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So I bought a '99 LS400 in August, and as a freshman in college, I'm low on cash so this car is going to take me a while. Bought it with 19" Wald Duchatelets, Wald Exhaust, and a Wald bodykit.

I have an influx of pics I need to take and post.
Bare with me :D

EDIT: Previous Owners in order.
Albert <---apparently a really old member
Eric (LowKeySC)
Me

ive seen that car around, have fun getting it back into shape, pretty sure that's a REALLY old member's car.

what are your plans for it?

Yeah, kinda looks like an old members car. Where are you from? Norcal?

Pretty decent start yo! This car can definitely use some TLC

Hey sorry, I've been on vacay.
I've been told its an old members car, but I dont know who. I'm from the 626 SGV so no one the NorCal.
I'm really interested in the cars history and am new to the forums kinda.

The car does definitely need TLC. It was bought with a few spiderweb cracks and a chip off the bumper along with spray paint retouching -_- and a BUTTLOAD of rock chips.

Can someone teach me how to add a space between the pictures so I can kinda caption them?

When you upload attachments, this is how they are formatted. To add captions, uploading the pics to a picture hosting site, then insert the picture link location using the image tag. The image button is the one that is yellow that resembles a letter with postage stamp in the corner.

Here is a FAQ on uploading pics to your personal Club Lexus photo album:
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/pho...o-gallery.html

Thanks Mr. Mod.

Anyways, I'll just explain the pics above.
#1. That gigantic crack is when I was learning how to drive the car. I mean I was driving a stock '90 Honda Accord. The LS400 is a beast compared to it. Its bigger, badder, and drove me for quite a while. I got that when missing a driveway trying to go sideways.

#2. That was the previous owners way for trying to fix a crack. All he did was bond-o and spray paint over :(
Not to mention that crater.

#3 Those are the fog lights. Apparently the tabs for the screws broke and all they did was glue it and screw through it. One hard knock and the glue came right off. It doesn't stick well to fiberglass.

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7020/...bf9ca2c29c.jpg

This is my bumper from a farther shot. You can see how the fog light is knocked outta place by my noob driving.

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7008/...66bb12b4a5.jpg

I took out my turn sigs because I noticed that one had condensation in it, time to fix that.

So I haven't posted it but last semester (Fall 2011) I was on the free way coming back from school after studying for 3 extra hours. Now I'm not a model student, I do bad in school and I felt like a good kid after. I actually studied and thought that like I just got good karma for it. However, on my way home, there was a crapload of traffic. I decided to make an illegal and cut into the carpool lane on a double yellow and by myself. I don't know if I hit a MONSTER pothole or the reflectors did it but I bent my rim and all the air came out of my left rear tire

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7024/...74b0e66463.jpg

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7013/...e45878b12f.jpg

wow that suck. i guess thats what happen when you do something illegal. are you getting it fix?

Yup, I actually sent them in to wheelflip for a relip and refinish. They'll be 19x11.5 front and 19x12.5 rear +10 offset. 4.5 and 5.5 lip. Top it off with the transparent burning black powdercoat with brushed faces.

So wheelflip is taking a LONG time with my wheels. I sent them in sometime around Dec. 16-19, paid for everything they quoted me for. The expected turn around time is 15-20 business days. Its been like 30 days. Then the guy that quoted me for the out the door price wants to get $40 dollars out of me for the tire dismounts that he forgot. This is very disheartening.

How much did it cost to re barrel the wheels? I might need to refinish my wheels soon.

you sent it to him right before xmas, he probably didnt start til after new years.