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My 2005 ES330 has HID lights installed, however, the other lights are "old school" yellow.
Could someone help me with what types of bulbs I need to buy so they match my HID lights in color, please?
Also, I've read somewhere that some LEDs might cause dashboard showing something's wrong. Has anyone had similar issues? Park and long lights Fog LIghts
There shouldn't be any issues running a 5000 LED setup in the highs and the fogs. Personally, I wouldn't use HID's in the high beams. Use LED. HID ballasts have to warm up and take anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes to reach optimal light output.
But, for what its worth, there is a reason they left Halogen bulbs in the high beams. 3500k-4000k (the color temp of regular headlights) gives off the brightest light while consuming the least amount of energy.
In my fogs I have 3000k Yellow HID's, in my highs I have standard bulbs and in my lows I have 6000K HIDs. It's all preference really.
(SYLVANIA 921 ZEVO LED)
After it was installed, I wasn't able to push the socket through so I could lock it, but this is not all. After I tried to pull it out, the LED couldn't go out anymore, it seemed as if it was too big (not sure how it went in so easy).
Anyhow, it dropped inside the plastic mask. Is there a way to take it out? It is not visible from the outside so it is somewhere in between.
Also, I found out which type of low beam I use. It is Sylvania D2S HID Xenarc.
Few more questions:
1. What should be high beam light bulb that should go with my low lights? I can only see SYLVANIA 9005 zXe Halogen which is advertised as HID attitude. Is there HID version for high beam lights?
2. For the backup light I went with SYLVANIA 921 ZEVO LED Mini Bulb, but these obviously are no good fit, maybe SYLVANIA 921 SYL LED Mini Bulb?
For 921 aka T10 bulbs which location(s) are you replacing? To get the bulb out try a neodymium magnet on a string or a vacuum cleaner might work.
Thanks a lot!!!
Could the above LEDs be used as both low beam and high beam?
It is this one. It fell somewhere in between i.e. I cannot see it from the outside.
Last edited by mirekti; Feb 20, 2018 at 01:56 PM.
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Your low beams use D2S xenon bulbs you could try something like a Philips D2S bulb but you won't get much better light output unless your current bulbs have been used a lot and are near the end of their life. If you want much brighter low beams you'll have to replace the bulbs and ballasts.
The section you circled that's the signal light? Is that a dual mode bulb meaning it has a low/high brightness function?
Your low beams use D2S xenon bulbs you could try something like a Philips D2S bulb but you won't get much better light output unless your current bulbs have been used a lot and are near the end of their life. If you want much brighter low beams you'll have to replace the bulbs and ballasts.
The section you circled that's the signal light? Is that a dual mode bulb meaning it has a low/high brightness function?
Well, I am not so much into extreme brightness.
My D2S is rated 6000K so I am trying to get similar color temperature, and brightness is of less importance.
This is what my lights look like.
None of the above have "CANBUS" feature meaning if the car looks for a certain load you'll get the lamp out warning in the dash. Don't buy LEDs with CANBUS feature they use a built in resistor and get extremely hot. I'd simply remove the lamp out bulb in the cluster.
I've bought and used many auto LEDs, in general they are much less reliable than the stock bulbs. Doesn't matter what vendor/brand.
Thanks for all the effort in the above posts.
I figured it out. I was trying to install 921 instead of 194 so I went to store and purchased Sylvania Zevo type 194.
This is what it looks now:
And this is before:
So what's left are the high beam lights. BTW I see the kit comes with some kind of box. Do I let it hang?
I know have two 921 LED bulbs somewhere in the passenger side headlight housing. Is it hard to remove the whole headlight? I would try to take them out of there.
I'll probably keep the signal light bulb as it is as I only wanted to match the low beam lights color.
Have not removed a headlight housing on your car so don't know what's involved. You're supposed to have amber in the corner light by law but doubt anyone will notice or care. The driver boxes people zip tie them to something not a big deal. Some headlight LED bulbs are self contained no external driver box.
There are so many choices of LED bulbs it boggles the mind, if you're not sure it is best to buy from places like Xenon Depot, Diode Dynamics places that are in the U.S. and support their products.
Does your car have daytime running lights and if so are they half brightness using the high beam bulbs? If so many LED bulbs will not work properly they will flicker.
Have not removed a headlight housing on your car so don't know what's involved. You're supposed to have amber in the corner light by law but doubt anyone will notice or care. The driver boxes people zip tie them to something not a big deal. Some headlight LED bulbs are self contained no external driver box.
There are so many choices of LED bulbs it boggles the mind, if you're not sure it is best to buy from places like Xenon Depot, Diode Dynamics places that are in the U.S. and support their products.
Does your car have daytime running lights and if so are they half brightness using the high beam bulbs? If so many LED bulbs will not work properly they will flicker.
I wasn't aware of the law. If that's the case I'll put the regular ones back.
On the other hand, there is an amber light on the side so maybe that meets the requirement and I am good.
(Photo taken from internet)
Last edited by mirekti; Feb 21, 2018 at 03:03 AM.
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If you have daytime running lights you'll have trouble with LED high beam lights because they run at half of the voltage. If it isn't required in your area you can turn off DRL in Toyota techstream:
The front of the ES330 isn't connected to any bulb sensors. The rear brake lights are, however. For that, you'd need a load resistor to get rid of the error message. You need a red LED bulb for red lenses, a white LED will show pink. Please also note that the bulb points upward in the ES330's tail light housing, which isn't good if you have a directional LED bulb. I did a review on tail light bulbs here:
Need help with headlight LEDs
