Thanks for the compliment!

 

I actually had some 9005 LEDs in place of the high beam bulbs that I took out. These used a decoder. So I simply wired the new LEDs to the decoders.

When I switch on the high beams the new LEDs come on. I rarely use high beams. I get people flashing me with the regular headlight HIDs on lol. They are so bright by themselves.

 

Thanks StillLine! Yours look great as well. Thanks for sharing what LEDs you got. They came fast from Chicago. I thought I would hate the yellow, but you don't notice it unless you are trying to look under that chrome bar when car is off. If I try to paint black over it, it probably would not be bright.

 

I want to wire these up so they are on when the car is running. Is there a source of switched power under the hood or do I have to grab it from inside the car?

 

I got the same ones. They cost less and fit perfectly on the SC430. I have had mine for 6 months and have had no trouble. I hooked my up with a buss fuse piggyback to radio 2 fuse found under the passenger side kick plate.

 

So igorxx, does the way you hooked them up accomplish what bt430 is wanting to do? In other words, are your LED lights switched with the ignition where they are on any time the car is running and off when you turn the key off?

 

I used that method and it worked just like I needed it to looks great!

Thanks!

 

Thanks to everybody on this thread for the help!

 

So I got mine today. I have a 2007. However, I don't think there's enough surface area to attach the adhesive to. 80% of the adhesive won't touch anything due to the slits being so narrow.

 

Went ahead and installed them today. Hoping for the best with the adhesive. Doesn't seem like a real kosher way to mount them.

The wiring is stealth. You can see it anywhere except where it sneaks into the engine compartment fuse box.

I tied it to the IG2 relay so that the DRLs would always come on when the ignition key is in the on position.

I measured the current draw. Amazingly they only take 0.81 amps or about 10 watts. That's for both combined. Amazing they are so bright for so little draw.

 

Some of you have asked about fuses. You're asking the wrong question. If you want them to come on when the ignition switch is turned on, you need to hook it up to a relay that comes on when the switch is turned on. I chose the IG2 ignition relay. It's the single black relay in the engine compartment fuse box. Not the engine compartment relay box which has only relays on the drivers side, but the fuse box on the passenger side.

The lead you want is the upper right one if you were standing in front of the car facing it.

To be sure, use multimeter. With it you can find ground, 12 volt supply, and the lead to the ignition module. The fourth one measures 370 something ohms which you shouldn't use. For some reason, the one you do want measures 79 K Ohms. No doubt that's the the ignition resistance path to the other side of ground.

Since the draw is only .8 amps, don't worry about increasing the fuse size which is also in the same compartment.

 

Lookin' good sorka! I used a 90 degree bracket and ultimately the lights are attached to the bracket and the bracket is attached to the underside of the chrome bar. It's hard to see in the attached photo but if I did it again, I would have shaped the brackets so the lights would tuck up a bit closer to the chrome bars. No big deal though because they look just fine when they are on. Yours should be OK because the adhesive on the back side of the lights is very strong.

 

https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sc-...og-lights.html

Checkout post #12.

 

Seems like the light is thrown in all direction..how can this be a fog or drivng/spot light? What are the beam characteristics?

 

Yes, the light is dispersed broadly without focus or beam. As such, these work exactly as intended as daytime running lights and are visible from nearly any angle.