So I am selling these lights off my 93 lexus with 6k HID's. I put them for local sale on craigslist but only had responses from guys with newer 96-99 models. I was asked if these were able to some how be installed on newer models with little to no body work. I have no idea so i decided to ask here.........

 

I'm just gonna say if you have to ask then probably not.

 

96 was still the 2ES. You're referring to 97+

 

it was the 97's.......and yes i had to ask because i didn't know. I need to find some 93 guys instead.

 

what this really reveals is the the second gen es 300 [97+] people really are jealous of the first gen
: )

 

Thats because our year is the one with QUAD projectors that have excellent cutoffs with HIDs installed

 

^THAT^ i want those headlight, lol. has anyone evey tried to fit them on a 97+? mabey i'll give it a shot.

 

those headlights , are they even off a 93? they lookdifferent than my 93s in a few respects

 

Hmm, never payed attention to the revisions of the headlights but they're identical to my 96 version. The flash probably lit up the bulb inside to make the entire thing orange

 

I had them on my 93 so yes they do fit....I hate doing business on craigslist! I had one guy come out and offer me 50.00. And because his english was poor, he wrote me an I O U note.

 

Wow those are sharp, I want them I my 2000. I was not aware of how much better the earlier ES headlights were.

 

Yeah, I still don't understand why Lexus would put projector headlights as standard equipment in the 2ES and not the 3ES, other than cost saving I guess?? Regardless, this is one attribute of the 2ES that makes me a jealous 3ES owner!

 

I think at the time the idea of both projects and regular halogen housing was not very commonplace, so with the addition of the DRLs in the 97+ they probably just stuck with halogen housing since I don't really see DRLs in projectors.

 

If you want something better you guys should look at LXMN's retro fit for the 97+.
Here --> https://www.clublexus.com/forums/es3...ofit-pics.html

If you guys ask if the 92-96 fit on the 97+ they don't so try doing a retrofit instead.

 

Yeah, you're right. Mine's a '93 as well and it doesn't have those three horizontal lines across the lenses. I thought those were on '95 and '96 only.