NLLex

Because is seems to be almost impossible to find the leather door and dashboardpanels I came to the Idea to search for a Lexus scrapyard.

Does anybody know a big one? I live in Europe but those leather panels are mostly mounted in the USA UL models.

If you know a nice set of these parts you can always inform me and Ill be generous with my reward when it comes to a deal!

Many thanks!

YODAONE

Will need more information.... year, Color codes and probably VIN tag # in order to compare to donor vehicle

NLLex

Thank you for your reply.

I drive a ls430 from 2004. The interior is all black. There was only one kind of black delivered in all the LS430's.

Because the wood trim of these cars is different in the USA, ill need all the wood items as well exept for the steering wheel.

I am looking for all the leather wrapped items exept the seats, so doorpanels, cover under steering wheel, dashboard box, complete center middle console.
Because its a show car I am looking for parts from a low milage car. Leather is always very fragile ofcourse.

BCT

One option, not sure how feasible this is, is to buy a complete/whole car that is getting junked, and have someone carefully take out all of the bits and shipped to you. It is probably cheaper than buying piece by piece. Just fyi, a few weeks ago an 04-06 LS with a blown engine end up being sold for $700 before I had a chance to stop by and look. It had high mileage, but iirc from looking at the pictures the interior was in decent shape.

drbdjones

I know I'm very late to this thread but after reading the above I get the impression that NLLex thinks all the interior pieces are leather. I maybe wrong but I was under the impression that just the seating surfaces were leather everything else is just vinyl. I hope someone can clear this up for us both.

DaveGS4

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He is referring to UL ultra luxury models where it is leather

NLLex

Ow no! There are many UL's out there with leather trapped parts which look awesome!!!
I am still looking for that today and I cant find it

NLLex

Over here these cars are really expensieve. Cheapest one is 11.000 dollar with about 200.000 miles and pre facelift is about 6000 dollar but no guarantees about interior quality and I want really nice parts with low milage....

TominPT

There are wrecking yards in the USA that dismantle and sell parts from LS430s of all types, and they may have interior parts you are looking after.
There are several such yards in Rancho Cordova, California for example. Use Google to find them and give them a call.