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Old Oct 28, 2011 | 11:26 AM
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I see. Were you trying to swap in some LED?
Yep, that is one of the reasons why it's there. They are also going to address rattling issues from the steering wheel and instrument cluster as well, since the US dealership, saids it's normal, could not reproduce...

The advisor written to Canada to get a case for them to be able to get the OK to work on the car.

Funny, a customer (while I was away), brought his 06 IS350 to be service, and he was like holy #$%$#%, is that an IS-F? Who's car is that. The same advisor was service him and he was talking all about my car. Must of been attracted by the color and the things its got as they were walking around it.

I think the service tech had something to do with it because they stragetically parked it on a rotating wheel thing as it's viewable for customers to see the car!! lol!! USB is very rare here!
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Old Oct 28, 2011 | 11:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Sango
Yep, that is one of the reasons why it's there. They are also going to address rattling issues from the steering wheel and instrument cluster as well, since the US dealership, saids it's normal, could not reproduce...

The advisor written to Canada to get a case for them to be able to get the OK to work on the car.

Funny, a customer (while I was away), brought his 06 IS350 to be service, and he was like holy #$%$#%, is that an IS-F? Who's car is that. The same advisor was service him and he was talking all about my car. Must of been attracted by the color and the things its got as they were walking around it.

I think the service tech had something to do with it because they stragetically parked it on a rotating wheel thing as it's viewable for customers to see the car!! lol!! USB is very rare here!
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Old Oct 30, 2011 | 01:53 PM
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^ I posted my LED puddle in the USB and LED replacement guide.

The tech's liked it after install !
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Old Oct 30, 2011 | 06:22 PM
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Blue puddle lights are a nice touch
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Old Jan 1, 2012 | 09:39 AM
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Originally Posted by 5gears-IS
Ok I did this a month ago this is what you need to do.

7) The glass is a f-ing pain in the a$$ to put back, it just wont pop back into place and after trial and error I figured out a trick for this......take some VASELINE and dab the areas in which the mirror engages into the housing and the housing itself, this will make the mirror slide right in with little or no force but make sure you push it in until it pops back in place.
I recommend this. I also recommend doing this in the daylight, lol.

I managed to not break my glass, but kinda bend it in such a way there's a rainbow effect on it. Curious how well (or not) the heating will work now.

Going to try these bulbs instead of the flanks that are currently in: http://www.v-leds.com/Exterior-LED-B...22412-1-2.html
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Old Jan 1, 2012 | 09:57 AM
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Originally Posted by erichb
I recommend this. I also recommend doing this in the daylight, lol.

I managed to not break my glass, but kinda bend it in such a way there's a rainbow effect on it. Curious how well (or not) the heating will work now.

Going to try these bulbs instead of the flanks that are currently in: http://www.v-leds.com/Exterior-LED-B...22412-1-2.html
You won't get much light out of those.You only have one lower power LED facing down.
Got to go flank type.
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Old Jan 2, 2012 | 10:29 AM
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You won't get much light out of those.You only have one lower power LED facing down.
Got to go flank type.
The flank ones from v-leds is too long. Precision LED used the 5 LED one, so I'll give it a shot. I'm ordering a few anyways. I'll post comparison pics of mis-fitting flank versus proper-fitting 360.
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Old Jan 2, 2012 | 12:27 PM
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Originally Posted by erichb
The flank ones from v-leds is too long. Precision LED used the 5 LED one, so I'll give it a shot. I'm ordering a few anyways. I'll post comparison pics of mis-fitting flank versus proper-fitting 360.
Go with JLC Lighting.
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Old Jan 2, 2012 | 01:20 PM
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Originally Posted by iRock
Blue puddle lights are a nice touch
Agreed, that's what I have
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Old Jan 9, 2012 | 08:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Sango
Go with JLC Lighting.
I'm going to go with the ones I already have for now, and if those don't meet my needs, then I will look at other options.
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