By the way Dave LE on a Lexus does not mean limited edition, it was a standard model that they made in the thousands, it was just the top model, luxury edition, and lexus stands for luxury export to united states ( LExUS)

Afraid you're off track there..... It's the Limited Edition model that only ran for 12 months. You can only get them on 53 & 04 plates and the very occasional 54 plate and only come in one colour (Kodiak Sky Grey). The 200 version got xenons as standard (the only 200 to get them) the special colour, limited edition grille, along with full leather instead of leather/suede, dashtop covered storage and special alloys. All the IS300 version got extra was the dashtop storage, colour, Limited Edition grille and the wheels as xenons and full leather were standard on the 300. As it turned out the dashtop storage and wheels were added as options to the normal range in the last year the cars were produced.

Have a look on Parkers when looking at used car prices etc.... you'll find one of the spec levels on the IS200 and IS300 is for the Limited Edition. I remember when we had the IS200 before we were in the dealership for something and i picked up a brochure for the Limited Edition and said then we should have got one of those instead.... Then 6 years later i did.

Cheers

Dave.

Edited 7 March, 201115 yr by WaveyDavey

I stand corrected, you should post up a better picture as your car looks like a normal LE , the wheels look the same, I thought you had fitted the HIDS, what mpg you getting, got 24 in my sport, still miss it, but it was like having a second mortgage!

Just did some digging the car was an se , later called an LE but nearly the same apart from badges and lights, , when I had mine the salesman called the LE luxury edition though? same wheels as an se too

Edited 8 March, 201115 yr by bluvrs2

I stand corrected, you should post up a better picture as your car looks like a normal LE , the wheels look the same, I thought you had fitted the HIDS, what mpg you getting, got 24 in my sport, still miss it, but it was like having a second mortgage!

Just did some digging the car was an se , later called an LE but nearly the same apart from badges and lights, , when I had mine the salesman called the LE luxury edition though? same wheels as an se too

I'm getting 25mpg at the minute which is only one-point-odd less than the official figures and not too bad for a 3 litre 6 cylinder engine design that is now twenty years old!!! :yes:

The wheels from the Limited Edition were introduced as an option on all IS's for the final 12 months or so which means that as the same thing happened with the dash storage all that you got different with the IS300 Limited Edition in the end was the colour and grille. The extra toys you get over the IS200 make up for it anyways.

Anyway.... Enough of this Lexus talk in this thread.... We can turn into Lexii geeks at the Yorks meet in a couple of weeks.

Cheers

Dave.

Edited 8 March, 201115 yr by WaveyDavey

Had a small led added to the small drawer on the drives side... finally I can see the coins at night!

Took the (1 of them bent ) winter alloys off, and washed it (again )

Roomie had a new cambelt and service. Fabia had a run out and got dirty 'cos the Roomie was at the garage......

Got my dents fixed! :clap:

Drove the Fabia to work and back

Drove SWMBO to work.

Toying with the idea of cleaning the Fabia, but it's ment to snow later on tonight....

Davy

Washed and polished the Fabia, looks so much better for a clean, and got into a chat about cleaning cars with a guy from the British Heart Foundation.

Davy

Had the tumble flaps re-adapted

Just renewed the car insurance, total cost including interest for paying monthly £1740 :'(

filled it up for ultimate dubs

Put £400 worth of new tyres on her :'( (but got the tracking done for free :yes: )

Put £400 worth of new tyres on her :'( (but got the tracking done for free :yes: )

topped up the screen wash after a week of being annoyed by the bong noise of telling me its low

Filled up. Still smarting after being stung £75 for 350 miles worth of unleaded. Practised economical driving on the way to work and made no difference at all according to the display!

drove to ultimate dubs and back

Fitted the rears coilovers. Fronts tonight if my mate can make it round to lend me his tools and give me a hanf with the job

Got the keys to my car :yes: and took it for a spin

Why swmbo won't drive her car, i don't no

Washed incl wheels, filled screenwash, checked oil and tyre pressures and torqued wheels then it fecking rained/snow/sleet

Got my VCDS software in!!

DRLs enabled.....

Staging .... enabled

http://sojournermer.blogspot.com/2011/03/staging.html

Cornering lights... enabled

http://sojournermer.blogspot.com/2011/03/cornering-lights.html

Still have to figure out how to enable the coming/leaving home function....

Edited 21 March, 201115 yr by sojourner_mer

filled it up for ultimate dubs

drove to ultimate dubs and back

That was my weekend...

Brimmed it and then nearly fainted.

Washed it!

SWMABO complained she couldn't tell what colour it was.

Seems to have lots of small black dots on the bottom half from all the resurfacing they're doing around home, so it looks like I'm going to have to get the polish out.