BenjiNtheES300

I havent been on here for a WHILE... you guys will like this thread!!!... (This is where ive been spending my time) Sorry i forgot about you guys thought id get you some kind of update though) I made alot of changes to my car since you guys last heard from me... you guys are awesome :)

http://www.clublexus.com/forums/showthread.php?t=272289

Ah, man... that makes it even worse that you just got a taste of the 3-series before it got obliterated. Here's what I had to let go of.... (oh, wait, this is a Lexus forum... sorry, wrong car )

WOW... Now i bet that was a HARD one to let go of... its ok atleast we are talking about cars and not like computers or digital cameras, i know im still not over mine and it has been a year and it was not all that special. It was all thgat i asked for in a car from my dad, BMW, 5spd, rear wheel drive, and i had it for a whole 3 months, after that BMW i had a 97' Stratus, 96' VW Jetta, 97' GMC Safari, and now im up to the Lexus which i am definently not complaining about.

previous BMW owner here also, had a 95 325i super clean n nice handling. just so happened to develope a head gasket problem at the worst time last november right before finals and just when i had only bout $5 so i ehhhh hard to say but i sold it.....sweet car blk on blk.. very nice.. thinkin bout gettin a bmw again, found an e46 for 7k. wat u guys think, its forbidding to ask but which would you rather have if u had one choice BIMMER or LEX

HAHA... well lets see if i had the choice, not to offend any of the hardcore Lexus fans BMW's are more my type of cars; sporty, stiff, and handle like no other... although i wouldnt mind an IS300, in stick of course... also i prefer RWD in which you have very few options to have RWD in lexus where its still considered a "sports" car. Then again it all depends on the preference of the buyer I'm also planning on buying another BMW no idea on which one yet, Which E46 did you find for $7000, which model?

My dad got it fixed at some place while i was at work earlier today and now its ready for me to pick it up... $200... Cost a shiny penny!!

Very nice job, did you detail it yourself or did you have someone or place detail it for you?

Dark Taupe

Thanks! Now i just gotta figure out how you pronounce that word, lol

So my car has been having almost the same problem with the starter. It is hesatent to turn on when its cold out in the mornings. Battery is brand new, and all of my lights turn on as bright as they are supposed to. Yesterday i went to school after work which is 45 minutes from my job, went to class and after couple hours i was getting read to leave and it was about 20 degrees out so im running to my car because i couldnt wait to get in and turn it on to enjoy the HIGH heat and heated seats from lexus... get in and turn the key and all my lights turn on and the starter makes a winding noise like a fan or something just slipping bad... i call my dad and tell him and he says yah its probally just frozen so he tells me if i knock on it it should unstick i tried knocking on it a few times with my Mag-Lite and nothing happened, after about 10 minutes i call a tow truck and got it towed to my house so now my poor lexus is sitting outside of my house dead! How much is a starter for a 95 ES300? and how difficult are they to change yourself? Thanks in advance :cries:

I haven't seen or heard one on a Lexus before but I know that they sound great on all bimmers. I wouldn't imagine that they would sound horrible on a Lexus.

I mean either way i was just curious whether it sounded good or not but that is way to high of a price to pay for an exhaust especially on my 1995 ES300. It's a nice idea though :whistles:

I'd say you would be getting alot more replies to your thread if you posted it on HoFo (howardforums.com) and get alot better info.... :whistles:

I'm almost 19, Bought my 1995 ES300 3 months ago and it had about 160,000.

First Mod was removing my intake filter then put in some aftermarket fog lights, changed my grill to a custom made mesh grill. About a month ago i baked my headlights and took out the amber next day i baked my tail lights and took out the amber. Last weekend i changed my rear speakers to some higher wattage 6x9's with blue LED's

Planning on getting some IS300 wheels, lowering springs, and limo tints soon.

Future audio mods are a 7" monitor headunit, one maybe 2 12" subs and some blue LED lighted front door speakers.

Possibly a cat-back exhaust could be in the works...

