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HI all,. need soom advice please, i am looking around for new tyres so the question is what is the best tyres for my gs300 for road holding and speed.

All advice welcome ,

many thanks Don

I have Pirelli P-Zero's on mine (all around) great tyres, perform excellently in all conditions, low noise.

Malvern near Worcester - from London originally

2000 GS300 Sport

£220 fully comp, max discount, me, the wife on it. I'm 39

Phil

Autoglym super interior cleaner. Spray it on, scrub with a wet sponge, rub over with a chamois and let dry out. Works really well, I've just done the interior (light grey) of my old merc. Came up a treat. Leave to dry overnight.

Phil

Well I have sacked seeing this as the bloke didn't reply to a few of my emails asking for some extra information, and it's been taken off Pistonheads so I will assume it's sold or he has something to hide! *sigh*

That's a shame mate. I had a mint one (mk1 sport) for sale about three months ago, went to Ireland in the end, you would have liked it!! I'll keep my eye's open for you anyway and post in this thread if I see any.

Phil

Hi Guys

Leaving the Lexus forum today the car has cost me a lot of money plus lousy MPG nice car but gone for a VW passat ( 1 year old with 12000 miles) nice drive and very good on fuel.

Thanks for all your help in the past been a good experience this forum.

Best Regards To All.

Norman

Cheers Norman, good luck mate

All the best mate, enjoy and be careful. Good luck!

Hi all, as the title says, bought my 1st Lexus yesterday, 1998 GS 300 SE, I wont go into all the details of how I was mislead with the info from the seller before I made all the arrangements of getting to him,trains etc. Took the car for a test drive, couldn't believe how smooth it was,I've owned a few S class Mercs and this was just as good if not better,I should have took it where I could drive at 60 mph because on the way home I got the famous wheel wobble between 60 and 65 mph. Also I was told both remotes needed new batteries so on the way home I stopped at Halfords but they told me as the red LEDs light up when you press the buttons the batteries were ok,when I got back to the car I tried the fobs but neither of them worked,is it possible the batteries are too weak to operate the system,I'll be trying the fob reset procedure that I read about on here but if that doesn't work I suppose fresh batteries are the next step. The Car was advertised with 3 Keys but I was then told when I was there that there were only 2 and they're both Master keys,I read on here that using the Master key all the time can upset the ecu,can anyone confirm this please and finally the brakes feel gritty,like a fool I thought it was the ABS and I have to admit I was like a little boy in a sweet shop,I always am when I go to pick Cars up.I'll b e taking it to my local tyre and brake place,hopefully it will only need new pads and the wheels balancing to stop the wobble but after reading on here it sounds like it could be a lot more.

I'm not moaning about the Car,I think it's great,the Sat Nav etc,the power and ride,lovely,I'm just :tsktsk: that even after all the questions I asked and what I was told I still got stitched,might even take it back to him and park it up his :tsktsk:

Finally,I'm very impressed with how friendly and helpful it is on here

Don't worry mate, all these things can be fixed!

( a) Wheel wobble - most likely warped discs on the front, though could be a sticky caliper - change the discs if still present after your wheel balance. I've had the same mate, there are loads of guides on how to do it yourself on here. It's an hours work.

( B) Gritty brakes - probably worn pads. Easy fix

( c) Key fob - Driving with the master at all times is fine!!!! The key's are made for using, that's why they have buttons on to open the doors! There are also guides on how to re-programme the remotes on here! 2 minute fix.

Get these things done and you're away!

Good luck mate, keep posting, we are here to help each other and get some pics up! ;)

Hello mate. What a great looking car that is. You must be well chuffed! Welcome to the club

Good luck mate, hope you do come back in the future though! I liked your laidback styley!

The rear ones are plug and play

Didn't you have some problems with differing number of plugs/sockets on the lights and wiring loom?

Yes I did. At first all looked like it was not well. But, plugging in the dual single socket to one of the double sockets ended up working very well. What happens now is that both banks of LED light up with the brake light rather than only the outer (as it would if I had four connectors rather than the three)

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The rear ones are plug and play, as I have a set on mine. They are great, really bright and update the rear end brilliantly.

The fronts - I have no idea.

P

Ahhhh! How sweet.....

Yea I've bought cars before that I wanted, and persuaded the wife it's what she wants too :-)

Good choice fella

I think you are in the perfect position to buy a high mileage car. You will not need to use it a lot so the mileage, once it is bought, will creep up very slowly. I used to own a toyota camry 3.0 V6. This engine was well documented to reach mileages of 300,000 plus.

As for the wear and tear, if the car has been serviced to schedule, you would imagine that the ball joints/wishbones were already addressed by now. The outer wear could be due to these being changed but the tracking / geometry needing adjustment. It could even be over inflated tyres!

I'd go for it, bearing in mind that you may need to spend £1500.00 plus in the short term.

Great car though!

You might find this helpful - it's the same procedure for the Mk1 & Mk2 GS. Tigerfish (member here) is the author.

CLICK HERE

Phil

Anyone find this a little odd considering they just released a load more tickets for gigs ??? Surely they knew his health state reaping him before he passed or an elaborate faking death jobbie. I find it funny that people we're still buying tickets even though he was only contracted to be on stage for 12 minutes at each gig Lol.

As you can tell I dont have much time for celeb's especially pretty fecked up ones with the history he has, people still seem to be forgetting all the allegation against him.

Someone who might no what will happen to all the tickets for his gig with people who paid by credit cards ? Will they be able to claim there money back.

I'm in a agreement, he was known as a pervert and a weirdo for the past 5 or so years, now everywhere I go all I hear is Michael Jackson this, Michael Jackson that and as for hanging that child over the balcony, what a stupid fecking idiot. I couldn't give a s**t about the man.

It's not just the middle of the car you need to worry about, it's the front bumper also. The lower you go the more the likelihood that your front lip will catch, scrape and knock on kerbing while parking straight on but also as you pull into kerbs when parking side on. Worsened with the Mk2 GS Sport TTE lip. On my Mk1 GS Sport (lowered standard 25mm) the front would often catch on the left and right sides and this had no lip!

I think that a lowering of 25 to 30 mm is more than enough for an everyday car.

That looks like an epic task there mate! Great work and a fantastic result, well done!

So that's why we were always sent to bed early ......

What exactly is a tupperware party?

You can get the boxes at Argos and John Lewis and stuff though.......

Well, I take it you know what an 'Anne Summers' party is? Its like that, but a hell of lot more boring... :D

Whatever happened to Tuppaware and Tuppawear parties? My mum used to hold them.....the options and choices were endless!

I need some Tuppaware to store my salad in for our new family diet....

BUMP :mat:

Well I wish I had the answer for you mate ....... but ........ I don't!

Great stuff - thanks matey :)