New From Kent

[RickUK]

Hello! Most spontaneous thing I ever done Monday night. First one on piston heads I clicked on, liked it, took it home Tuesday night.

IS300 2003 67k on the clock. So happy with it, so comfortable and quiet!

Here's some photos I've took of it (attached).

It's got a few niggles but owner was very honest and made me aware of it. It always starts, but takes up to 5 seconds when it's cold, it's instant otherwise. I know that's not long but feels like forever while cranking over. Couldn't find a definite answer for this?

Headlight washer cap with the rubber funnel has come off in the recent snow. I thing I have to just reattach that by removing the front bumper?

Noticed a bulb out near 120mph on the dial, but I think I'm going to have to pick up a Haines manual which will hopefully answer that.

Let me know what you think?

Ricky

[RickUK]

[IHgs300]

Welcome to the club, Looks very nice does that. Haynes don't do a manual for lexus IS. There's a cd on e-bay though, used to be free online but they took it down.

You can still find links for free ones but its impossible to find individual items as it's all un-named pdf files.

[Drachensturm]

What fuel do you use? When I first got my IS300 SportCross, it used to start in a similar fashion until I used higher octane fuel. Now it fires up very quickly, even when the Battery is almost dead. Might be worth a try.

[darkoracle]

Good looking specimen - at 67k it's just about run-in.

With a black car you'll need to keep the sponge and bucket handy at all times.

Hope you get things sorted. Has it got a good service history?

[ChrisIS200SportTTE]

Hi and welcome :)

Looks good. What's the service history like? Should start quicker than 5 seconds.

[RickUK]

There's plenty of service history, apart from the service book itself has gone missing. Cambelt, water pump, and other bits already done

Thanks for the useful comments, ordered the workshop manual off eBay and just put in some premium unleaded, see if there's an improvement

Ricky

[jpjsavage]

Nice one! Looks good. It took me ages to find my LS but I'm very happy with it. Welcome to the LOC!

[Lexmanic]

Hi welcome

[RickUK]

See it Monday, buy it Tuesday, break it Saturday, oops.

Gearbox leaked all of its oil.

Oh also, after using The premium fuel^ starting in the cold mornings is flawless!

[IHgs300]

Sorry to heat that fella, Hopefully wont cast too much to put it right.

[ChrisIS200SportTTE]

Gutted fella.... It's rare to see a Lex getting towed by the RAC!

Any more info on why the gearbox decided it didn't want it's oil anymore?

[RickUK]

Gearbox needs reconditioning. Oh dear.

Oh well at least I had 3 days of driving...

[Lexmanic]

Gearbox needs reconditioning. Oh dear.

Oh well at least I had 3 days of driving...

Sounds like seal went. Suggest you get a second opinion

[Stuart Aspey]

Hi, welcomekto the site . . and Oh . . . I don't like the mod of attaching a RAC van to any car.

[petayV8]

This is puzzling. Why would a gearbox go on a IS?

[darkoracle]

This is puzzling. Why would a gearbox go on a IS?

Depends on how long it was running without oil.

When was the last service done according to Lexus?

Did the seller have a go at some sort of service themselves and then forgot to top up the auto oil -or worse drained the oil and forgot to replace it?

Not sure if Ricky had a pool of oil under his car or if he just realised that it had disappeared.

Perhaps it was never there in the first place. Wouldn't the system flag this up as an alarm warning?

[RickUK]

The gearbox started leaking after i put my foot down and then drove it back, there was a little bit of oil left when rac picked it up and the gearbox is still as smooth as it always was.

I've been told its a seal between the something, and the torque something.. he said it could be because the gearbox has overpressurised, if we just change the seal it could go again almost straight away, can't find out if it was overpressurised unless he opens up the box, if he's opening up the box then they might as well recondition it...

Oh there was a warning light but not related, rac said probably because oil splashed on the sensor.

Does that make any sense?

[ChrisIS200SportTTE]

What was the code? Sounds a little strange that your gearbox gives up and you had a fault code thrown up but they're unrelated? Hmmmm

[RickUK]

It was to do with speed sensor