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Old 01-02-18, 09:16 PM
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Hi Everyone. I currently own a 2017 Lexus RX350 F Sport AWD without triple beam. I was wondering whether or not I can change my tailights with LED indicators and my headlights with Triple beam.
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Originally Posted by jfriedman
Hi Everyone. I currently own a 2017 Lexus RX350 F Sport AWD without triple beam. I was wondering whether or not I can change my tailights with LED indicators and my headlights with Triple beam.
Just the parts would cost over $5000 and then you have labor.
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Your best bet would be to wait a few years for more RXs to show up in junk yards.
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4th gen RX triple beam headlights have been showing up on ebay already.
See plenty of them. http://ebay.to/2lOPht8
Now wiring them up, I do not know if it will be plug and play. It would be best to get wiring schematics for both setups and compare them to see if it is same or slight differences.
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Originally Posted by jfriedman
Hi Everyone. I currently own a 2017 Lexus RX350 F Sport AWD without triple beam. I was wondering whether or not I can change my tailights with LED indicators and my headlights with Triple beam.
There is one person in the NX forum went this route and it gave him TONS of issues....I believe the dealer gave up after many tries.

Beside the parts cost, labor, and issues..I will trade it in for one with the options you want.
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I was looking at the same thing and also looked on Ebay. I think you can have the housings with ballasts for about $1K. The real question is whether they're plug n play. Since they're not adaptive, so no additional motors, etc., I don't see why not. Probably some coding required through Techstream. Maybe change a wire here or there; I have the diagrams from Chilton, so should be easy to compare.

I've done this before on VW, installing HID housings (not bulbs) into non-HID equipped cars. There was some coding involved, but they were mostly plug and play.

Take all advice here with a grain of salt unless it's from someone who's actually done this before. I haven't on Lexus.
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The issue I've seen is that it will throw an error code on the dash; which I'm guessing Techstream can resolve.
Finding out how to actually do this will require lots of work though.

I'd like to do the same as well.
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