Lexo11

Hi everyone,

New to the fourms. I've been trying to search up and down videos or tutorials on how to change

a ballast on a 2007 Lexus Gs350(driver side). Seems like this is a pretty common problem. I

just purchased a ballast but have no idea how to change it. Does the bumper have to come off,

or is there a way around it. Any useful input is appericated.

JSM1284

You must remove the bumper to remove the headlamp to replace the ballast.

Lexo11

80 views and only "1" reply lol.

Thanks, JSM1284. I'm going to have a friend work on it. I'll try to take some photos and post them up for future reference. It just would have been much easier if the bumper didn't need to be removed. Again, thanks for the reply!

IXI187IXI

iTrader: (3)

i did a write up on this a while ago. yes the bumper needs to come off. the ballast is on the underside of the headlight and you need to remove a little plastic lever in order to remove the connector from the housing.

Lexo11

Update:

I haven't had the chance to replace it yet been driving with only one light lol. I wanted to know for sure if it's the

xenon. The other day I took my car in to have the battery replaced and I asked them to take a look at it but not

to replace anything. The rep told me it could just be the bulp but I'm still doubting it. This is the situation, once

I turn the car on both lights work. Within a few minutes (1-2) the driver side bulp goes out. If I turn it off and on

that same second both lights again work until a few minutes later the driver side lights once again goes out.

on. In addition, there is no warning lights to show that I have a burn out bulp. What I'm asking here, is this

common symptom for a bad ballast?

BurgBoxstr

Could be either bulb or ballast.

Here's a real simple test before spending any $ on parts:

Take a few minutes and swap bulbs side to side. If light that goes out follows move... it's the bulb. If it stays on driver side then it's the ballast. Hopefully it's the bulb...

Lexo11

Last night for some reason BOTH lights went out. so than I turned off the lights

and turned it back on and they worked again. Now I really don't know what it could be from..

jackiej

Mine is exactly the same . Always done it for last 3 yrs. Decided I should try the ballast replacement bc I get pulled over all the time bc my headlight out. Well after watching many YouTube videos I don't think I can do all that. Plus I don't know **** about cars. But for real this should be a recall bc its obviously happening to the 2007 and up cars. Dont waste ur mo wy replacing bulb it clearly works . Hence u stated it came on at first then goes out. So bulb not the issue. I hope when i find someone to do ther ballast it will work right. But I've read other forums that gave replaced ballast and no change still goes out. Good luck.

GXDave

I know it’s an old threat but if anyone still looking I just replaced my ballast on my GS350, took about 2 hours total, I did not have to remove the bumper entirely, removed half of the screws holding it together and gave me enough play to remove the headlamp, once it was off, the only tricky part was removing the ballast connector that goes to the lightbulb, there is a very tight spot where it comes out from, there is a grey plastic in the way, move it to the side and the head comes right out. I attached a picture, hope this helps, if you have any questions let me know.