Cotswold Pete

I am off to Bristol Airport later to pick up my son and will traverse the bridge twice. Always cautious on it these days, but 40 years ago quite normal for me to storm it at over 90. In 1979 I cycled over it, traffic was a lot less, but still not a pleasant experience, but the view up the river towards Pill were worth it, shame you cannot spy over the other side towards Avonmouth docks.

Video made sense, I would think applying the 0000 wire wool, the real trick is to not over-pressure. I have clayed windscreens before and it is pretty good, so next time might give it the wire wool treatment and leave it at that. As other posts say glass is hydroscopic it is only dirt that makes the water cling, and the reason why you get champagne bubbles. If you had a 100% clean glass with bubbly in it, then you should get no bubbles as there is no dirt to cause nucleation. Does this mean to really check how clean the screen is you should chuck a bottle of Dom Perignon over your Lexus🤑

It took me over 5 years of owning a Mk3 and then a few years of Mk4 before I reckon I knew all the hidden secrets, some I found on my own, but quite a few via this forum. The luxury barge that keeps giving

Any sign of the yellow orb gets us Brits taking our warm layers off (be it roofs or jumpers). Used to drive around in the LS with sun roof open even when just above zero if the sun was out 10 days ago was in St Davids (Pembrokeshire), after lots of rain a bit if sun and a mere 10 celsius out comes the T-shirt and off for a 10 mile stomp. So enjoy your SC430, I am a little envious

Interesting article with lots of tech depth and CANbus history. I deal with Zero Trust systems in the world of computing, using a system invented by the CIA 16 years ago, and Zero Trust is a bit of a b*gger to do easily. I suspect will be a while before we see car manufacturers do what the kentindell link says. Even doing Zero Trust in the PC world you need to deal with what is called a 'Living Off The Land' attack, which tells me even if the car tech is upgraded the hackers will eventually suss it out with a LOL attack. Don't forget crims are not nice people with nothing better to do than work out how to nick things that are not theirs, by using tools developed by (usually) highly autistic geeks.

I always assumed with any of my cars (not just Lexus) that an emoty tank had somewhere between 6 to 8 litres still swilling around. But running the tank dry meant over time sucking tank debris into the fuel line. Only ever ran a car to zero once, but it was a 6 month old Ford Escort and all seemed fine, not so sure would have try that on a 10 year old motor unless I had no choice. I know fuel filtering better than it was years ago, so maybe less of an issue to 'go low' on reserves. My E350 says fuel is low when there is near enough 100mile range which is about 10 litre in the tank and with my old LS I recall getting over 50miles when I had 'run out of petrol'

Be interested to hear your thoughts whatever you test and see how it compares to ES 300h, which I am possibly thinking of getting some time (even given Canbus issues). I never owned a 430 but been a passenger in a few and I can see why some think they were the sweet spot, on the 400 front, once I had various bushes sorted the floaty feeling was not there, which the wife noticed much more than I did.

Crikey not seen one of them in a while, used to have a neighbour back in the 80's and his dad drove a canary yellow one, never got to have a go though

Sam, this is a sad story to read, and I totally understand the thought of getting rid of the car. I had similar dilemma last year, but my LS had done 230K+ and needed about 3K spent on it, to keep it on the road, but decided I did not have the skills to do it so it went to the great Lexus resting place in the sky. Since then I have regretted it at times and then at other times decided it was the best thing to do. As a Lexus owner of 15 years, my Merc seems so rough and ready and though cheaper to repair I spend a lot of time thinking about the Lexus I will buy when I feel the Merc is just not making me feel like driving much. So whatever you end up driving it will not be the same as an LS400 (I did not want a 430, was not sure on a 460 though was erring on buying a ES300H before bargain - or so I thought - E350 dropped into my lap) Best of luck with whatever you end of driving

Tis a lovely place to visit, did so last Xmas and sung carols in the minster with the choir. And then visit Hull, different vibe, but interesting to wander around down by the old docks

My first experience of a Jap car was the 4th Gen Datsun Cherry in 1983 (only had it for a week while my Ford Escort was being repaired), I hated it. My next experience of a Jap car was 1994 in an LS400. Blown away (though took me until 2008 to actually own an LS). Totally agree with the sentiments of this post, and even though I now own a Merc I still advise most people who ask that if you want a car that is relaible it has to be a Jap car. Not sure when the other Far East manufacturers will catch up. I would add (though) I used to have Honda as a client and visiting their (now gone) Swindon site felt a bit like being in a movie where no one could step out of line, a little creepy if you ask me. On the supercar front been in quite a few, always a thrill whethe and Evo or NSX or even a Chimera, but never wanted to own one.

Having stood on top of various skyscrapers and looked over the edge as heights generally do not bother me. Watching the trailer reminded me of the video of climbing the tallest mast in Kansas, which makes me wince. I used to climb 20meter radio masts back in the 70's that were swaying (trailer mounted with stabilisers!!) that was about my limit. 518 meter mast climb Never had a problem with my platform shoes and my corduroy drainpipes back in the day👠👠

Heard the other day second hand values coming down a lot as the new car market recovers ability to supply, so less people chasing a decent second hand car. Recession may change that a little, but I would think most people looking at spending north of 15K might just go for financing deals on a new car. Car looks great, and hopefully you get price that makes it worhtwhile

I used to run at 32 max - above that I could tell tyres a little too hard. Used to get about 20K miles out of Falkens at this pressure, probably would have got more but a bit lazy with checking tracking and suspect if I had all the front running gear bushes sorted would have got more (as I was getting uneven wear even after Chris Mullin of Glos got the beast as good as poss). Actually looks like when I first got car I was squeezing 35K+ out of tyres

Maybe try this - pretty sure I did this once I had sorted my broken link to check levels were as they should be. How to check levels BigBoomer beat me to it