Are they stealing only the 2002 lights or are the '99-'01 models included also?

 

It is for the HID bulbs and ballasts.

 

please refer here .... this is a pic of a 02 TL

 

They're stealing the lights from the 1999 to 2002 models for the bulbs and ballasts. If you have the HIDs (All TLs/RLs) you are a potential target.

 

Saw it, that's what prompted my post.

Thanks.

 

just picked up my car from getting serviced and asked the service manager if he'd heard on any TLs losing their lights in the Chicago area. He mentioned that he hadn't

He also mentioned something else that I wonder if any of you agree/disagree with. He mentioned that the HIDs in our cars is an integrated system and you just can't take the headlamps and ballasts from our cars and put them on a car that doesn't have a HID system (i.e. Honda Accord or Civic). If their stealing them for parts for another TL, that's another story.

Any thoughts?

The other thing he said (I'm not sure I agree with him on this), he mentioned that our cars have a glass breakage sensor. He was specific to say not a shock sensor, but a glass breakage sensor. I haven't seen anything in the manual.

As for HIDs being stolen in the Chicago area, it was news to him. He said the biggest problem around here is airbag and wheel theft. That's why they put wheel locks on every car they take delivery on.

He also went on to tell me of an incident that occured at the Lexus dealer where he worked previously. The dealer was in kind of a remote area surrounded by open fields. They came in on Monday to find EVERY car in their back lot had all of the airbags stolen. What they did was break the window, quickly open the hood and cut the battery cable to silence the alarm, and removed both airbags!

Can you imagine the insurance claim on that one?

 

The guy you talked to must have been a moron. The TL has no glass breakage sensor and you can indeed put TL and CL HID ballasts and bulbs into other cars.

 

The TL has no glass breakage sensor and you can indeed put TL and CL HID ballasts and bulbs into other cars

That's pretty much what I thought, but wanted to make sure.