smooth1

How can you not see the ground with those HUGE side veiw mirrors?

Welcome to the LOC! I would just get one with the Nav screen if you want that feature. save yourself alot of headaches and hassles. The stock nav does more than just nav, as it also provides touch screen control for the AC, radio, and few other arguably useful/useless menues and options. It's also tied into your steering wheel buttons and has the back up camera. I also heard, and I am working on it now, that with the Ipod interface kit, (I'm not sure it's the one Lexus is selling, but an aftermarket one), that also allows you to watch movies from your Ipod on it. I'll have to verify that and get back to you though once I find out the rest of the story and see for myself.

reminiscing

try explaining this to your insurance agent!!

How does it differ? Well, it's HID and Citroen is not. The Lexus headlamp system comes with a beautiful IS, GS, LS, ES, RX, and LX behind them, and the Citroen headlamp system doesn't. :P While the Citroen had some very cool factors for back in the day, ( leveling suspension system, and turning headlamp system. I think a much better comparison would exsist among other notable cars that had "futuristic" asperations. such as 1967 Amitron. A hybrid car in the 60's???? or the Bristol 407 which I just thought was a great looking car even for the time. Or the first self adjusting brake system by Studebaker, or the 1928 Plymouth Model Q Coupe with Hydraulic brakes.

Have you had the "I can't stop looking back at it!" delimna after you just found the perfect parking spot at some resturaunt or shopping plaza yet? ;)

That looks awsome!!!! I would do that in heart beat! (Once I learned how.)

Stymie

I saw this car about 3 or 4 months ago. They were still down on power and working out some bugs. But a very nice car.

Alright, this is why we don't drink alot in front of a computer. You even typed in your slurr!!

"energetic"......

It's just a plastic cover that goes over that. It's not vital to the engine running or anything. If you really want to get it replaced, I think you would have alot more luck signing up with the UK club at the top of the page, as they have the IS 200 over there, and here in the US we have only the IS 300 version, which is a completely different engine and layout.

no the search feature works for everyone. I do concede the fact that you have to have 4 letters or more to do a search for some reason, which makes ECT a harder search. Try "transmission control" in the 06-08 IS 250 / 350 topic forum.

If you do a search here, you'll find some discussions about the ECT switch. I have noticed the car does respond more with less accelerator input, and the shifting logic changes also. I can feel it downshift in the power mode when I brake, but in normal I don't feel that at all. I have also noticed and come to really like the transmission will hold a gear much better when going into the twisty section of road. When I am just about to clip an apex, the transmission seems to just be happy to stay in gear even when I come off the throttle all the way, so when I press on the throttle coming out it just picks up where it left off and keeps everything really smooth. It took a few times to get used to it, but now I have come to really appreciate some of those little changes.

You might just need to lube the clutch lever itself. Get some lithium grease, (Don't use WD40 for this, it won't last long enouph, and will drip down the lever to the foot plate.) or some bearing packing grease, and look under the dash on the floor board, you'll see the pivot assembly for the clutch lever. (The pedal you push down with you foot.) Grease that junction up and work the pedal back and fourth to get good coverage and saturation. You should be good to go. Make sure you wipe away any excess grease so as not to get it on the foot plate. That could be dangerous if your foot slips off the clutch.

I'm contemplating a button to arm twin 50 mm cannons and an auto targeting system for those spots. LOL!!! You could do what Re*BLEEP*en7 did.......click me to see I have to say though, I don't really recommend this. But everyone has thier tastes and ideas.

When it comes to VW, it seems, imo, that one, they have an identity crisis on thier hands. 15 years ago they had started getting thier own look, and even though it was somewhat quirky, it had potential. In the previuos body style to the current line up, it started to come together, then they switched direction altogether and now look like a meek Audi. What happened? What I meant about not being enouph car is, the only one I would have liked is the Jetta RGT. But that's not even available here. A 600 hp. twin turbo 3.2 liter V6 is my idea of a fun daily commute back and fourth to work! Low 11 sec. quarter mile times are no joke! That's a serious car. But I think even if that car was available, it would have been near 80-100K dollars. Which brings the the Nissan GTR in, and well, they just aren't enouph car to match that. Looking at the R32, 240 hp, 0-60 in 5.8 sec. and 18/23 MPG with premium required, optioned out your looking at around 35K for that. And it's a tiny car! 35k!!?? your right in Lexus territory. Just not enouph car to justify that. You see where I'm coming from? Everytime you look at the VW, and you look at other cars in that price range, you just wish they offered more, or priced it less, as other cars seem to just be over it. Look at the Eos. Does that look like a 40K car? I sure didn't think so. It reminded me more of a Paseo or older Celica. I know, folding hardtop convertables are expensive, but to think you could have an IS 350 or a Volkswagen Eos for almost the same money just boggles the mind!

Btw, you know you have set the stage now right? We all want pics of the wedding and reception , and the room now, all posted here in this thread. It just won't be complete without it. So,,where's the peekturez mayn!?

Congratulations Matt!! Tell your new wife I said "Hello Mrs. Starnes."

It's in the How to at the top of this page. http://us.lexusownersclub.com/forums/index...showtopic=49287

That is the absolute best color combo they make! ;) Welcome to the LOC!

The reason you see alot more rear tire flats than you do fronts is because the nail or screw is usually laying on it side when the front tire rolls over it. But that causes the nail or screw to bounce around or spin up, and then it gets hit again by the rear tire, which now may not be sideways anymore.

I have found over the years it's just more about design and build philosophies. The German car mfgrs. just seem to have different goals than the Japanese, who again have different goals than American car mfgrs. Americans build sledge hammers, Germans build clocks, Italians build artworks, and Japanese build scalpes. It depends on your tastes and which catagory suites you. My biggest pet peave with the BMW is the way the steering wheel feels in my hands. And I really don't like the current line 3 series styling. I liked the previous body style much more. MB is to stodgy for me, and anything I start to like comes with a huge price tag. Audi has been a huge dissapointment over the years, and Volkswagen is just no where near enouph car. Cadillac only has the CTS which is a huge car no matter what, and American car mfgrs have nothing to offer in the luxury sedan market at all.

To use the Metra: 1) See this yellow wire: You have to open the harness: And move the yellow wire to here: So afterwards you have this: I have wired them both ways, with the amp and without. Without seemed to sound better. Espeically if you plan on using aftermarket speakers as well.

Not if that was your only one. Do you have the owners manual and the other paperwork that came with the car new? In there is a carded key that has the code. you can take that to the dealer and have them program another one for you. You might be able to get a progremmable key from ebay, and then take it in to have them do the programming, that might save you a few bucks. The code in the ECU has to match the code on the key.