drifter.p

Hi Everyone,

Great turnout for August meet,

Posting up Septembers meet early,

so next meet is :

Friday 9th September 2011,

7.30pm onwards,

Halfway House A127,

Southend Arterial Road,

East Horndon,

Brentwood,Essex,

CM13 3LL

Please put the word round for this great meet for all types of JAP CARS,

all are welcome to our meet,

Food and Drink available inside (Halfway House),

so please use the pub for this as they allow us to use their carpark :-)

ALSO DONT FORGET WE HAVE A "CAR OF THE NIGHT" TROPHY AS ALWAYS ;)

Cheers, paul

I'm after a gs300 mk1 sport grille

Doesn't matter what colour

Want one to improve the looks and get rid of my cracked and scratched standard grille

Has to be the sport grille not the chrome type

sorry to ***** on your bonfire but

i had a problem with my gs300 mk1 NON sport

the barrel refused to let the key in

i managed to get the ignition switch off and bodge it so i could use it till i got a new one

so on eBay i managed to get from a 1996 gs300 sport a complete steering colomn and lock set with a key and an alarm fob for £30 (bargin)

i never got a fob when i got the car so i though great this is a bonus

i fitted the steering lock and got a local lock smith to sort the barrle out so it fitted the old key with the chip in for £60 (bargin again)

now this is all fine and dandy and the car starts and locks with the original ket to save getting the car and key reprogrammed

after searching i came across this post

i tried everything to get the fob to work the alarm and keyless entry but it dont work (gutted)

question is ..does the sport have a different alarm system or keyless entry to the NON sport?

got some gs300 sport wheels real cheap

little bit of laquer pealing but 4 good tyres for £180

Have you checked the For Sale area?

member jordanscott is selling 18" GS wheels, think they're the Sport ones too...

Very clean wheels but way out of my budget

anyone got any cheap gs300 sport rims or deep dish wheels to fit

not worried about tyres just need to get rid of the standard wheels i have on mine

i got 1 now

about time

now i dont have a spongey break pedal

yipee

Cheers tigerfish

for some reason it won't let me send anything

if the breakers can't get me one will you send him a question about it

will let ya know by Wednesday

i know...was just letting you know that the is200 ones will fit, you usually find them complete

my bad

lol

i got one from a breakers this morning and when i got it home realised it was drivers side and they aint got another

i cant believe my luck

i bet it was the bottom slider that was seized

both of my bottom sliders are seized

i got the drivers side today

now i need the passenger side

is200 calipers fit

cheers

calipers are ok

its the carrier that holds the pads with the sliders in

it was the slider that was seized

and then i snapped it trying to free it off

anyone got a passenger side front caliper carrier

mine snapped the slider

so i cant put the caliper back on

preferbly in the london or essex area

im after a drivers seat from a mk1 gs300 in grey leather (electric not sure if they all are as im new to lexus)

my drivers seat has seen better days

anyone got one?

ok mate would be much appretiated

How did you get on with the radio brackets

if they worked with the Toyota fasia and the cubby hole

what was the bracket numbers

sorry to drag up an old thread

did the radio brackets work

im ordering the facia and the pocket but need numbers for the brackets

i understand from the friendly toyota parts bloke that there is nothing listed for the lexus gs300

but for the aristo jzs147 there is loads of types

just wondered how you got on and did it work

cheers

Looks like off to Toyota on my day off then

cheers tigerfish

Take a look at this topic I did a while back. There are part numbers for genuine Toyota items Clicky. I think there are genuine Toyota brackets also, but haven't bought those yet as I made my own.

ive heard i might need to change the side brackets too

any ideas

Any on got a mk1gs300 or aristo sport grille

they look much better than the chrome one I have

can anyone help with finding a radio panel

i have taken the standard radio out

i want to put my single din radio in and cant find a radio conversion panel for a uk right hand drive

all i find is left hand drive panel

someone must make one

you cant be telling me that all the import aristos and cars that are right hand drive all keep the standard radio

can anyone help

i have the wiring sorted with the use of other peoples wiring colours (thanks to them big time)

When I still had the factory head unit in mine, I used a griffin thing that transmitted the ipod to a frequency to tune your radio in to. Worked pretty well especially if you don't travel wide distances. I did find that I would tune it to a frequency in Basingstoke and by the time I got half way to Derby that frequency was used by a radio station in a different area, so I would have to change the griffin frequency and retune the radio occasionally.

ive just got my gs300

ive used tigerfish guide he helped someone a while back telling what wire colours on the standard plug are

and soldered an iso plug to the wires

that way i can put the standard radio back

then got in the boot litrally and soldered wires from the white plug to the orange plug to bypass the amp

removing the amp and cd changer also the standard radio and parcel shelf sub (massive weight saving)

then plugged my kenwood radio with ipod attachment and run wires for a bass box and amp

the standard speakers sound much better with this set up now

No mate, I must've worded my reply above wrongly. The key has the imobiliser transponder (or whatever it is called) built in. The remote for the locking/alarm etc is a seperate 2 button fob.

cheers dude

i will give that a try and see if i can find a 2 button fob

by the way i love the look of your car

hi people

ive just bought a mk1 gs300

when i got it there is 1 key and thats it

no alarm fob

can anyone help by telling me what alarm was fitted standard to these and how many buttons do they have

also if you can help any idea how to reprogram it

cheers

paul

i take it no one can help

has no one got an alarm fob on the same model

oh ok

mine isnt a sport so that would be why it has not got 1

are they cheap and easy to find if i wanted 1

gonna sound dumb here as im new to lexus

what grille is that