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What's the specs on those wheels (inc tyres)? Does it rub & can you turn full lock?

I may be able to drop by depending on the final date.

Cheers! Well I've completed everything I had planned for the IS250. Fitted & installed a ram air intake. Sounds okay. Not loud/boyracer like. Whilst outright power would've improved, it's more responsive. Did take a few days for the ecu to relearn itself though & it's now running noticeably better than ever before. Did end up trimming the drivers side cover & factory duct, but it all came out nice & neat. Also had the car serviced & a wheel alignment done now that the suspension has settled. For anyone interested in knowing, with Tein S Techs, I ended up with 1.7deg negative camber rear & 1.9deg negative front (standard shocks). Final celebratory picture whoring:

Looks good. Love meshies!

Cheers Jay2. Had the resonator deleted today. Didn't take long at all (bout 20min). Took a few pics on the way home: Automotive photography is a bit of a hobby of mine. Don't get to practise it too often.

Sorry for the photo bombing, just trying to get some quality shots of the 2IS before the Wife scratches it.....lol Couple more from today:

Unlucky for me this wasn't for sale earlier. Have an intake in transit.

Used cars are used cars. Luxury car lease type buyers care about buying brand new, boy enthusiasts don't care as much. No different to used M3's selling @ 335 prices. Both sell. Back on topic, really love the new interior. Looks like a much enhanced, more luxurious version of the 86 interior (which is great as it is).

Nope :P You all got me amped up. Should've done the lip & wing yrs ago @ the very least. Btw, where do you guys go in Sydney to have the resonator deleted?

Finally some semi decent pics of mine. Finished with the exterior.

GFX lip. Finally!

Thanks boys! Appreciate the motivation to finally do something. Finally had the GFX lip painted & installed. Not as easy as expected, but the result speaks for itself. I'm now content with the exterior. Quick pics from this afternoon. My intake is currently in transit, so should go on in the next fortnight along with a resonator delete.

Lexus/Toyota are going up against the Audi A, Merc C, BMW 3 series etc. If they beat them, they'll do it by leveraging their own strengths & not by trying to be more like the competition. More variants/options is both a positive & negative. I for one, prefer the simplicity in the Lexus offering. Base petrol (enough for most people), maximised eco-friendly (hybrid), higher performance value petrol (350) & all out (ISF). Deciding on options is much easier too under a "bundling" strategy. Personally, I love it & think it's destined for success. Will consider changing my 08 IS250 to the coming generation IS350 when it's midway through its lifecycle.

IMO, it's a pretty minimal facelift with no real differences mechanically. Go with what's the best value buy at the time. Just be sure to get one with navigation & the Mark Levinson audio. If you pay 5k less for an 08 in same condition with the options mentioned above, I doubt you'd care much for the minor facelift. You can always get a GFX lip cheaply (which looks better than facelift IMO) & do a tail light change at a relatively small cost.

Tein S-Tech. Highly recommend them. Comfortable & decent drop. Not for ""stance" but I'm happy with them:

Wing, 15% tint, rims & Tein S Tech:

Hey everyone, Did an intro thread on here but thought it'd be a good time to make one now in the IS section since I actually made progress. Met a few of you already (Danny, Chris etc) & mentioned I'd oneday do a little something with my black 08 IS250 Prestige with Enhancement Pack. Purchased new & left absolutely untouched since about a month ago. The "builds" on my other cars have always been pretty stressful (strokers, rotors, big turbos, fancy IC setups etc), expensive & pretty difficult. Learned over the years about how far to take things & really didn't want to do much to the IS250. Thankfully, they're an excellent platform & come up pretty nice with well placed/thought out mods. Sold one of my cars (CL9) to a friend who didn't quite have enough to cover my asking price, so since he ran a window tinting business, I had him tint my RX7, Dad's IS350 & my IS250 to cover my losses. First "mod". 15% window tint. Had some wheels (Trafficstar style) laying around doing nothing (from a previous car), but wasn't quite convinced whether or not to put them on the IS250 as they weren't staggered. 19x8.5 +35 all round (225/35's). Thought it'd be perfect up front, but fail in the rear since there's some pretty aggressive rears going on the 2nd Gens. There was serious gutter rash & some fading on the polished lips of the wheels so that didn't help. Not really into spacers either. Took a close look & realised 1 of the tyres was not reuseable so thought I could "fatten" then up with the widest rubber recommended for a 8.5 wide rim, so fitted some nice new 255/35 Falken FK452's. Machined the lips while I was at it to get rid of the rashing. The appearance of "dish" was a concern for me as the wheels were black with a polished lip. So did some online searching whilst on the trains & discovered the whole "Plastidip"revolution.......lol Not so easy to find this stuff in Sydney, but eventually tracked it down along with a can or two of the ""glossifier". Results below: Test fitment: Now onto suspension. Didn't think springs would drop it enough, so thought I'd need to fork out for coilovers. Then I spoke to Chris & he seemed happy with his choice to go to Tein S Tech from coilovers & mentioned the ride was still good. I have a pregnant wife, so comfort is really important. Luckily, stumbled across some barely used Tein S Tech's for sale on gumtree for a bargain price (cheaper than ebay). The owner went for coilovers, so couldn't be bothered seperating the springs from the shocks so he gave those too. Easiest drop since no adjustment of springs compressors were needed. Shocks turned out to be in better condition than mine :) Took about 3hrs to fit yesterday afternoon & went along without too much drama. Accidentally broke the wire for the ABS/VSC, but was able to fix that properly. Also blew one fuse when removing the rear trim. Pretty easy afternoon though. Grabbed a rear ducktail wing, prepainted from ebay & secured it with the provided 3M tape too. Highly recommend it. Paint & fitment were excellent. Excuse the picture quality. I quickly snapped those up an hour ago while grabbing lunch. I already purchased a GFX front lip, which I dropped off this morning to have prepped & painted. Will be fitting that this Thursday & hopefully have time to do a proper photoshoot this coming weekend. Apart from the front lip, only other plans I have is to get a nice intake & delete the resonator. Bit ricey I know, but V6's sound so nice with a bit of roar. Cheers, Jay

Yeah. Looks great!

Toyota engines consume oil by nature. Just make sure you check it every once in a while & the motor will go on forever. My IS250 does the same (never let it go that low though) & I've seen many Toyotas/Lexus' do the same (I've rebuilt & had my share of fun with Toyotas too).

^ Gave that a go. Didn't work in my case. Thought the same.

Yeah, that's the exact same issue I had. Was frustrating especially since I rely on navigation when attending offsite meetings. Another option would be to leave a civil comment/complaint on their FB page if you can't get through to Lexus directly. Call 1800 023 009 first & see how you go.

You're in NSW I believe? If so, I think you'll be ok for a while as long as you're not attracting attention. Can't speak for Adelaide or Melbourne of course. One reason I'll likely never move down south of Sydney/NSW is simply because my other cars won't last a month down there & are too far modifed to pass without a huge amount of work (350rwkw stroked MR2 turbo & single turbo mild port FD RX7). Totally upto you though. But since you're on your P's, probably a good idea as you're automatically watched closely.

Let me know if you decide to part this out.

85mm not legal. But if you get defected (only really likely if you drive like a hoon/draw attention to yourself), it's easy enough to fix/clear. If it's not scrubbing, uncomfortable or becoming unmanageably low, I'd leave it :)

What suspension? How was it lowered? Those wheels look HUGE.