultra's. Do you happen to know the guy who installed the PIAA's? Id like to see a pic if possible