Lamin-x film
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Racer
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Lamin-x film
Just got a supply of Lamin-x film to cover the HUGE headlamps, and some yellow for the fog lights I never use, lol. even though they are very nice, and also huge and would be nce yellow ? Why are LS "fog" lights white ?
Anyone here done this to a car before ?
This is what I'll do, except darker
http://xpel.com/support/installation/videos.asp#
Its very likely to be the only modiciation I will ever do to this car.
Anyone here done this to a car before ?
This is what I'll do, except darker
http://xpel.com/support/installation/videos.asp#
Its very likely to be the only modiciation I will ever do to this car.
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Racer
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My Fog lights have clear lenses,but the light they emit is fairly yellow in shade. I personally would never do anything to reduce the efficiency of one of my car's headlights.
I could understand using their clear film if your car had glass lenses and you did a lot of time on dirt roads or driving in heavy traffic,but the tinted varieties are not an improvement IMHO.
If you want to make the lights look nicer,I'd suggest you strip and paint or tint the reflectors internally. You'll lose far less performance that way over covering the entire lens.
Justin...
I could understand using their clear film if your car had glass lenses and you did a lot of time on dirt roads or driving in heavy traffic,but the tinted varieties are not an improvement IMHO.
If you want to make the lights look nicer,I'd suggest you strip and paint or tint the reflectors internally. You'll lose far less performance that way over covering the entire lens.
Justin...
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This discussion about fog lights and their color makes me wonder if mine are aftermarket. I just got my '05 LS about 6 weeks ago.
As you can see, the lenses on my LS 430's fog lights are clear, but the light coming from my fogs is a bluish/purple color. The colored light from the fogs actually blends very nicely with the car's headlights while driving at night. Everything is lit in a nice, crisp, bluish/white light, just like you would get with a car that has fairly blue xenon headlights. Alone (without the fogs on), my LS's headlights seem to cast a pale yellow light on the road. So, now I wonder: what color fog light bulbs did the '05 LS 430 have, when it left the factory? Should they be white?
By comparison, take a look at the lights on my old '02 GS 430. I didn't use the fogs too often, because the headlights were the nice, bluish/white xenons, and the fogs (although the lenses were clear) had a deep yellow color. When the headlights and fogs were used together, the overall lighting of the road looked like basic (slightly yellow) halogens, instead of the crisp, bluish/white light you get with xenons.
As you can see, the lenses on my LS 430's fog lights are clear, but the light coming from my fogs is a bluish/purple color. The colored light from the fogs actually blends very nicely with the car's headlights while driving at night. Everything is lit in a nice, crisp, bluish/white light, just like you would get with a car that has fairly blue xenon headlights. Alone (without the fogs on), my LS's headlights seem to cast a pale yellow light on the road. So, now I wonder: what color fog light bulbs did the '05 LS 430 have, when it left the factory? Should they be white?
By comparison, take a look at the lights on my old '02 GS 430. I didn't use the fogs too often, because the headlights were the nice, bluish/white xenons, and the fogs (although the lenses were clear) had a deep yellow color. When the headlights and fogs were used together, the overall lighting of the road looked like basic (slightly yellow) halogens, instead of the crisp, bluish/white light you get with xenons.
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@nkoppy: very nice rides! I love the foglight on the LS. Someone obviously changed the bulbs. The OEM ones are much duller and yellow. They aren't anywhere as yellow as the GS, but they are a bit more yellow than standard halogens. I really want to change my bulbs out (for the occasional night highway drive home I take), but am discouraged by how hard it is to swap out bulbs.
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