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I'd be lying if I said I didn't immediately look for a set of takeoff IS300 wheels after seeing this picture. Those look fantastic as an OEM+ upgrade. Unfortunately the cheapest set I could find was $1,450 on eBay from Japan, which is more than I'm willing to pay for takeoff wheels w/o tires.
@panyo64 Thanks. For reference I got my set from oemwheelshop.com and the price was $245 ea with free shipping. Tax was $93, so I got them shipped to my door for $1073. They don't come up for sale often, especially as a matching unrestored set so be open to getting a different set of 19's or 20's if you're going for an OEM+ look. Just make sure the bolt pattern is 5x114.3 and the center bore is 60.1, and stay close to 45 offset. If the wheels are repainted or restored, try to get a set of 4 from one place so they aren't mismatched. One other gotcha are the lug nuts. The factory GS wheels take a "mag" lug nut, and my new wheels have a "spherical" seat so I bought a new set of spherical seat lug nuts and locks from Gorilla. Bonus is they actually look a lot better than my old beat up lug nuts.
Used Techstream to register 4 new Denso TPMS modules. Delighted to see all 4 reporting pressure.
Is it just a matter of grabbing those ID's and inputting it into the TPMS registration screen on techstream? I can't remember the screen, but do you need to specify which TPMS ID goes where? i.e. left front, right front, left rear, and right rear?
Is it just a matter of grabbing those ID's and inputting it into the TPMS registration screen on techstream? I can't remember the screen, but do you need to specify which TPMS ID goes where? i.e. left front, right front, left rear, and right rear?
In a nutshell, it’s exactly what you said. I took a picture of the TPMS sensors beforehand so I could enter their serial numbers into Techstream later. Then I used the Techstream registration screen as shown in the youtube guide to enter the serials in no particular order. Unfortunately the Techstream page just gives you spots 1,2,3,4,5 and isn’t clear which number is which corner. To get the correct wheel to the correct corner, I lowered the pressure on one tire and observed the change on the dash. Then it was just a matter of installing that wheel onto the right corner. There’s definitely a faster way but that’s how I got everything ironed out.
Wait there's a 5th serial #? Does that mean the GS will support a TPMS sensor for the spare???
There is indeed a 5th TPMS slot, though the serial no. field is blank. If we added a 5th TPMS sensor, not sure where it would even display the data since our instrument cluster only shows 4 wheels 🤷♂️
Wait there's a 5th serial #? Does that mean the GS will support a TPMS sensor for the spare???
I don't think the cluster display will support displaying a 5th tire pressure, but it would be nice to somehow have access inside the car to the spare tire's pressure.
The spare has a maximum air pressure of 60psi, and over a period of a year or so it'll drop down to about half that maximum amount - around 25 - 30psi. That said, if you ever needed to put the spare on the car, you'll want the spare to have near the maximum air pressure so it'll be safe to use - not just half the maximum amount.
While it would be nice to see the spare tire's air pressure somehow on the cluster display, I highly recommend checking and filling the spare tire to 60psi once a year to keep it in a safe and ready condition for use.
Found a set of beat up g37 wheels with new 245/40/19 tires on marketplace. Refinished/repainted them in Toyota Phantom Grey Pearl (1E3). Definitely like the color as that was what I was going for, but I did a pretty **** job refinishing them, all in all I them better than the 18in stock ones that were on it before. Gives it a bit more of an fsport look without being an fsport, and also almost got rid of the monster truck look on stock 18's as well.
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