Daveyboy20
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Drove from Merseyside to south west London on Friday night. Averaged 38mpg! Thought I'd share as i was so impressed with it. That was using cruise control bang on 70mph for most of the journey. :)
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What size tyres are you guys running? Do you have any pictures please?
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I can only seem to find 60.1 to 73.1 - that'll be fine, won't it?
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Thanks for your reply - I've checked a few ET calculators and done a bit of maths and I think they will stick out 9mm more and push in at the back 3mm more than the original 16s. That suggests to me that they should fit. I've checked out 18" tyres with a similar rolling radius to the standard ones and I currently think that 245 45 18s should do the trick. What 18" tyres do others run?
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I can get a set of these wheels - will they fit my 98 LS400?
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Cool - cheers mate. Feel kind of bad for the car getting rid of an original feature, but I'm never going to get these 16s looking good so it's kind of pointless keeping it. Hopefully don't get a flat though in the mean time!
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Hi guys- trying to free up some cash to fit some better wheels. Whilst valeting, I discovered the spare wheel in my 98 LS400 is unused. Is it worth anything? There are some minor marks in the diamond finish from my wet boot, but other than that it's very clean.
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Thanks guys, I might email that thread to them and ask them why they think they'd need to remove the cats!
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They said that they'd need to remove them to do it and that's where most of the labour costs are.. I presume my cats are OK inside? I have a check engine/loss of power issue but it only happens at high revs and isn't all the time. If I weld them will they be removable? Is there any way of checking if they're ok before welding them up? ECU won't talk to My OBD2 scanner so I can't pull any codes :(
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My cats are both blowing at the flanges really badly - an exhaust place just quoted me a small fortune to replace them. He seemed to think this was very common with ls400s but gave me no alternatives but to chop off the flanges and weld new ones on, or buy new cats. Both options were very expensive. Is there a cheaper option out there?
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Hi guys - I currently have this bluetooth system installed in my 03 jaguar XJ8 but will be looking to sell the car in the next few months. Can this unit be fitted to a 1998 LS400? The Jag has a touch screen and amp driven stereo, so I can't imagine it'd be totally different?
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Odd one this - I have just under a quarter of a tank left, I turned the engine off and jumped out only to hear something odd; there was a fairly loud gurgling coming from the fuel flap. I opened the flap and started to unscrew the cap and got the familiar hiss from a low tank - although it was a fairly major hiss! What might this be? Not the usual hisa when opening the cap buto the mega gurgling just turning the engine off...
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Any pics?
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What wheels are you looking at? I like my 16s but they need refurbishing. I may do that, but at 60 quid a corner it's making me consider other wheels. Had to be budget, sadly, so I'm looking for the deepest dish 17s/18s for the least moolah. Any suggestions? A lot of the wheels I see from other Lexus' are very flat and boring.
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Although I'd argue that nigh-on 300hp is powerful. Certainly feels powerful in my 13.9 second Capri!
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My first car (after passing my test; had quite a few prior!) was a 1979 Mazda B1800 pickup that'd beenot hot-rodded. Foot wide back tyres and a lifted rear end. It actually had a removable roof too - convertible pickup for the win! Got a Capri after that, and still own it 16 years later! It has nearly 300bhp now, so it's changed a little ;)
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The fault on my car appears to be clearing up. It went from doing barely any miles to 30 miles a day commuting with me. I'm almost convinced it's down to the VVT having never been exercised. Oh - and I don't want to bring fuel for the fire; but some of us chose the LS400 due to its legendary quad-cam V8, and enjoy stretching it's legs once in a while (private test track, of course)....I'll be modifying the exhaust a little in mine, nothing too obtrusive, but I'd like to hear those 8 cylinders a bit more :)
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Basically, if the wheel speed sensors notice that one or both of the rear wheels are rotating quicker than the fronts, then the ECU will cut the power temporarily. If your car begins to oversteer, the VSC will notice the wheels are spinning too quickly and will cut the power to bring the car back in line. The light went off on those straight line acceleration videos as the LS400 is so torquey that it can spin the back tyres a little on hard acceleration. You can turn it off if you're quite happy with the rear wheels going quicker than the fronts on occasion ;)
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It's not that the redline is low; it gets to 5800 and misfires with a check engine light. The light goes away as soon as I back off.
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Well the more I use it, the better it gets. Seems to rev to 5800 before choking now. A few times it's not done it at all. I'm thinking it's had limited use and never been pushed. Current theory is the VVTi is a bit 'sticky' and giving it some use is freeing it up. I'm going to give it a couple of oil changes to try and clean out any crud that could be contributing to it.
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Will do - cheers mate. I've just bought an air filter for it, as a 'probably could do with one anyway and it might fix the problem - measure. Absolutely loving driving this big beast around. I've come from a Lincoln Town Car, an 03 XJ8 and a 01 XJR... and the Lexus feels like an amalgamation of them all. It's without a doubt more comfy than the XJ8 - it's not as quick as the XJR - it's as comfy as the Lincoln, but actually handles.... it's awesome.
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There's a 430 for sale at the top of my road for 2500 but it has 250k on. So looks in great nick though!
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ive bought another
Daveyboy20 replied to ste42's topic in LS 400 / Lexus LS 430 / Lexus LS 460 / Lexus 600h / Lexus 500h Club
w this one, nearly contacted him myself. Went for a different one on ebay and paypalled the guy his deposit using my credit card. That was just in case things went Pete Tong - seemed the best thing to do. Fella was great and actually delivered the car to my door for free! Loving ownership so far. -
Thanks for the advice fellas - and can i just say I'm really impressed how many of you have offered help to a newbie to the forum. I'm a member on a ridiculous amount of forums, as I've had a ridiculous amount of cars, and this seems to be a good one! Anyway, absolutely loving my LS400 so far, seems to be a truly wonderful machine!
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Cheers guys, as mentioned it runs beautifully in all other situations. Idles perfectly, drives spot on, pulls like a train to about 5k then coughs and a message 'check engine' comes on. .. but only whilst it's coughing. As soon as you back off, the message goes. What are the capacitors?
