Ian M

Derbyshire and East Staffordshire were OK this morning, but have taken a beating as the day's gone on. Fortunately, I've only been to the office today, so only 4 miles each way. Coming home, walking would have been as quick (but VERY wet!).

I can't disagree with that!

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hunchback

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Worcester's not in the Midlands, it's half way to Cornwall!! :shutit: Despite that, put me down as a "maybe". I'll confirm nearer the time. EDIT, as at 25th June: It seems that things have transpired to stop me getting to Worcester after all. Apologies.

I agree! I was there earlier in the week, and today had the opportunity for a proper blast in the car as I had to go over to deepest Shropshire (near Telford) and back this evening – a mix of dual carriageway but plenty of A5 and cross country A and B road too. The car was just superb (and that’s from someone who started out all disappointed ‘cos it was absolutely bucketing it down which spoiled my plan of taking the bike) and I am sure that Tony has made a real difference.

Simon, Hemel's only about 100 miles from Derby, so no great trip to go and see the man himself. The place is dead easy to find.

I’ve just got home after a trip down to see Tony at the new WIM in Hemel. It was an interesting and educational hour which I spent with the geometrical guru. It seems that my IS300 was set somewhere within the tolerances the factory requires – hardly surprising after 4100 miles (one lady owner for 2½ years before I got the car a month ago). In other words, all 4 wheels were pointing in something like the same direction, but nowhere near the set up Tony recommends. Front tyre wear was, he asserts, inevitable – and liable to be expensive!! 45 minutes later, he had a set up he was happy with. On the drive home, all seemed well although I confess to simply aiming north on the M1 so it was hardly a good test, but “hands free” the car certainly runs straight and true whereas previously it had a slight wander. I shall go and throw it around a B road or two later on. So, another satisfied customer. Tony’s time was cheaper than a single tyre, which must be a bargain.

I've voted, although to be an utter pedant, I probably ought to abstain since my favourite colour of IS200 is the white one with the 3 litre engine…….. :D

Hello and welcome. Modern Mondeos are pretty well screwed together, but you’re right the Lex is just so much better. You’ll love the new motor.

Hi and welcome to LOC and to the UK. You’ll fit right in, London’s full of Ozzies. SportCross – good choice! Autotrader has 47 this week, the nearest being just 3 miles from Hammersmith Town Hall. Happy hunting.

I think the date's OK for me, so I shall hopefully come along and meet some folks.

White is good!

Very smart, glad you're enjoying the 300.

It's a nice feeling, isn't it?

Sub 20mpg. No deal!

I think this is a question of “***** up or conspiracy?”. Perhaps I have been lucky, but in my experience ***** up usually turns out to be the reason and in this case it looks like all the paperwork (including the MOT certificate) has simply gone AWOL. I think I’d be inclined to have a pretty robust conversation with the dealership manager and hint that you might want to reject the car unless he can get things sorted sharp-ish. If he doesn’t then without doubt it is time to name and shame. Good luck.

:) Thanks!

White is good! Nice cars, folks. I guess I'd better add mine too. Date first Registered: 25th October 2004 Model: IS300 SportCross Colour code: 040 Acquired by me: 8th May 2007

He sounds pleasant to work for..... I didn't mean it like that, just that I've been working away a fair bit lately and the end of June is so far away, anything could be happening by then.

I’m getting paranoid about tyre wear now! When I was Lexus hunting, I saw a couple with utterly horrendous inner edge tyre wear – in fact I refused to test drive one of them as the wear was unbelievable and very illegal. I’ve now had my own car 3 weeks and done ~750 miles. It’s a very low mileage car (less than 4,000 miles on a “54” plate) and although there is no discernable problem, I’m keeping an eye on the tyres. I guess I ought to go and get it looked at before there’s a problem, so will probably do so in 3 or 4 weeks time (TT 2007 trip pending – Lexus in the garage at home and accumulating 0 miles for the 2 week duration of that!).

They're talking about 19,000 visiting bikes. Goodness knows where they will all go.Anyway, only 14 days 'til I get on the boat (again, I was there just 2 weeks ago - we're a Manx family). See you there?

Nice car, nice camera. I’ve got a Fuji S5000, which is now well old (maybe 4 years) and totally obsolete. Your 9500 is the latest incarnation, and a really smart piece of kit. So, nice photos of a nice car!

I agree, it will – but the bike racing on the Isle of Man will be better (OK, I know that the centenary TT will be over by Sunday, but I will still be on Mona’s Isle until the Monday morning). Have a good meet.