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petrol is back under £1 a litre and the road tax on the IS300 has stayed at 200 odd i thought it was going up to over £400 or something? anyway she doesnt have any second hand value any more so no point in selling, just keep it and enjoy driving a nice solid car

now that would be funny ;)

I work just round the corner from Scotland Yard, the number of unmarked police cars round here is unbelievable, all sorts of cars, all colours I cant say there is a most common sort but my favourite is a BMW M5 that is often parked on the road near my office. I got a shock the other week when its sirens and lights came on as it drove off...

unbelievable....

dont really know what to say its not good but i guess life has its ups and downs.....

put me down for ten squids

thanks!

yep nice one Tony

is the exhaust the same for the IS200 and 300 or are they different models?

I can only speak for myself but when I bought my IS300 it had the factory settings for geometry and the tyres wore out within 10,000 miles on the insides. also the car tramlined a lot. The WIM settings were developed over time to solve these problems. First time I had my car done I couldnt believe how the handling was transformed. Also the next set of tyres lasted best part of 20,000 miles. To get the best out of it you should have the car checked up at regular intervals, I have done and its made a lot of difference to handling and also fuel economy is improved. in short, worth every penny

there should also be a good improvement in fuel consumption as well!

whoa youre lucky to get out of that one with a few bruises, sorryabout the motor of course but at the end of the day that can be replaced

fandango

when i search for wheel geometry in google I thought Id see you in the results Tony but no luck.... http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q...metry&meta= does something need to be done there? Thanks... I've decided to run another ad this week......Costs the earth though.

ill be there!

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13000ks 8000miles treads still mint over tyres but the inside shoulders are gone. The one with my finger in let go at 115kmh 70mh thankfully I was driving not the wife, pulled it up safely. thats outrageous, the first set of pirellis on my IS300 were basically toast after 9,600 miles, that was when I went to STS to get new tyres and Tony of WIM started sorting out the geometry. I should have complained to Lexus UK about it but I cant be bothered with stuff like writing complaints letters. I douby they would have bothered answering me anyway.......

how many miles have those tyres done?

hello welcome aboard

thats insane!

yeah i run my is300 on shell v-power which I think is 98 RON octane I get an extre 30 or so miles on a tank of this compared to the standard stuff (95 RON)

oh well...

Wow all automated, put the car in one end and it comes out the other with new tyres and the geo all done, amazing. Only joking Tony Really chuffed for you mate, have you remembered to buy a kettle, fridge, coffee and tea bags though? I wish it where that automated :D .... Thing is with the tyre changer is your wheels are valuable and a common complaint about tyre centres is the damage they do to the rim. This tyre changer acquires the wheel by laser then automatically removes/ fits the tyre, this solves the problem of hard to fit units like run-flat tyres and human error. As for the check list?.... let me see Kettle.... tick Fridge.... not yet Tea bags.... tick Coffee... ordered one of those posh machines that dishes out unknown exotic coffee Hi Tony ive been meaning to drop round and say hello but ive been hellish busy at work, im going to get two alloys refurbed and hopefully once thats done Ill come in for an appointment to get sorted out!

I dont know, why doesnt someone at Lexus GB have the nads to come on here and admit that they got it wrong. come on guys its a sign of strength not a weakness admitting you were wrong. all the test engineers doing all those hundreds even thousands of test miles didnt pick this up before the IS200/300 went into full production. well its not the first time a small quality control issue has slipped through. but I have a feeling that our Japanese friends dont like to admit that they are wrong or ever be seen to lose face, I guess its a cultural thing ;)

I ended up going to a place near Northwood Tube station, Northwood Coach station, I got quotes from many other places but this one came out best in terms of price. they also did a great job thanks to everyone for recommendations!