ACEY

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could be one of many things wrong.You really need to get to a garage to get the fault codes read.once you have them diagnosis shouldnt be an issue.Try and take it to a friendly garage,are there any around you?

Mine has come on as well - from yesterday along with the traction control light flashing now.

However, the car shakes a bit when at a stand still.

Any ideas?

Mate yours could be a coil pack i had that problem last year.

Dunno any garages mate i'm up and down leeds and wirral everyweek

just wondering if anyone can help my engine management lights has just came on but the car seems fine. Anyone got any ideas? Oh the car is a is200 v plate

seized brake pads would be my thought

dont think its the brakes ive had them checked and cchanged. where is the o2 senser located?

Hello,

recently ive started working in leeds so im having to travel quite a bit down the m62 from wirral to leeds and back (spotted some lexus owners club members) and noticed my fuel economy is got seriously crap. its costing me around £25 to get to leeds and then the light comes on when i get near warrington on the way back.

the mpg also sits around 20 now and below any ideas? and if i try loosen up on the gas dont seem to be maintiaining my speed. any ideas what can be done here.

oh i have is200 99plate

think its the whole system :-( im not sure its doing my head in now

think its the whole system :-( im not sure its doing my head in now

a "normal" toyota drive fits also - there was a post ages ages ago but i have no idea when or where

Nothing comes up on my screen at all and when it used to the nav system never picked up a signal even after i replaced the gps antenna. could this be a wiring fault?

can any other nav systems be used on the same loom?

Has anyone updated there is200 cd based Nav to DVD based one? if so is it easy to do or difficult as my cd based one is broke and i cant get hold of a cd version but found a dvd version.

just did mine for the same reason and after doing all the usual tests it turned out to be the alternator ( £239 from Lexus exchange ) that was a good price considering aftermarket places were asking £333+,

if you can get it running check the voltage output at the battery it should be 14v so if it isn't and around 11v its the alternator

try a boost start with another battery first to eliminate the starter motor

damn im at work now dont finsh till like 5.30. i hope its the Battery not the alternator.

just found out its the Battery. 55+vat to get replaced.

just did mine for the same reason and after doing all the usual tests it turned out to be the alternator ( £239 from Lexus exchange ) that was a good price considering aftermarket places were asking £333+,

if you can get it running check the voltage output at the battery it should be 14v so if it isn't and around 11v its the alternator

try a boost start with another battery first to eliminate the starter motor

damn im at work now dont finsh till like 5.30. i hope its the Battery not the alternator.

OK last night i put an greddy intake on and the drove the car it seemed fine. this morning i got in tried to start it and it wouldnt start. i could here noise from starter mortor.

could it be the induction kit? the Battery or the alternator? when i try start it the Battery gauge just flys down straight away. but when i turn the key one notch it sits on 9v.

Your connecting into the wires that come from the speakers to the amp. The lead completely diposes of the amp and headunit. Just uses the stock speakers and speaker wire.

So IRLRS200 are you still running your headunit through the stock amp? why did you have to cut the plug off?

i had my head unit installed a few months ago by a local alpine dealer who i know, and it took him 5 min to set set the head unit so it works with the sat nav. there is one wire or something in the footwell on driver side that he swapped and my sat nav was still working.

He's still on here now and again. Has been lately. You could PM him. He's also on the Wheels In Motion Forum.

is it Geoffers?

Hello a while ago there was someone on here that did convertors for the standard nav screen so you could play dvds throught the screen. i know he was ill. does anyone know his whereabouts as i want a favour from him (need one of those convertors)

cheers

I lowered my IS200 on PI springs and they are fine there are various other manufacturers TTE, Eibach (these are te same apparently), APEX and Koni do full suspension. have a look round and see who will do you the best deal.

its because in america the is300 tien shocks and springs are cheap. also work out even cheaper because of exchange rate

Does anyone know wether the is200 and is300 springs are the same? also shocks too.

cheers

Ive been given the opportunity whilst organizing the rotor disk group buy to get a few of these on the cheap these are listed here http://www.funkystyling.co.uk/item_detail....rodID=444003204 as being 310 pounds each I have been given the chance should I get enough interest to get these for 255 quid a piece. Postage on these can be done for 15 pounds so to your door these can be had for 270 quid

I would need at least 10 people to get them at these prices and atm its only for the is200 however the 300 system is the same price so they might be persuaded to extend it to 300 owners too.

