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Old Dec 21, 2008 | 09:36 PM
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I want to upgrade my headlight, parking lights, and fog lights. Any suggestions ? What kind of parking light,headlight, fog lights BULBS do you guys use ? (Brand and water temperature please)

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Originally Posted by GS4_Fiend
I want to upgrade my headlight, parking lights, and fog lights. Any suggestions ? What kind of parking light,headlight, fog lights BULBS do you guys use ? (Brand and water temperature please)
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/gs-second-generation/396232-led-hid-retrofit-review-from-v-leds-com-in-my-00-gs300-lots-of-pictures.html
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Old Dec 23, 2008 | 04:30 AM
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fog lights, i dont know what kind you got (yellow or fog )
but if i was you, this is what i will do, if your car got stock hid i will buy 8000k d2r bulbs
buy a hid kit 3000k for my fogs
and parking/driveing lights is 194 bulb size i will put hyper white led's in there
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Old Dec 23, 2008 | 06:08 AM
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this is your best bet.

What do you mean by "water temp"?
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Originally Posted by Rick James
this is your best bet.

What do you mean by "water temp"?
I think it was a mistake and he just meant "temperature".
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Originally Posted by broken_tsi
I think it was a mistake and he just meant "temperature".
Do you mean wattage? I don't believe they have any sort of temperature of those bulbs..
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I'm sorry. I meant "Color Temperature" (ex. 6000k)
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I want to upgrade my city lights and low beam. I don't know which color temperature rating should i go with. 6000k or 8000k ? Which ones do you guys think ?
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Originally Posted by GS4_Fiend
I want to upgrade my city lights and low beam. I don't know which color temperature rating should i go with. 6000k or 8000k ? Which ones do you guys think ?
6000k is nice, its like a dimond white

8000k is like white/blue


i will go with 6000k


as far your fog lights, i dont know what type of fogs you got on your car right now if they are *clear or yellow*
i will put 3000k hid in the fog's


as far as your city lights, hyper white or blue, or any color you like get led's
the bulb size is 194#
you can pick them up in any part store or order them online
they are about 5-10$ very easy to install
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Originally Posted by onesickgs
6000k is nice, its like a dimond white

8000k is like white/blue


i will go with 6000k


as far your fog lights, i dont know what type of fogs you got on your car right now if they are *clear or yellow*
i will put 3000k hid in the fog's


as far as your city lights, hyper white or blue, or any color you like get led's
the bulb size is 194#
you can pick them up in any part store or order them online
they are about 5-10$ very easy to install
THanks bud.
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Decided to go with 5000k from XenonDepot. Pics coming soon!
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If you've got clear fogs, go with a matching (5000k from xenondepot) kit; if yellow fogs and you like them you can leave them or go with a 3000k kit to make them alot brighter. If you want to go from yellow to clear it's not hard to break out the yellow sleeve or trade them for clears in the classifieds.

I had LED's from warden_jp2002 or something similar on Ebay in my city lights for a while and they were brighter than anything else I tried. They didn't match my HID's but I'd think they would be a good match for your new bulbs.
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Sounds good Kyle! Thanks for your detailed quote!
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