what bulbs are commonly replaced and what colors of choice, I want to change the daytime lights and the fogs? any suggestions? and are the rear 06 lights direct bolt on to me 03

 

the day time running light is high beam in lowered power, no matter what bulb you put in it's going to be yellowish during the day. so i say forget it.

06 taillights? read here:
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=187823
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=207346

search is your friend

 

please post pics of your light setup (anybody)

also any smoked lights? anybody smoke out the sidemarkers, pics please

 

by light you mean taillights? if so, it's in the above links already

i didn't change any bulb in the DRL. i only changed my headlights to 6000k

 

is it really that hard to swap the taillights? does the top half need to be replaced aswell, and how much does the totall swap cost?

 

you don't have to replace the top if you dont' want to, but you will get a weird gap

not very hard to replace

all info are in that thread, you can go read for more info

 

I've done the rear light swap including the ECU swap. Others may have already highlighted some of the tips below. Didn't find anything too difficult. Certainly looks better

FIRST TIP: DISCONNECT BATTERY, JUST IN CASE.

I used a small screwdriver and a block of wood to lever the clips off.

Took me about 1hour to finish the whole swap. If I had to do it again, could be done in 20 minutes, knowing what to undo and how to pull the lights out. (The light cluster is held by one bolt, hidden by a plastic cap. The rest of the cluster is held under tension by "prongs" that require a little bit of force to unclip). Don't go looking for bolts/nuts behind the lights, you won't find any.

Spare wheel, tool kit, side storage bins, rear plate (Screwdriver will lift plate off) and panel needs to come out. The floor panel only needs to be taken out if you are doing the ECU swap. ECU swap is easy, a matter of unplugging old plugs, a couple of bolts and done within a couple of minutes. ECU is located under floor left hand top corner)

I went through the motions of removing most of the left hand side panel, and realising that I only really needed to remove enough clips just to get in behind the light to change light wiring loom plug. If I were doing it again, I'd try leaving the blind brackets in place, but if you can't get enough room to get your hands in to swap the loom. then look at second tip.

SECOND TIP (The black rubber pads need to be levered off exposing a "torx?" bolt.) Go and buy the bit before you even start the project, or be prepared to run down to the auto store to pick one up. I had one in my tool box, but wouldn't want to try undoing it without the right bit. Don't sit there turning the black pads, you will be there for a while wondering how long it will take. If you try and use a hex key you might strip the inside of bolt. .

BTW. Change the top part of the light, the 06 panel looks much better that the old one, and also as mentioned, it is a different size.

Also Phillips have a silver coated turn/indicator lamp. Worth putting in so you don't see any amber through the now clear lens.

 

The torx bit size is a T40

 

can you give me a quick run down of the parts and total cost, and what exactly does the ECU do why do you gotta change it?

 

Do a search for

taillight SC430

All will be found there

 

apparently all info in the threads i posted above too

 

my tail lights are blacked out. I posted a picture a while back. I will see if I can find it. Otherwise, you may be able to search my posts and find it. I have never seen another sc with them blacked out and I love the look

 

The ECU is to avoid the brake light in the dash, but how much? Since I don't want to deal with the light with resistors or crap like that, I'll probably pass on the lights; I only like them marginally better than mine. I wouldn't spend more than $500 on that, and the lights are probably that much by themselves.

 

ya, I know, Im lazy lol I like straight answers, but very helpfull!

 

no disrespect, but reading and searching go a long way here. a lot of the information have been covered in great details before, so a little reading and you will be surprised