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There are many more NOT in the manual !! For instance try "I'm hungry" and see what happens! Or say "Chinese Restaurants" and the nice lady will say "System is showing chinese restaurants" There are lots more but if I tell you them I will have to kill you :winky: :winky:

As long as they are within Lexus spec then no - HOWEVER.... Changing wheels CAN affect your insurance (Anything that makes the car more attractive to a thief etc) and should be disclosed to your insurance company.

Hmmmm... not a bad job but he should also have removed the fuel filler cap and given a good "wash" to the neck of the fuel pipe. I have to say it's not often I'm speechless but I watched this video in disbelief !! I'm guessing it's some kind of revenge job (or the owner of the vehicle opted for the cheap Valet 'A' for a fiver !! :blink:

No can't really see in it split open then sort of sprung back but I can see it is full of dead pidgeon so I decided not not to go any further. 2 new complete mirrors fitted today by the excelent Lexus Milton Keynes Centre, I think Paul said about £800, glad I extended the warranty !!! Yup - I had passenger one done under warranty a while back - think they said it would have cost around £420 all in so £800 for the two seems about right!

Also, if you EVER drop the clay bay on the ground throw it away DO NOT TRY AND USE IT AGAIN (The only exception might be if you want keep it and use it on your wheels) Did I mention if you drop it DON'T USE IT AGAIN??? !!!!

Interesting one this.... Check your policy VERY carefully..... It probably says as a condition a tracker must be fitted to the vehicle. I doubt it specifies you check it is functioning on a regular basis. (Who would) In the event of a theft, if it was found that the tracker wasn't working then I'd like to see an insurer stand up in court and argue you have no coverage because you should have know your tracker was faulty! Insurers will take your money faster than Richard Turpin but will try everything to wriggle out of paying a claim. If your policy doesn't stipulate that regular tests are made to establish a working tracker is in situ then the policy is ambiguous and the wording will be construed in favour of the assured. It is up the the insurers to come up with a watertight wording. Since an individual cannot be deemed as a sophisticated assured and I'm assuming you don't have your own risk manager working for you I wouldn't worry too much in the interim until you get it fixed. I would write back to Richard Turpin Ins Co and politely point out that since their policy is ambiguous you do not accept their terms of no theft coverage in the interim and insist that cover is reinstated for the next 14 days. Since there is no indication when a tracker goes faulty you could not be reasonably aware that the equipment had developed a fault! If the device gave out a signal or fault code then that would be a different matter, but as it stands Richard Turpin Ins Co are just trying to pull a fast one. The Ed

Try here as well (even cheaper)..... Around about 29p a battery. I have bought from this buyer before and can recommend them. The batteries come from Eunicell and are a large battery manufacturer in China --> Eunicell If purchased in cartons of 1,000 (which obviously Lexus/Toyota do) the price comes down much more (around 9p a battery). So assuming the buying power of Lexus they are making somewhere in the region of 10,000% profit !!! :angry: Do yourself a favour and get them from eBay. The bats last exactly the same time as the ones the dealers fit and at 29p a battery you can afford to replace them once a year anyway! The Ed

Keep it in 'D' - Will not cause any problems whatsoever.

You bought a car without driving it first !!??? - Did you just see it on the internet and clicked 'add to basket' ???

Hi Thunderchild, I stand corrected on the reason for the migration. Absolutely apalling treatment of the working classes I agree. Glad you liked the explaination in general though, which of course, is all sound scientific stuff. JW (proud to english working class) Bye thee ek! Now, where did i put that powdered water? Please also don't forget (and this is an important factor in your improving mpg).... there are far more people in the UK than a few years ago and so they are all using up valuable air when they breath. This means there is far less air around than there used to be so less wind resistance on your Lexus - thus ...more MPG !!! Simples.

Typical.....Oh and don't forget we will get the lesser warranty at 3 years instead of 4 like the US get. But hey... It's not Rip of Britain cos Tony bLiar told us so !!

Oh... Oh.... I'm with you on this one however...... I do feel your suggestion on the treatment of these offenders a little bit too......SOFT !! I would rather see middle lane hogs pulled over to the side of the road, have their vehicle torched in front of them (maybe even have them forced at gunpoint to pour petrol over their own vehicle and strike the match)..... oh... and THEN shoot them !

