What Is The Sport Or Luxury Option? I Want To Fit Illuminated Door Sil

YTL2000 · January 23, 2013

Hi,

What constitutes the "sport" option or "luxury pack"?

I know that there is the F sport for the petrol and diesel but I want to add the illuminated Lexus sill that the US guys have and I believe that having one of the levels of trim would mean that you have the connector pre-installed in the car - which makes fitting/wiring it up much easier (sods law it will be a regional thing).

I have a facelifted 2009 IS 220D SE-I so how do I work out if there is a sport or luxury pack fitted? (to be fair, I dont think I have the sport pack based on how high the car sits as standard),

I can of course just pull the sill up and see if the connector is there (which I will do either tonight or on the weekend) but would still be intrigued to find out whether I have either pack and what they actually entail.

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks,

Tom

Tango · January 23, 2013

It will not be "plug'n play". You will find a plug pre- installed on the passenger side but it will be missing one of the wires, and the drivers side will not have a plug at all. I retro fitted the illuminated sills from my IS250 SE-L into my IS-F (yes, even when you pay £58K for the car it doesn't have illuminated sills, vented seats or a window blind ).

Easy enough to do, I have a walk through and a few pics when you have the bits.

YTL2000 · January 23, 2013

It will not be "plug'n play". You will find a plug pre- installed on the passenger side but it will be missing one of the wires, and the drivers side will not have a plug at all. I retro fitted the illuminated sills from my IS250 SE-L into my IS-F (yes, even when you pay £58K for the car it doesn't have illuminated sills, vented seats or a window blind ).

Easy enough to do, I have a walk through and a few pics when you have the bits.

Hi Tango,

Thanks for the reply!

I have noticed quite a few optional extras which I wouldnt mind having such as the automated window blind. Not sure what you mean by "vented" seats though - is it the heated seats which also can do cold bottoms? or something different?

When you say the passenger side has a plug but a wire missing, is it a ground wire or a live wire?

Would you be able to send me a link to your walk through with pics so I can take a look? I want to try this out and Im not adverse to retro fitting, but based on this being the best car I have owned so far, I dont want to "bodge" anything as it isnt a Rover or turdy 13 year old A3!

Sorry for all the questions.

Tango · January 23, 2013

Think my memory must be going as it was my drivers side that had the plug, and the new wire was to ground. Here's a series of pics that should be self explanatory. The only real problem is finding a matching plug for the other side, but alternatively just buy a male and female plug and replace the plug on the illuminated sill for the passenger side (if you want it to be disconnectable)..

stevet · January 24, 2013

It will not be "plug'n play". You will find a plug pre- installed on the passenger side but it will be missing one of the wires, and the drivers side will not have a plug at all. I retro fitted the illuminated sills from my IS250 SE-L into my IS-F (yes, even when you pay £58K for the car it doesn't have illuminated sills, vented seats or a window blind ).

Easy enough to do, I have a walk through and a few pics when you have the bits.

Hi Tango,

Thanks for the reply!

I have noticed quite a few optional extras which I wouldnt mind having such as the automated window blind. Not sure what you mean by "vented" seats though - is it the heated seats which also can do cold bottoms? or something different?

When you say the passenger side has a plug but a wire missing, is it a ground wire or a live wire?

Would you be able to send me a link to your walk through with pics so I can take a look? I want to try this out and Im not adverse to retro fitting, but based on this being the best car I have owned so far, I dont want to "bodge" anything as it isnt a Rover or turdy 13 year old A3!

Sorry for all the questions.

Hi Tom and thanks Tango for the walk-through. I wouldn't mind trying this myself. Tom, have you seen any for sale?

normski2 · January 24, 2013

You could try Andy at Lexus Poole. Member of LOC right here.

Or you could try Sewells in the USA, exchange rate dependant though.

YTL2000 · January 25, 2013

I was also going to say Sewells but I think they are quite expensive for what they are.

I have also seen them from eBay by a Japanese seller and they were around £150 ish delivered to the UK. They are listed as genuine and they do "look" the same as the OEM ones so hopefully they are.

Maybe Lexus Poole could get a good price on them?