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Old Feb 8, 2013 | 09:14 PM
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2008 Lexus GS 350AWD

Today I go to head out and hear then see my right rear tire is flat. So instead of putting spare on I thought I would just take tire off, take it over to Discount Tire and have it checked out since they are so close to me.

I go and take everything out and something seems to be missing. Then it hit me...the entire plastic area with all the tools. So I start to think about it and the last peope to ever be in there was Discount Tire last April when I got 4 new Continental ExtremeContact DWS tires. I just never noticed becuase I never had to get that deep to the spare. Of course I ask them about it today as a longshot but they say they would never leave anything out of the trunk when putting the spare back in. Uh huh. Oh well, luckily I had a 21 MM socket, good extension and ratchet to get the tire off.

Any ideas of replacing? Thanks all!
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Old Feb 9, 2013 | 01:56 AM
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You can find it all on EEEEEEEBBAAYYYYY!!! LOL I sound like their commercial
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Old Feb 9, 2013 | 05:52 AM
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hmmm...

On another note those DWS ROCK! My BMW is awesome in the snow with these tires.
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Yah, I went tooling around on Ebay. Nothing that is close to the GS350. I'll keep looking. Might have to explore other "options"

passnu2 - I love these tires and now I have a brand new one one the right rear LOL. I might have to go back there and have them check and rotate all the others since now I have 3 that are a year old and one brand new. They are so much cheaper now than they were even last April.
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hmmm...

On another note those DWS ROCK! My BMW is awesome in the snow with these tires.

Ya I just slapped on a set of DWS aswell, pretty quiet running tires compared to my falkens I had on there. The nice thing about them is they have 50k mile warranty, hard to find that in 20's
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This should work

http://www.ebay.com/itm/06-LEXUS-GS3...5db166&vxp=mtr

This is for an IS but I am sure it is the same, and not badly priced

http://www.ebay.com/itm/LEXUS-IS250-...29cbea&vxp=mtr
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Originally Posted by ibidu1
Ya I just slapped on a set of DWS aswell, pretty quiet running tires compared to my falkens I had on there. The nice thing about them is they have 50k mile warranty, hard to find that in 20's
I love them. So much better than the Dunlops runflats that came with the car. Night and day. I think when I changed last year they made me sign something saying that runflats were the OEM on the car and I understood the DWS' were not. Duh. About the 50k warranty, I had to pay $30.00 for the new tire this weekend since I used for almost 2 years (was Arpil 2011 not 2012) LOL So that's about 40k miles. I'm going back tomorrow to see if they want to change the other 3 for the same amount

Thanks for the links...I asked the junk yard guy a question. We will see and I'll keep looking . It's really not that big of a deal. I can just go out and but a 21 mm tire wrench.
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