40k Service With Turbo

[Adie]

My 4 year / 40 k mile service is due this month. With having the turbo conversion and lots of other things upgraded on my car, is it worth having the service done by lexus? Or by another garage (maybe that specialises in performance cars)?

I've emailed Leicester and the standard sevice costs £418. They said they can service the car with the turbo fitted. Just dont want them fiddling with bits they shouldn't be. On top of that they'll give 15% dicount for LOC goldmembers.

The service consists of: oil & air con filter replaced

brake fluid, diff oil , engine coolant . & remote Battery in key.

I've already changed the air con filter so that wont be included in the price either.

Would it be better to supply my own brake fluid, diff oil or engine coolant or would the ones that Lexus supply be more than adequate for my turbo etc?

I'll probably be keeping the car for sometime now as i've spent so much on it. Also when i do sell i'll have to sell with the turbo conversion and everything on. So i'm not sure whether the full Lexus service history would be of any use.

Thanks in advance.

@ Mr Prolex... Has my oil filter been changed when the oil cooler was added or is the original one still on there? Or any of the other above items been changed?

[gsportcars]

The gearbox oil and diff oil that Lexus use will be fine! I just changed both gearbox and diff oil while the turbo was getting fitted and used the oil that Toyota recommend!

You would be better changing the oil filter whether it was done or not.

You could specify that they use a certain grade of oil for your engine that has better properties for the turbo! (would need to find out what oil is best!)

The coolant and brake fluid are pretty much standard and any decent stuff will do!!!

You prob would be better getting a private garage to do it for you as they will charge you much less and will have no problem with you supplying the parts!

A LSH will not matter too much with the turbo fitted as the buyer when the time comes should be able to easily see that the car is well looked after!

Keep all the reciepts of the parts used in a file so you can show them to the buyer!! That will impress them! :D

[Adie]

Cheers mate :D

[Mr Morse]

I would use the best fully synthetic engine oil you can get hold of - Motul, Mobil No1 etc.

There's a load about oil on IS300.net

[Dave-Ellen]

My 4 year / 40 k mile service is due this month. With having the turbo conversion and lots of other things upgraded on my car, is it worth having the service done by lexus? Or by another garage (maybe that specialises in performance cars)?

I've emailed Leicester and the standard sevice costs £418. They said they can service the car with the turbo fitted. Just dont want them fiddling with bits they shouldn't be. On top of that they'll give 15% dicount for LOC goldmembers.

The service consists of: oil & air con filter replaced

brake fluid, diff oil , engine coolant . & remote battery in key.

I've already changed the air con filter so that wont be included in the price either.

Would it be better to supply my own brake fluid, diff oil or engine coolant or would the ones that Lexus supply be more than adequate for my turbo etc?

I'll probably be keeping the car for sometime now as i've spent so much on it. Also when i do sell i'll have to sell with the turbo conversion and everything on. So i'm not sure whether the full Lexus service history would be of any use.

Thanks in advance.

@ Mr Prolex... Has my oil filter been changed when the oil cooler was added or is the original one still on there? Or any of the other above items been changed?

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you have a new oil filter.........we can do all the other stuff if you want (doing one this saturday a 125k service )

coolants changed...got pollen filters got diff oil.........let me know twill be done or not as required :winky:

[Adie]

How much Dave?

I've already changed the aircon flter so that wont need doing anyway

[Dave-Ellen]

not a lot

dont worry about it

did you get the spreadsheet ?

[Adie]

not a lot

dont worry about it

did you get the spreadsheet ?

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Yeah the other week?

It needs updating for fitting the gauges and the body work bits?

[Dave-Ellen]

yup

getting bill gates to increase the column width as excel cant get wide enough for all the zeros :P

bumpers been done as has grill being put on today

car is running

so all is set fair

[Adie]

yup

getting bill gates to increase the column width as excel cant get wide enough for all the zeros  :P

bumpers been done as has grill being put on today

car is running

so all is set fair

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ETA?????

[Adie]

Decided i'll book my car in with Lexus Leicester anyway for the 40k service.

I've told the bloke that everything that he's listed to be done on the service has only just been done apart from changing the remote key Battery.

They are still going to check that its been done to validate the stamp.

With 15% discount they are going to charge me £98 incl vat to basicly change my key Battery and stamp my book.

[MrADeveci]

With 15% discount they are going to charge me  £98 incl vat to basicly change my key battery and stamp my book.

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That's ridiculous !!

I bought my IS200 from there ....... they said they would call me and see if everything was ok ..................

The cheeky buggers only EVER called me when it was due an MOT :tsktsk:

[2ddesign]

Hi

My IS200's 40,000 sevice is due soon, so I contacted my local Lexus dealer in Cardiff.

On the phone, Natalie on service reception quoted £361.22, I asked do they do a LOC discount yet she went away and on her return said "we will give 10%" so now £325.... good news for LOC members in WALES. :)

2ddesign :winky:

[Adie]

With 15% discount they are going to charge me  £98 incl vat to basicly change my key battery and stamp my book.

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That's ridiculous !!

I bought my IS200 from there ....... they said they would call me and see if everything was ok ..................

The cheeky buggers only EVER called me when it was due an MOT :tsktsk:

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Just a quick update: The cars booked in Tuesday for the remote key change and to "look over the car". I was told it would take around 45mins to check that everything had been done for the 40k service. Now they want to drop me off in the city centre and pick me back up when the car is done..

Either to justify charging me loads for a job thats been done or to have a go in a turbo'd IS :duh:

[Monster-Mat]

to have a go in a turbo'd IS :duh:

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make a note of the speedo before you get out

[Zee007]

to have a go in a turbo'd IS :duh:

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make a note of the speedo before you get out

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Yep. A trick I use Aide is to write the milage down on a post-it note and stick it on the speedo right in front of their face. That way, they can see you've logged it.... ;)

[MrADeveci]

Yep.  A trick I use Aide is to write the milage down on a post-it note and stick it on the speedo right in front of their face.  That way, they can see you've logged it.... ;)

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LOL ............. great !

..... on a serious note, when my car went in for body work repairs, I did question them why it was that there was an extra 10 miles from the body shop to the dealers .....

..... and that also my £1 had gone missing from the centre consol section ......

[Adie]

to have a go in a turbo'd IS :duh:

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make a note of the speedo before you get out

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Yep. A trick I use Aide is to write the milage down on a post-it note and stick it on the speedo right in front of their face. That way, they can see you've logged it.... ;)

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Thanks Zee, I'll do that.

[Adie]

Just bumping this so I remember it for tomorrow

[Nick The Greek]

Just bumping this so I remember it for tomorrow