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I'm hopeful that I may have cured my water leaks. I sealed under the tailgate rubber seal and around the tailgate hinge brackets that attach to body. Water still came into boot at the same place as before. Did water testing from the bumper upwards and found that water only found in boot when I ran water on roof around the rear roof bar bracket, I removed the bracket, cleaned the whole area up, put some sealant under bracket, gasket, bolts and on the bodywork seam along side the bracket. It was impossible to be certain that this seam was intact , it looked a bit dubious in a couple of places, thats why I sealed it. Re assembled roof bar and done 2 water tests since and NO WATER in the boot.......................................at the moment! I am hopeful that this might be my answer to my problem. Time and rain will tell. This info may be of some help to anyone still struggling with this problem.

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Hi Shannon, Don't know why the lights are on your dash as I did my HID lights a few weeks ago had no issues. The only reason I think it could happen is because you have to take the filter out to install the drivers side and this may have caused it. Solution: Take off your negative terminal on the battery and leave for 5 minutes, then reconnect and you will be fine. Hope this helps.

HA! So true...pretty sure it wont wear the gearbox if its in drive and your foot on the brake. As for the drivers behind you...they'll be ok....

Sadly all this and more is true. Mike

There are also a lot of issues with unscrupulous site owners - they rarely, it seems, allow statics bought from somewhere else to be put on their sites. They always want you to buy one of their statics already on the site. They then have small print that says you can't have a static more than X years old, so when yours gets to that age, they force you to sell (to them) for a fraction of the real value. They then sell it on (at the real value) to the next sucker. Check out the 'statics' sub-forum on the UKCampsite forum, for other such horror stories. :arrrggg-matey:

Having driven loads of miles in Europe, I agree about the UK roads - they're noisy. Good thing is, they now seem to put all the new roads very nice and flat and .... quiet (I can see the law enforcing the use of winter tyres coming up ;) ). However... Tyre rated at 70dB will be quieter than the one rated at 72dB when driving on the same surface.

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you will like this if you are talking about british leyland !!!

Found this website listing makes and models of cars actually on the road and SORN. http://www.howmanyleft.co.uk/vehicle/lexus_ls400_auto There are actually 2 lists for the LS400 and LS400 Auto but the 2013 figures are about the same. There appears to be an increase in 1998 when the series IV was launched perhaps but the decline in numbers seems to have begun in 2007 as they first become SORN then I presume eventually scrapped. I also checked on my Toyota Celsior which shows 4 actually on the road and 1 SORN, strange as I have 2 Celsiors presently on SORN. If this is accurate I appear to have the largest private collection of Celsiors in the UK.