I personally never have been stopped due to aftermarket tail lights, nor I have heard anyone had. Yes, you are correct that those lights are not DOT approved, mainly with sequential turn signal and side markers. However, the LEO primary concerns will be if the lights provide sufficient safety function, in particularly the tail illumination and break lights. As long as those safety elements are there, you are unlikely been stopped. On the subject of headlights, improper aim is a safety hazard and will likely be stopped by LEO in most of cases. Again, not so much of light pattern whether it comply to DOT standard as it is hard to judging by naked eyes, but improper aiming will get you in trouble especially if it resulted any accident.

 

Maybe in some small place if the driver was doing something sketchy that’d be a stop but I don’t see that often - particularly these days. I spent 28 years in that profession and know what they stop for. Limo tint - yep, no tag light at 2am - yep, weird colored headlights - yep. Ones that look OEMish, not really.

I’ve been having custom HID aftermarket projector beams built for my last 4 cars. Can’t put LED into a projector designed for halogen but you can have custom ones built for the OEM housing and those are stellar.

 

^ This

No.

 

it’s safe to say that 99% of the people out there police included wouldn’t look twice at those tail lights. We know the GX’s inside and out but no one else will notice that there upgraded. If they were tinted limo black then yes they might notice but in stock red no one will care or notice.

 

Why modify something safety related? Suppose you are rear ended and god forbid you end up in court. In this day and age with all your dumb *** and politically motivated “peers” in the jury box why risk it just for looks and vanity?

 

I’ve worked a lot of fatal crashes in my time and really think that it would be a huge, huuuuuge stretch for the bulb type or light type to be proximate cause for a contributory negligence action in a rear-end crash where one is rear-ended. The ‘what if’ game is sometimes with merit but, in this case, I do not think it merits concern. The only time I’ve ever seen lighting come into play is if they were not on and that resulted in a crash, not if they were on and they were not OEM as long as they were functional.

 

Okay, I guess I was being overly cautious again. Just taking it to the extreme, covering my ***.

 

you got the link

 

Was it a straight swap / plug;play or any mods to the wiring/splicing needed ?

How's the fit ? Any gaps or issues at all ?

Thanks!! Looks good!

 

not any issues,it’s straight swap, plug and play , it come with the 2 piece to fill up the gap, look perfect

 

it come with a wire to connect the back up light, but I don’t use it

 

@Piney1 @hzhao What did you use to attach the filler trim piece? I have tried 3M tape and Gorilla Heavy tape and it won't stay stuck to the front part of the tail light closest to the quarter panel. I did put Gorilla tape on the bottom of the trim and stuck to the bumper like you mentioned. Seems much more secure now. I just hate how the trim keeps coming off the front part of the tail light.

 

@SummitMD The filler on mine was attached on the lights from factory. In my case, there are two separate lights listed, on for Toyota Prado, and other for Lexus GX460, the difference is one for GX has the filler attached.

 

@hzhao Thanks for getting back to me. I bought my tail lights used on ebay and the fillers weren't attached.