Andy C

Leave it in silver, or spray it white if you must colour it. Black is about the worst colour you can use for anything related to cooling! Black absorbs heat the most, and white the least... Oh, and the spam was in Russian not Greek ;)

I've got a Parrot CK3100 fitted in mine, which is pretty much the LCD screen version of the Lexus branded Parrot your stealership would fit for you for double the cost. Was about £180 fitted, and I have no problem with hearing calls, or others hearing me (microphone is located just above rear view mirror)

Got a K&N panel filter in my 220D and its effect on noise is negligible. As is its effect on mpg, as previously stated you may see a slight, and I emphasise slight, increase. It's pick up in cold weather is improved, and it does seem to offer a little more torque for when pulling away.

Small lip spoiler for the rear perhaps? And the 19s look great on the car, well done!

Just to throw my 2p into this, I get about 32mpg around the town, and 55mpg on a decent motorway run. Car has 46k on the clock and is on a 56 plate... Only modifications to the engine side is a K&N panel filter and a slight repositioning of the air feed into the air box.

Without being funny, how is a question regarding fitting a non OEM part to an '06 IS220d engine induction system incorrectly placed in the Lexus Models | Lexus IS250/Lexus IS220D/LexusIS250C | Modifications & Tuning section?

Hi Guys, just got a bargain K&N Panel Filter off eBay, and is always the case with panel filters there's no fitting instructions as it should be as easy as fitting an OEM fitler. Whenever I open the engine bay I am presented with plastic covers over everything! Does anyone know which side the airbox sits on, and whether its a clip fastening or a screw? If screw, please tell me it's not those silly Torx bolts! Thanks in advance people!

H&R springs are good quality, so you should find that the ride quality is just as good as the looks. I used a set on my Vauxhall Omega as they were half the price of replacement springs from the dealership and I'd been looking for an excuse to lower the car and never had any cause to be upset with them. I know quite a few Porsche owners use them too...

The other trick is to keep a couple of carpet tiles in your boot just in case you ever find yourself trapped and unable to get that last little bit of traction to do something, saved me a few times in my old Omega...

It's a standard Astral Black IS220d, I'm sure there's nothing special in that! lol

Really, I always found it quite jerky when it kicked in, if it kicked in...

Finding it absolutely fine, obviously been taking it careful on the non gritted roads etc but found it fine for everyday motoring...

I chipped my last car (petrol based Saab 93 Turbo) and any real world economy improvements are outweighed by the fact you are likely to spend more time with your foot down experiencing your new found power. Indeed, after chipping, stainless steel exhaust, Vectra VXR intercooler, air filter and a few other little mods to the engine set up my Saab was returning under 25mpg (from 30ish standard), which was just unacceptable with a 25 mile each way commute every day. Hence the switch to a diesel... I think that you have to be careful due to a lack of out of the box units. The unit I used on the Saab was a BSR PPC, which was an out of the box set up through the OBD-II port uploading the 20 most used maps, with the ability to "read" the car and have BSR send you the maps most useful for the engine parameters you were recording (i.e. a Swedish car would get a map with a set up that deals with the denser air it has in its intake as opposed to a Dubai based vehicle for example) Anything that's done on the fly is going to suffer problems unless you have a very good mapper, and ideally one who knows the engine very well. By doing it on the fly you get a map for that day's parameters, be it warm, cold, damp, etc, and everything else is an approximation relative to that initial map.

I've got to say, this being my return to RWD (and first manual RWD at that) after 3 years, I found it to be a lot less painful than I thought it would be. Maybe it's just that you are used to driving a particular way and to drive in the snow seems alien, but being ultra cautious I've found the car usable; certainly not as chuckable as my last car but the IS is also less powerful so I have a bit more confidence its not suddenly going to spin up a wheel...