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Picked her up this afternoon, I knew I'd missed her journey is usually an hour or so back from Cheltenham took three hours......... Anyway the boys at Lexus have done a cracking job on her and I'm immensely pleased, so a Big thankyou to Lawrence and Paul the techie guys and Sam and Alex in service for all there hard work, in getting the colours and finish I wanted. So with our further ado here she is......... Big Rat

So i new my wheels were in bad condition and negotiated into the sale price. I was planning to get the wheels professionally refurbished but two places i tried did not have a loaner set of wheels that would fit. I decided to try refurbishing the spare wheel myself as a start This also had some Kerb rash and corrision on the dish of the wheel. The plan is to use a Dremel with a sanding bit to smooth out the leading edge and then sand by hand the full face of the wheel with 500/1000/1200 grit. then apply 2 coats of grey undercoat, sanding between coats, and them 2 coats of colour and 1 clear coat laquer The inner dish will just get one coat of each layer. Today i cleaned the wheel the best i could would some wheel cleaner i had there which wasnt great so the back of the spokes still need some attention before painting Here is the wheel after a clean, you can see some nice kerbing scuffs: Lip after a few minutes of the Dremel: I didnt have the correct grade of sand paper so, ill finish that off tomorrow and some more cleaning to get everything as smooth as possible for undercoat layers

Dear j henderson Thank you for that information it has worked so much for the lexus service manager telling me this was not available on this model Thanks again

Maybe have a Google Sticky 😉

This has been sorted Rick 🙂

It’s quite handy living 20 minutes from a Toyota parts dealer lol 🙂

Can always guarantee a good divided opinion on this forum, although more often than not divided heavily towards the don’t mod/personalise it route! 🙄 Personally I think the grey one is what an F-RS version would/should look like if Lexus ever decided to make one (a la Jag XFR-S etc). Slightly more aggressive than standard. Now what’s this I hear about a 3.5 V6 Bi-Turbo IS F-Sport being a potential next gen model? Now that would have scope for big power.

David i don't know if this might help at all When i bought my Mk3 from ACLex in 2011 ( he's still on here somewhere I believe ) he had changed my car to DHP stuff and I bought it from him re-converted back to original spec. If you contact him I guess he might be able to give you some useful info on this subject Malc

A pain to do if you leave the headlights in place because you can't see anything! I got my phone down and took photos so I didn't have to rely just on feel. Don't forget to allow them to discharge for a few mins or else you'll get a sticky up hairdo!

the laws of supply and demand im afraid. no demand means low price.... such a shame, seems the GS was never understood, a very underrated car in my opinion.