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Old 12-02-06 | 07:36 PM
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i have 98 GS 300 and looking to turn my fog light from the white to yellow bulbs but seems every set of bulbs i buy don't last any sugestions?
Old 12-02-06 | 07:55 PM
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instead of buying all the bulbs, why not change the housing to yellow?
Old 12-02-06 | 08:22 PM
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how can u change the housing to yellow? Is it expensive, do we have to swap the whole fog lamp...
Old 12-02-06 | 10:36 PM
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how can u change the housing to yellow? Is it expensive, do we have to swap the whole fog lamp...
You have to buy a whole new set of fog lamps. You can get them from Carson for like $150 or so.
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Originally Posted by leksusGS15
how can u change the housing to yellow? Is it expensive, do we have to swap the whole fog lamp...
yes, the housing has a yellow lens so the light output is soft yellow. you can get them from carson, very good price
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any chance the GS fogs could be adapted onto a 98+ LS400?

i coulda sworn i read somewhere that the LX projector fogs fit


otherwise its just a set of 3000k HIDs and be happy for me
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see if you can hold off for a while... i have a 98 gs300 too with the clear fogs and i ordered some 3500k HID bulbs for them to see how much brighter they are over hid fogs with the yellow housing.

will post photos later.
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im going to check out carson and see how much they run. but il hold off another week before buying them to see if teh 3500k hid bulbs work out for you then i might just try that. thank
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There are HID lighting kits that are yellow. 3k, colorshifts from white to green to yellow when settled in. They look really good.

I wholesale them in Canada. I don't know where in the US to get them tho.
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Why not try some yellow colored film over the plastic lens?
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Yellow film doesn't look that great.

i tried it with my high beams and it was...ehh..so so.

Maybe i'm just not a good tinter.
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Why not try some yellow colored film over the plastic lens?
coz' if you want a clean look, the yellow lens inside make it look "cleaner" imho
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Originally Posted by rominl
coz' if you want a clean look, the yellow lens inside make it look "cleaner" imho
Henry- which do you think will be brighter?

3500k HID for fogs with clear housing or 4300k HID for fogs with the yellow lens inside it?

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Henry- which do you think will be brighter?

3500k HID for fogs with clear housing or 4300k HID for fogs with the yellow lens inside it?

i would vote for 3500k hid. the lens after all does some filtering imho? just my guess
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My car is not a GS 430 therefore i don't have HIDs headlamps... Does that mean i cannot put yellow fog lamp light. Does GS have standard HID fog lamps?


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