flipside909

They certainly will fit, but you will have two issues to deal with.

1) DRL wiring/placement. In the 08-10 housings, your DRL is linked to your high beams whereas the '11 models use the LED strip as DRLs.

2) AFS is no longer available on '11 models. So AFS light will stay on for 08-10 models as an error.

Also, '11 ISF headlamp housings are identical to all '11 IS models with HID option. Non HID option '11 IS models retain the old style projector setup with dark chrome housing. LED DRL's are not available for those with halogen headlamps.

xuserx04

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I wonder how is the light output? Same as the old ones?

s4play

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thanks Ryan for the input!

I already have a DRL bypass relay harness wired up for my current setup so that should be the easy part - I will just have to re-route some of the OEM wiring "IF" I wanted the LED strip to act as OEM but in my case I plan to have it wired differently via remote.

Quite honestly as I stated in my other post, I never even noticed the effect of having "AFS" on my 08 - it's not a feature I really care for so losing it won't be an issue for me.

My main thing is I really like the black inner housing and once I smoke those amber lenses it should look quite mean! I'm not sure if it's because I'm running 8k D4S bulbs right now but I think the light output of my IS-F sucks in comparison to my old GS400. The IS-F light seems really weak, I'm going to switch back to 6000k to see if I gain any light output. Ironically on my M3, going to 8k had no effect on light output but it seems the IS-F has horrible output.


rick

Weapon F

FYI upon start up of my 2011 F the light go thru same up and down sequence as AFS lights. flipside909 are AFS no longer going on all '11 models or just IS line. Thanks

flipside909

Yeah thats a normal operation of the auto leveling lamps. AFS is no longer available on the IS.

flipside909

You will just have to deal with the AFS warning light staying on if you do the switch over.

Switching to a 6k bulb will only make your visibility worse. Higher K output doesn't mean better illumination. 42-4300K oem spec has superior lighting output to 5K or greater. You are better off re-aiming your headlamps higher.

Weapon F

Thanks flipside909 any reason why they are know longer available?

Mitch08ISF

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Click the link I posted....looks like a lil less than 1400.00.

flipside909

Cost is the main thing. Having both the LED strip and AFS will just shoot the price of each headlamp up.