TigerFish

Yeah, I would tend to recommend replacing in axle pairs, but not totally essential if you are going oem. If not oem, the characteristics may be too far different to risk one replacement across an axle. Worth a call to Lexus for a price, and a call to a local motor factors for another price. May be cheaper to get one OEM one done, than two after market ones.

Have you tried topping up the cooling system, is it low on coolant? I wouldn't expect to see bubbling in the expansion tank if the thermostat was gone. You can normally tell if the thermostat is stuck shut if when started from cold, if once the engine shows normal temp on the guage, does the radiator then feel hot. If it is stuck shut, hot water won't get routed to the radiator and the rad will feel cold/cool to the touch for a long time after initial warm up. On my mk1, bubbling in the expansion tank as a result of a blown head gasket, hopefully that won't be the case here though.

Where abouts are you? Getting the fault codes read will probably help the most assuming there is petrol etc. If a LOC member with a reader is close enough they may read them for you, i.e. I will if you are near Basingstoke.

Welcome to LOC B) Congrats on the GS, they are great cars. I'm sure there is a washer cover on eBay at the moment, not sure it is blue though but as you say, it could be painted. There are plenty of GS's breaking on eBay as well, so worth a message to some of those as well.

I have two of the Clarke 3 tonne trolley jacks, they are excellent and have jacked all my cars for the last 8 or 9 years.

lol... despite the name, it is referring literally to the car rolling over, not slight undulations in the road at speed. In those conditions the arb is either doing absolutely nothing, or twisting ever so slightly (but nowhere near enough to induce instability). It is there for cornering purposes, i.e. to stop the car rolling over.

WOW, your customer is a proper moron.

Ditto the above, leave the RX outside and get that British Classic back on the road. My GS gets to live outside while my Corrado VR6 gets the garage :)

Petrol cap is a common gotcha, so would be happy with that unless the light comes on on a regular basis.

lol... For you to have a clean license and be facing a ban means you were doing a rediculous speed, ergo, seeing how fast it would go ;) No judge in the land is going to buy the "it was a more powerful car than the one I had". Good luck though, I can appreciate that you will try whatever is necessary to keep your license, I would too :)

Shame, they are great cars. If it has a full history, I would've expected it to have been done, but that's no certainty I guess.

Congrats on the purchase, they are awesome cars. Main difference on the sport were: 18" wheels Rear spoiler Front splitter/lip Lowered suspension Hid headlamps as standard Splitter and spoiler seem to vary a bit depending on year. 18" wheels are fairly easy to get hold of, the centre caps are not. Don't get conned by a seller of a set of wheels with caps missing saying you can get replacements from the dealer, you can't. For lowering, you'll have problems from the dealers, but GMax do a decent set of aftermarket ones at a really good price. 19's will fit, subject to the correct stud pattern, PCD and offsets.

The brakes last a reasonable time but most older lexus models have issues with the brakes. 9 times out of 10 there are either sticking caliper or sticking slide pin issues. I would get those possibilities checked 1st, as they can cause juddering and excess pad wear. The anti roll bar bushes tend to result in knocking noises at low speed when they are excessively worn. There is a link in my signature block to a tutorial I did for changing them. Cost about £17 each or something like that, so not a bank breaker to change them both, especially if you are handy with a set of spanners yourself. Stability wise, I wouldn't expect the arb bushes to be giving that. It is more likely to be either geometry out of whack somewhere, or shocks. Full goe setup is around £120, and worth getting done. Do get a full setup done though, not just tracking at Kwikfit ;) p.s. Also double check the tyres and pressures in regards to stability.

lol

Agree with above, I think you need to source a set of master key/locks/ecu from a scrappy to keep the cost down. Once you have a master, you can reprogram your valet key to the new ecu. For the button, I think you will need to remove the trim panel with the button on it and do the wires from the back.

Nice, a friend of mine who has a GS300 bought one of those a couple of months ago too.

Congrats mate :)

There probably is one out there somewhere, but I didn't do one when I did mine (not sure why I didn't). It is a right royal pain, not a lot of room to work in. All I can recommend it that you have plenty of extension bars and wobble bars. I found it easiest to get to the nuts by running very long combos of extension past the gearbox from the propshaft end, wobble bars helped get round any tight spots. I guess if you are skinny enough, you can wangle things around the gaps, but I'm certainly not a bean pole.

No worries mate, it's all good :) I also run a personal plate, so I have no problems with them.

Does sound like a solenoid issue. I have a link in my sig to a tutorial I did for overhauling the starter. I would overhaul rather than a straight swap from the donor car only because you could end up with the same issue very soon with another old/unknown condition starter. p.s. Yeah, the inhibitor would stop it clicking as well. Once it clicks, it is a direct feed from the battery to the starter so the inhibitor would do naff all at that point.

Frankie, chill out mate :) No need to take such an aggressive stance/tone.

This thread had made me chuckle a few times so far. Les posts that anyone who doesn't agree with his opinion must live on a another planet, and then retorts back that other people were rude to him in reply ... lol. It seems that regardless of whether the lights are bright enough or not, there is no legal requirement for them to be there at all. So I'm just wondering what the OP was expecting Lexus to say or do? Fair enough that some other cars/brands have better ones, and that means Lexus should do what? They are not going to do a recall when clearly from this thread there are those that think they are fine and those that think they are not. No idea why that should result in insults, but I guess that is how some deal with differing opinions to their own. They may offer assistance in illuminating the way when reversing, but if they were "meant" to illuminate the way, surely we would all have headlights on the back of our cars, with the appropriate legal operating parameters around them (like headlights do)? As far as those saying they are not there as a warning for others, why do you think they are white and not some independent colour of their own? It is so that you can make the connection between headlights and reversing lights and make an assumption that the vehicle may be moving towards you (rather than red lights that would suggest they are moving away from you). So they do potentially fulfill a dual purpose, "If" you have them and they are working, which they don't have to be, or they are bright enough, which they don't have to be.

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Yeah, as Ian says, on the mk1, the alarm fob is seperate, but the key still has the immobiliser transponder chip in it.

Didn't hit any specific issues. The plugs and sockets are Lexus/Toyota specific, so I ended up buying a few different cables to get the right connectors (so that it was plug and play to revert back to standard. No haynes manual, you can get the pdf's of the factory manual(s) pretty cheap on ebay.