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Old 10-10-02, 06:46 PM
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Default Another accessory wheel with the Lexus logo

There is a seller on eBay selling a lot of different accessory wheels from Europe and Japan for the Lexus. He's the same one seeling the Graphite colored 18" wheels that I put up in another post. Here's a pic of them.



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http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...tem=1865432433
Old 10-10-02, 07:18 PM
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theres a hot blonde in socal with a slammed white gs that has those. ive seen the car on the freeway a few times and it looks really good.

ebay link = no no
Old 10-11-02, 01:27 AM
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Its not that hard to slap the lexus logos on center caps. My 16" JDM ENDURO's has Lexus caps and I am sure they dont come stock that way.
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is the seller's name ngobros2000? If so, the guy is Charlie Ngo. I bought my IS300 chrome wheels AND goodyear eagle tires (new) delivered to my door for $1436. Not bad, eh? He sells the factory wheels for just about every lexus model for cheap! Email him to see what he has in stock.
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Sam:

are you sure that wheel you posted is 18" and not 17"?
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This line of wheels are called "Cromodora". The center cap that you see is actually a factory cap that comes on the 2000-2001 ES. I know this because I actually kept this line of wheels for about a year.

What makes these wheels nice to have is that they are hub-centric rather than lug-centric, and the known fact that they accept the factory centers.

The down side to these wheels is that they are too heavy and the sales staff are difficult to work with.

Acquisition cost for these wheels are approximately $300 and change.
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Sorry, sportythief, I forgot to post the size. They are actually 16" wheels. I made reference to the 18" wheels I posted in another thread. I should have been more clear. Sorry for any confusion.

And yes it's Charlie Ngo that's selling them. I've been corresponding with him about the 18" Graphite wheels. He's been extremely polite, helpful and patient. One of the nicest sellers I've ever met on eBay. I admire the fact that he's gone through the trouble of getting accessory wheels from Europe and Japan to make them available to people in the United States.
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