tonyr5500

hi guys, now that we are starting to work our way to the cold icy possably snowy time of year, can you use the folding mirrors when its icey/snowy or could the ice stop them from working and burn out the motors in the mirrors ???? or as they are heated in with the rear window dose this defrost the motors as well as the glass???? could be a silly thing to ask but would reather know what you guys do when its icey ect, than get up to go to work and i cant because i can not get them to open. many thanks.

thanks, am going away next week so i plan to wash/wax ect the weekend after how do i upload photo's into a post? can only seem to get them to my profile????

thanks rory, got my new is300 yesterday just uploaded a photo tony.

thanks felix, am off to look at an is300 tomorrow all being well the search will end after many months thanks again tony.

thanks for that matey will look for these tomorrow i did say it may be a silly thing to ask about the trim but wanted to be 100% sure before i walk into the dealers thanks again will update tomorrow on how i got on.

hi again guys, i did post this in the "new menbers area" but didnt get any replys fort i may of posted it in the wrong place so here goes!!!! hope we are all well, after many months of looking and making up my mind on a is200 or is300 , i have found a 300 within my price range 2001 reg 86.5k, with fsh, upgraded wheels (lexus tho) new tyres, in silver, very clean looking, t&t for 6 months its from a dealer who has taken it in p/x and is also p/x my shogun pinin. is there any thing i need to look out for and check for more than you nomaly would when buying a 2nd hand car? also many be a silly thing to ask but hear goes does the is300 come in S SE and SPORT trim like the is200 dose? any help would be greatful :winky: thanks tony.

thanks ahmed, i have found an is300 going to look at it tomorrow, i did put a new post asking if theres any thing i should look out for? no one seems to have replyed mast all be busy!!! tony.

hi again guys, hope we are all well, after many months of looking and making up my mind on a is200 or is300 , i have found a 300 within my price range 2001 reg 86.5k, with fsh, upgraded wheels (lexus tho) new tyres, in silver, very clean looking, t&t for 6 months its from a dealer who has taken it in p/x and is also p/x my shogun pinin. is there any thing i need to look out for and check for more than you nomaly would when buying a 2nd hand car? also many be a silly thing to ask but hear goes does the is300 come in S SE and SPORT trim like the is200 dose? any help would be greatful :winky: thanks tony.

thanks matey

hi there, not sure about the IS but i had the same thing on my ford cougar a year or so back it turned out to be the abs ring on the front wheel had a crack in it may be sumthing eles but worth having a look tho in case!!

thanks kam05, if the funds dont go as far as a 1s300 is the auto that bad on the 200?? also whats the avg amount of miles you can get from a full tank ? thanks again.

yer very nice car matey wished i had the money,

hi am new to the loc, i was trying to find out the same thing for my girlfriends dad as he has a gs300 18" alloys i one of them had cracked on the iner side of the rim (god dam pot holes on low pro tyres) and could'nt find the same one to replace it after alot of searching and coming up with nothing i phoned one of the big alloy wheel companys and made out i wanted to buy a new set to get the info out of them, from what he was saying you can down size the alloy wheel but to have to keep the rolling road size of the wheel the same eg 18" alloy + 2" for tyre = 20" total if you down size to 17" you have to make it up with a 3" tyre = again 20" total if you dont then you 1 will end up with a lower car to the ground that in turn will give you bad road handlying and also will lower your mpg he did start to go on about gear ratios and how it can damage the gearbox ect ect but by then he had lost me lol. hope this helps.

hi guys, am new here you may have been asked this so many times in the past, which is better the IS200 or IS300? in an auto (i know there ant alot of manual 300's around) i have had a few cars over the years with small 1.3l engines (almost killed the poor car) and big engines like 4.0l jeep AWD and a vectra with a 2.5l v6 FWD have neaver had a RWD car tho, the main thing i can not get my head around is how much more fuel the 300 uses over the 200 my girlfriends dad has a older GS300 which goes like a rocket when he wants it to but does have a good mpg should he drive nomal, having read 100's of reviews on both size engines,from what i understeand the 200 auto seems to lack power in low revs ? is this the case if so do you find that you are having to drive the car harder in which case are you using more fuel than you would in a 300 model? sorry for a long ish 1st post any help that you can give would be great thanks.