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Without getting into details, how did the part-out work for you, financially? Clearly you have a lot of time and money invested in the car, and you'll never get the time (labor-value) back, but does selling the parts separately from the car help? Thanks in advance. And sorry to see all that work get reversed, it was such a fantastic car! Well done!
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I have heard from others that tried and state it dont fit, I cannot give you a concrete answer as AWD are not common in California.
I rather the vehicle went to someone and enjoyed it as its entirely but nobody was interested so I made the decision to part the vehicle out and sell some items while keeping some for my future project. Was it cost effective? I would say Neutral. Funny the used car market has gain substantially in the past year and if I held onto it a bit longer I would've came out of it in a better monetary situation but you cant predict markets. I am fine with the outcome of my decision last year.
The time has finally come, https://www.clublexus.com/forums/bui...s500-saga.html
Time to move onto the new build thread, and enjoy a new journey
I will not reply anymore on this thread. /closure
Without getting into details, how did the part-out work for you, financially? Clearly you have a lot of time and money invested in the car, and you'll never get the time (labor-value) back, but does selling the parts separately from the car help? Thanks in advance. And sorry to see all that work get reversed, it was such a fantastic car! Well done!
Time to move onto the new build thread, and enjoy a new journey
I will not reply anymore on this thread. /closure
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From: ct
No modification needed if you have JDM Light harness for the headlamps
The difference in the headlamp is oddly the Turn signal is Dual Filament in USDM but we only use the brighter part of the bulb in LED headlamps anyways, Because its a dual filament bulb the socket on the headlamp is different, thats why the need for the JDM turn signal light harness. The other wire just sits there and does nothing. My guess as to why we have this USDM harness is maybe to keep it all the same for the headlights, the Halogen version of headlamp maybe uses the dimmer portion as parking lights is my guess.
Luckily me and my friend in Japan compared photos before we sent off the headlamps and figured out the signal light harness was different because we were thinking of holding onto our respective cables to maybe lighten the package weight.
Here's some comparison photos from that time before we sent the lights to eachother
This is the USDM light socket with three wires (only picture i grabbed, didnt take more)
This is the JDM with two wires only
JDM socket hole
As for the Taillamps, they were plug and play, only difference was the side indicator light does not exist.
kinda of boring so i didnt post any pictures of it lol
The difference in the headlamp is oddly the Turn signal is Dual Filament in USDM but we only use the brighter part of the bulb in LED headlamps anyways, Because its a dual filament bulb the socket on the headlamp is different, thats why the need for the JDM turn signal light harness. The other wire just sits there and does nothing. My guess as to why we have this USDM harness is maybe to keep it all the same for the headlights, the Halogen version of headlamp maybe uses the dimmer portion as parking lights is my guess.
Luckily me and my friend in Japan compared photos before we sent off the headlamps and figured out the signal light harness was different because we were thinking of holding onto our respective cables to maybe lighten the package weight.
Here's some comparison photos from that time before we sent the lights to eachother
This is the USDM light socket with three wires (only picture i grabbed, didnt take more)
This is the JDM with two wires only
JDM socket hole
As for the Taillamps, they were plug and play, only difference was the side indicator light does not exist.
kinda of boring so i didnt post any pictures of it lol
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