New Addition To The Fleet.....

[is300_dino]

hi everyone, just a quickie to say hello, im dean and i bring to the club a nice shiny red is300, which could of possibly been a member on here before, so when i got some pics up some of you might recognise it. i've had the car for about a month now, but ive only just got out of it for long enough to be able to sign up lol. the car is on 02 plates and ive just put it past 28000. its running on 18" lexus alloys wrapped in pirelli's, it has a HKS airfilter/induction kit, HKS silent hipower zorst, HKS coilovers, TTE bodykit with bonnet vents, and audio all fully rekitted with phoenix gold and kenwood screen, with other goodies!! i need to get it debadged cos previous owner put v12 logos on the front wings, but i can live with it. but getting back to subject... the car was sat in a showroom so i got my hands on the little ruby! i broke the bottom end on my previous car an ST24 so i needed to find my self a good replacement, and i think i found the best replacement i could :)

some time soon i think im going to have to go and see those peeps at wim (i've been reading up about it and also found out tony likes the red ones so hopefully i'll be the 3rd red 300 on his list ( see i've been investigating lol)), theres not much left to mod but it saves me time to enjoying driving it and putting the fuel in!!!

ill stick a few piccys up later when i've learnt how to put the photos up lol

hope to get to know ya all soon :)

[Parthiban]

Welcome mate, sounds like a nice car you've picked up there, looking forward to the pics :)

[Mr Mole]

Welcome to the LOC mate, like above we love pics :D

Hope you enjoy your new car

[is300_dino]

right boys and girls as promised earlier a few piccies (appologies if it slows ya computer or i've got it wrong somehow). its all nice and shiney spent the good part of yesterday, with a mate, cleaning it while watching the grand prix :)

right hope this works here goes...

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/7022/onelr3.jpg

http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/9229/twozc1.jpg

http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/6011/threeru2.jpg

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/3448/fourvj3.jpg

http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5213/fivexc0.jpg

thanks for looking

dino

[aztecbandit1]

Nice looking motor matey :D Not sure on those bonnet vents though?? Please dont take offence :D You do have my favourite wheels though and you dont see them very often :)

[is300_dino]

no offene taken mate think the only reason your not sure of them is cos their different, one advantage is they let a lot of heat out from the engine so it can only be a good thing i suppose, plus with the heat haze it makes it look like your driving somewhere really hot lol so makes it that little more enjoyable, i've had all the 'not sure about the vents' from work mates but their used to it now so im sure in time they will become more appealing to your eyes, what do you recon if i was to change them to a black mesh to match the other grilles??

[aztecbandit1]

no offence taken mate think the only reason your not sure of them is cos their different, one advantage is they let a lot of heat out from the engine so it can only be a good thing i suppose, plus with the heat haze it makes it look like your driving somewhere really hot lol so makes it that little more enjoyable, i've had all the 'not sure about the vents' from work mates but their used to it now so im sure in time they will become more appealing to your eyes, what do you recon if i was to change them to a black mesh to match the other grilles??

Think they would look better with the black mesh fitted as they would blend in a bit, and they probably look better close up as some things dont look right in a photo,

You'll have to try and get to some of the meets that we have around the UK so we can see your lex close up as there isnt that many IS300's about :D

And again mate welcome to the club :D

[is300_dino]

yeah they look alot better when viewed properly but they are starting to show their age with the plastic coating on the trim peeling off so the grilles have seen better days so could be time to get them swapped. i have got some higher res pictures, but they are quite big as they hav more detail, so ill try and get some up after work tommorow. i havent seen any other 300's about seen loads of 200's but as mine only says 'is' its probably twice as hard to spot us lol

And yeah ill tag along to some meets, :D but not in no covoys! me and convoys are jinxed!!!

[aztecbandit1]

Look forward to bumping into you sometime mate and seeing your motor :D

[is300_dino]

Look forward to bumping into you sometime mate and seeing your motor :D

lol no bumps! bumps are bad!!!

