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this is the usual orange flasher. not very upto date


changing this is very easy, this guide will also show you what you need to do to change the bulb in your side flasher should it fail.

first step, grab something thin and plastic like your Lexus Owners Club Card as used here, and slide it into the rubber seal as shown here.



Push until the end of the flasher pops out

then remove the flasher as shown here



the grey connector on the back twists until it unlocks from the flasher unit, a bulb can be replaced or a clear flasher unit replaced with an orange bulb.
fitting the flasher unit back onto the car is just a matter of checking everything fits together nice and tight and then pushing the unit into the hole and thats it
Job Done

Clear Flasher on my GS300 now looks like this.


A vast improvement I think and its a quick and low cost cosmetic mod.

Many thanks to Chris Shipley for supplying the parts.

nice one brett - looking good.


on my list to do - think the orange sides look awful, especially on a dark car like mine.


you get the sides from an RX?

how did you get the bulb out brett?

New ones come complete, unless you just brought the lens which means you will also need orange bulbs.

I've got the complete unit Col, with orange bulbs (wouldn't have had clear lenses and white flashers )


its just the only the lens seems to twist off, leaving the bulb in the holder

there is a little plastic clip you have to push down whilst pulling the connector. Don't let go of the connector and let it fall back into the wing

If you cannot get the connector off you could just swap the bulbs over - they just pull out.

twist off the orange/clear bit, then just pull out the bulb with a firm grip.
i left the old bulb holders on and just swapped the bulbs.

thats cheating!




its bugger to get that clip off - my fingers are killing me, and I've had no success at all.

Yeah, thats exactly why I left mine as they were too hehe
Go on Matt, you can cheat too!!!

think I'll wait until I get some feeling back in my fingers, and go back just swap the bulbs


they just pul out yeah?

yup
just pull out
same as the side lights.
but getting the sidelight holders out of the GS!!! thats another story.

I've just done the same on my Mk1 GS, looks even better if you buy a pair of the chromed amber bulbs. No orange shows through at all when they aren't flashing.

we want pics !!

You dont need the clear bulbs if the lens is smoked ....i got an amber 6 led bulb in mine link