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[goodfella1]

Hi everyone,

I just purchased my Lexus IS 250. The car is excellent. Oh what an engine. Auto transmission is excellent too. I thought I'll join the forum to share my experiences and follow the experiences of the others. Cheers, guys.  

[Farqui]

Hi Alex / @goodfella1, welcome to the forum.

Sounds like a nice car, do you have any pic's?

What were you driving previously?

Meanwhile enjoy the smooth v6.

[Rebecca]

Hello and a warm welcome to the lexus owners club. 

You've made the right choice in purchasing the IS250. It really is a super car to drive. I'm totally delighted with mine.😃. 

Pics please ☺

[dougie175]

Hello and Welcome to the forum!

Enjoy every second of the IS250 its such a good car

If you have any intentions of completing any maintenance, modification or just general enthusiast type jobs on the Lexus now seems like the ideal time to start a thread on the Brand New build thread section to share you ideals and photos and hopefully get a few ideas and tips along the way.

[goodfella1]

17 hours ago, Farqui said:

Hi Alex / @goodfella1, welcome to the forum.

Sounds like a nice car, do you have any pic's?

What were you driving previously?

Meanwhile enjoy the smooth v6.

I used to drive BMW 3 series both F30 (320d) and F31 (330d) in the past. I also had a Golf Mk7 at some point with 1.4 (150PS) TSi and a DSG. Bimmers were great, but cost 15-20K and left me stranded once.I thought I was a hard core BMW fan, but I really like IS now. I felt the IS is as good if not better than a modern 3 series.

VW's DSG is something I didn't get my head around, operation-wise. It is nice to build up the speed, shifts smoothly, but at the roundabouts, junctions, in slow traffic, it is just horrible. Start/stop is not fast enough (BMW was excellent for comparison), you end up in the borderline dangerous situations when you are at any junction. Finally, there is this keenness to shift to 2nd gear. You feel like the car will stall. DSG just did not work for me. 

My IS250 does everything excellent so far and it has more than 100k miles on the clock.I am truly impressed by the overall package. 

 

17 hours ago, Rebecca said:

Hello and a warm welcome to the lexus owners club. 

You've made the right choice in purchasing the IS250. It really is a super car to drive. I'm totally delighted with mine.😃. 

Pics please ☺

Let me check if I can attached a few pics.

[Farqui]

Thanks for the input Alex, interesting to hear that you're leaning away from Beemers.  

Hopefully the Lexus won't leave you stranded.  

I've heard many complain about DSG boxes after they've used them for a while especially when parking.  It's a shame as initially they seem really slick.  They're costly to fix too.

Great pic's btw, thanks for sharing.

[Guest]

Welcome to the forum.

[Bluesman]

Hi Alex and welcome to the LOC. We are a friendly bunch so please don’t hold back asking questions big or small should you have any problems with your car. We always welcome ideas on how to overcome problems with our cars but as they are the finest cars in the universe they don’t go wrong that often.

Great looking car.

 

Happy Lexus Motoring.

 

Mike.

[paulrnx]

Still have a soft spot for my own 2006 IS250 SE-L sold a long time ago. Welcome from me too