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Old Apr 29, 2011 | 10:55 PM
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By the way, to change those bulbs, the front bumper has to be removed??
If so, I don`t wanna do the change, too much hassle.
Is there a way to do it without taking down the front bumper??
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Old Apr 30, 2011 | 09:23 PM
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Originally Posted by LB23
By the way, to change those bulbs, the front bumper has to be removed??
If so, I don`t wanna do the change, too much hassle.
Is there a way to do it without taking down the front bumper??
All right excellent!
VLEDS answered me

Just need to know if I have to remove the front bumper before I buy it.
Someone?
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Old May 2, 2011 | 07:14 AM
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I think you need only DRL KIT.
No need to buy relay harness.


But you can easily change high beams without touching the front bumber. Actually I don't know about front bumber for sure.
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Old May 2, 2011 | 05:24 PM
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Originally Posted by RenatUSSR
I think you need only DRL KIT.
No need to buy relay harness.


But you can easily change high beams without touching the front bumber. Actually I don't know about front bumber for sure.
Thanks buddy, yeah, what I need according to VLEDS tech support, is the DRL kit.
I am already loving what will be my new awesome look......
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Old May 5, 2011 | 02:28 PM
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Originally Posted by RenatUSSR
Friend of mine doing all the procedure in couple of minutes
He did it for first time in IS250, now in GS350 he removes the mirror in few seconds.
I'm not doing it by myself

Mirror on the reverse side...
You can see special places for screwdriver..
Btw, there are no such special places in IS250, so now in GS it's even easier to remove the mirror without touching screws.
Hey Renat

I think I finally have enough courage to take off those outside mirrors. Do you just stick that screw driver in that slot to remove the mirrors? Is that double sided tape in the middle too?

Also, according to this, it says that the map light is a 175 bulb. Is this referring to the vanity light? I always thought the map light is the spotlight that you can turn on.

http://www.sylvania.com/ConsumerProd...RG-Results.htm

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Old May 6, 2011 | 07:40 AM
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I have that hole set up on my car. All my light are leds (turn, parking, puddle, backup, fog, DTR, and even my vanity lights) wanted everything to match.. look good really clean looking...
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Old May 23, 2011 | 05:16 PM
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Originally Posted by RenatUSSR

Flank Bulbs VS Radial Firing LED Bulbs (5000K):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XZ8AxBrq7c
LEFT - http://www.v-leds.com/Interior-LED/D...25900-1-2.html
RIGHT - http://www.v-leds.com/Exterior-LED/C...57621-1-2.html
LEFT - Total Luminous Intensity: 80 lm Viewing Angle: 120
RIGHT - Total Luminous Intensity: 50 lm Viewing Angle: 300

You can see that flank bulbs looks more BLUE then "X5 Bulbs".
So I decided to use X5 bulbs. They better match stock low beams then amber or flank white bulbs.

* This is all about how they match the stock headligths.
* If you have GARAX 6000K, they (VLEDS 5000K) should perfectly match!
So to achieve this look on your car, I'd need:
-HID FOG KIT (in 5000k, which is currently out of stock)
-parking lights

I've already got the 6000k Garax to match these up with. Would that be all I'd need?
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Old May 24, 2011 | 02:35 PM
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Any thoughts of running these as parking lights??

http://www.v-leds.com/Exterior-LED/P...07296-1-2.html

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Old May 24, 2011 | 07:44 PM
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Originally Posted by jcr333
Any thoughts of running these as parking lights??

http://www.v-leds.com/Exterior-LED/P...07296-1-2.html
I'll let you know. I ordered this yesterday and will install in the coming week
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Old Jun 4, 2011 | 05:33 PM
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Goodness, so freaking happy.

Finally, installed my new DRL LEDS.......

Each bulb has 28 LEDS, this are so brilliant..... damn.! So white.....very nice.
And from far away, it makes the lamp look like it has little leds all over,
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Old Jun 4, 2011 | 05:43 PM
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I don't think I'd be happy using the word sparkles to describe anything about my car.
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Old Jun 4, 2011 | 05:57 PM
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Originally Posted by BinaryJay
I don't think I'd be happy using the word sparkles to describe anything about my car.
Its all good now

Man, where is the LOL emoticon?
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Old Jun 27, 2011 | 12:30 AM
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O, privet renat!)) tu i tyt toze... ) anyway nice work!!! definitely better then stock! any idea reverse lights will fit 2IS?)) thanks...
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Old Jun 27, 2011 | 10:02 PM
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I was about to upgrade some lighting in my car but website seems to be out of stock on the most of the lighting that I needed... (parking, truck, reverse, puddle, and vanity lights)
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Old Jul 11, 2011 | 09:35 AM
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Originally Posted by LB23
Goodness, so freaking happy.

Finally, installed my new DRL LEDS.......

Each bulb has 28 LEDS, this are so brilliant..... damn.! So white.....very nice.
And from far away, it makes the lamp look like it has little leds all over,
Since you swapped out your DRLs with LEDs, that means you lost the use of your highbeams correct? I changed out my Parking lights (in the top corner of the housing) but the DRLs are in the middle (same bulb with higher output for highbeams) and yellowish, which I concluded I'm stuck with if I want to keep my highbeams functional.

I tried Phillips Crystal Vision and even Sylvania Silverstar Ultra bulbs but for $50 for the pair, have barely any noticeable difference so I returned them. That's pretty much the only bulb in the entire car I haven't swapped out and can't find a fix for and it KILLS ME!

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