My insurance as of now is hurting me like no other, at age of 17 I totalled my BMW, November of 2005 and it was my fault.. so now im paying about $2700 a year til im 21 which will be in 2009... :(

It sucks that they have to be so expensive. Those *BLEEP*s are making a killing off of those exhaust...and I bet they don't cost more than any other exhaust to produce. Yes, they are made for BMW's but you could cut and weld it on any vehicle.

They are expensive, and yeah they probally use the same damn materials to make them so it has to cost the same to make, id have to guess. Do you know anyone who put a Supersprint on a Lexus or even an ES300? How do you think that would sound cause i know they sound awesome on BMW's.

Could it possible be that the line(s) is clogged? or maybe when they replaced it they didnt wire it correctly or forgot something..

I'll give you guys a sneak peek. Give me some time, cuz I'm a lazy asssss !Removed!. You want top shots or under? Tubro isn't visible from the top.

Howabout some pix from the top AND the bottom :D

looks good man. I personally like the stock look though. Nice ES though.

What is your interior color called? I have the same color. It's like a purplish brown but what the official name?

Thats a good question, Lets ask the guys on the forum what our color is called, it is a brownish purple, Thanks for the compliment. You really like the stock amber in the lights rather than it out?

So guys what is this color called?

Get a Supersprint muffler....you'll love it.

I was looking to buy a supersprint for my bmw when i had it... unless you can get me an incredible hook-up or discount on one there is like noway that i would be able to afford it, LOL ... and arent they made for BMW's? i would have to like retrofit it to my Lexus then huh?

Do you guys think that anyone would be willing to pay me a decent price to have this mod done to their car?... Or is it just something foolish and pointless and would rather just do it themselves if they were bored out of their mind one day? :whistles:

I would have to agree "green light" for the black tint would have to be my opinion...

good info blk on blk, so im guessing im wasting my time looking for an aftermarket nice dual tip muffler on the web huh?... My E36 exhaust up there wasnt made for it, me and my dad actually cut off the stock one and welded on a flex pipe then that aftermarket universal muffler in my garage, it SOUNDED GREAT!... i guess im gonna have to the do the same thing over again... but i really wanted to ask anyone on this forum if they put on something aftermarket how an ES300 sounds with cat-back? Just so i get an idea of what to expect?

I don't think it's ricey. As long as it sounds tuned and doesn't sound like a !Removed! can.

Awesome, thanks alot man... now i just gotta find one that would most likely look good on my car... the one i posted a picture of would have been perfect but i had it on my old BMW E36 and i totalled it and didnt get a chance to take it off.. :(

So id say that your burning oil, you could have someone tear down that engine, hone the cylinders, put in new rings.

man oh man.... There is some HIGH mileage cars out there and i thought that my 95 ES300 was EXTREMELY high with 164,000 miles....

I heard from a friend of mine that he took out his "heater core" pressure washed it and it fixed his problem, i had a few cars in the past that had very low to no heat but i never kept them long enough to have it checked out or time to fix it myself, but i guess that could be something to look into. Hope this helps.

I got something to ask that seems to be a little bit opposite of what you guys opened this forum to talk about... Do you guys think it would be "ricey" to put an exhaust on a 95 ES300? Not one of those big huge !Removed!-cans or anything, but one of those that looks like a regular stock exhaust but it passes right through not all that loops and turns and filters inside the muffler... something like this one...

I'll be 19 next month and bought my 1995 ES300 few months ago as a last resort after giving up on finding an E36 BMW coupe like the one i had back in November of 2005 until i totalled her. Back to the ES i thought it would be a car i would keep for a few months, sell it and buy something i wanted, turns out im loving this car it has 164k miles and running very strong...

Bailed on the club? for suree!!! and yah its a bad feeling, what was the explosion under the hood? i guess since im talking to you everything turned out alright?... and yah i thought i went blind or we went under a bridge and something fell on top of us or something, we were in the middle lane and it was raining real bad, Thanks for the comment on the speakers i was hoping they wouldnt look "ricey" now im thinking about getting the illuminated ones for the front doors...?

Very nice, Sounds like im gonna have to try this out, when cold my car seems to start with a fuss... sometimes it'll make some kind of a bad noise like a loud clank when it turns over, do you guys think that this could be my problem? i havent taken a look at it yet so i dont know if its dirty or not.