I dont know if this has ever been brought up, but tonight while driving home, I was behind a 07 Lexus GS 300, I noticed how bright the license lamps are that illuminate the license plate. Its almost as if they are HID's. Can we do this on our cars, I mean is it just a different light back there, or maybe a strong LED. Anyone know, Macgyver maybe?

 

just out of curiousity why would you make your license plate MORE VISIBLE to both public and police?

 

why not, I am not breaking the law, are you?

If you have seen the car, you will see what I mean, keep an eye out at night for the new lexus'.

No one has seen what I am talking about?

 

I know exactly what your talking about. Thats very strange because i noticed this quite a while ago and i was thinking the exact same thing. this was back when i had my sentra. I'll call lexus tommarrow and see how much the bulbs are, and report back to you all. glad someone else noticed it because i thought it looked very classy too.

 

I will do even better, I am an adjuster for an insurance company, I will just pull up the part in my estimating system and determine if its just a bulb, or an entire new system such as led's. Keep us posted as well if you speak to the dealer.

You said it perfectly, its very classy.

 

Well I checked my system, the lights are $62.86 for the pair, so obviously they are not standard bulbs, also there is no more info either, so I dont know if you need a separate system to power the bulds (like a hid ballast, or if they are just stand alone bulbs or led's).

Avernus, let us know what you find out from your phone call.

 

The folks in the Lighting forum at ClubLexus.com would know for sure.

 

Well I just called lexus and they said the bulbs are 7 bucks a peice but the whole assembly is $291(this includes the brackets the diffusers..everything.) I think that you could just buy the bulbs and then fabricate something from plexy. anyway thats my 2 cents.

 

Interesting, In my estimatics program, for the GS 430 they are $62.86 for the pair.

I will check out club lexus as well.

I wonder if they misquoted you the price for the bulbs for the tail lamps and reverse lamps. Or maybe the $62.86 includes the mounting sockets. The $291 would probably involve the entire assembly where the lights reside, I did see that in my program, but did not pull it up for pricing.

 

Ok Avernus, thanks for the idea of clublexus. Did a quick search and found what you and I where looking for.

They are LED's.

http://www.clublexus.com/forums/showthread.php?t=192753