Hello everyone! My name is Brian and I live in St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands. I am new to posting on the forum and wanted to take a minute to introduce myself. I have been lurking on the site for some time as I was doing my due diligence and research for the perfect rig and I finally settled on the 03-09 Lexus GX models. After searching the web from North Carolina to Florida and even Puerto Rico I finally found a great deal. I cant believe how much information is out there if you look. I have learned a lot of great info from many of the members and will be modifying my rig as soon as the $$ gets saved up.
I purchased my first Toyota product from Puerto Rico, (Lexus GX) about 6 weeks back and i just took delivery of it last week. I found a 2004 Lexus GX 470 Pearl white with 105,000 miles for $12,000. I flew from St. Croix to Puerto Rico to meet the seller at a Lexus Dealership to find out what was wrong with it. After a clean car fax and detailed visual inspection and the Pre-purchase inspection at the dealer I negotiated the price down to $10,100. A pretty fair deal considering i needed to spend about $2,000 to get the rig back to tip top shape, general maintenance stuff nothing major. Since i needed to replace most of the bushing in the front and needed new shocks any way I put that $$$ toward a lift kit from Toytec. I cant wait to get this thing dirty! I spent about $1,600 for the 3" lift kit with new SPC upper control arms and diff drop kit. Now I need to save up some $$$ before I can have it put on. I am also doing the airbag conversion to coils and shock in the rear. I cant wait to feel the difference in ride quality. It rides very sloppy now with the bad bushings and shocks. I have many little mods to do myself but the lift is out of my scope of expertise and I dont have the tools either.
The first thing i did when i took delivery of the new rig was to get the windows tinted and add a sun strip on the windshield. Next I had the carpets steam cleaned, headlights polished, seats conditioned, and a good detail and wax job. Looking pretty clean now.
I plant to black out all the chrome on this rig and the wheels too. My first try with the removable plastic paint was to plasti-dip the grille. My other projects include LEDs for the interior and the running boards, speaker repair for the front 6x9s and rear 6' door speakers.
Next on the long list of wants are sliders and steel bumper from Souther Style Speed and offset Method wheels and 285/75/17 BFK KOs.
I purchased my first Toyota product from Puerto Rico, (Lexus GX) about 6 weeks back and i just took delivery of it last week. I found a 2004 Lexus GX 470 Pearl white with 105,000 miles for $12,000. I flew from St. Croix to Puerto Rico to meet the seller at a Lexus Dealership to find out what was wrong with it. After a clean car fax and detailed visual inspection and the Pre-purchase inspection at the dealer I negotiated the price down to $10,100. A pretty fair deal considering i needed to spend about $2,000 to get the rig back to tip top shape, general maintenance stuff nothing major. Since i needed to replace most of the bushing in the front and needed new shocks any way I put that $$$ toward a lift kit from Toytec. I cant wait to get this thing dirty! I spent about $1,600 for the 3" lift kit with new SPC upper control arms and diff drop kit. Now I need to save up some $$$ before I can have it put on. I am also doing the airbag conversion to coils and shock in the rear. I cant wait to feel the difference in ride quality. It rides very sloppy now with the bad bushings and shocks. I have many little mods to do myself but the lift is out of my scope of expertise and I dont have the tools either.
The first thing i did when i took delivery of the new rig was to get the windows tinted and add a sun strip on the windshield. Next I had the carpets steam cleaned, headlights polished, seats conditioned, and a good detail and wax job. Looking pretty clean now.
I plant to black out all the chrome on this rig and the wheels too. My first try with the removable plastic paint was to plasti-dip the grille. My other projects include LEDs for the interior and the running boards, speaker repair for the front 6x9s and rear 6' door speakers. Next on the long list of wants are sliders and steel bumper from Souther Style Speed and offset Method wheels and 285/75/17 BFK KOs.
