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Yes, I agree that there is nothing wrong with mild steel for an exhaust but Lexus are possibly misleading buyers. I have sent off an email to Lexus UK querying this point and will be interested to see if they reply and what it might be. So, £4000 for a mild steel exhaust ? Even taking into account the relative small numbers of these cars sold, that figure is just a ***** take. There is no way on Gods earth that I would pay that. I reckon at the very worst a new system could be made by cutting off silencer boxes from another make exhaust and welding sections together to make a new system at a fraction of that cost. I wonder if anyone on here has tried doing that ?

That's as maybe, but it is widely recognised that a stainless steel system will outlive a mild steel one by many many years. An oft used phrase contained in Lexus advertising is "The pursuit of perfection" A cheapo mild steel exhaust, especially one that costs, what did someone say? £3000 to replace seems to suggest that they need to pursue it a bit harder.

The online brochure has a Lexus UK address in some of the blurb and here is the wording. "And it's built to last: features such as a chain-driven valve system mean your valves will never need adjusting, and a stainless steel dual exhaust system reduces corrosion and keeps noise to a minimum" That sentence is contained in all three brochures 2008 to 2010. If that's not true, then that is/was false advertising surely. Lexus couldn't claim a printing error in three different yearly brochures so what was going on. Brochures here. https://www.lexus.co.uk/owners/your-lexus/#PastLexusBrochures?utm_source=LexusOwnersClubUK&utm_medium=ForumLinks

As someone on the lookout for my "perfect" IS 250, I have been reading the manufacturers past brochures online and the 2008 to 2010 all describe the exhaust system as being stainless steel. Yet, I have looked under the rear of a few older models and the rusty appearance would suggest they are mild steel. Is there a date from which, the car definitely came with stainless exhausts. Thanks.

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