My search has begun for an IS 250 Manual. Today, I took a close look at one. I noticed that the bumper cover and fender intersection on the driver's side was off by half a 2-4 mm. I found a 350 today too, and it seems it's intersection was also off by the same amount. No other body panels were off.

How's the tolerance on your body panels?

I am also a little suspicious that the white paint is a little off on the bumper cover as well.

 

Maybe It was replaced, was it used?

 

your joking right?

 

Yes, to clarify, they were both used. I am just doing a sanity check because the two used IS's I was able to look at today had the same issue.

 

Maybe both had the front bumper replaced or repainted. i dont have a gap.

 

mine was replaced due to the dealership screwing it up. It has not gaps like that either.

 

That's the nice (or bad) thing about white paint...it's really hard to match. Especially when it has pearl.

If you are buying used, you will almost always be able to tell if there is any paint work. On that same note, it sucks when you want to paint a non-factory lip, spoiler, etc.

 

one person posted a vid of the IS being assembled and they stated that all body panels are measured to be within 2mm tolerance