smooth1

Those hurt to see, like watching someone else get a swift kick in the bolts....

He did the step by step. See click link under the banner in his signature?

It's funny that this thread was started. I was about to start one and call it "An Issue of Taste." Here is my dilemma, I saw this car at the light and took this pic: Now this took alot of work, time and money. As a person who has put more than his fair share of time on the end of a wrench, I can appreiciate how much effort it takes to acheive this, and I can respect the workmanship. But come on, this looks like it belongs in a Circus! Is it just me? Here in Florida I see these all the time. Theres a real sparkly Green and Yellow one that I've been trying to get a pic of as well around here, and the other day I saw a Maroon and Gold one. Man, I'm sorry, but I think their just FUGLY!

I'm not really sure I understand you post or your question. Are you saying that you just replaced the battery and the car won't start? Do you have any power at all? Does the aux. come up if you press the start button? Or nothing? If it's nothing, then you probably put a new dead battery in the car.

Sounds to me like you haven't programmed the memory correctly, or the seat is already in the saved postion.

The rims look great! The 17's are actually a perfect fit to the tire well. Very nice job. I think it makes the car look a bit more classy, and upscale.

Also, whatever you do, use painters masking tape on the side edges of the center console dash first. That plack plastic is like a rubberized coating and it scratches really easy.

You won't be able to use the stock amp. Your going to have to run new wires from the speakers directly to the head and bypass the amp, or get a new amp. The amp has a 12v switch. I've only seen 2v and 4v switches on most aftermarket preamps. And be careful with running directly to the stock speakers, as thier only 2 ohm impedence, and most aftermarket is 4 ohm also. You can do it, just be a bit more careful as you can blow the speakers alot easier.

Seeing as how there's not a whole lot you can do under the hood, I figure people are still bumping the audio system, so....... let's see whatchya got!

Thanks. I ordered the VML and the SL2xmt with CNP 2000 XM satellite radio tuner today. I plan to install them myself. Michael at Vais Technology assured me that they will coexist peacefully with integration into the factory radio/nav system and I will still have the AUX INPUT in the console. Thanks for the tip. Yeah, that's going to be a nice set up. You'll be very happy with those.

I'm originally from Wisconsin, and yes they do! Don'tcha know? Yo ay? ;)

I just went to the Denase web site and ordered it, along with the paint sealant.

Denase Wet Glaze. I highly recommend it!

It's kind of funny, I read this last week, and while I don't know if this falls into a Karma thing or not, it non the less happened. Yesterday when I was closing up the shop, one of my employees had left one of the radios on in the back. So as I was walking towards it to shut it off, I could hear the newsperson talking about a wreck that had occured and how they had the road completely blocked off. This road was my way home. So I thought, wow, how lucky, the guys never use this radio, and the one day they did, they forgot to turn it off and it just so happened on this day there was a big accident on my route home! Great, so I mentally remapped a different way home as I turned off the light and locked up to go home. I never go home the way I decided to go this time. But I figured it would navigate me right around the traffic and put me back on the route I normally take home right after where the accident had occured. As I went down the street I never travel, I came to a red light and stopped behind another car waiting at the light. We were the only 2 cars at the light. Inside that car I saw two people hitting at each other. My first thought was "kids" horseplaying in the car, but as I started to watch a bit closer, the passenger was really hitting the driver! The passenger looked back and saw me watching. I started to get out of the car when the driver, who turned out to be female, opened the car door and screaming and holding her face with blood everywhere, fell out of the car, got up, and started running across the street to a gas station. The male passenger was yelling profanities and such ran around the car and jumped in and started to take off. So, I followed the car until I could get a pen and wrote down the tag number and called 911. It all became somewhat surreal after that. I described what I had seen to the 911 operator and they put me on hold very breifly and introduced someone else to the conversation. I again explained what happened and gave them the tag number, the description of the car and where we were heading. I could tell I was talking to an officer directly in a car, he asked me what I was driving and I told him, and about what seemed like 30 seconds later I heard him say, "I see you, pull over out of the way." I looked in my rearview mirror and saw the police car gaining on me fast. Wow! I thought, that was fast! So I moved over, the police car turned on his lights and siren and the car we were following took off! Wheels squeeling and engines revving, he turned onto another road and they were gone. I was still on the phone with the 911 operator who was asking me other questions about the victim, like what was she wearing and stuff like that. After that the 911 operator thanked me for calling this in, and we ended the conversation. About 3 hours later I got a phone call from the police department, the officer I was on the phone with in the car wanted to thank me for the great detail, and key information. They chased him down and arrested him. Appearently this wasn't just a domestic fight, he had carjacked the girl from a grocery store parking lot, and when she refused to comply with him in the car, he started to hit her, which is the part I saw. I asked if they needed me to make a statement, but he said he doubts it as they have enouph evidence as it is Thanks to my call and info. Later that night I saw it on the news. LOL!! They said " A good sameritan called 911 and blah blah blah...." that was me! LOL! Afterwards I've been thinking about this. It's like it was fate. I never go that way! The guys never use this radio. But it all just happened, like it was supposed to happen that day. I asked the officer if she was going to be ok, and I was told while she will have to go to the hospital and get some stitches and patched up, she will be fine. But if I hadn't been there, who knows what could have happened.

