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It ought to be a perfect fit on top of the factory disc drive, what may not be flush is the fitment with your air vents as these android head units are made to better accommodate the facelift IS, so the alignment tabs at the base may not line up perfectly and the air vents will have a noticeable gap. This is easily remedied buy buying 2009+ onward air vents however.

I picked up the multi use one from Halfords for £12 but I was planning to bulk order some from Mannol via eBay as it works out incredibly cheap, however as I was heading to Italy I needed some for a test run. Idea is for every litre of fuel you put in add 1ml of the additive

This may be purely a placebo effect, but I recently went down a rabbit hole of E10 additives and I’ve used it a few times and I feel like it’s brought my car a new lease of life. The end result of the additive is fuel which is pretty much like Super unleaded without the extortionate prices. The car picks up way better it’s smoother and my MPG has had a noticeable increase. City driving improves from 24 to 29mpg and my latest drive to stanstead yielded me a cool 42.1mpg!

Cheers mate, yes it’s not a completely plug and play solution. For that I’d highly suggest the TEYES CC3 , it is made to support both pre facelift and post facelifted vehicles and these can be NAVI or non Navi. The reverse cam will also work, the only reason I hadn’t gone for that myself is that I wasn’t 100% sure on compatibility with facelifted vehicles and I didn’t like that Facelift compatible vehicles had to have the fascia’s with the smaller screen and additional buttons. @ahmed24 recently got a Teyes CC3 and has had great success with it and it works very well. Hopefully we can get a in depth review or something of the sort in the future

It could be that the key fob has the button slightly depressed so its opening the windows on its own. This is something I've been meaning to programme into my keys but not got around to pulling up Toyota Techstream to do so. Try disassembling the key and reassembling it, a good indication is if the red activity LED is flashing on its own.

Just how the lighting is I assure you haha, I did manage to purchase a door on eBay all in for around £88. This one had a few minor scuffs compared to some other examples but this came with the door handle and the window and I'd rather not transfer all that across. Door has already arrived today, will make arrangements to fit hopefully in the next week or so!

I've recently fitted an XTRONS Head unit to replace my facelift IS 2010's infotainment. It works very well, few quirks but climate controls and all functionality seem to work fine aside from the reverse camera (that can be made to work by splicing some wires together) Did a short little review of it for anyone who's interested. The T'EYES CC3 seems to be a better unit but I didnt like the OEM Buttons and the smaller screen so opted for this.

My brother in law knows a guy who works in a body shop so can get a rough quote from them, if its not much more cash then I'd be happy to save myself the hassle. I was thinking DIY is the best bet, that being said I'll need to wait for some good weather on the weekend to tackle this as I don't have a nice big double garage to work in haha

I haven’t check the paint code yet but it’s black so I assume it’s the Black Onyx!

Cheers Vlad, my initial plan was to go see a breaker down the road from me who is a Jap car breaker , I’ve got a few IS250 bits in the past and they apparently have a black rear door available. yes either way I was planning to transfer the internals and my own door card as that seems to be in perfect nick. I have seen a door on eBay for around £69 so may go down that route also!

Cheers Linas! I was quite lucky that the other insurance company rang me and gave me this offer, I did speak to a body shop near me to get a rough quote and they told me that a lot of insurers are supposedly doing the same thing to me as there’s a big backlog of parts and repair work to be done thanks to Brexit so for some it’s easier to just fob customers off and write their cars off. Can’t say for sure if that’s the case but it’d make sense as Admiral were insisting my car could be a write off so I didn’t want to take that chance. Any chance you know where I can get my hands on the IS250 repair manual?

Hey everyone, Some of you may have seen my dash cam footage in which someone drives into the right hand side of me and scrapes and dents my doors, after some back and forth with both insurance companies I managed to get a payout of £2500 for the damages instead of my car being professional repaired. Incase any of you are wondering why, I opted for this option as my insurer Admiral were trying to write my car off despite the damage being very minor so I went down the route of dealing with the other drivers insurance company and they've paid me out after I gave them a quote from the Lexus bodyshop. As you can see the main damage is a dent and paint work being scraped. This does go onto my driver side door handle and edge but that seems like it can be buffed off. With the main damage being to the rear driver side door, I'm considering just buying a used door on eBay or from a breaker and just stick that on instead as there are many available with the same paint work as mine. I may take this to a bodyshop or have it done myself, but does anyone have any advice or tips for this? I would need to transfer my Mark Levinson speakers to the new door as well as some of the electronics and door locking mechanisms. From what I can tell I just need to loosen some bolts on the door hinge and lift the old door off and replace it with the replacement one and then transfer the existing door internals and door card onto the replacement .

Is your key used by any chance? Used keys cannot be programmed via totoya tech stream, I had this same issue when I was doing my mums IS250C. You can revirginise the used key but youll have to pay a locksmith additional money to do that before tech stream will allow it to be programmed. What version did you select for your vehicle also? There are certain slight configurations I found (up to 3 different ones) when selecting my vehicle in tech stream so that could play a part perhaps.

