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Knightshade

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  1. Staggered wheels are not meant to be rotated. If you want to be able to rotate tires then find someone with a stock set of 17" wheels and use those.
  2. If you measure it you'll find your impression is not correct. The brake pedal travel/effort is more linear though, which might be what is making you think that. The brakes stop the car exactly as well as they did before though.
  3. It is done for free on 06 and 07 models. The TSIB only covers those years, despite the 08s having the same problem. Your dealership MIGHT do it anyway for you as a courtesy, or they might not, you'd have to ask. And yes the 'fix' is changing the pads to an alternative pad they offer that is low dust but stops just as well.
  4. Complete list of all the settings they can change is here- http://www.clublexus.com/forums/attachment...mp;d=1168127018 You get one free adjustment in the first 1 yr/12k miles (one adjustment means one "list" of settings you want changed, not just a single setting, but you'll have to do them all at once...after that they'll likely charge for changes)
  5. You have to buy an ipod interface kit. Lexus sells one, but it's not compatible with satellite radio VAIS sells one that is, so does USA Spec. All of em will be in the 200-300 buck range, plus cost of install
  6. http://www.clublexus.com/forums/attachment...mp;d=1168127018 Extensive list of the LPS settings (many many more than are listed under your car on lexus.com) Biggest item for me was getting the DRLs turned off
  7. 1k is when I had my LPS done... I'd driven the car enough to have an idea what I wanted changed (very little in my case, you might be different though)
  8. No, that's not correct. Currently they are completely separate companies using completely different satellites for broadcast. XM uses XM Rhythm at 115° west longitude and XM Blues at 85° west longitude in addition to a network of ground-based repeaters. These are in geostationary orbit. The XM signal uses 12.5 MHz of the S band: 2332.5 to 2345.0 MHz. Sirius has 3 satellites that are in a geosync highly eliptical orbit, not geostationary so their position changes throughout the day. Sirius broadcasts using 12.5 MHz of the S band between 2320 and 2332.5 MHz. There's some other technology differences as well... for example the Sirius signal is separated into three carriers, one each for the two satellites, and the third for the terrestrial repeater network where available. Sirius receivers decode all three 4 MHz carrier signals at once to achieve signal diversity. This is in contrast to XM which uses six carriers and decodes three 2 MHz carriers to economize on receiver power consumption and complexity at the cost of channel-changing speed. The above is why if/when the two companies DO merge you won't pick up the others signals on old receivers.
  9. Not to mention it's entirely possible to lose mileage from the knock/!Removed! cycle so you don't actually save anything in that case
  10. The IS-F uses a complete different engine, none of its parts will work on an IS250. If you mean the F _sport_ products, which have nothing whatsoever to do with the IS-F, you would be looking at somewhere in the 3-5 hp range for the intake and 5-7 hp for the exhaust. If that's worth somewhere around $2000 installed is up to you. But for not a whole lot more than that you could've picked up over 100 hp getting a 350 instead.
  11. I guess that's the beauty of a lease!!! I can save a few bucks with regular and don't have to lie to anyone! Sure hope the dealer never checks with the ECU and notices all the knock/!Removed! events... I'd imagine someplace in the lease agreement it expects you to maintain the car properly, which'd include the required fuel. I doubt they check, and it's LIKELY the engine won't be damaged enough in a couple years of a lease, but seems like a pretty stupid gamble to save $2-3 a fillup.
  12. My suggestion if you're looking for performance is save your money, it won't do much. If you must though- The Joe Z intake will add as much or more power than any other system for the least money. The F-sport is about the same system for several hundred more, but it has a CARB number so it's "legal" in California For exhaust if you want to stay legal the Tanabe is probably your best bang for the buck, around 600-ish and will add 5-7 hp and is about as quiet as aftermarket gets... if you want a LOUD system there's any number of other options from HKS and others for a fair bit more money... probably the nicest system overall now is the new Joe Z exhaust, it's spendy (around $1600 for the "legal anywhere by california" system) but it's very nice.
  13. It's better than the BMW because it actualls runs more than 1 day in 10. (and has an interior designed in this century too) the IS350 is a better comparison to the TL (well, the TL-S anyway) and the G35 (the G37 is a coupe, two different vehicles)... and the 350 pretty handily beats both in just about every way.... certainly much nicer interior and reliability than either... performance much better than the TL-S and on par with the G35, etc... When the 350 coupe is out you can compare it fairly to the G37 (and likely favorably) In any event, the 3rd gen IS isn't likely to see the market before the 2012 model year... they ran 3 years with the current vehicle, the 09s will have a very minor facelift, then likely 3 years with that design, so that puts you into the 2012 model year...
