SC430 - 2nd Gen (2001-2010)

Twist or Pie?

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Old 05-05-12, 03:05 PM
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Default Twist or Pie?

I just put some twist caps on my SC430 so you can do a side by side comparison




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Old 05-05-12, 03:53 PM
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Twist all the way. !!!
Old 05-05-12, 04:47 PM
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Chubby Checkers says it's time to twist....
Old 05-05-12, 05:50 PM
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Twist is the way to go.
Old 05-05-12, 08:19 PM
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Switching to the twisties was the first mod I did! They look so much better.
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I must agree, the twist is the way to go, much nicer!!
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whichever are the ones without the huge circle in the middle
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Twist of course!
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Another vote here for twist.
Old 05-07-12, 04:16 AM
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I like to go against the grain. I like the pie wheels - just to be different and that's the way the original Lexus designers styled the next Soarer / SC430.
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Me too, I like pie!
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I must say I like pie too, but with a little twist!
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i have some 06 rims if anyone wants to replace their pies or twist
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I bought the "star" covers, as they were called then, when they first became available about a year after the car's initial sale date, put them on the car (15 minutes), put the pie plates in the box and have never had the slightest desire to revert, nor have I ever had any offers from anyone to take those original pie plate covers off my hands.
They remain available, and the price gets more reasonable every day.
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I bought the twist star center caps I also bought the wheels that they came on since the seller wanted sell the wheels with the center caps. It only took 20 minutes or so to swap out the caps.

I then cleaned up these new wheels so that I could sell them. As fate would have it the new rims have very few scuffs where as the ones that are on my car have some curb rash from the previous owner. So this weekend I will be having the tires and valve stems/pressure monitors swapped from my cars wheels to these new rims. But then I will have to swap the twisties back to these rims too. I wish I had looked at the condition of the rims first and saved myself some time. Oh well LOL


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