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I purchased a 2006 IS350 RWD this past summer. It has Bridgestone Performance (non all weather) tires. With some recent snows, there is no handling and no traction. Down right scary driving. I feel like an ice cube in a teflon pan. I've put an additional 100 lbs in the trunk by very little improvement. I'm hoping to make it through this winter and through the summer before buying 4 all season tires. Does anyone with RWD have a 'trick' they are using to get around on snow? Any recommendations on all season tires? I'm thinking Michelin.

Leahy, Actually the 'pens' have brushes also. On the outside it a pointy metal tip, but if your screw off the top, inside is a brush. I may be ignorant about my new Lexus paint colors, but I will tell you that from past cars, I had better luck using a toothpick for touching up stone chips. You can control the application better. Simply wet the end of the toothpick with paint, just wet, not a drop. Then fill the chip. Don't paint back and forth, just let the paint fill the hole where the stone chipped the paint. You may need to go back a few times to fill the chip completely with paint especially for those bigger chips. The brushes tend to be stiff and hard to control ending up with more paint around the chip than in the chip. The pens have a metal point that is suppose to transfer the paint to the chip just like the toothpick, but when the toothpick gets 'yucky' (<--technical word), you can throw away the tootpick and get a new one. The metal tip can be hard to control flow. Give the toothpick it a try.

I just bought some touch up paint pens for my 2006 IS350. It's the metalic white color. The Lexus dealer gave me one pen #040 and one #062 with verbal instructions "the instructions are on the pens". Both say apply and wait to dry. It does not say apply one, wait then the other and in what order. I'm assuming the 040 is the white and the 062 is the clear coat, but since both say the same, I wonder if I have the correct pens. Anyone run into this situation? I'm trying to touch up stone chips in the front bumper and hood. Any info is appreciated.

Thanks cduluk & intakerGS, I have played that senerio through my mind again and again and convince myself it is possible I had my foot on both the gas and brake. Then I think about what happened and think, no way! I wonder what Toyota\Lexus would say if 2 months from now it happened again? My used car warranty runs out in 30 days and I would be stuck with this rocket. PS intakerGS; I like the bug crawling on the screen. I can't tell you how many times I tried to wipe it off my monitor. Thanks Guys! Much appreciated.

I purchased a used 2006 IS350 one week ago. This afternoon while pulling into a parking space which was a 'pull through' spot, as I applied the brakes, the engine accelerated, As I pushed harder on the brakes, the engine accelerated more. I finally pushed the shifter into park and the engine accelerated very high while I kept pressure on the brake pedal. It wasn't until I took my foot off the brake that the engine dropped back to normal. The only thing racing at that point was my heart. Which isn't good for an old !Removed! like me. Here is my question(s); 1. Has this happened to anyone else? 2. Since this is a new car to me, do you think it is possible I was pushing the brake and the accelerator at the same time, which would cause the same outcome. The brake and gas pedals are closer together that my old Matrix. Has anyone had the same driver error? One side of me says take the car back to the place I bought it and demand an explanation. The other side of me says, ' you dumb ____, you were pressing the gas and brake at the same time. Any help or opinion is appreciated. Oh, No floor mats in my car.