Hi everyone! New Lexus owner here!!
 

Hey all!
Please let me say first,I love this club,I have been a lurker for more than a month,but I finally took the leap and signed up as I feel I may have alot to share now and in the future!
My name is carlos,I'm up here in san jose,ca.
Back in August,my wife and I were looking to get rid of our gas guzzlin' 02 Lincoln Navigator and get something more up to date.We just could not agree on a suitable replacement.
One day on the way home from work,I pulled up on a GFM Gs300 and that's all it took.I called my wife and said it has to be a Lexus.
Checked out Steven's Creek Lexus,but they were unwilling to work a deal with me,that sucked because they had exactly what we wanted(GFM,black int,fully loaded).
So next day,I called up Putnam Lexus and made a deal on a Mercury Metallic
rear wheel drive Gs300.Not our first choice of color,but very nice nontheless...
I was as happy as could be for the first 4 hours of ownership.The reason I say this is because the 1st thing I did was Google some Lexus owner's clubs to see what was going on with tip and mods to these rides.
I found this awsome site,so I went to the 3rd gen forum and what do I see stickied at the top?

Lexus announces GS350 8-25-2006!!!:eek2:

Crap,Putnam made to mention of a Gs350 when I shopped my car.
It took a good two weeks after that shock to get over the missed opportunity.

But,I must say i am more than happy with our 300.

It's the best car we ever had right out the wrapper!
Thanks for enduring my whole story!

here's a pic of our GS300
http://www.geocities.com/carlossimo/smgs1.jpg

and another one taken yesterday taken after a complete detail with Adam's Polishes,done by my 13 year old daughter and 4 year old son!
Not bad,huh???:p

http://www.geocities.com/carlossimo/smgs3.jpg

Welcome to the club! Nice Lex!

Hey thanks alot!
I have been checking out your ride and posts,too!
I would like to set up my lighting as you did with yours!:)

Welcome to CL, your ride looks nice and clean!

Thanks SGT!
we only put 700 miles on it since 8/23 so it doesn't see alot of daylight(yet),but I still inspect every inch of it daily out of love!!!

You all know what I mean!!!;)

Haha, I still do that even after 11,000 miles. :D

Sounds good! I'll have another light mod in the near future, so stay tuned.

http://autolumination.com/194.htm - Check out the Wedge Matrix bulb...that's what I use!

cool,we'll do!

I did it with our navi after almost 90k miles!!
And still got jacked on trade in value...

That's one of the main reasons we went with Lexus,I won't take a huge hit on resale if needed.

Or at least until I found about about the GS 350!!!!!!

Here's a shot of my Sirius XTR2CK unit on the center console. I tried to get Putnam to install Sirius there,but I got 4 excuses why they couldn't do it,it is a good topic for another time........

http://www.geocities.com/carlossimo/sirism1.jpg

Congrats on the new car and welcome to CL!

thanks SoCal!

Welcome to the club, Carlos! Can't go wrong with the color scheme you chose. I love the black interior...how does the sirius radio sound?