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Old Mar 26, 2014 | 03:10 PM
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Greeting my Club Lexus Forum Members' today 3/26/2014 marks four months I have had my 3IS just hit the 3,000 mile mark and I LOVE IT. Love the stares I get from people and just having people at my local gym coming up to me asking me about my car or giving me a thumbs up. Even had a guy in a GTR tell me, that's a dope whip .

Anyway, I I've been comtemplating making a build thread but it was pointless since I really haven't done anything to the car yet, this Northeast winter has been absolutely brutal and now that its getting warmer, you know what that means right? Time to get this ship rolling lol. One of the younger 350F drivers and I'm quite proud of it, and quite fortunate as well.
Alright enough with the bs, I have a AWD 350 FSport Ultra White/ Rioja Red. Pretty popular amongst the forum I know, but haven't seen many around. Basically my goal Is to make my 3IS different and my own pretty much. Definetly not gonna rice it out, but I never really modded my previous cars so this one I want to do some nice clean mods. Looking forward to hearing feed back from you guys and will definitely be asking for advice as time passes.

MODS SO FAR
-Tints all around 30% in the back and 35% up front
-Body side mouldings, haven't seen another Fsport with these, but I think they really complement the car nicely
-Door Edge guards - because I'm kinda clumsy

Hope you guys enjoy the pics and looking forward to making some new friends on here, thanks for reading
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Old Mar 26, 2014 | 04:32 PM
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Nice ride neighbor!! Nice to finally see your car. I am gonna hit the 8th month mark next week. Bought from Smithtown as well.
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Old Mar 26, 2014 | 05:24 PM
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Nice car!
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Old Mar 26, 2014 | 07:40 PM
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Originally Posted by redraptor
Nice ride neighbor!! Nice to finally see your car. I am gonna hit the 8th month mark next week. Bought from Smithtown as well.
haha why thank you neighbor, im surprised I haven't seen you around. im usually always driving around union or hillside. maybe sometime soon!

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Nice car!
thanks! you've got a pretty nice ride there yourself
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Old Mar 29, 2014 | 09:05 AM
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Congrats on the car! Always love the white/red combo!
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Looking good, congrats
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Old Mar 29, 2014 | 04:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Jaydemm
Congrats on the car! Always love the white/red combo!
Thanks! and yeah I love it. was skeptical about getting a white car because it gets dirty quickly and may dull over time. but so far its been great no complaints here

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Looking good, congrats
thanks rasta! love your car with those CVT's on it. looks awesome. id look at running a similar setup if I wasn't living in NY where its pothole central especially after this past winter.
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Old Apr 22, 2014 | 04:49 AM
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hey any of you guys ever around farmingdale....picking up my fsport today
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Congrats on the car! I love the color combo. I wanted Rioja Red but they didn't have any when I got the car Can't wait to see what you have planned for this car
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side moldings? they ruin the look of the car, imo.

otherwise, nice purchase.
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Originally Posted by silvaIS
hey any of you guys ever around farmingdale....picking up my fsport today
I'm in New Hyde Park not too far from you. Congrats on the new car! which color combo did you get?

Originally Posted by sternb818
Congrats on the car! I love the color combo. I wanted Rioja Red but they didn't have any when I got the car Can't wait to see what you have planned for this car
haha thanks man! yeah I love the red interior I get a lot of compliments on it. The white/red is crazy hard to come by on the east coast apparently ( according to my dealer). and apparently I got the last 350 F Sport White/Red coming into the east coast for 2013 so lucky me! lol

Originally Posted by davyjordi
side moldings? they ruin the look of the car, imo.
otherwise, nice purchase.
To each their own, I think the mouldings complement the lines and curves of the car nicely as the add a little shape to that area of the door & thank you
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Got my roof wrapped in 3M black vinyl and the Xpel Clear bra done. Full Front Bumper, Half hood and fenders, Side mirrors and Rear bumper too. all for $800 which IMO was a superb price and high quality work done. I was getting quoted absurd amounts for just the Front bumper and Half hood/fenders. So im happy with the decision I made. These pics will do for now, but I will try and Post some better ones tomorrow! Thanks for reading!
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another cool pic i took. future things coming in are
Black Pearl Emblems
Fsport License Plate Covers
Coverguard Heatshield
Wrapping Chrome trim around grill and windows in Satin Black
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hello smithtown!!!
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sorry haven't updated this in a while!! since my last post i have done a few things
- Black Pearl Emblems all around
- Grimmspeed Relocation Kit for my front plate
- OEM 2015 Spoiler
- Illuminated Door Sills
- F-Sport license plate covers from lexus, really great quality!
- LED Foglights from nigel jdm parts with steering wheel stalk!
-Interior LED's
-Reverse LED's
-Puddle Lamp LED's

coming this summer
-Chrome Delete
-Panting calipers metallic blue w/FSport Logo
- Joe Z axle back exhaust
- Vossens, really torn on this one don't know what to get either VFS2's in graphite black or CV5's in graphite black. also don't wanna do any suspension work so I'm not sure how thats gonna look =(. anyone have a pic of cv5s or vsf2s on a is on the stock suspension?

Wil post better pics, the build is really starting to come together now so ill definitely try to update it more, thanks for reading!
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