I"m back after leaving the lexus community for about a year. I had an '06 IS 250 that I bought new in '06 when I joined this forum. I got in an accident in oct '07, when my car was a total loss. I then decided to buy an '08 BMW 328i coupe. Big mistake, it turned out to be a lemon! So as I'm turning in my "lemon" at BMW, I notice a pre-owned IS250, and to make a long story longer, here I am again I think I got a pretty good price on it, it's on '07 with 25K miles, and I got it for 24,700. It also had the VAIS ipod controller already installed, which is something I was gonna do anyway.

 

Happy you came back to the light. BMW seems to pump out a lot of lemons

 

welcome back!! any plans to mod? CA is a good place to own a Lex..;D go low... go large on rims ;D

 

Thanks Guys. BTW, the car did come with only one key fob, any idea how much it's going to cost for a 2nd one? I don't feel comfortable with only 1. I also need an owner's manual, but I went to the lexus site and ordered one

 

welcome back, how long you have the bmw for? and what kinda problems you had?

 

Welcome back to the family!

I'm interested as well to know what problems you had with the BMW to make it a "lemon"

 

I bought the car on New Years day of this year, and I turned it in yesterday, so I had it for just under a year. The problem I had was the DSC control module. The code I kept getting was (DSC inactive) It took them 4 times to finally fix it, but by that time, I had enough and filed with BBB. I saw the dealer 4 times before I even had my first scheduled maintenance!

 

wow . . . what a stinker

wb to the club

 

Should've gotten a 350.

 

Daniel_G welcome back! I believe a fob is around $2-300 because they have to program the thing too. Did the previous owner lose a fob?

 

Ouch! but I guess I should have a back up one. yes, the dealer told me that the previous owner only turned in one key fob. Thanks!

 

I thougt about getting a 350, but this is my daily driver, so a 250 will suffice. Besides, my "garage queen" more than satisfies my HP urge, I also have a '02 Camaro SS with headers, LS6 cam, 4.10 gears, and a custom dyno tune...375 HP to the wheels

 

Glad I didn't get the 07 335 coupe for my daily driver, much happier with a 07 IS350.

btw, Congrats on the re-newed Lexus ownership.

 

I had an '97 ES 300 that I was bored with and replaced in '06 with a BMW
325i. Within the first year I got nails in 3 of the run flats (hated the ride), got scraped 2X while parked and had a limb fall on it while driving on a windy day. That was when I was able to drive it. It had a persistent whine coming from the engine under low acceleration that 2 dealers could not fix even after replacing the camshaft. I told them I wanted my $ back under the lemon law and went back to Lexus- an IS 250. Reliability won out.

 

lexus FTW!