DANSLEX

Might as well save your coin and get the 350 imo.

I'm from Perth. Any others?

19" mate..don't waste ur time with anytihng else...if you are getting rims already go for the best...

Agreed! As much as 18" is an improvement over those ghey looking 16s, 19" is a lot better! It really fills up the wheel arches fully. Going 20 would be obscene though (I was tempted haha). IS has a really fat rear quarter, big rims suit it very nicely!

Here are my 19s. Mind you optically they look smaller due to the deep dish, so probably not the best example. Maybe somoene with no dish rims can post theirs up (there is a thread somewhere with people's pictures of their rims), but if you imagine my rim's spokes to be touching the edge of the rim, it would look a lot bigger optically.

I got mine with Lexus, about 1100 bucks per annum. Was cehaper than HBF, Allianz, RAC and all the rest.

I had a small cliam about a year ago (driver's door got a bit dented in the carpark), it got fixed smoothly no problems. ANd I was only about two months into the policy lol.

Ummm... is your map zoomed out?

It sounds good when you red line it, what are you talking about? Music to my ears!! :)

Yeah, why would you bother? It probably made the dude in the lancer think his POS is worthy a drag from an IS-F...

A Lexus mechanic told me a while ago they red lined a lexus V8 for a long time (can't remember how many minutes or hours) bfore it sh@t itself. Brief squirt like that will do no damage to it.

Are you serious???

You're taking the piss right?

I treid to do the reset myself before, and it didn't work for me for soem reason, so I dropped past the dealer and they reset the ecu in two minutes, for free.

Good work. Seems like a reasonable price now.

Can you describe the fault further, does the motor make noise, slow down and struggles to close it or something, or does it slide as normal, and then just before it is completely shut, it goes in reverse and opens back fully again?

Mine has done that three times in the last three years I had this car, all I had to do was reset the sunroof ECU...

That's seriosuly overpriced in comparison!

Check your fine print carefully, surely you can have it servied at any other Lexus dealer!

Love the rims man, great offset! Dish FTW!!

Good pont about oil. Having 15K service intervals seems a bit long, considering I get low oil level warnings about 2K kays away from one. I usually top it up straight after with about a litre of oil. Best thing to do would be to check your dipstick. You do notice the car run a bit quieter after a top up. Having said that, it doesn't sound anything like yours, something is definately not right. I was thinking maybe you have no oil, but then your dash would light up like a christmas tree...

How come your oil level drops significantly every 15K? You must a high mileage or worn piston rings?

I had it checked by Lexus, they said my oil consumption was within accepted levels. When I top it up, the dipstick shows oil level around, or just under the minimum mark. I have just under 100K kays on my odo. Car does over 25K kays per year so gets serviced every 8 months or so.

Good pont about oil. Having 15K service intervals seems a bit long, considering I get low oil level warnings about 2K kays away from one. I usually top it up straight after with about a litre of oil. Best thing to do would be to check your dipstick. You do notice the car run a bit quieter after a top up. Having said that, it doesn't sound anything like yours, something is definately not right. I was thinking maybe you have no oil, but then your dash would light up like a christmas tree...

That sounds wrong, something isn't right, perhaps the timing chain needs greasing? My 06 IS has over 90K on the clock and still sounds like a brand new one. Be persistent!

Must be something about bridges hey! Towards the end of my maintanence cycle (about 1K kays away) I get low oil level warning on my dash, and those only come on when I cross over bridges...

Sounds exciting! Even if you don't get your setting changed up front, you can rock up at anytime and they will change it for you for free, only takes two minutes. Look through your manual once you get it, at all the options available, decide how you want your car set up and come back. Or just read through it while you're having your coffee at the dealership and have it changed then :)

Intruder alarm can only be changed right after you swithced the car off, and before the red flashing security light comes on, if I remember correctly. It does get mentioned in the manual too :)

I'm not 100% sure about the grille, it will probably be less 'out-there' on production models, but this one seems like someone cut out half the front bar and left a big hole in it...

Haha, great minds think alike dislexsic ;)

I'm not gonna make up my mind about the grille until I see a production version, they tend to be less extreme than concept.

I don't believe that is the new IS either. From various reports they are meant to have a certain type of hour glass shaped grille in all new models going forward, kind off like on the LF-Gh concept:

http://www.caradvice.com.au/114824/lexus-lf-gh-concept-revealed-ahead-of-new-york/

Post up your sales contract!! :P

I had an '02 IS300 SL with factory HIDs

Earlier models didn't come with satnav I don't think, only from 01 onwards I believe.

Ummm, dunno what else.

Does anyone agreed with the reviewer that the Lexus dash/centre console looks dated compare to the BMW/Volvo?

Nah, I don't agree at all. The BMW dash looked dated back in 2005 when the car came out! It's horrible.

Dunno about Ovlov, I woudln't even bother looking at one.

I think the IS dash looks great.