I see the similarities but there is no comparison to total look of the IS vs. the other car!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everyone knows a what a LEXUS is, but hardly anyone what Tuberon is!! I actually think this car is set square against cars like the 350Z. Other then the front fascia, the rest of the car is very close. The roof lines are almost identical, and the rear flares are very close also. Heck, even the side view mirrors look the same, almost interchangable! LOL!! I know alot of people are thinking Hyundai will change the Luxury car market, but at this point, all I can think to myself is let's just wait and see. Hyundai has been very good at hiding their troubles. This is an article from an industry mag that we get. and this : This is why the prices are what they are and how they manage to unprice the market? And how can you expect consistant qualty from a car company with *BLEEP*ed off employees every year? I don't know, I don't think I want my car being assembled by a bunch of guys that are grumbling about pay, work condidtions and weather or not they ware going on strike again in the afternoon. And I thought the Hyundai Genesis sedan was primarily targeted againt the Nissan Teana? It's not here in the US, but a nice car! Doesn't this car look really familiar?

Oh! Right, Then I'll have one FOR you! LOL!!! I just find em around and download em on my drive.

I don't think it resembles the IS350 in any way, shape, or form. It looks more like a Tiburon to me...not that there's anything wrong with that :P That pic is WAY over photoshopped!! It looks almost like a cartoon pic.

Happy Birthday Denny! I'll have one to celebrate with ya!

! That's some funny stuff right there! Hahahaha...

Excellent point, blake918. I have never used Amsoil. Gee, I think I'll get some Amsoil and try it!! :D I have never belonged to a cult, though. :o I just called 7 Amsoil dealers that I got from the Amsoil website in a 50 mile radius from my zip code. Interesting... only one person answered the phone number. He was busy and has to call me back. 5 of the dealers I called didn't answer the phone and I had to leave a message. One of dealers listed didn't have a telephone listed. I did get a call back from one "local dealer" about 30 minutes after leaving a voice message. He couldn't tell me a price for 7 quarts of 5W-30. He said he'd have to call me back??? First impression..... Customer Service sucks!! If I have to go through this much trouble to find out how to buy or determine my cost to get Amsoil from a "local dealer" .... I'll just stick with whatever I've using!!!!!!!!!!! ;) It's available at any auto store.... about 500 in a 50 mile radius from my zip code!!!! Based on my income earnings, I just blew a twenty dollar bill just trying to BUY the damn stuff. :o I don't think I'm a "cult" kinda guy!!! :P Just buy it from the site here. Also, Central Auto Parts stores sell Amsoil.

Have you checked your intake piping? Just make sure the intake duct and air filter is all clipped properly and functioning the way it should be.

I read your first post. I don't think it's coil packs as cylinders 4 and 5 both run on different coil packs. It actually sounds more like a fuel injector problem. The seals probably went out. The car is also probably in "limp mode". it's a safety logic programmed into the ECU. That's why it revs the way it does. I would get some rebuilt injectors and just replace them. Then reset the ECU.

Which is......?

