Wutsup everyone, this is my first question - im new here...

If we take a carefull look at the three sliver lexus' that are at the top of every page on our forum, you can notice espectially on the 3rd gen GS and IS that the amber strip isnt there, now can we purchace these headlights from a far and distant land or do we need to disasemble them and remove the amber strip ourselves?

The amber strip is there, the photo was desaturated with photoshop.

SOL!!!

I checked the Lexus website in Taiwan, Japan, and Europe, the Lexus over there also has the orange stripe in their headlight!!!

I guess orange stripe is here to stay, unless some after market company would make them without it!!!

yep...

what you could do is to take out your headlight housing, put it in a pre-heated oven at 350 for 10 minutes, then you should be able to take it apart. Then remove the orange reflector yourself and glue it back together.

I did this with my old TL. If you're careful enough, there won't be any condensation in the future. Good luck.

All that f-ing hassle for a stupid reflector?? HELL NO you wont catch me taking apart my $50K+ vehicles' headlamps for that!!!

although, i'd like to see someone stupid enough to do it.............and see if they say it was worth it after the first rainy season!!

anyone????........anyone??.......

hehe, no way I'm taking my car apart and putting it in the oven!!

last time i check, only US is mandatory to have amber reflectors up front, weird that they made it the same for everywhere.

good luck with the clear headlights...... it would be nice but I would take the chance on my ride! If someone has done it please post it up..

I also hate the amber light too, and I asked my body shop if they can take the headlight apart and remove it...they advised against it because they said once the amber strip is removed water might be able to get into the head lights or fog up...So I thought of just smoking that little amber strip, and it looked even ugler. I've finally realized that I'm stuck living with it!

yo adam8065, how did you black it out w/out opening the lens, did you just place the film on the lense over the amber strip, same way u'd blackout the tail? If you open the lense and remove the amber strip then u'd need to use the right type of glue or bonding agent to ensure that your lights wont fog up. I was thinking, there are these black headlight covers that black out your entire headlight, if we can have them cut to reshape in a way where the amberstrip would be covered but most of the rest of the headlight wouldnt then i think that may be the best alternative, but i'd still like to purchace a used headlight and experiement with it there was one on ebay for 250, alot of people open the headlight on the new acura TLs and havent had fog issues b/c they've done a careful job of regluing the lense back together...

Mine has it.

As for removing the amber portion, its not hard or shouldn't be. For the comments about "fogging up" and so on... if you put the headlight back together correctly then it shouldn't be a problem. You guys get too emotional about stuff. The thing is, if someone wants it and KNOW what they are doing OR talking about what they are doing then it can be done and NOTHING will fog up. I've done this to a few sets of headlights and none of them have fogged up on me, even without the rubber seal that goes over the plug or w/e. The seal that most car manufactures use are very sticky and when it heats up to lets say around 350 degrees, it starts to get soft (reason why you can separate your headlight lens from the actual headlight.) Then when you heat it up again to around the same temp. it BONDs together. After the initial bond, put it back in the over and cook it again to ensure the seal is perfectly sealed like factory.

I did this to a set on my accord. I used silicon sealant to make sure the fog or moisture evryone is worried about would never happened. worked perfect.

So no one has done this to the 3rd gen GS, hmm, would you be removing the amber lense, or would you need to replace it with something...I wonder whose going to be the first to do it...

On the Audi B6 A4, you could drill out the amber reflector and remove it by shaking it out through the bulb hole...and then just patch up the hole with silicon. Maybe the same method can work on these.... Although, I'd just live with it lol