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Old Aug 15, 2013 | 01:29 PM
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Hello all,

I am a new owner of the beautiful GS 350 F-SPORT that I fell in love with.
Maybe the youngest GS owner that I've seen in the forums. I am 24 years old and no, my parents didn't pay for my GS that's why I love it more.

I've tried to research the WHOLE INTERIOR BULB PART NUMBERS but no luck.
Can anyone help me? I want to change the reverse lights to LED the light that comes out on your feet and courtesy light on the doors.


Thank you!
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Old Aug 15, 2013 | 02:14 PM
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Originally Posted by ayoddOny
Hello all,

I am a new owner of the beautiful GS 350 F-SPORT that I fell in love with.
Maybe the youngest GS owner that I've seen in the forums. I am 24 years old and no, my parents didn't pay for my GS that's why I love it more.

I've tried to research the WHOLE INTERIOR BULB PART NUMBERS but no luck.
Can anyone help me? I want to change the reverse lights to LED the light that comes out on your feet and courtesy light on the doors.


Thank you!
194 in the door panels and I have these which are very nice..

http://www.vleds.com/bulb/194-168-15...58-1-pair.html

Reverse lights are 921.
Under dash,I don't know.
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Old Aug 15, 2013 | 07:01 PM
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194 in the door panels and I have these which are very nice..

http://www.vleds.com/bulb/194-168-15...58-1-pair.html

Reverse lights are 921.
Under dash,I don't know.
cool cool thanks !!
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Old Aug 15, 2013 | 11:18 PM
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Congrat on your new sweet ride and welcome to the club:

Here the bulb you will need for mirror puddle, trunk, sun visor:

Amazon.com: Sylvania 168/194/2825 Premium White LEDriving Bulb: Automotive Amazon.com: Sylvania 168/194/2825 Premium White LEDriving Bulb: Automotive

For door panel you will want some flange style LED or LED panel like this:

http://www.vleds.com/universal/circu...ed/diy6hp.html

or this but it won't be super bright:

http://is.sewellparts.com/accessorie...2014/6363.html

Footwell you will need LED strip like this and tap to the tiny footwell at the lower cover:

http://www.vleds.com/strip-lights-le...twell-kit.html

Make sure you get the 5K in color to match the factory interior LED. The Sylvania rate 6000K but it not, just 5000K and match the GS LED very well.

I put 6000K on my door courtesy and everything else is 5000K. You can tell the different in these photo:
Attached Thumbnails Whole interior light swap-img_2470.jpg   Whole interior light swap-img_2473.jpg   Whole interior light swap-img_2469.jpg  
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Old Aug 16, 2013 | 04:22 AM
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Nope, I'm 21 ;p
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Old Aug 16, 2013 | 05:08 AM
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some of the forum sponsors sell whole LED kits so you dont have to research each bulb
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Old Aug 16, 2013 | 01:22 PM
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Originally Posted by 4TehNguyen
some of the forum sponsors sell whole LED kits so you dont have to research each bulb
Do you happen to know the link of this forum?
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Old Aug 16, 2013 | 01:23 PM
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Originally Posted by onexcite
Congrat on your new sweet ride and welcome to the club:

Here the bulb you will need for mirror puddle, trunk, sun visor:

Amazon.com: Sylvania 168/194/2825 Premium White LEDriving Bulb: Automotive

For door panel you will want some flange style LED or LED panel like this:

http://www.vleds.com/universal/circu...ed/diy6hp.html

or this but it won't be super bright:

http://is.sewellparts.com/accessorie...2014/6363.html

Footwell you will need LED strip like this and tap to the tiny footwell at the lower cover:

http://www.vleds.com/strip-lights-le...twell-kit.html

Make sure you get the 5K in color to match the factory interior LED. The Sylvania rate 6000K but it not, just 5000K and match the GS LED very well.

I put 6000K on my door courtesy and everything else is 5000K. You can tell the different in these photo:

thank you!!!
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Old Sep 29, 2013 | 02:34 PM
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Is this the correct bulb for the trunk? I was hoping they would have 5k but anything is better then the crap lexus put in the trunk...
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Old Sep 29, 2013 | 03:57 PM
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Originally Posted by puckhead85
Is this the correct bulb for the trunk? I was hoping they would have 5k but anything is better then the crap lexus put in the trunk...
Yup it is. I have that one and it's great. It's not exactly 6000k I feel like it's closer to 4500-5000k.
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Old Sep 29, 2013 | 05:03 PM
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Originally Posted by yardie876
Yup it is. I have that one and it's great. It's not exactly 6000k I feel like it's closer to 4500-5000k.
thanks! Took less then 3 minutes to install and holy crap what a difference!!
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Old Oct 3, 2013 | 08:29 AM
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anyone swap out reverse light yet? and are 100% satisfied? if so what was the product??
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Originally Posted by ayoddOny
anyone swap out reverse light yet? and are 100% satisfied? if so what was the product??
I put a set in a ES350 I owned and found the LEDs at night washed out the camera pic somewhat.I decided not to change the GS reverse bulbs to LED because of that.
However the VLEDS 921 was an older design and not available now.

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Old Oct 3, 2013 | 10:03 AM
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Originally Posted by ayoddOny
anyone swap out reverse light yet? and are 100% satisfied? if so what was the product??
I use these from VLED for my reverse light.

http://www.vleds.com/bulb-type/rever...79-1-pair.html

Brightness is about 15-20% more than stock bulbs, color is obviously whiter than stock yellow filament.

Overall happy with the swap.
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