LexTom

Hello everybody.

Decided to share my new purchase with the forums. I picked this up few days ago. It's a 96 with 145K on it. I paid 3K for it and it was the best car for the money. I looked at million cars and for that price they were garbage. It's one owner car from florida so the condition is excellent.

I dont have alot of plans on moding since I got the car to temporarly replace my old car that burned down. I am planning to drive it for 1 1/2 years and then upgrade to a newer lexus. The only thing I am planing to do is to get new headlights, HID's, tints, and maybe some rims.

I have a question about wheels. What other lexus wheels will fit this car with out having fenders rolled nor using spacers? I searched the forum and the only info I got is that sc430 wheels need spacers and fender rolling.

Well hopefully this car will last me with out any problems.

P.S. Maintance is coming up, should run like new.




R.I.P my old ride.

3000

Is300 wheels, other Es300 wheels (newer models fit too).

LexTom

How about GS? I seen one black es on chrome 17's of the gs.

chrispy

iTrader: (21)

i think almost any lexus wheel will fit the ES. the sc430's only rub because they are 8 inches wide. most of the other wheels are 7 inches or less.

i was actually just looking at c43 amg's the other day. cool cars. what happened to yours?

the ES looks really clean for only 3k.

LexTom

Eletrical fire. Sad I know but what can I do. I am going to stick with lexus from now on. I was also wondering if RX300 wheels will fit with the right tire size for my car. The five spoke 16's are nice.

Pheonix

Anything off the Camry platform is generally free game. The Avalon's had some nice, spoked 16 or 17" wheels for a couple of years. I've seen them a handful of times rescently.
The Camry platform means you can use some years of the highlander (rx), and even sometmes wheels of the Sienna van.

For midsize + cars & car paltforms. Toyota was extremely fond of the 4*114.3mm bolt pattern. Tho offsets do change. This means you can use most wheels in production through the 1990's provided you can get the correct offset going on.



Your actual wheel specs are 5*114.3mm, +38mm offset. For the Camry platform. That was 1992-2001.

chrispy

iTrader: (21)

before i got my sc430 18's i had rx300 chrome replicas on my ES from the previous owner. they looked like smalled is300 wheels. when i was choosing new wheels, i was deciding between the 18 in sc430 wheels and the 17 in rx330 wheels. the rx330 wheels are 5 spoke and are very sharp looking. look into them.



with the right tire size, i think these would look great on the ES.

1993ES300x

congras that's the same color as mine!!!!..

ehizon

3000 dollars for that? wow! u got a good deal. in LA, 300 would get you a 92 model with 250,000 miles in it!

tuan92129

Congrats on your new ES.
BTW, why are you replacing the headlights?
Meguiars Plastx will get rid of any oxidation (yellowing) on the plastic

chrispy

iTrader: (21)

i used 2000 grit wetsandpaper on my headlights then used 3m rubbing compound followed by the plastx polish and it was a night and day difference. the plastx alone wasn't enough to take off the 10 years of grime on the lights so the sandpaper did the job.

LexTom

I will be replacing the headlights since one tabs and lenses is cracked. No big deal except I cant find the gunmetal colored ones anywhere.

Pheonix

Well which headlights do you want? The clear chrome 92-94's, or the smoked 95-96's?

tuan92129

Ohh they are cracked....well you can use it to practice clearing out the corners
you can always switch out the gunmetal/chrome ones if you decide to pull your new lights apart to clear the corners.

Two bit

the heck happened to your old merc??