$135k vip? LOLOL stock car alert

[northmiler89]

dude that check AFS light is just from a fricken button...its located over by your trunk popper and gas door opener thing... no big deal... unless you actually fucked something up...but slim chance

[cheez80]

dude that check AFS light is just from a fricken button...its located over by your trunk popper and gas door opener thing... no big deal... unless you actually fucked something up...but slim chance

this happens to 3GS guys all the time, but it's due to lowering the car unevenly front and rear -- the front on the car is slammed as far as it can go, but the rear still has 1/3 worth of lowering left at the height i drive at. the car thinks something is off after getting too many readings that are out of spec over a few weeks haha. the button doesn't do anything once you get that error message, so the solution, i think, is to adjust some sort of sensor on the car. i'll see if my tech friend got rid of it in a few minutes -- i'm picking the car up today.

[cheez80]

Can't wait to see this thing!

The ride should turn out wicked and classy.

thanks guys!

[cheez80]

so some dude alerted me to the freedom legion lip kit (damn that sounds cool, like an offshoot of the superfriends or something). thoughts?




i'm not 100% sold on the exhaust tips -- if i got this kit i'd probably bend something myself with tips off another car (AMG, perhaps)

and obviously, this isn't as cool as the mode setup, but it's also less than 1/3 of the price hahaha

[blackg5]

all i know is there was one that I detailed all the time last year, and i'll tell you, the rear floormats were more comfy and plush than the pillow i sleep on at night

srsly tho, car is so smooth. call me crazy but i'd rather have one over an S or 7 anyday..

[Chigga]

I dig the lip kit, but the fender vents are not my thing, and the diffusers are bit too plain, I always thought the LS should have more aero-style diffusers, agree with the exhaust tips as well.

[l3xxd]

Lip kit is awesome, I agree with the exhaust tips as well do it up man

[cheez80]

srsly tho, car is so smooth. call me crazy but i'd rather have one over an S or 7 anyday..

me too. reliability is a plus too, compared to the germans haha

I dig the lip kit, but the fender vents are not my thing, and the diffusers are bit too plain, I always thought the LS should have more aero-style diffusers, agree with the exhaust tips as well.

yeah man, i agree with you on the fender vents -- i think they're a bit too boxy for a car with such an organic shape.

also, i agree with you on the diffuser -- the mode parfume rear diffuser is super boss (and carbon fiber, i think) but just that bumper costs about the same as this entire lip kit. fml

Lip kit is awesome, I agree with the exhaust tips as well do it up man

will do. AMG tips are something i've always wanted to do...

[OCKlasse]

i'd hit it...

[cheez80]

i'd hit it...

OCK, i'd say the same about your car hahaha

[l3xxd]

will do. AMG tips are something i've always wanted to do...

Cool cool, can't wait to see 'em on it!

[cheez80]

so i just got back from my friend's lexus dealership (at 2:17 in the morning haha). turns out the harness is being weird on the data systems controller, and that's why the car was throwing AFS/height sensor codes. the ECU wasn't seeing a reading from the front height sensors. interestingly enough, a quick multimeter read of the harness showed it was OK, and after we put everything back together, the error disappeared. must've been a loose pin somewhere. hmm.

we also put in the 10.1 nav update for this car. holy shit. 22 pages of instructions and 1 hour later, we were done haha. here's an in-progress shot:



fml. haha

[cheez80]

Cool cool, can't wait to see 'em on it!

the thing that sucks is that mercedes doesn't sell just the tip -- you have to buy the entire exhaust rear section. fml. i'm going to be trawling mbworld a lot for a used rear section over the next few months :P

[Fatandre]

This car is stunning. used to own a IS250 and it was mega sweet. So luxurious.

[cheez80]

This car is stunning. used to own a IS250 and it was mega sweet. So luxurious.

thanks! it's a very luxurious car indeed. why'd you get rid of it?