@LC500STL. Best fitment I have seen yet. Transforms the car. I have the same color LC and have been looking at several Vossen wheels. They have so many great designs!

 

I finally got a chance to work on my 24 LC 500 convertible and did a simple oil and filter change at just over 1k miles. The car is an absolute joy to work on! Just as exquisite under it as above it. Extremely easy to change the oil and the filter. There were metal particles visible to the naked eye both suspended in the oil and in the pleats of the oil filter. Not shocking, but a bit surprising as to how many. Hence, why I drain the original oil out of all my cars at about 1k miles or no later than 1 yr since manufacture date. (Not my purchase date, but manufacture date as this is true age of the oil.) And man. . .is this car stiff. For anyone w

Stiff!
orried about chassis flex in the convertible, ah, nope. This is the only car that when I jack up from a single jack point, that entire half of the car goes up, both front and back! Notice the back wheel in the pic? There is no jack or jack stand in the back. This is all from just the one jack behind the front wheel. Never had a car do that from start to jack to end.

 

Do you just put a single jack stand behind front wheel pinch weld to do your oil changes? That's how I have been doing for my oil changes since I've been too lazy to jack the other side up and put a second jack stand, but I always wonder if I sufficiently drained all the oil with the car tilted from left to right on a single jack stand...

 

I only jack one side; however, once it starts draining I then lower the jacked up side so that it all drains. I put a Fumoto drain valve on it so it does take a while. When it is jacked up, I use the jack and a Jack Rod (which is awesome) and then another jack stand under the car as well.

 

Do U get under the car with just the floor jack? Im not quite that crazy...

 

Can the LC drive up on standard ramps? I know its low but havent tried my ramps yet.

 

tried my rhino ramps, had to get 2x12x32"and it wasnt high enuff for me.Most oil plugs are towards front of car but the LC is way back and I wasnt comfy getting at least 1/2 my body under there...and it was still tight...took it to dealer and let them deal with it...at 75 I'll just pay to be safe...

 

Was just the basic fumoto valve all you needed, no adapters or anything? Getting one now since I'm out of free oil changes at the dealership

 

how many free oil changes and at what miles...just had 24 5K oil change free,,,SA says 2nd one "might" be free.

 

Yes. All you need is Fumoto Engine Oil Drain Plug F133S. This is the standard with the short nipple. (Do not get the long nipple as that will interfere with the access panel.) You will want to have the hose(s) and white connector if you don't have that already. I have them on all my vehicles so already have a number of hoses. This makes oil changes so easy and not messy.

 

Its not at all about the money. Owning, driving, and cleaning such an exquisite vehicle all bring joy. However, I have always found a deeper connection and additional joy by servicing and maintaining my own vehicles as well. And being able to wrench on a car of this design and execution excellence is an outright privilege.

 

Of course not. If I am under a vehicle I use three points of failure as a rule. The jack, and two other backups. For the LC 500, the Jack Rod is absolutely fantastic. You can see it in the picture I posted, right next to the jack. It goes on the jack between the front axle and up top to the jack plate. It makes it so that even if the jack fails, it can't come down. The Jack Rod is well engineered and built. Totally worth it. Regardless, once I have those two in place, I can safely place a jack stand under the LC on a structural member further under the car.

(And for informational purposes, because the chassis is soo stiff and it lifts the back up even if you are just jacking up the front, this allows enough height in the back to then slide in a traditional bottle jack or jack stand so that you don't have to jack the back up in addition to the front. . . or if you were thinking you have two low profile jacks to jack up one side. You don't need two.)

 

We had a nice meet-up between 5 LC members this past Sunday. Southern Ontario folks as well as special guests from NY. Wish we'd organized the cars better to take pictures. But worth sharing regardless. This is the closest 5 LCs have been to each other since they were on the production line at Motomachi.

I may be slightly off on the years, but I believe we had 2 2024 bespoke (USB Coupe, White Coupe with satin PPF), a 2024 white vert, a 2018 red coupe, and a 2020 caviar vert.

 

Ive had the LC since Jan. 24 and have not seen another LC in my area,,,,its a blue collar type town and not alot of well to do people.

 

Lexus only sells a little over 100 LCs a month nationwide so rare indeed.