CrabR

I'm in the market for purchasing an LS400 or LS430 (another sub-forum, I'm already aware) but I'm having a bit of trouble since I'm a real stickler for being picky, and having patience for finding exactly what I want. I've grown accustomed to shopping for 3-6 months before buying a car due to peculiar color combo interests, and not being flexible about things such as black exterior & such. The problem is I'm not exactly sure that the color combos I desire actually exist, or how rare they might be. If there was a guide to reference, it would make it a lot easier to make up my mind on what I'm looking for.

Is there a thread, or a site that documents the color combos that the car available with? I'm fairly decided on exterior colors, but I'm absolutely decided against a tan/beige interior - which is problematic since it seems some paint codes were only available with that interior color. If there was a handy chart to reference so that I can more easily narrow my search to color combos that actually do exist (instead of my dream color combos which only "might" exist) it would be quite helpful.

I'm also wondering if 98+ models were available with anything other than beige, grey, and black interiors? So far, that's all I've seen, with an occasional LS430 with "saddle" interior option (never seen it on the LS400). Are there any especially rare paint options? I've seen some metallic red, metallic forest green, etc - but none of them seem to be nearly as prevalent as white, black, or champagne/gold.

billydpowe

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I found some Lexus color charts using yahoo search, maybe you can too...

LiCelsior

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www.toyotareference.com, your welcome.

CrabR

Thanks for the link! That helps me with the paint codes, but I don't see any interior color information on there. Specifically, I'm looking to find which interior color options were available to each paint code. e.g. Diamond White Pearl was only available with beige interior (random example, I do not know this to be fact). Just in case that info is available on that site & I haven't found it yet, I'm gonna keep poking around

billydpowe

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you didnt try mine???? take a look for yourself...

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=lex...btn=Web+Search

CrabR

Going through about 3 pages of results on both a Yahoo! and Google search lead me nowhere solid. I've found topics on a Euro Lexus forum regarding a sort of interior/exterior color chart, but they all share the same link to the chart which is no longer a hosted website.

I tried searching for this type of thing on both search engines and within Club Lexus before making the post. It looks like such a thing used to exist, but is either now scarce or gone?

billydpowe

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sorry, just tried to help...

CrabR

No problem, I just wound up finding it on www.toyotareference.com after doing some more digging. Using their scans (which are all flash/java) I compiled the following image stitched together for the 2000 year model. Being optimistic about finding a 99/00 model, I didn't bother to compare it against the 98 & 99 books.



Hope this helps anyone else with a similar question on their mind.

Windsor

Now I think the taupe floor mats are the ones to order, to go with the "ivory" interior and black exterior. I thought it was tan. But the door panels and dash do seem to be taupe in color.