'98 LS w/ HID lights?
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My '98 was not advertised as having the HID lights, even on the Lexus CPO window sticker included from when the prior owner bought the car a couple of years ago. But the headlights are wonderfully bright, and look like projector units I've seen on some newer cars. And there's a little sticker about "warning- high voltage" on one of the units. Am I correct in assuming they are HIDs?
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My '98 was not advertised as having the HID lights, even on the Lexus CPO window sticker included from when the prior owner bought the car a couple of years ago. But the headlights are wonderfully bright, and look like projector units I've seen on some newer cars. And there's a little sticker about "warning- high voltage" on one of the units. Am I correct in assuming they are HIDs?
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you should be able to tell the difference between xenons and halogens. while driving at night, get next to someone with standard lights. if their light on the ground looks yellow and yours looks bright white, you ahve xenons.
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During a conversation with a Lexus salesman in the fall of 1997, he complained that some of the arriving 1998 LS400s did not have HID headlights. The HID option was so cheap ($500) compared to the approximately $54,000 base list price that no one wanted a 98 LS400 without them.
The salesman was not happy about HID not being standard. But he had to move the cars without HID and appropriate incentives were offered.
The non-HID headlights on the 98 LS400 are really very good and infinitely better than the awful headlights that came on the 1990 LS400 we owned for 13 1/2 years.
If the headlights on your 1998 LS400 are not HID, I doubt if converting them to HID will provide all that much more light. Heck, the halogen headlights on a friend's Mercedes are every bit as good - maybe better - than the HID lights on my 2000 LS400.
The salesman was not happy about HID not being standard. But he had to move the cars without HID and appropriate incentives were offered.
The non-HID headlights on the 98 LS400 are really very good and infinitely better than the awful headlights that came on the 1990 LS400 we owned for 13 1/2 years.
If the headlights on your 1998 LS400 are not HID, I doubt if converting them to HID will provide all that much more light. Heck, the halogen headlights on a friend's Mercedes are every bit as good - maybe better - than the HID lights on my 2000 LS400.
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My 98 has the HIDs, but I didn't even notice until I saw the build sheet a few days ago. The color is right, but they aren't all that bright. The high-beams, though, which are halogens, are excellent.
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If you wanna find out if you have HID's (Xenons) just look at the front of your headlight if it said "D2R" then you have HID's if it said "HB4" then you have the standard halogen.
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Interesting. Didn't occur to me that the lights would lose significant brightness with age. Do the bulbs lose brightness, or does some capacitor lose capacity, or the mirrors cloud, or what? The plastic lenses are still pretty clear (though I do plan to wet sand and buff part of one light that looks like someone spilled acid on it).
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Interesting. Didn't occur to me that the lights would lose significant brightness with age. Do the bulbs lose brightness, or does some capacitor lose capacity, or the mirrors cloud, or what? The plastic lenses are still pretty clear (though I do plan to wet sand and buff part of one light that looks like someone spilled acid on it).
Now with the '04... I can see better at night then during the day
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