Steviewevie

So how does your car go now ? And has your Dad found out yet ? :D

Happy Birthday ! :D

Lazyboy looking happy and relaxed before the eating competition, before he realises that not all the food might be "normal" ... OK, this food doesn't look too bad at all, but wait - what's in that closed box ? (answer = snake eggs ) Oh well, better tuck in for the honour of LOC !

Some of my pics, more to come in due course. Apologises in advance if I've got any names wrong here, let me know and I'll fix it ! LOC club stand, and beautiful weather on the Saturday ! Stav's engine bay Bazza's engine bay DJ Wozza really enjoyed the tug of war The car pull was hard work too ! Norkep in action for LOC

That sounds like a common problem where the car "forgets" some of the keys for the remote locking. A dealer will charge you a fortune to re-programme the keys. On an IS you can do it yourself and there's a guide on the IS forum. Perhaps some of the GS owners here can comment on GS key programming ? That's a common mod on the IS, so I'm guessing the same is done on the GS too. I guess what you could do is to find a guide on how to add the mod, and then work backwards through it to un-do it. Have a look here

Hmm, my latest observations are that my head unit seems to often start skipping towards the last few tracks of the CD. Since CDs play from the inside towards the outside, that makes it sound more like a mechanical problem with reading the outside of discs

Great news that you got it back Lee. Wozza announced the fact last night at JAE, so the whole Japanese car community probably knows now, such was the volume of the PA !

A couple more things to note that are slowly coming back to me. Lazyboy made a noble effort in the eating competition, he came around third by the looks of thing. Most of what he had to eat looked like pretty normal Japanese food, but they also had some snake eggs The LOC tug of war team came third. Boy did they look knackered ! Hope your leg recovers soon Wozza ! Think that one of the Toyota Owners Club won the bungee run.

Why is it important to have "really good quality bulbs" for your number plate lights ?

Yep, he did it ! With help from various friendly LOC members (especially Stav and Gord). I took quite a few pics of the process and will post them up in due course ! Was really interesting to see it happening.

Wow, that was great ! :D Was down for the day on Saturday and had a great time. Big thanks to everyone who helped me with replacing my inside door handle, it looks a *lot* better now. Thanks to Wozza too re the rear fogs. So nice to meet lots of other LOC members, too many to mention all here. What fantastic weather we had too ! Great to see lots of nice cars on the club stand, and interesting to see what different people had done to their motors. Big well done to the LOC football team who were football champions ! Tom-18 did indeed get his charger fitted at the event, which drew quite a bit of attention from passers-by who found it hard to believe such a thing could be attempted at a car show. And it worked ! At least, he drove off in it with charger fitted and nothing seemed to have exploded/caught fire ! :) I took loads of pics, will get them posted up at some point. Wozza seemed to be doing a great job playing some choons later on, and I think most of the entire site could probably hear our sound system ! Shame I had to leave but I stayed quite a long time and was knackered ! Big thanks to everyone at the LOC who organised our participation in such a fun event.

These 11-spoke wheels are the same size as the 5-spoke alloys, so if those are what you have then yes, your tyres will fit exactly the same.

Just head for the LOC stand. I don't know anyone "in real life" either, but that's my plan for meeting up with everyone else ! :)

Cheers Paradoid....where do you get this kit from? You can get it at CleanYourCar , amongst other places.

yep, the players don't like reading CD-R's That's the thing though, it's the originals where it's having a problem on a couple of discs (on one I can see the scratch easily, though on the other I can't see anything wrong), and when I copied them to CD-R it worked better ! I might as well try and see if cleaning the lens helps, but it sounds like I could be heading for trouble ...

I have a bottom-loading CD head unit and although I haven't had any problem with discs getting physically stuck, or the dreaded "ERR3", I am finding that it seems sensitive to small scratches/marks on the discs. Some CDs that played perfectly well on my old car are causing problems where it starts getting stuck and/or skipping on a particular track. I took a CD and copied it via my PC (which had no problems) to make a new disc, and the new disc seems to be ok. Is this a common problem ? Could it be that the laser is a bit dusty or something ? Do I just need to put up with it ? Or is it a sign that the unit is on its way out ?

There's a very useful thread which may help you, here

There's massive amounts of technical information on the IS200 in the online workshop manual here

I've got some panel removers so i'll dig them out. Thanks Stav :) Does that mean I don't need to bring a butter knife ? Cos I ain't got one !

When I ordered, I received the plates the next day ! They try and get them to you within 2-3 days, so you shouldn't assume you definitely will get them next day. Nah I've just got normal plates, though I did get a custom-sized bigger one for the rear, I don't personally like the way the normal sized plated look at the back, they look undersized to me.

I used DemonPlates for mine, they can make whatever size you want, all sorts of different options. Nice online plate builder, and fast service too.

I finally got around to fitting these, and the 21156 McGard nuts seem to be the correct ones, they fit fine. I'm sure that 24157, as I've seen some report using on here, are the wrong ones

Yay for nice LOC people helping you out ! :D