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Always loved the GS in silver. I was looking for one with the grey leather and dark wood pack (including steering wheel) but to no avail...

Had it not started up for a long time? Perhaps coil packs failing? Could get it plugged into some diagnostics if you can and see if there are any stored codes...

Google Translate may come to your assistance then 🙂

Confused. Why can't the Stuctural Blue ones be repaired? I'm sure there are just as complex paint finishes out there??

Loving the car Phil! Like the touches such as the over-carpet on the rear transmission tunnel (something I had only seen on Honda Legends). Safe travels

Like it! Is the HVAC, etc. in Japanese too?

Such a lovely car! Many congratulations! 😊

What's going on with the steering wheel cover?! 😆

a BIG NO for all three from me too! GAP wise, try these folk: https://www.ala.co.uk/ I went with them and i'm sure you can get a discount code from the PistonHeads website. A good detailer will be able to protect your car with much, much better products. The SMART covers sounds good but I'm sure they will wriggle out of many (if not all) of issues you may raise during the period of cover. Again, your local detailer should be able to help if you do need this sorting.

Excellent! Hope all goes well Grant

Hi Paul, Where in Yorkshire are you? Check out Tony Banks in Leeds. Give him a call and get a worst case scenario price. My CAT-back system cost around £5/600 so the IS250 should be around the same. By the way lots of other folk on the Forum here have used him too :) Cheers, Noman

I had some Goodyear Wrangler ones fitted to her RX450: https://www.blackcircles.com/catalogue/goodyear/wrangler-hp-aw/235/55/R19/V/105/f?tyre=33757900

My first car was a G plate Fiesta automatic() back in 1995. Lovely 'L' model. So this spec meant just a radio and no rear wash wipe (the stunningly bad cvt box came for free). By the time it came into my possession it had clearly seen much better days. The tin worm had taken its toll particularly on the rear hatch. One morning I went to close this when it promptly let the rear window smash into the boot space taking with it large chunks of the tailgate and the filler that unknown to me had been used at some point to hold things together. Big problem especially as I had just joined uni at the time and had already spent the obligatory student loan in true George Best style. A quick trip to the breakers resulted in an almost-matching faded red coloured tailgate from a 'LX' model - with a rear wash wipe... Eventually traded the car in a year or so later. The part-ex trader was particularly keen on the LX spec that was being reported on the tailgate. Shame the rear-wash wipe wasn't actually connected to anything...

Hi Grant, All good so far but I've only done a few hundred miles on them as been away on holiday! Noise wise not noticed any difference and same with the economy. Grip wise I'm sure if I took them to the limit in the current climate they wouldn't be as good but for my driving style this wouldn't be a problem.

Welcome (back) to the club Martin! Get some pics up once you've hopefully collected it

Top car Colin 🙂

One of the coolest thinsg about the last generation (in the UK) Camry were the twin rear wipers :)

Liking the car collection Andrew! Something about the proportions of the Panda - a little stubby which gives it bit of character 😊

Top work Lee

IT Test Manager. Contractor. Current client is about to outsource the whole of their IT so have started to look for the next role so if anyone is need of one...

On my previous cars I used to run two sets of wheels too. However, this time due to cost (couldn't find another set of GS wheels cheap enough) I had to do something different. Not expecting them to be the last word on grip in both summer or winter - just need them to get me out of trouble. Last winter I just didn't have much confidence after getting stuck a number of times on very little compacted snow/ice.

So needed new boots on the front. The rears probably had about 1k left on them but decided to get them all changed at the same time. The rears have lasted about 30k miles (Avon ZZ5) and the fronts around 40k (Bridgestone Potenza's). Went for some Vredestein Quatrac 5's. Went with all season tyres this time to hopefully keep me out of trouble this winter (didn't want the hassle of switching to winters, etc. so please lets not start that debate!). Anyway, went with Blackcircles in the end and had them fitted by local ATS folk: https://www.blackcircles.com/tyres/brands/vredestein/quatrac-5 Lets see how I get on...

Stunning car @Jamesf1 !

Even my GS 300 can manage a great MPG. Unfortunately I do like the loud pedal and seem to be spending lots of time in stop-start city traffic at the moment :(

For a CAT-back you're looking around the £600 mark...