Thought id share my ES300 Retro with yall, Enjoy - Toyota Nation Forum : Toyota Car and Truck Forums

JSM1284 · 12-31-2007, 10:15 AM

I have a Lexus ES300 with Halogen headlights and wanted to repalce them with optional HID headlamps. Rather than spending WAY TOO much money on new are even good condition used HID lamps, I bought damaged HID lamps. Here is my story:
I got my HID lights that I ordered from that online Auction site. The housing were damaged, so my plan was to just swap out my stock Halogen reflector with the HID reflectors. I figured they mounted the same way in the lamp, I was wrong.
On the HID housing, The high and low beam reflectors are two seperate pieces to allow for the Auto-Leveling feature. In the Halogen lamp, they are one solid piece. Needless to say I was pissed.
So what I had to do was cut most of the Hlogen reflector out, and Modify the HID reflector by carefully cutting off the mounts and what not. Then with ALOT of patience and JB Weld, I carefully aligned and JB welded the HID Reflector to what was left of the Halogen reflector. They look stock so thats a plus. They are also adjustable by the stock adjusters.
All in all, I am satisfied with the results. I just wish it would have went as easy as i thought it would.
Here are some quick pics i snaped during the retro:

***lammydi*** · 12-31-2007, 11:47 AM

Love that clean cut-off line!!!

JSM1284 · 12-31-2007, 11:51 AM

Suprising cut-off for a Reflector set-up huh? But not as sexxy as the modded TSX cut-offs, thats for sure.

sky03 · 12-31-2007, 11:52 AM

looks good
why didnt u do projector retro? dont projectors light up the road better?

JSM1284 · 12-31-2007, 12:03 PM

I wanted to remain as stock looking as possible. I have just one side projector lamp for my ES, It was too hard to find the other side in a projector set-up. So I just bought the two HID reflector set-ups since they were easier to come by, then mounted the HID reflectors over the halogen reflectors.

Supra469 · 12-31-2007, 01:26 PM

Nice job. I thinkit came out great!

MrSo0h0o · 12-31-2007, 01:39 PM

i dont know if your driveway has a slant, but doesnt that cutoff seem a bit high in the last pic? or should i just shut up because i know nothing about HID's haha

JSM1284 · 12-31-2007, 01:44 PM

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Originally Posted by MrSo0h0o

i dont know if your driveway has a slant, but doesnt that cutoff seem a bit high in the last pic? or should i just shut up because i know nothing about HID's haha

Its on a slant.