andybriggs

Hmmmm, I'm still not convinced on this one. £1700 for the install, you'd need to do a serious amount of milage before you saw any savings, (ok I accept you have a dodgy supply of gas), but for avearage Joe, if he pays around 80p per litre for petrol and gets gas at half that, he would need to save the £1700 in fuel, ie. spend £3,400 on gas. Now, I do fairly high milage, (20-25,000 miles per year) and I spend around £3k on fuel,(petrol), per year. So I guess it would take around 2 years, or 50,000 miles on gas before you see any savings. Add that to the 46k on your car and by the time you have saved the initial cost of conversion, its time to get rid of the car.

Excellent answers, thanks very much, I'm off a wiggling :D

Ok folks, my Mk2 GS has the headlamp washer switch located on the dash to the left of the steering column. When I used to press it, it would spray just enough loverly water onto the headlamps giving them a nice clean. Now when I press said button the washer stays on untill my washer bottle is completly depleted, the pump only turning off if I turn off the ignition. When I turn the ignition back on the washer is back at 'rest'. Q1. Should the washer work only while the switch is depressed. Q2. Does the switch operate some magic trickery timing circuit that allows water to flow for a few seconds. Q3 (and most important of all). How do I fix it. Answers on a postcard..........

I do a round trip of 100 miles to work each day and I fill up after 3, ie 300 miles and theres always some left in the tank.

I have the same car and, yes, it should have been done about every 60,000 miles but, as yours has just got to 120k, I would look under the bonnet. If it was done by a dealer they are supposed to put a sticker on the engine somewhere obvious which tells you when it was done and when its due to be re-done. Oh and its not cheap, i had mine done last year and i think it was in the region of £450 - go Gold and get the discount.

Got it through my bank (Lloyds TSB) and, from memory, the excess was £300 but lets face it, unless its gonna be a big claim we dont use the insurance anyway so the excess is irrelevent really (unless it huge). Incidently, I have a Suzuki GSX1300 Hayabusa and, after being knocked off the previous bike, the insurance was £1600 with an £1100 excess for the interim year where I was waiting to reclaim my ncb as it was a no fault accident. It costs around £200 for a service - every 4000miles, needs a new rear tyre every 4K (£120) and a new front tyre every 8K (£80), - so the Lexus is as 'cheap as chips' to run as far as I'm concerned.

GS300 SE Navi' 38, 4yrs ncb, 1 bad smash, 3pts for speeding - Churchils £450ish :D

Just checked Parkers and its got mint condition prices for the 45 as"£3.50 + a can of pop" :D :D :D

Does anyone know if its possible to upgrade the Lexus satnav to add on the speed camera stuff like you can with the tomtom etc?

When I had the mk 1 I had to replace the rad which the dealer wanted over £400 for (part only). I managed to find a place in leicester which did a pattern one for £145. I cant remember what their details are but i think they were called "Leicester radiators", try directory enquiries.

Did you have the discs done at a dealer? If not it might be worth getting an independent assesment on them as I had the same problem, which turned out to be the discs, even though they were new they were slightly warped :tsktsk: Another thing to have checked would be the suspension bushes as these are a known issue.

£7.5k hmmm, sounds a lot for a Mk I 'P', (even allowing for the extras), my brother was only offered £2.5k on his 'N' sport in p/x and I paid £10k for my Mk II 'S' Navigator last year

Take it to a Lexus dealer.... For a guess: Warped disks Ball joints/bushes

Have to say, if I wanted better fuel economy I would have bought a diesel astra and if I wanted better performance I would have bought a Golf GTI :P :P :P :P (sorry, couldnt resist) :winky:

Yeh, thought about that, but I would prefer a simple wire in job if at all possible

Has anyone figured out a simple way to connect an MP3 player (or any other auxilary for that matter), into the stereo of a MkII GS300? as I've bought one of those Creative Labs players which can hold more music than my entire collection, and the kids, and the next doors dogs :D t

I have been told that all the suspension bushes need doing on my Mk 2 GS at the cost of £850 which included my gold discount.......ouch

I too have a Mark 2 GS300 SE (on an 'S') with dodgy bushes. Lexus want over a grand to do the job less my Gold discount :D , which stil makes it a little over £800 Looks as though this could be a common problem, still, I didnt notice anything wrong with the suspension and/or steering, Lexus only mentioned it at the last service as it will be an mot failure in September :tsktsk: Andy

Just bought some from eBay: caliper stickers ...and only 7 quid + P&P

Well, thanks to a 'visit' from Lancashire plod (thanks guys), I now have all the paper work back and the reg' in my name wooohoooo

:tsktsk: ****s even manage to use our instant messaging system. I got this 'urgent' PM this morning. Dear One, Greeting, Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you. I am Christoper Amata the only Son of late Mr and Mrs Williams Amata from the republic of sierra loene. My father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant based in Abidjan, the economic capital of Cote D'Ivoire before he was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outing to discuss on a business deal. When my mother died on the 21st October 1984, my father took me so special because I am motherless. Before the death of my father on 27th June 2002 in a private hospital here in Abidjan. He secretly called me on his bedside and told me that he has a sum of $9.500.000 left in a security company here in Cote d'ivoire, that he used my name as his only Son for the next of kin in deposit of the consignment. Further more he also explained to me that it was because of this wealth and some huge amount of money his business associates supposed to balance him from the deal they had that he was been poisoned.He then advised that I should seek for a *** fearing foreign partner in a country of my choice who will assist me r etrieve this consignment and transfer this money and use it for investment purpose, then I would want you to provide your personal contacts including your phone/fax number for easier communication. I am honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways. 1) I want you to help me retrieve this money from the security company here and transfer it to your account for onward investment in your country. 2) You are going to be the manager of this fund and also my personal guardian until I finished my studies as I'm just 19 years old.. 3) You are going to procure admission for me to continue my studies in one of the known university in your country. 4) Moreover, I am willing to offer you 15% of the sum as compensation for effort input after the successful retrieve of this consignment from the security company here. And I am willing to proceed with you as soon as I have your response. Please try to contact me through my personal email contact christoper_amata@yahoo.com Anticipating to hear from you soon. Thanks and *** Bless. Best regards. Christoper Amata The prats PM name was 123..... moderators you may want to liquidate his *****. :tsktsk: :tsktsk:

How about L3XDS witha little bit of sympathetic help, it looks like L3XUS on my GS :winky:

How about printing the details as mine could do with being re-done too.

Hmmmm, not for me, looks like it should go on a Pink IS along with some furry dice and Carlos Fandango wheels :D :zee:

I have a GS300 SE Navigator and the only ting I think you need to look for is ..................... more time to drive it :D