Stuart

1. Stuie

Hello matey, i have a blue flame exhaust system sounds mint, if you go direct to them you should be able to get it cheaper i paid 265 for mine delivered.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/LEXUS-IS200-Stainles...1QQcmdZViewItem

http://www.blueflameperformance.com/

cheers

Has anyone got a warranty out on thier car as im looking to get one out on my motor.

Id recommend that you go to WIM rather than some where else unless they know what there doing and you have had good feedback from other people. was well worth the drive down. i wont be going anywhere else for any sort of alignment work. i dont care if its far i am happy with the service so thats what counts.

guys my car sticks to the road with these settings and feels stable

Sounds like they are trying to 'save face' ;)

All I can say is thank goodness for Tony :winky:

i know my car handles amazing now... they cant accept the fact that they made a mistake

I thought id share with you all my bad experience that ive recently had with Demon Tweeks.

Basically my car was handling crap so i thought i need to get it checked and sorted. after searching on the forum i found WIM did settings for the lexus that people were happy with. I asked Wim to provide me the settings as it was too far to drive down to london so i thought id go down to the nearest reputable place which was demon tweeks (ive changed my opinion now) as they setup rtacing cars etc.

Booked my car in on a saturday at 4pm and took the settings provided by WIM. the car didnt go into the workshop till 4.45 and then they told me that WIM settings would were my tyre. so they set it different. It got to 5.30 and they were closing up still not having finshed the settings on my car. Then they come out saying one side is siezed so they cant adjust it and it was time to close.

i ended up paying just over £70 plus petrol. when i drove out went home the car handled like a dog on ice. so i sent the printout to WIM, they advicesd me of some discrepencies. i then wrote to DEMON TWEEKS which later phoned on my brothers mobile rather than the number i provided in my email and told him that the car settings are fine.

On hearing this i had no choice but to drive down to WIM in london and get my car setup. Now it handles fantastic. great job they have done.

i wrote to DEMON TWEEKS asking for a refund but they declined. such a big company and for the sake of accepting that they made a mistake they would rather ruin there repuation.

below is the final response i had from them and also where they went wrong...

However, I personally don't believe we have made a mistake with your car, the only thing I would say is, there is a slight imbalance on the rear camber, which you were informed of before you left our premises, this was because the camber bolt on the N/S/R was at maximum adjustment, incidentally Tony has left the setting on this rear camber exactly the same.

The front N/S camber bolt was seized solid, we applied a penetrating oil but still had no joy with adjustments, However it was still within Lexus's manufacturing tolerances and we were happy it wouldn't cause any tyre wear, again you were informed of this and seemed more than happy when you left our premises.

I'm sure you can appreciate we only charged you for the angles we adjusted, you were not charged for adjusting the N/S/F camber because it was seized.

Moving on to the specs we were provided -

Tony has told you that he designed the spec's for Lexus themselves - this is untrue as Lexus will set the cars specs before production, However, from what I understand Tony has posted the specs he believes to be accurate for the Lexus IS200 onto a forum, we asked Tony the question - Why had he said the rear toe should be at 6minutes negative on his specs? as this would cause inside tyre wear, which again we informed you of before you left our premises.

Tony's reply was it shouldn't be the specs we were given were for the later model Lexus, not the 99 V reg which you have...

As you can appreciate it is difficult for us because we have been given a set of spec's to set the car up to which we wouldn't necessarily do. As a result of the conflicting information from Tony and given that we were not given the opportunity to set the car up for you, I'm afraid I will be unable to offer any form of refund.

Below is WIM REPORT

The final positions displayed are extremely disappointing. Not only do they violate the proven wheels-inmotion calibration for the IS200/300 but they also violate the positions written by Lexus. The immediate concerns are.

1: The castor disparity is of concern.

2: NSF Camber at -43 is more than twice the wim position and far from the -30 suggested by Lexus.

3: SAI/included noted "n/m" suggests a second castor swing was not observed.

4: OSR Camber position was "lifted" from -46' to -12'. This is very odd since the target position is -55'.

This in my opinion was negligent on their part since the cars chassis positions were obviously within the realm of tyre wear and opportunist rear end departure.

The Geometry calibration at STS Watford proved the wim positions and the cars compliance satisfying the chassis.

Hello

does anyone know wether it is possible to buy a convertor to get the sat nav screen working with a dvd player. or does anyone know how to do it?

Does anyone know much about the sat van computer in the boot of the lexus. like i.e how it works? is there software to update the computer? or any information.

my sat nav doesnt get a gps signal and i dont know why. does anyone know what could be the problem? iv tried purchasing a new gps arial but still no joy

does anyone have a lexus computer for sale?

its all sorted reset ecu and car seems fine now.

cheers