rengade1346

I have a 2000 TL that has 158,000 on it and just recently have taken care of a number of maintenance items:
-timing belt, a/c belt, power steering belt and tensioners
-power steering pump had to be taken apart and cleaned
-new anti-freeze
-transmission drain and fill x2 10,000 and 15,000 miles ago
-valves adjusted
-egr cleaned and Thermoblok spacer kit installed
-UR Pulley installed
-removed intake and exhaust resonator
-missing anything else I should do?

Is there anything else that is relatively inexpensive that I can do to up the performance of the car? And since getting the car back my right headlight ballast has/is dying, can I replace it with this one: http://www.carhidkits.com/hid-ballas...llast-190.html ? Thanks for anyones input!

Rajca

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sea foam, spark plugs. oil change. the little things that matter. u sure its your ballast and not the bulb?

rengade1346

Yea I have NGK Iridium spark plugs and sea foamed before I put those in. As far as the bulb goes, the light will come on for a few minutes then die, it will come on again if I turn the lights off and on again. I tried unplugging the ignitor and plugging it back in, no go. The only thing that worked on the light was to unplug the ballast and plug it back in. I just don't wanna spend 160+ for an OEM ballast when a 100 dollar one can work...

grip

i purchased a brand new oem ballast for $150 shipped...$150 is cheap compared to what the stealership wants.

Comet2404

Yeah I would stick to the stock stuff. I cleared my headlights a few years ago, and I did it because one headlight was already getting water in it. But I guess I just made the whole thing worse, bad enough that the water ended up frying the ballast. I ended up getting two new headlight housings, and complete new HID systems. It was all around 500 bucks, and I bought everything online and had my local dealer put it together for me.

01tl4tl

Now the car is fixed up nice- invest in a few days of High Performance driving school- aka Track Days at your local racetrack

About $250 for a full day with Pro Race driver riding shotgun in your car- giving instant feedback on braking turning and throttle control
Awesome fun-
several threads on azine from members who have gone and came back saying- How did I survive all these years?,,and driving 30 solid minutes full throttle turning and braking is a workout! This car is amazing fun!!

01tl4tl

A K&N air filter will help the removed intake resonator to work much better than paper filter

Seafoam needs to be repeated after a month/1 to 2000 miles for max results- then good for a year/15