LH's were available in just recent years under certain part numbers. There was an application that RH was NLA and LH was available. Now it's just grim.
5 wire versus 4 wire but yes, that's entirely a good option. We've done that during spells others are hard to find.
both 4 wire plugs above in Kurt's post use the older and much wider 6.3mm solid brass terminals , the oval 6pin connectors on the 79+ lamps use a much smaller 2.2mm tin terminal , so simply swapping plugs like on the 2 older lamps between one another is not that simple , plus the oval 79+ plugs have the updated 5 ground wire white w/ black tracer stripe ...
- i can see NLA / disc. the 2 older square 4 wire plug lamps , but could never understand for as memory serves me , the whole RH only available topic has been going on longer then 5+ years now .............until well ..now i guess right ?
- i too like Roger , have a sense of the WHY the oval 6pin 12V lamps are suddenly on the Gazoo Racing list of fresh releases ?
- the trend has been they are or get axed from normal global availability like now or tomorrow ?
- perhaps the TOYOTA mindset is the now to transition to the generation 5 & generation 6 round 5-pin O-ring sealed plugs finally ? if so then somebody at TOYOTA is at the controls here , if not ? then its a Run-Away tail lamps train out of control ....?
- Roger , you mentioned the swapping of plugs , the below tech. image is of the device or lamp side 4-pin splash-proof's w/ orange foam gasket's inside , both it and the harness side mating matching buddies ( Female ) have never been availble anywhere , going back to the 1990's , these are Generation 2 plugs .....
- Kurt and Roger :
see TECH link here , i did a compressive study and thread on the entire 40 Series Tail Lamps Connector Plugs broad brush topic many years ago ,it gets into all points touched on above , including retrofitting all the plugs newer to older and vise versa , it will better explain perhaps , why the recent Gazoo addition of the OVAL 6pin lamps makes NO logical sense , at least to me anyway ....
matt ...
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