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well at a guess i would say he is looking for front end parts for a 99 (s) GS300 mk2 ,but has done it as a poll for some reason .

Godd luck with the search for a new car ,glad you got it all sorted .

you must of missed this one ,had me in stiches http://www.lexusownersclub.co.uk/forum/ind...showtopic=23546

it is just standard procedure i would imagine ,i would start looking for other examples of a car like the one he crashed in autotrader etc as they usealy try to knock you down with a silly offer to begin with.

thats mad .check out this one on the same site .put me of going to motorsport for life http://www.big-boys.com/articles/bigf1crash.html

Probaly investigating the highly inflated lexus main dealer prices

i would say it would take a lot of modding as the cars are so different in shape at the front

get the parts from a breakers ,lexus parts are a rip of and the dealer you went to is by far the worse culprit .ask chris shipley for a price as well

from reading it sounds like you need to turn the hole until you can see the adjuster either that or do it from the handbrake end .

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Thats a shocker realy never expected that outcome :o ,sort of wish i never clicked the link now but i had to .

Always phone a few of the garages in the book just in case .they are very easy to forge and it happens a lot .have a look in your book at the stamp it aint nothing special .some dealers sign the book next to the stamp as well .i have come across cars with fsh that aimt never seen a dealer ,they have just bought a book and stamped it up .used to happen a lot years ago when people bought crash damaged cars and did not have a service book they would repair the car and stamp up the history and sell it on as a straight one .

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i was quoted over £250 to do all of mine and ended up doing them myself for £50 (front and rear) .have a go yourself they are easy to do and only take about 1/2 hour

its 100% illegal ,the stamp is to show that that garage did the service .years ago when main dealers did not put everything on computor we used to buy a john ball kit and stamp them up ourselves .if i buy a car i always phone the dealers to check service book is not forged ,what the daeler gonna say when they get a call from a person buying your car "we only stamped the book",the buyer will run a mile and your car will be unsellable .just think you could do 100,000 miles, never service the car and still have a full lexus history .its not the 1st of april again is it ?.i would phone trading standards and tell them all about this so called main dealer as it is in all our interest to stop this sort of thing happening as i for one do not want my next lexus to have a fully stamp lexus service history when its realy been done by kwick chit .

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Found this whilst searching ,might help The straight-6 (also inline 6, I-6, or I6) is an internal combustion engine with six cylinders aligned in a single row. The name slant-6 is sometimes used when the cylinders are at an angle from the vertical. Straight-6 engines have perfect primary and secondary balance and require no balance shaft. Usually a straight-6 was used for engine displacements between about 2.5 and 4 litres. Sometimes this configuration is used to make smaller engines which tend to be powerful and very smooth running, but also rather expensive to manufacture and physically longer than alternative layouts. The smallest production straight-6 was found in the 1927 Alfa Romeo 1500, displacing just 1.5 L. The largest was the Cummins B series turbodiesel at 5.9 L, available in Dodge Ram trucks since 1989. Straight-six engines were historically more common than V6's, mainly because the length of such engines was not such a concern in rear-drive vehicles but also because V6's (unlike the 90-degree V8) were somewhat difficult to make smooth-running. The widespread use of front-wheel-drive and transverse ("east-west") engine configurations in smaller cars saw that the shorter engine length of the V6 became highly desirable, and these days most six-cylinder engines are made in the V configuration. Many manufacturers build cars equipped with straight six engines. Manufacturers BMW and Volvo both produce multiple models with straight sixes and several automakers have isolated straight-six offering's, such as Suzuki's Verona and Ford's Falcon. Most of these cars are rear wheel drive, but both Volvo and Suzuki build cars equipped with front wheel drive and a transverse straight six. Although Mercedes used to build many straight sixes, it has recently given them up and now only engineers V6 engines. BMW, on the other hand, is one of the few remaining manufacturers to persist with the I-6 configuration, making petrol and turbo-diesel engines ranging from 2.0 to 3.2 litres in displacement (as of 2005). Toyota also uses straight sixes in some of their sportier cars and large displacement I-6 engines in their Prado off-road vehicles. As far as passenger vehicles are concerned, inline six engines might be making a comeback in some larger vehicle types such as trucks and SUVs. Straight 6 engines in the United States Engines of this type were popular before World War II in mid-range cars. Most manufacturers started building straight 6 engines when cars grew too large for the straight-4, although Ford went straight to the V8. After the war, larger cars required larger engines, and the straight-6 became the base engine model used on economy cars only. The vast majority of American cars during this period had V8s. The Chrysler Corporation had noteworthy slant six engines, used in the Plymouth Valiant and Dodge Dart models of the 1960s and 1970s. When cars began to get smaller again in the 1970s, the trend was towards the greater compactness enabled by the V6 layout, and straight 6 engines became rare in American cars except for trucks and vans. Jeeps were an exception to the rule, getting the AMC Straight 6 engine as the base engine option in 1972, and getting a high-performance 4.0 liter option in 1987. In 2001 General Motors introduced a new family of straight engines, the Atlas, for use in the newly-introduced Chevrolet TrailBlazer/GMC Envoy. The I-6 was chosen for development because of the desirable operating characteristics of its self balanced design. This engine is also to be used in the new Saab 9-7. In 1959 Saab had an experimental car with two transverse straight-3 engines bolted together—the Saab Monster. British straight-6 engines The straight 6 was the archetypal British engine for sports and luxury cars for many years. Rolls-Royce used straight-6 engines until changes in their design make the shorter V8 layout more suitable. Jaguar used them until, at Ford's insistence they adopted a V8. Aston Martin used a straight 6 for many years as well. Bristol produced a straight 6 until 1961, based on BMW plans, that was also used in many small manufacturers' cars. TVR also uses a straight 6 called Speed Six in some of their coupes and convertibles such as the Tuscan. Diesel straight-6 engines The inline 6 in diesel form with a much larger displacement is commonly used for various industrial applications. These range from various types of heavy equipment to power generation. As with everyday passenger vehicles, the smooth running characteristics of the I-6 engine is what makes it desirable for industrial use. In addition, an I-6 engine is mechanically simpler than a V6 or V8. It has only one cylinder head and half as many camshafts as a V engine. See also: straight engine

no the car is only insured up to the resale value any more and you would have to pay the difference.they will class it as a total loss and you can buy it back and get the work done yourself .just had the same problem with my van

Nice looking car you got thier .i would still say head gasket as the problem seems very simaler to what craig went through ,have a compression test done by the garage and see what that turns up .

i think being an import it could have been bought out earlier in that country .

If you do a check on the car on ebay it states it as an 1997 car and not a 1998 as stated in the ad

quick fit do it think price is around £20 depending on oil (semi syn etc) kwick fit oil change link

THanks guys. Its just that I have downloaded tons of MP3 files and tried burn to CD (not using Nero) but wouldn't play. Must have done something wrong I am going to try Nero. Thanks again, Mrs M.

Hello its Mrs Mudzs here - Tony told me you lot know everything so here is my problem:- I want to make a music CD and have installed Limewire. Every time I do a search nearly all the files listed are MP3. Some of the ones that are not MP3 are locked. Is there a more appropriate program to use? This is driving me mad! Thanks

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