[aztecbandit1]

Look forward to bumping into you sometime mate and seeing your motor :D

lol no bumps! bumps are bad!!!

Yeh especially speed bumps when you have coilovers fitted like mine has Bl**dy things keep catching my titanium exhaust

[is300_dino]

what coilvers have you got on yours? mines on hks dont know what type though, i keep getting the underside of the front bumper on mine have to be very careful in some places and just swerve a little to stop the xzorst from scraping, i aint ever gunna try and reverse up a driveway lol or even going forward up them, its just not worth it lol

[aztecbandit1]

Got the TTE coilover kit fitted on mine quite a nice ride and not too hard :D And got a Veilside titanium exhaust on mine so dont like to hear it scraping along the speed bumps but it does make the car sound fantastic :D

[Steviewevie]

Nice. I love those Chicane wheels too :)

[Lexus2D]

:)

Nice & never seen a bonnet like that b4 on a Lex

2 Red Lexus in 1 day gosh

[Matt Hillyard]

Welcome to LOC and if that was me id get some black mesh in that bonet vent to match as then it will blend in a bit more! B)

Nice car thought matey!!!

[is300_dino]

thanks everyone i hope not many more reds join yet, as they seem to be a bit of a rarity. i've found this site that does mesh and they also do it in red so i've got a choice do they go black to match the rest of the grilles or do i get the red ones to camo them in that little bit more hmmm decisions. http://www.demonkar.com/category/car_grill_mesh.asp thats the site i've found, so come on more opinions now needed lol.

and again thanks for all the welcomes

[Lexus2D]

I still think Black

[kris_t]

hi another red is before i joined here i thought mine was rare

gr8 wheels

nice car all round

[Hando]

Another Berkshire IS300 on chicanes. Nice. Whereabouts are you?

I'm with the others on the bonnet vents - get some black mesh on there, but maybe look to get an aftermarket bonnet in the long term?

And get rid of the V12 badges stat! That's wrong on both counts.

[Parthiban]

I'd agree with the other on the bonnet vents, will have to see it in person but personally I'd probably swap back to a standard bonnet. Otherwise the car looks very nice indeed :D

And yep, get them V12 badges off, or alternatively stick a V12 under the bonnet! :P

[Matt Hillyard]

Or a carbon Bonnet?!?!? That would look nice on there!

[is300_dino]

i aint changing it back to standard as it will loook the same as everyone elses, the vents gives it a more aggresive look and it looks more like a touring car, always loved touring cars since i was a kid and ive aways said that i wont buy any normal type of street car, so its kinda like my dream. but now with that bit of added luxury lol and ive not been to keen on carbon bonnets so maybe, if any of you have any i'll see what yours are like some time in the future, thats if we aint pulled into a black hole in the next few weeks.

i found a nice jaguar 6.0ltr v12 engine earlier for about £5-6k if i had the money id try and squeeze it in lol do ya think it would fit?? but for time being ill leave them on there till i can find some time to take the stickers off, i might get a body shop to debadge it all properly while they unweld the old grilles and stick new ones on, i might get both red and black to see what ones look best.

kris yours is still as rare mate as theres a few hunded miles between i've only ever seen one other red one and that was a 200 so there cant be that many about can there?? we gotta try and find the official sales totals for each colour of both 200s and 300s, unless someone already has it tucked away somewhere??

hando im in reading mate, where bouts you at?

[spikes]

hi, welcome to loc

[Steviewevie]

i aint changing it back to standard as it will loook the same as everyone elses, the vents gives it a more aggresive look and it looks more like a touring car, always loved touring cars since i was a kid and ive aways said that i wont buy any normal type of street car, so its kinda like my dream. but now with that bit of added luxury lol and ive not been to keen on carbon bonnets so maybe

Bonnet vents are something a bit different so I appreciate you wanting to keep them. At the end of the day it's your car, so it's what you think that looks good that's important !

As others have said maybe they'd look even better if the mesh was different, e.g. black ? Just a personal opinion of course :)