Oh yes thanks for mentioning Vlad, here's the YouTube link to a little review I did for it @Jitc85

I had a GROM VLINE previously but I managed to do some tinkering and killed my OEM USB input so can no longer use it, it does work very well however your climate control LEDs will not light up so an Android Head Unit to replace it is a good option. Ive just done that and it works rather well. Oh the puddle lights are the ones underneath your wing mirrors, they'll take the same W5W bulbs you can get for pennies on eBay but for the doors you can get some projector lights also. I've gotten a set from @ahmed24 and they are fantastic alongside the illuminated door sills I managed to score. For the tyres you mean the 255 ones right? If you change it 245 it becomes the same price as the front tyres, thats what I've done and its very little difference on the ride from what I can tell. 🤣 If you need some more inspiration feel free to check out my list of mods, I'll be updating that in the next few weeks!

Congrats on the IS mate, I've got the same IS250 F sport but in black and its hands down my favourite car! The mark Levinson audio is one of the best in class audio systems for that year of vehicle, you should have USB connectivity as well as bluetooth audio so theres no immediate need to upgrade the infotainment but if you do want an upgrade for apple CarPlay / android auto there are plenty of options. Few things that may need an upgrade are the rear boot struts if you find the boot isnt lifting very easily, SGS engineering is the way to go for those combined with some springs for automatic opening if thats your preference. LED interior and puddle lights are a nice cheap upgrade and spruces up the car a little. As Vlad has stated, the brake callipers do have a bad tendency to seize up so do get those sliding pins greased up every year and it should save you having to get new callipers! As long as you service the car every year with regular oil changes the car should look after you for many miles to come 👍🏼

The Ukraine war has had an effect on fuel prices and most other things for sure, no one can deny that. That being said its as Eric said, the government and greedy oil companies have been raising pricing and causing speculative panic well before the war started so to blame it all on that is fairly naive. That being said, the government have been screwing us left right and centre for quite a number of years so I can't say its all that surprising. Things are getting so bad I'm considering getting a CT200H to replace my beloved IS250 🙄

Cheer Vlad, unfortunately no solution is perfect but thankfully none of them are deal breakers by any means. I suspect anyone with a pre facelift vehicle will not face the issues I have as according to a gentleman on Reddit his works flawlessly in all aspects and that’s a 2007 with NAVI

Hey everyone, Former GROM VLINE2 owner, I managed to replace my stock stereo with a Head Unit from XTRONS and I've had a few people show some interest in it so I made this quick little review video for it. Whats good about this is with some efforts from myself and XTRONS you can get near full functionality with this for pre facelift as well as facelift vehicles. For NAVI vehicles you do need to buy an additional fibre optic box to maintain the OEM audio quality.I'll stick some links below. https://xtrons.co.uk/lexus-various-android-10-octa-core-4gb-ram-64gb-rom-integrated-4g-solution-pma10isls https://xtrons.co.uk/lexus-various-iso-wiring-harness-most The Teyes CC3 is a better head unit overall to but I wasn't a fan of getting one of their units with the OEM Stereo like configuration with the buttons as that was the only one that supported facelift NAVI vehicles like mine. I've been running this for close to 8 weeks and its been rock solid so figured I'll share this here incase anyone else is interested in something like this. On the to do list is add DAB Radio, TPMS sensors as well as my 360 reverse camera system which this head unit does support.

People are entitled to their opinions even if all the facts state otherwise, that being said the IS220d/200d isnt an awful car objectively but it is a pretty awful Lexus and falls short compared to the IS250. If your preference is to the Diesel IS then all you can hope for is largely trouble free miles but if OP wants some peace of mind I'd stick with an IS250 or go for a 3rd Gen Hybrid IS if he can swing it.

Haha its all good, I did have a cheapo dash cam from Amazon in my car for a while but it just looked a little off so my motivations for the Road Angel were largely in part aesthetics 🤣 Haha glad you made the right choice, its sad we have to resort to such measures but especially since the pandemic started assuming nothing is sacred and don't trust strangers, especially ones that bash into your car on the road!

Haha yeah that I know but I didnt want to hard wire one of those cheapo Chinese cameras to my car incase something were to happen to it and mess up my cars fuse box. Plus I found with alot of the cheaper dash cams they had those ugly screens which made it quite distracting and I wanted it to be a clean install while being discreet. The road angel while pricey seemed to meet all those requirements for me and it came with its own official hard wire kit and while the app is god awful, it seems to work nicely for me.

Oh yes for sure, the partial discount is worth it and you don't need to disclose footage unless you want to. Mine is a pricier road angel becuase I wanted to hard wire it but you can pick one up for absolute pennies on amazon. In terms of this driver, supposedly he didn't see me (which is frankly insane) but I didn't give him too hard of a time. I've just had a look at your footage, that is terrible luck what on earth was that van driver doing!

Here is the best reason for a dash cam, you can do everything correct and be subject to an accident. This happened to me on the Bank Holiday Friday unfortunately, the damage is pretty minor and thankfully the bloke took liability and was very apologetic. More often then not that isn't the case and its your word against theres. Its best to have the footage and never need it then have an accident and not have footage to back you up. vlc-record-2022-06-03-16h20m12s-20220603141902_0060.mp4-.mp4

This would be very useful to know actually, I've made a few recommendations to people to get 2008+ IS's due to the fact it can work with E10 without issue but it does seem odd how its not clear why it isnt compatible. Lets hope its an error on Lexus's part.