hey have you guys seen the new lexus gs and is.. the license plate lights are much brighter they look like they are hyper white??... i wanted to get that affect on my maximas license plate lights is there site where i can buy those kind of bulbs? to get a similar affect ? im guessing to get the real affect ull need to do a conversion but i dont want to spend that kind of money for it...

i have a 2000 se

oh and also i wanted to get headlight bulbs that have a greenish tint to it, any ideas where i can got those from ?

 

Not sure if your worried about output. But..Headlights with a greenish tint would have little to NO output, be horrible in the rain, you'll barely be able to see....just quit on that search, you'll revert back to regular halogens or hid's within 3 months...MAX.

About the light, you could use...Super bright led's, and wire them up, not really a conversion, and not to expensive. Very easy to do with a little electrical knowledge.

 

try this website for the licence lights

www.autolumination.com and good luck =)

i'm ordering leds from there myself for my 07's licence lights

 

From what I have heard the new Lexus' use CCFL to illuminate the license plate.

I have custom made some LED lights for my car (Sentra) unfortunatly, the housings are EXACTLY the same from the 02+ Sentra and the 02 Maxima, just the polarity is opposite.

I will be making some for Zero2SixtyZ when I get more LEDs in. Pictures will be up when I get my LEDs in.

 

i bought the LEDs from www.autolumination.com.
installed them yesterday and love them.
FYI, they are the same size as the bulbs in the door.
Item Name: 194
Item Options: Color: Super White
Lens: Wide Angle
Item Number: Super Wide

i dont have a pic of them at night, but here is a comparison during the day.

 

I started a thread about this a few weeks ago after having saw a GS430 in my neighborhood. Here was some feedback I got and disregard my idiot reference to them being HID's...

http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=506226

Looks good. I was wondering how that install went for you. I'm going to give these a shot. If they stink then I'll look into going CCFL.

 

install was easy. i replaced the license plate, doors, and dome.
pure white and very bright.

btw, this isnt a new idea or mod. i had all the same bulbs on my 00 three years ago. i just got around do getting them for my 02.

 

I'm looking on autolumination right now and I had a question:

I'm looking for the light you described above but there are about 6 different lights and none of them appear to fit the description. For example there are
4- Star SMT
the Super Nova
The Super Star
The Super Star with metal heat sink etc.

In addition they are all different diameters. Which one do I choose?

I figure I might as well do the doors/dome as well. They're the same size right?
Thanks

 

194 Super Wide Angle Superstar Bulbs
door and license are the same.

for the dome, i got 12 LED Two-Face, 31mm
http://autolumination.com/festoon.htm

 

Thanks,
That helped a lot. I ordered them although since I'm at work and the car is in the garage I wasn't able to check if the rear passenger doors had lights on them. I ordered enough bulbs though assuming the back doors do have lights on them.

 

the rear doors do not have bulbs...just the front

 

LED 194s for the rear license plate lamps, and put in (12) 15,000 mcd leds into my door panel / side, wired into door pin switch, and same for LED strips mounted under each race bucket to illuminate floor.
Finally did the center console cubby lamp and also for trunk light I did UV bulbs...looks kinda tacky....but eh whatever....

 

I bought those superstar LEDs from Autolumination and used them in my license plate lights for about 2-3 months before they started flickering/strobing.

I don't know if it was the voltage spikes or the heat that killed them.

Instead, I took a different approach and put 16 white superflux-style LEDs with a voltage regulator in there instead. Looks MUCH nicer, and the closest I've seen to the Lexus license plate lights yet.

 

oldmanshirt has some nice lookin plate lights that he got from autolumination. Go about 9-11 pages back and find a thread called 'any small mod ideas guys?' He's got pics of them there. Looks pretty slick imo.

 

ok here is a pic. you can also see the dome light even though it doesnt seem as bright because of the tint.

 

are those lights below your plate sooner? Or is it just an extremely symmetrical reflection?

 

thats just a reflection of the two bulbs (they are very bright and directional)
i probably should have gotten some that were more wide angle)

 

Do you have any pics by chance?
Thanks

 

Wow Thnx Alot Guys!

 

http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....ighlight=Lexus

But yeah, I've had the Polarg 194 bulbs for my plate lights and doors and trunk for a few years now. I may have to switch over to some brigher LEDs.

 

Got the polarg 194 bulbs....

Why get brighter bulbs for the license plate... people shouldnt b able to get a good look at it anyway. haha

 

I got these 168SW(194) wedge bulbs from lightlens.com and I initially thought they'd be too dim. but at night they look excellent. very good lighting and not pull-me-over brightness.

 

I used the VELOCITY HID WHITE HIGH POWER LED 194 from v-leads

 

havent gotten pulled over for those yet???

 

I dunno if it has been posted. But Lexus uses CCFL for their plates, not leds...

 

Here are the pics from mine (described in the quote):




Second photo taken with flash on to show the LED arrays:

 

I think his car is blue. Kinda looks like a reflection + he said white bulbs.

 

looks pretty cool maybe i should do something like that has anyone tried to order those lights from lexus or are they totally different bulbs and stuff.

 

www.hidplanet.com/forums

 

It's been said somewhere.

 

I also encourage www.v-led.com or also known as www.frickinbrite.com. They got some pretty cool stuff up on there.

 

That looks real good

 

true, got a point there.

 

The bulbs are white but my car is majestic blue so the reflection is blueish. I had these for about a year now, and there's no flashing plus I drive by the police station everyday and had no problems.

 

i had those super wide angle LED's from Autolumination.com, AND i used to run through them like water...I guess because of my sub's in the trunk, I killed LED's almost once every couple months...after that They would individually start flickering and ****. I went back to the all white PIAA LEDS, but they arent bright enough for me, so i just ordered some of those bright LED's from frickinbrite.com

 

good choice

 

I bought my LED's from superbrightleds.com and it just illuminates 100 fold over the regular halogens. It lights up the plate, almost the entire rear bumper and a shine on the floor. AMAZING!

 

^^THEY USE the same LED's as www.autolumination.com. They even have the same website layout. But for the most part...if youve got subs in your trunk, then they will start flickering on you after a while..My guess is the vibrations start to slowly kill them off

 

i have some pilot blue xenon bulbs that i got from strauss in my license plate.. they're not super bright but they're a nice color and they look good

 

I didn't think about them actually going out if you have subs in the trunk. I have the super whites too from them so I guess I should be smart about my music