ChrisIS200SportTTE

Welcome to LOC. Very nice :zee:

Ricky the breaker is your best bet. Lexus Birmingham are cheap for the sports grill in platinum ice (silver) mine was £44 but expensive in other colours. £99 for a black one, I guess about the same for other colours, possibly more.

Funnily enough I had to do this on my 300 as well a couple of weeks ago. Expansion Tank was dry on that as well. Be sure to 'burp' the system to get air locks out. Not sure if it's the same on the 250 but I ran mine with the radiator cap off and fans in full heat for about 25 mins. Lots if air bubbles came out of the radiator.

Here's mine. It has DVD and and TV. It's not illegal as long as it's off whilst driving. Mine turns off the TV and DVD as soon as you release the handbrake. I know I'm bias but I think this is as good as an aftermarket unit can look. It looks OEM :)

Nail on the head ROYT!!

If it's the head gasket, and it does sound like it, then it's engine swap time I'm afraid or new head rebuild. The head warps as I understand it making it not possible to repair. I have a friend who's a Toyota tech and he says they throw these engines away as it's easier to swap than to rebuild and most of the time Toyota UK are covering the repair under warranty so they always choose to fit a new engine. (Same engine also fitted to RAV4 and Avensis) It really is a poor design... Silly silly Toyota/Lexus :(

The front brakes of an IS200 are the same as on an IS300, GS300 and Toyota Supra so I'm told by a Toyota mechanic. I guess the twin turbo supra has bigger breaks then? Even if your 200 is supercharged you don't need to upgrade the brakes.

I remember you saying about this on Facebook a few months back, shocking mate! This is Dean right? Lol...

Yeah but even at 132k with decent service history I don't think the engine should be seizing!

TC and Snow shouldn't affect it I don't think. You're correct in the fact that it's way easier to change the whole arm rather than the bushes but I think the arm will be silly money. When I needed the front lower control arm bushes done on my old 200 the bushes cost me £40 plus i paid a mechanic mate a few quid for the use of his garage and bush press. The lowest quote I got for an arm was £240. £309 from Lexus!! Sorry don't have a part number.

Yes what Stuno said......buying from a dealer may well be your saving grace :) I've never heard of a 250 engine seizing either, that's why I'm so intrigued. I take it the car has a decent service history?

Siezed engine? What mileage is it on?

Common failure on IS200 this mate. I'd take the offer £80 fitted. The bushes will set you back about £40 from eBay

No I don't believe it should. I've been having 02 sensor issues with my IS300. Lexus also gave me the line of if the sensor replacement doesn't work you'll need a new cat. My response was "bull****" Do you have an OBD2 code scanner? I suggest you get one, read the code(s) on your car then post them here. I read my own fault codes on my car before taking it to the dealer. The code I had was Po156 O2 sensor circuit malfunction sensor 2 bank 2 If the cat wasn't working properly then it would throw up it's own code. Can't remember the code now but it's specific to the CAT. I told the dealer my code was being thrown by either faulty wiring or a hole in the exhaust. They seemed surprised that I knew the code and what I was talking about etc and then said "yes that's possible" so now they're having the car back Monday and I bet they don't tell me I need a new CAT!

Yeah you're low on oil.... And getting lower by the sound of it if the light is becoming more frequent. Noticed any oil under your car? On your driveway? Or blue smoke from the exhaust?

Hi and welcome. Ball joints are a weakness on this car, but they are cheap to replace. Only replace with OEM ball joints. If you use inferior eBay cheapy ball joints you're asking for trouble trust me! Lol Also front brake callipers like to seize up, so check slide pins and slide bolts. Those are the two big weaknesses of this car IMO. Also you say it failed on uneven brake efficiency. Where I used to get my 200 MOT's and also my 300 mot'd currently they don't use the brake machine because they say it will give a false reading because if the LSD so they road test the brakes. I don't know how true that is but my cars never got an uneven brake advisory or fail. All the best :)

Each to their own... I have NGK but only cos they're slightly cheaper. denso are OEM.

Welcome :) You must be a gold member to sell on the forum.

Lol no Mike, they're not my jokes I'm afraid just my favourites :) Here's one more... A family decide to have a conservatory built onto their house one summer. When the builders turn up the family's 8 year old daughter asks if she can help the builders as it's the school holidays and she's bored. The builders take a shine to the little and give her her own hard hat, workmans gloves and safety goggles and then give her little jobs to do to make her feel important such as counting bricks etc... At the end of the day the workmen put a couple of quid in a little brown envelope and give it to the girl as her "wages" The little girl is absolutely thrilled by this and helps the builders every day until the job is complete and at the end of every day the builders give her her "pay packet" When the job is complete the little girls mum realises her daughter has made about £20 so she decides to take her to the bank to open a child's savers account. When they get to the bank the little girl proudly goes up to the cashier and says "I'd like to pay this in please" The cashier says "wow that's a lot of money for a young girl, did you get this for your birthday?" "No" replies the girl, "these are my wages" "Wages?" Asks the cashier, "and what job did you have?" "I was a builder, helping build my mummy and daddy's new conservatory" says the little girl. "And did you do a good job and finish the work on time?" Asks the cashier The little girl stops and thinks for a moment then replies, "Of course I did a f***ing good job, I'm not some sort of f***ing cowboy! And we would have been done a day early if it wasn't for them cu**s at Jewson delivering the f***ing bricks late!!"

Hi welcome to LOC :) Enjoy the car and merry Boxing Day to you lol... :hohoho: :hohoho:

No demand can't be great and you're right that's silly money as you can get a tomtom for less :)

Replied to other thread.... No need to double post :)

Seen this a few times now http://www.lexusownersclub.co.uk/forum/topic/82804-help-its-like-i-have-no-battery-is220d/?fromsearch=1 http://www.lexusownersclub.co.uk/forum/topic/77960-my-is220d-has-died/?fromsearch=1 Bad Earth connection

Had a quick look for you on some jap part web sites and eBay... Looks like a dealer only part or you can't just get the spring. Call Lexus tomorrow, if it is just a spring they'll order it for you and post it to you. Can't imagine a spring to be very expensive.

Yeah think the service plans may differ from model to model. On an IS the spark plugs aren't included.