Now Smoothie, why in the world would I surprise you? :D This is the web, everytime I log in it's like opening a new box of Cracker Jacks and finding the secret prize inside. It's always full of surprises and fun stuff. LOL! WOW!!! Smoothie, dang, I'm proud of you!! For this I'm awarding a Gold Metal!! Finally, someone has asked the obvious question!! Do 25,000 mile oil changes cause any more wear than 5,000 mile oil changes?? You have made my point and have stated what I've been saying all along..... WHERE'S THE PROOF??? Marketing hype and UOA testing does NOT provide proof. UOA testing can analyze the oil for "wear particles", but it CANNOT, or has not yet, correlate the PPM to some kind of actual data that X number of wear particles at XXX parts per million causes .xxxx amount of wear on the primary oil lubricated parts in an engine. Proof = test data, real live, real world actual test data. Since Amsoil has been around for decades with their claims (which may be real), but why haven't they, for example, taken a few cars and performed a test like Consumer Reports did with 75 taxi cabs in New York City, only instead of running them 60,000 miles, tested them for 200,000 or 500,000 miles in actual typical daily driver conditions?? Blakes personal testamony isn't proof ? He just said, he does 25k mile or 1 year oil changes and has 175K miles on his car. And it runs perfect. And I thought that taxi cab test was done comparing a 60k mile single Amsoil oil change to 20 dino oil changes in the same period and mileage, and showed there was no "significant differences." And, by contast to your experience, I don't know ANYONE who has or will go 25,000 miles on an oil change - with any kind of oil. So you just don't beleive this. This is where your need for proof comes from. You just refuse to beleive it's possible? Looking at it in perhaps overly simple terms - There are 2 main parts to the Synthetic vs Petroleum comparitive anlalysis. 1) actual LEVEL of protection under specific conditions 2) cost/performance ratio - extended mileage (does the extra cost for synthetic oil provide protection at 25,000 miles) . And, in my opinion, neither one has been proven satifactorily. Wait, math has to be proven now to? From my math of what Blake put up, you would have to be buying Synthetic oil for $1.40 per quart, or about .85 cents for dino oil, and about $2 per filter on synthetic oil changes and around a 1.45 per filter with dino oil to match the prices Blake is getting right now. Not to mention that you had to do 5 oil changes to his 1 on Synthetic, and 8-9 in dino. That's not a good cost ratio? Ok, let's just cut it in half and do the math at 12.5K oil change intervals instead. Blake still comes out ahead, by about 30 bucks. In terms of the use of either oil, the less tangible, unscientific, and perhaps more significant aspect is simply the "feelings", comfort, and personal experiences of the people you use synthetics over the people you don't. In other words, it costs more and the claims are better (25,000 mile gurantee), so therefore it must be better. Treating your vehicle "better" feels good to many... like frequently cleaning and waxing your vehicle. Again, here I just leave it up to each individual to make thier own choices, seeing as how there are so many different ways to go. And so long as you follow the recommended oil change intervals, wether it be 3k, 5k, 10, 15k, or 25k miles, whatever works for you is great. Yes or no? There is lots of "perception" and conjecture, for example blake918 said he got a 4% impovement in fuel economy when switching to synthetic oil. I track and record my fuel consumption EVERY tank in the Camry. It varies from tank to tank 4%. :P blake918 is convinced he got an immediate benefit, and maybe he did. Is it perception or real?? And yet when presented with facts and truth(fact: Blake does his oil changes at 25k miles.Truth: His car has 175k miles on it and it's running just fine.) You choose to just overlook them? Is that your perception? I am convinced that synthetic oil flows better at cold starts in very cold ambient temperatures. And, as I've stated I'd be using it if I lived in very cold climate - why?.... probably my "comfort factor". Would my decision to use synthetic oil vs dino oil be based on facts relative to actual engine wear due to oil protection..... NO.... I don't have any proof yet. BUT... if we studied the vehicles driven in Minnesota and the vehicles in San Deigo, would we see a difference in engine life or longevity? You already do, you just don't realize it yet. Remember when getting a motor to 100k miles pretty much meant the end of the life of that motor? If it even made it that long? Now 250k+ miles on a motor is growing more and more common. Better materials along with better fluids and lubricants have fostered that. Those are facts. Your IS transmission is sealed and doesn't even require transmission fluid changes anymore. Maybe their just using that same old transmission fluid from the 80's? Or maybe not. (hopefully not!) Maybe some day oil will be the same for motors? no more oil changes needed??? Maybe. For me, the synth vs dino oil use continues to have more questions than answers.

I'm kinda confused here. The 1MZFE? those aren't grey cast iron sleeves? cast pistons and forged connectors? When we refer to the Vega, Camaros, Vettes of the old, I think we should just call those the "learning" years. LOL!! And as for your break in, that's exactly correct. Dino to break in, synthetics to run the life after that. Even in the 2JZ's, I've seen 3 or 4 motors blown and it was always cylinder number 6. These motors were turbo's and heavily modded though. So we try to set the fuel trims a bit richer on that cylinder to make it last longer.