YUP !!! :angry: :angry:

I wasn't aware of them ..... :hehe:

Never in six years has it failed to get me where I need to go or let me down by taking me via Iraq or something daft. That includes it performing flawlessly after disembarking the Eurostar and driving in Frenchland. The other end took about 8 - 10 seconds to get a fix once I got off the train. I actually thought there was a problem as it has never taken any time to get a fix previously but then it was switched off in blighty and then powered up across a country border so can't complain really. Oh... btw... factory fitted unit.

You may be right - I'm not sure, but I was told a while back that any warning light constantly illuminated on the dash is a failure..... have never tested the theory though !

Yep that would be it. they should be aluminium Looks like someone had problems with one of the sensors and didn’t want to spend £100+ replacing it and just put a standard valve in its place. If you brought it from a dealer the I would take it back. why did you buy the car in the first place with the warning light on? Yes - also.... how did it get an MOT as I believe it's a failure if a warning light is illuminated on the dash!

Interesting post - That's why I always do my insurance over the phone and when the person asks me "What value is your vehicle?" I always say "It doesn't matter" That always gives them the a*se - I say "Look your going to flat rate the vehicle anyway so just put in 'market value' in the value field of your silly software" They always go into one and say "blah, blah, I have to have a value blah blah blah", so it really doesn't matter what you value your car at, in the event of a TL you will only ever get back market value (unless you have an agreed value policy) Oh.... I do the same when I trade in my cars in as well. When they start digging out the Glasses Guide and saying "Ahhh, well, yes you see that colour isn't very popular and if it was the one with go-faster purple wheels I could give you £1million pound for it and....." I always just say... "Don't care a jot what you give me for my car... shall we say £1". All I'm interested in the price to change. If they wont give me the discount I want, I walk away no matter how good the car is.

Also if the IS is like the GS the recirculation function effectivly has 3 modes. Outside air, recirculation and auto. It needs to be on auto. So if you put your climate control into auto mode and set your temperature and put your recirculation mode into auto as well as parthiban says, the system should switch to outside air when it senses the conditions are right. Bare in mine though that the system will also stay in recirculation or switch to recirculation mode if you are driving in heavy traffic as it senses the crap in the atmosphere and shuts you off from all those nasty pollutants :P .... Clever things these Loxotas !!! The Ed

I think you'll find stopping at red traffic lights is a legal requirement as well but it seems not many people bother any more (especially if they're on a bicycle !) Since our police force is now reduced to a couple of bobbies that patrol an area the size of Lincolnshire I haven't seen too many plod go round a car park in say Alton Towers or a branch of Ikea and then systematically rock each one to determine whether the parking brake has been applied in each case. (I'm still worried about next doors budgie though !!)

PAH !!.... Like I said... destruction of the world is nigh !..... My gearbox will explode and blind people six streets away, the economy will go into global meltdown and the next door neighbors budgie will die !!

Never used the parking brake...... Never have never will. As I said in my other post:...... That's what 'P' is for on the selector :hehe: Have had automatics for going on 16 years and 6 cars and have never once used a parking brake. 'P' locks the gearbox and it aint going anywhere with it in that position! Yes, yes... before the human rights brigade get on my case and say how dangerous that is and how the Devil will emerge from Hell and engulf me in flames of wrath, and how if I do this my gearbox might explode into a million pieces and cause oil to leak out which will set off a pollution disaster of biblical proportions and kill all the polar bears and tilt the earth of it's axis and we will all freeze to death in a nuclear winter....... I don't care !! Have never had a problem, with mine, anyone elses or hire cars. What was the question again?... Oh yeah... parking brakes.. Nope.... don't use em

I think this is fitted as standard to the IS-F

I'll add another one...... 9. What's a parking brake? That's what 'P' is for on the selector :hehe: Have had automatics for going on 16 years and 6 cars and have never once used a parking brake. 'P' locks the gearbox and it aint going anywhere with it in that position! Yes, yes... before the human rights brigade get on my case and say how dangerous that is and how the Devil will emerge from Hell and engulf me in flames of wrath, and how if I do this my gearbox might explode into a million pieces and cause oil to leak out which will set off a pollution disaster of biblical proportions and kill all the polar bears and tilt the earth of it's axs and we will all freeze to death in a nuclear winter....... I don't care !! Have never had a problem, with mine, anyone elses or hire cars. What was the question again?... Oh yeah... parking brakes.. Nope.... don't use em.

lysergic acid diethylamide??? :blink: