What's going on with my ISF

[Jgtcracer]

Guys, been having a good look round and there are a few things that I'm after some info on.

Ive got illuminated kick plates, were these an option or retrofitted?

My interior lights that come on with the press of a button are a cool blue LED.  Was this standard?

Side lights and number plate bulbs as above.

Alloy wheels have a v high polishes finish.  It's definatly paint but almost looks like a shadow chrome.  Any ideas?

 

The car has had a few previous owners and I can only guess 1 of them has been on here at some point.  It's also got an HPS intake, API filter and apexi start fitted.

 

cheers 

Marcus

[Mark G]

I am just going outside to check, back in a minute............................

[emjay82]

I imagine all the lights and kickplates have been modernised to the cool white/blue bulbs. These small mods are popular on the US forums/sites for the IS/ISF. You can buy the interior bulbs kits and kick plates on eBay. I imagine the wheels were also given a special finish during a refurb at some point. My alloys were a slightly lighter grey compared to the other ISF'S when we met at Kemble, previous owners preference. The only other different wheels I've seen are the US special edition ISF.

[Mark G]

OK, not got the illuminated kickplates (although I did have them on an is220d se-l )

Got the LED interior lights and number plate lights, forgot to check the sidelights.

Wheels have a painted but almost chrome finish.

 

[emjay82]

My interior lights 2008, have a more yellow hue to the main light, wing mirror and door lights, the little spotlights in the front and back are the more modern cool white/led. It's popular in the US to switch all the bulbs to be the cool white LED so they all match.

[Jgtcracer]

Yea, I was under the impression that they had been changed but wanted to confirm.  It's popular with a lot of jap stuff as generally the lights are rubbish.  Once I get to a meet I will be able to have a good look at other ISFs and see what's going on.  The quality of the kick plates is very high, can only assume they are oem from another car.

[Mark G]

The wheels on yours are considerably lighter than mine, great looking car.

[Jgtcracer]

2 minutes ago, Mark G said:

The wheels on yours are considerably lighter than mine, great looking car.

This is what I thought.  Your wheels are OE colour still?

[Mark G]

5 minutes ago, Jgtcracer said:

This is what I thought.  Your wheels are OE colour still?

I think they were refurbished by the previous owner and are a close match to OE colour.

[emjay82]

Like the red, looks good. I think the LED lights and kick plates is a good mod, especially if they're OEM from an IS.

[GibletPH]

Mods will mean it's likely an ex club car. The illuminated sill plates have been retrofitted by a few other folk on here. 

[Tom24]

My wheels are a lot darker than that, like a dark gunmetal chrome 

[gumball3000]

34 minutes ago, Jgtcracer said:

Yea, I was under the impression that they had been changed but wanted to confirm.  It's popular with a lot of jap stuff as generally the lights are rubbish.  Once I get to a meet I will be able to have a good look at other ISFs and see what's going on.  The quality of the kick plates is very high, can only assume they are oem from another car.

Please tell me its the camera making your number plate look wonky .......

[Jgtcracer]

Yea it is, I'm OCD about stuff like that

[gumball3000]

10 minutes ago, Jgtcracer said:

Yea it is, I'm OCD about stuff like that

Me too lol.

[CharlieC]

Never seen silver on a isf before, quite like the look as it matches the grill and window trim.

This is mine,think they`ve been refurbed  though.

[Jgtcracer]

Yea, I quite like the colour, not sure I would change it come refurb time anyway.  

It does scream 'golf club' though, the darker wheels give an indication of something a little racier

[Big Rat]

Hi Marcus 

Great looking colour it's a great alternative to all those silvers, blues and blacks that are so common place 😌

Regarding wheel colour the original is darker, and if you look back to my recent thread and photos of the second set I bought recently these have been stored with only hours use on a road test car from 2008.

Also in the pictures is all the paint codes for the original, just in case you did change your mind and wanted the ' factory' look.

Again she looks good👍

Big Rat

[rayaans]

Ive always liked the red! 

Yes as other comments have said, the wheels are non-standard colour. The originals were pretty much like CharlieC's wheels. 

There's no paint code for the original wheel colour so its a case of just getting a close match. 

The illuminated scuff plates are £400 accessories I believe.

Looking at your pics, it seems that the front grill has also been blacked out - they're originally chrome

[Jgtcracer]

Appreciate all the comments, I really enjoy the car as it is.  Could do with some more exhaust note but got plans to sort this.  Still not using the apexi start, anyone got any positive experiences with it?

[Jgtcracer]

5 minutes ago, rayaans said:

Ive always liked the red! 

Yes as other comments have said, the wheels are non-standard colour. The originals were pretty much like CharlieC's wheels. 

There's no paint code for the original wheel colour so its a case of just getting a close match. 

The illuminated scuff plates are £400 accessories I believe.

Looking at your pics, it seems that the front grill has also been blacked out - they're originally chrome

The trim surrounding the front grill is chrome, may be the camera 

[rayaans]

1 minute ago, Jgtcracer said:

The trim surrounding the front grill is chrome, may be the camera 

Fair enough, it just looked dark in the photo.

[Big Rat]

14 minutes ago, rayaans said:

Fair enough, it just looked dark in the photo.

There is a paint code Matey read my post above and previous pictures of it some in my garage.

Big Rat

[Big Rat]

[rayaans]

17 minutes ago, Big Rat said:

Yep thats not the original paint colour. Thats Phantom Gray 1E3, Toyota paint. Its deemed as the unofficial touch up.

Its very close as makes no difference on a small section but its definitely not exactly the same as factory

The original IS-F wheels from factory have a black and silver mixed paint but the ratio has never been discovered.

The problem we have now is that there's so many different colours out there and hardly any of the IS-F's are on the original wheels. Most of the refurbed wheels tend to be too dark.

Original colour below:

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We didn't get the above in the UK but they're from the same BBS factory and the same colour