TigerFish

You can just pivot them up if you remove one, but I would always recommend greasing the slide pins whenever you do anything with them like Steve mentions. There are a couple of tutorials I did in my signature below on disc/pads/slide pins which may help.

I can only backup what has already been said. No such issue with the GS430. Congrats on your choice. Hopefully they will have sorted the brake issues, on mine, they perform superbly. Seizing calipers and/or slide pins are a couple of things to check. Slide pins especially, which are also an easy fix.

Have you checked there is power reaching them? (I assume they definately are iluminating plates?). From what I can gather on other threads I've seen on here regarding the lexus illuminated scuff plates, they are not terribly reliable.

What is the camera like that you have? The one I used to have was like a small square box. On my GS, I colour coded it and mounted it just below the keyhole under the lip of the plastic trim strip. It sat just above the number plate. The IS looks very similar in that area so a similar position should work on it too.

I think it just comes down to the type of car it is. A rare'ish, exec saloon. There just aren't that many things available that don't cost a lot of money. When there is a small call for something, the manufacturing costs are always higher. There are cheap things that can be done, HIDS, tints, lowering (cheapish), roof spoiler, smoked repeaters, de-tango'ing the indicators, eyebrows, lights, stuff like that. Exhausts start getting more expensive, but having said that, if you need a new exhaust the genuine items are frighteningly expensive (£1000+), so custom stainless steel systems are the cheap alternative (£300-500). Coilovers are expensive, tuning the engines are expensive (the Aristo is the best starting point rather than the GS's), body kits are expensive. I've done most of the cheaper end of the scale to the 3 GS Sports I've owned, but can't justify the expense for the other stuff, I'm not into VIP'ing, which is another money pit.

I would say the best bet is to permanently power the camera itself, and only use the reverse lamp feed for the auto switch of the stereo. That way you can do your 1 sec press on the stereo and it will show up, and the stereo will auto switch still when you select reverse. That's pretty much what I did on my GS300 when I fitted a camera.

There are two on ebay at the moment, one for £240 + £10 P&P and one for £375 with free P&P.

Welcome to LOC B)

It was probably just due to low useage and I wouldn't worry about it unless it comes back. You can pick up a booster for £350-£500 so I wouldn't say it wasn't worth sorting (to be fair, they are about £2000 from Lexus, so that would make it uneconomical). It is the nitrogen accumulator part that goes on the older boosters. From what I can gather, there is somebody on Soarer World that repairs/regasses the nitrogen part for about £100 I think, but you would have to check that out. No idea if it is the auto ligths that would drain it, I would suspect not as the whole circuit relies on the ignition switch to be on to power the lights on. The interior motion sensor/Alarm is probably the main culprit if the battery is still in good health. On my old mk1 GS, if you pressed the lock button on the fob and released, and then pressed it again straight away, the interior motion sensor was disabled. I'm not sure if the same feature is available on the mk2's, as I know on my GS300 and GS430 mk2's, the same procedure (two quick presses) puts on the dead locking. I have noticed that if I press it a third time on my 430, the indicator lights flash 5 times (instead of just once), so I assume it is telling me something, just not sure what

Falken's are excellent. Had them a few times on my GS's and just reverted back to them this week. Much quieter than the Goodyear Eagle F1's I went for last time. I've got one of my spare sets of Mk1 GS Sport wheels in for refurb this week with Kumho KW27 winter tyres going on, so will hopefulyl be able to give some feedback over the winter once they go on the car.

Looking good. Are they LS wheels?

What I would have liked would have been a Series 1 GS with the 430 engine as I think the Series 1 is a much nicer looking car. The yanks did get a GS400 V8 mk1 I believe, which would've been a nice motor.

I Just bought a Rev 3 GS430 and finding the same. I am happy with the performance and looks though. I may be looking for a little more noise (although it does seem to growl nicely at 4k revs and above). Maybe some new custom wheels would be nice and a K&N filter. I didnt know the GS had the supra engine I presume that just relates to the GS300 rather than the 430. Cheers Dom Yeah, it is the straight six 3 litre in the GS300 that is the same.

I wonder what that is then? The GPS receiver is around the rear parcel shelf I think. There's no external antenna on my GS430 satnav, maybe it is a cellphone antenna on yours?

Those are mk1 diagrams mate ;)

Welcome to LOC. Sounds like you have some fun and games ahead. Seat runners? I can't see why you would need those. I'm sure the motors are in the seats, the runners shouldn't make any difference. Do ALL adjustments not work? There are seperate motors for various adjustments so it would seem unlikely that they would all go at the same time. Sounds more like a power issue. There should be a seperate fuse for each front seat, so I would check that first - I think it is called "D P/Seat" or something similar. Unfortunately, due to the memory positions, there are a lot of ecu's involved, but power would seem the most obvious to test first. The radio display was missing loads of segments on my 99 GS300 Sport, I switched to an after market system anyway but when I did look into it, there was an LCD panel available, but still a fiddly job to solder in. I agree with the others on the key, check the battery first in the key. Does the central locking work from the key barrel and the lock/unlock button on the doors?

Sorry, I'm not too clued up on the technicalities of how the dyno machines work, all I know is that doing them on an automatic is unlikely to yeald the right results due to the fact that when you are flooring the car, it will keep kicking down and changing gear. So to stop it kicking down, you can't give it maximum throttle and hence a low power output.

I don't recall any 2nd gen GS's having a sharks fin to be honest. I would suspect it was someone adding an aftermarket one.

As above, I can only get mine over the drivers door speaker. The volume is changeable for the intructions, and go pretty loud on my GS430, I've never not been able to hear them no matter how loud the music. Have you adjusted the volume for the instructions?

Yeah, on the later ones, there is the combined sidelight/brakelight (as per the older style), plus an extra socket for just a sidelight (that lights up the outer edge of the cluster). If you want the newer pair to function as they do on the newer cars, you would need to make an extra bit of loom for the extra sidelight, along with the socket to hold the bulb. No idea if you can just buy a later cluster loom to replace the whole original cluster loom. It caught me out when I bought a set of aftermarket lights for my '99 GS300 Sport, as it had an extra ballast pack for the LEDs that had nowhere to plug in. All became clear when I bought an '01 GS430 Sport and swapped the after market ones onto that. The extra ballast pack was for the additional sidelight, without it, the bulb failure lamp stayed on.

Yeah, I'm sure they would. There may even be a proper bracket from Toyota. The problem was that the diagrams were so poor it was hard to tell without ordering stuff on the off chance.

A copy of the transponder? The flip key cases don't have a transponder do they, only whatever is in the standard fob swapped over? You would need a flip key with a transponder and space for your fob internals.

Yeah, intakes and stuff are easy enough to DIY true enough. The stock intake system is pretty good though so stick a k&n in the standard system and the jobs done. Custom exhausts are relatively cheap. Agree it is a supra engine, no cheap gains to be had with the NA GS300 though. If you have the TT Aristo that is a different matter with the various single turbo routes. Cosmetics wise, there ain't a lot unless you have deep pockets or want to go the VIP path. The part numbers for the fascia are in the link from my sig lines below mate.

As far as I know, they all could have them, just many didn't have the filter panels in. If i remember correctly, If you pull down the bottom panel under the glove box, you should see a white cover with a wing nut holding it on. Remove it and the first filter panel (if it has them in) should pull straight out, the second one is at an angle above where the first one came out. Lexus should do them.

I'm surprised they took your money from you for a dyno run to be honest, as the autobox doesn't have a lock on the gears so a proper run wouldn't be achieved.