New SC430 Owner Intro.

[Blackbeard]

Hi Folks,

Finally pulled the trigger on buying a SC430, have wanted one for years so when one caught my eye whilst bored and on Auto Trader (never a good idea) that night I had it parked in the driveway. 

It's a 2003, 95k with everything working as it should.

Not new to Lexus or Japanese cars, currently have a RX450h and CT200h and in the past have had GS450h, Mitsubishi L200 Barbarian, Subaru Legacy Spec-B and Mazda MX5 (NA 1990 Import, technically an Eunos Roadster).

Picked up the SC430 mostly as a project car, I've built track/drift cars in the past and I'm a professional detailer so plan to keep the SC430 as standard as possible and having it look like it's just rolled off the production line.

So far all I've done to it is a right good clean and lifted up on the ramp to get the full undercarriage steam cleaned then the headlamps wetsanding back to perfect clarity and ceramic coated.

It's also been to my local garage and been poked and prodded beyond what a MOT does and only thing that was uncovered is the rear brakes would be an advisory. 

Next on the list to do is a refurb on the alloys, get rid of the ditch finders and put on some good tyres, new brakes all round then carry out a full machine paint correction then ceramic coating which I'm aiming to have done by the end of April.

I also film YouTube videos for my work so have already started a series of vlogs on the project as I go along.

Cheers,

Ross

[PJ Murphy]

Welcome to the club. Nice car, looking forward to seeing your handy work

[The-Acre]

Looks really good in silver!

[willydoit]

Look forward to following your youtube videos do you have a link?

[Blackbeard]

I'll pop the link to my channel below.

I've got a few filmed alongside work vlogs which will come out in order of filming.

https://youtube.com/c/BlackbeardsDetailing

[The-Acre]

40 minutes ago, Blackbeard said:

I'll pop the link to my channel below.

I've got a few filmed alongside work vlogs which will come out in order of filming.

https://youtube.com/c/BlackbeardsDetailing

I love the Nissan GTR. Mind you don't get that beard caught in your polisher!!

[ThomasLexus94]

Welcome to the forum, nice SC 430 🙂

[Blackbeard]

On 3/26/2021 at 8:26 AM, The-Acre said:

I love the Nissan GTR. Mind you don't get that beard caught in your polisher!!

That doesn't even bear thinking about, sore enough getting it caught in a jacket zip! Lol

[Blackbeard]

On 3/28/2021 at 2:44 PM, ThomasLexus94 said:

Welcome to the forum, nice SC 430 🙂

Once restrictions allow we'll need to get a YouTube collab underway 😄