Hey guys, I have a 06 IS350, one of the damn ballasts is out, (lexus diagnostic confirmed it). It just went out of warranty (figures) and they want 1500 for the ballast and 300 for the bulb. If I buy a 200 aftermarket kit can I replace all the stock stuff and run it?

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Did you try Club Lexus? Maybe one of their members could help ya out.

 

Yeah, most of those dudes are pricks, so I try to avoid it. I posted a thing a while back about tires, I had one blow out, (wife hit a ladder in the road) and was going to mix/match it with the same size but a yoko instead of the stock pirrelli, and they were givin me shit.

 

I don't see why you wouldn't be able to. If the parts have the same specifications... Factory shit is almost always extremely overpriced.

A good example is a factory OEM replacement converter for my car was quoted at $400.00 and I got a performance direct fit replacement for ~150.00

 

it will fit. just make sure the ballast is made for the specific ulb that your application uses

 

Have you tried fleabay?

 

wow $1500 for a ballast. I replaced a ballast in my mom's s2k, I think is was a couple hundred bucks

 

Junk yards?

 

That sounds way to high for such a simple part, if you have no other luck shoot me a PM and send me the specifics of the car, I was in the auto repair biz for a long time and still have strong contacts, I may be able to find something. But I suspect if you can find a part number you should be able to get a PnP ballast from one of the many HID conversion sites. Good luck!

 

what what?

 

We had a pre-owned LS400 back in the day and right outside of warranty the AC compressor went. The service manager was a dick about it, too. Dad wrote Lexus and service manager called and said they would pay for have the cost.

Lexus cares about its customer service and name.

 

claim a complaint report to the HQ.

 

I think this is the first time I hear about some malfunction on a Lexus

 

Lexus Customer Assistance Center

Phone: 1-800-255-3987
Fax: 1-310-468-2992

Monday – Friday, 8 a.m. – 9 p.m., EST
Saturday, 10 a.m. – 7 p.m., EST

Call, tell them your situation and see if they will goodwill you a replacement or work something else out. As Sarlacc said Corporate cares about their name.

 

Corporate cares about their name, especially now. Agree with the above, squeaky wheel gets the grease. Start calling and if they say no, keep calling until they say yes. Trust me.

 

Complaint? why?

Lexus didn't do anything wrong, and clearly his warranty was up.

I'm with Sarlacc on this one. Try talking to them first, and if that doesn't work out then you could alway go with aftermarket HID kit.

1500 for ballasts? 300 for bulbs? Geesh. Stealership.

 

06 IS350 takes D4S bulbs and ballasts which are different than D2S, which most cars equipped with HID headlights come with, you can find a ballast and a bulb for under $100 you just have to know where to look.

Here is an auction for a D4S ballast

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/LEXUS...Q5fAccessories

and here is an auction for a D4S bulb

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Phili...Q5fAccessories


Kit bulbs and ballasts wont work since the ballast gets mounted to the headlight. Install is pretty simple if you know your way around a few basic tools. You would have to take the bumper off and then the headlight in order to swap the old ballast with the new one alongside the bulb. Let me know if you have any other questions.

 

Take a look :
www.car-part.com

 

I was going to suggest to the OP to just PM you lol...the resident HID guru has spoken

 

is that the service advisor that told you that you are SOL? i would try to talk to the service manager if you just went out of warranty... i would ask him to help you out... normally ballasts should last a good while... did the ballast on your CL ever go out?

when i bought my 01 GS a few months ago, it didn't come with a warranty... but i brought it back to them a few times after i had the car for a few weeks to check out a noise for me... eventually they did some work on the brakes and replaced a serpentine belt... didn't charge me a dime... i thought the service was great...

if they won't help you... yes go to our headlight guru above...

 

a guy on CL was selling both headlights with the ballast and AFS for a pretty good price, way less then that.

honestly call cooperate or send an email to the owner of he dealership telling how [pissed and absurd that price was. they do care

 

http://www.clublexus.com/forums/is25...006-is350.html

this guy is selling the stock ballast from his headlights for 100 each, the car was in an accident and he is parting it out. also check out mobilhid on CL for some nice deals on HID bulbs.

 

Hmm my friend's IS350 didn't come with xenons...so he wired up an aftermarket set from one of club lexus' vendors, ill try to check on which one he bought and get back to ya

 

for dealerships being stealerships.

don't mind my posts in car talk anyway, 80% of of them are bullcraps.

 

gotcha.

 

my.is > cl

 

wat

 

oh the forum.

 

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