  14. I've never understood -any- coin holder in a car. That's what pockets are for.
  15. Well...the parts are under $300 and it'll take about an hour to install... it's all plug in stuff just pop a few trunk panels off then back on and such... everyone gets 3 free months as a trial regardless of how the unit gets in the car... so it's up to you if the extra couple of hundred was worth an hour or so of your time... (plus the wash and vac :P)
  16. Yup, and pretty easily.... all the work is done in the trunk and it's plug and play... (BTW, all 2ISes 2007 and newer have the shark fin) Directions here- http://www.clublexus.com/forums/showthread.php?t=297124 Those with an 06 (no sharkfin) will find directions for them in post #99 in the thread (they are largely the same except for needing to add a separate antenna
  17. it's at least 4 octane from 91 to 87.... and that's kinda like saying I don't understand how an A1C blood sugar of 11 can be that much worse than 7... but ask a diabetic. 11'll have you going blind and losing appendages in moderately short order, 7 is normal. If the car is programmed with timing for 91 octane then running 87 will cause knocking, which damages the engine. The knock sensors detect the knock, and !Removed! the timing... if they didn't do that you'd need a new engine fairly shortly. Then after a bit the computer adds timing back, because it's still programmed for 91 and has to assume the knocking was a fluke event, so it knocks again...the sensors see it, and the ECU retards timing again. The retarding timing is why you have measurably less power with 87. So thanks to the ECU and the sensors you're only damaging your engine a little at a time instead of killing it fairly quickly. It's still a pretty stupid thing to do to save a whopping $2-3 a tank.
  18. This is why you need to read through the detailing forum on here. This is not always true. I for instance do not like Zaino. It has always been true in the experience of myself and many others, even if some people feel otherwise :P There's a decent list of factual scientific reasons Zaino > Wax from a longevity and protectorant perspective as well... from an aesthetic perspective it's more an opinion thing Zaino generally beats NXT in the testing I've seen as well FWIW
  19. Nav has nothing to do with XM If your IS is an 07 or newer it's totally plug and play regardless of having nav, ml, or any other option on the car using the lexus OEM parts. Installs in your trunk, easy to do yourself. If your IS is an 06 it's the exact same thing except you'll need an antenna too (available to work with the kit from sewell as well) so it's only slightly less easy to do yourself.
  20. You get better mileage in warm weather for one Summer gasoline has different contents in it too in case they changed over recently at your local stations. There's plenty of other factors that impact mileage too. But I can tell you that all else being equal it's impossible to get better mileage from lower octane fuel. There's nothing chemically inherent in lower octane that can cause that to happen. If your car is designed for 91 you will either get the same or worse with 87 if all else is equal depending on how much the ECU is having to adjust Problem is all else is virtually never equal. In the meantime you're damaging your engine though. Like I said, if you don't plan to keep the car a long time, and plan to lie to the next buyer, this won't be a problem for you, as the damage will likely take a long time to be apparent.
  21. Actually, Top Tier is a marketing gimmick... the difference in additives between top tier and the bare legal minimum gasoline you can sell in the US is less than 1 cent a gallons worth... A twice-yearly gasoline-quality survey by the trade group Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers "hasn't identified any quality differences based on geography or brand," "I see these ads on TV where Shell says, 'We filled up with Shell and some other gasoline and saw a difference,' and I think it's a myth," says Thomas Darlington, engineer and consultant at Air Improvement Resource in Novi, Mich., and formerly at the EPA. "It's hype," says Dennis DeCota, executive director of the California Service Station and Automotive Repair Association. "It would be very hard to differentiate" among brands. I'm not saying to go buy Smiley brand gasoline... but all gasoline sold in the US has to meet the same minimum standards, and the notion that you should go out of your way to buy from Conoco instead of, say, Mobil, because one signed onto a marketing gimmick and one didn't, is just silly. All the quotes/info above from a nice article USA Today ran on Top Tier about a year ago BTW
  22. Assuming it actually says ML on the invoice when you bought it I'd certainly complain. That's a $1500 "option" on cars equipped with nav.
  23. They are including them. I have a 2008 IS 350 and they did the TSB brake pad change at my Lexus dealership without question. They're also NOT including them. My dealership refused the TSIB on my 2008 IS350 3 days ago because 08s aren't listed on the TSIB.
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