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6-27-2016
I was able to access the puddle light housings in the side mirrors after being too lazy to try during the past couple of years. I used the method where you expose the two outermost screws behind each mirror by tilting the side mirrors with the door controls. I removed these two screws and was able to pry open the puddle light housing with a plastic pry tool.
I ordered the 6000k cool white flank 194 LED bulbs from VLEDS. The color and brightness are perfect!
Looking into having the halogen fog lights replaced with cool white LEDs next. Considering the X-Bright LEDs from IJDMTOY.
8-27-2016
Last month, I ordered 6000k cool white H11 LED fog lights bulbs from VLEDS. A friend was going to go under the car to install them but after some research on this forum, I found out there was only a hatch under the car for the driver's side fog light housing; there was nothing for the passenger side from what it sounded like. On my spare time, I ended up removing the fender liner on both sides to gain access to the driver's side and passenger's side fog light assemblies.
The fog lights do not exactly match the LED DRLs or HIDs in the headlights but I would rather have these LED fog lights than the stock halogen fog lights.
9-28-2017
I bought some Dupli-color Custom Wrap spray to paint the front oval, rear oval and rear IS350 emblems in Black Metallic. I used their Gloss Clear Coat to add the shine. It took a few hours to do this as I had to clean the surfaces, tape off the surrounding areas, wait for each layer of spray to dry before adding the next layer, and repeatedly fix mistakes. The rear IS350 emblem was easy, the front oval emblem was so-so, but the rear oval emblem was the hardest. I may redo the emblems when the weather is better because the coating is still not even on the emblems. Fortunately, it's removable.