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Why would jump starting a car cause anything like this to happen? You're only putting in the same amount of voltage from the donor battery after all...? I don't plan on letting my battery get so knacked it goes flat but you never know, and a jump is the standard way of getting it going again is it not?

I had a Mini Cooper (BMW) before trading up to my IS and it was always like being in a club with every other Mini driver waving as we passed each other. I've seen nothing like it in any other car including the Lexie. On my Yammie it doesn't matter what the make of the other bike, there's always a wave. Plus a Foccer (FazerOwnersClub)salute for anyone with a Fazer of clenched left fist against the front of the helmet (ooer madam). I miss all that if I'm honest

If you have a mix n match set make sure your best tyres are on the back to avoid the back end overtaking the front as you go round a roundabout or a sweeping bend

I have the little puddle too, but in the offside well of the boot. I leave a decorators sponge in there then just pull it out and squeeze the water out :-o I am intending to liberally waxoyl it in the area of the offside wheel well so as to render it water proof and able to tolerate the wet sponge which I will dry out every week until I can find the ingress point.

Cat kipping under the bonnet to keep warm?

I've been to France loads of times in different cars, also to the Ring in my Mini (which I chopped in for the Lex) and never bothered fitting them. But I read recently that there is a massive purge on foreign (ie UK) cars and that we have to have a reflective jacket, warning triangle etc and if not, then on the spot fines. I have the jacket (with the word Police on the back - that should shake em!) and the triangle, but I think I'll try and wing it on the light front, or maybe just use some duck tape and do what aztecbandit suggested, or just stick it on - if the buggers stop me, they won't have headlight gauging gear and if they see the tape on the lights they'll presume it is pukka. Fingers crossed. And thanks for the info, much appreciated.

I was thinking of getting some crappy Corsa/Pug 106 lights fitted to mine...

Just catching up on this. Is it worth bringing it to the attention of Jezza, Hamster and Cap'n Slow ready for the new series? Seeing as Lexus always tops the JD Power survey, which they champion, it's something they might pick up on, especially in the light of the supposed bribery and corruption aspect of the latest news... ? I'm stuck with having to buy budget tyres for the front cos I can';t afford top stuff if it only lasts a year or less, and because of my shifts I can't get up to WIM to get the long term fix for quite some time to come

And don't say "on your flippin headlights!" either! On previous cars there have been all sorts of markings etched into the headlight lenses to show how to align the stick on beam deflectors. On the IS200 there are just two lines going directly across the lens. I can't see how that is anything to do with it. So, gurus, where and how do I align the beam deflectors? Off to France on Wednesday so need to buy them and stick em on correctly, don't want any gendarme action while I am away

Oi, I was going to say that :winky: Mines a 52 plate and it has the little labels. Dunno if it has any fixing points cos with my ox of a son and my 12 yr old daughter (going on 24) I no longer need to worry

Just received my used K and N air filter courtesy of Rolex. I know it needs to be lightly oiled. The question is, what type of oil? Can I use the synthetic stuff that goes into the engine of my IS200, of which I have a spare pint in the garage? And in any case, how much oil needs to be applied? And how often? Lots of questions but you are the dudes to ask !

I have done several courses at work, and all centre around the principles found in Roadcraft. You can buy the book from SMiths or Waterstones etc. It's to do with making progress while adhering to the law. Correct positioning and engine revs for entry and exit into bends, on the approach to hazards etc all come into it. As my instructors have always said, any :tsktsk: can drive fast, it's just a matter of pressing the right foot down hard. But it takes proper skill to know when and where to apply the brakes.

Tesco. £3 each. Work a treat and last a good 6 months.

Also - to keep this thread on track AND Lexus related, I just saw an old tw@t driving a 56 plate IS250 almost wipe out the oldest pedestrian in the world who was shuffling across the road. Confession - I am John Law ..... although not a black rat, so still have an entirely whole brain So Old Duffer 1 is cruising down the hill in front of my Merc Sprinter (which tends not to blend in with much as it is so huge, rusty and festooned with jam sarnie stripes and a big barbecue above the windscreen etc) when he comes up behind a little Fiat which is slowing down for Old Duffer 2 to get across the main road. Rather than wait, OD1 floors it and does an Elk Test round the Fiat, missing OD2 by a fag paper, and zooms off down the road. Minutes before I had been enthusing about the IS250 and how I aspire to such luxury and performance, and defending us Lexy drivers as efficient and skilful to a fault, so I was a tad peeved by this blatant up-ending of my argument. So I pulled the :tsktsk: and ripped him a new :tsktsk: hole. He denied that there was ever a chance of hitting OD2, but then admitted that he presumed the Fiat was turning right as people don't use indicators these days, and the fact that the Fiat wasn't indicating proved that it was about to turn right (which it actually never did, but why let the facts cloud his judgement). He then admitted that he had not a scooby that OD2 was even in the road. I had to shut him up at that point cos not being a black rat I didn't really want to start a traffic file off, as I'd rather be out catching burglars and thieves, so I gave him a producer to inconvenience him and told him to start driving his Lexy properly else I would, er, confiscate it. No doubt he will make a complaint about my criticism of his driving skills, honed over 70 years ever since he bought his license from the GPO etc etc

I have a good pair of pics taken of a near miss head on, when I get home I will post them. Er, how do I post pics on here?

I wasn't driving mate, I was just a passenger in every crash I had. It was locals doing the driving. Worst I have ever seen anywhere and I have been to a few places. So maybe I was just a bad passenger heheheheh!

Not really Lexus specific, but you guys will all have stories of nightmare driving. Here's mine to start the ball rolling: I went to India in 2006 on an exchange trip, staying with host families. It was acknowledged as the most tribal and under developed area in the country, Chhatisgarh and Orissa. In the first 3 weeks of the 4wk long trip I was involved in 4 crashes. Two were possibly fatal, but the drivers refused to hang about to find out in spite of my protestations. One was a copper on a bicycle, both he and the bike went up in the air after we hit them, the bike may well still be travelling cos I never ever saw it again, but the cop came back down and landed on the bonnet. No mean feat cos at that stage we were standing on our nose. Then his swede came through the windscreen before he was catapulted off onto the road. Round him we went, luckily, then off up the road. The other bad one was a bloke and his missus on a moped, she sitting sidesaddle, no helmets. Rather than hit us head on (we were in a 4x4 on the wrong side of the road in 5th gear doing 51mph overtaking an artic doing 50mph) the rider went off into the bundu. It was like a tom n jerry movie, a big snowball of dust, scooter headlamps, and brief glimpses of limbs and flashy coloured silk. Again, no hanging about, just fukofski.... A fekkin nightmare it was. Your turn....

Perhaps a big piece of duct tape on the front of the bonnet would help

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/31-Fuel-Intake-Gas-S...tem160261602359 It will give a 31% fuel saving! Blimey. I wonder why Lexus don't fit them as standard?

Damn. I'm never going to make what I've got left last until November's top up

Dunno how verifiable any of this is, but it was emailed to me in good faith so worth a try I suppose. Let us all know how you get on , anyone who tries it out. By the way, my mates in South Africa are complaining like merry hell about their fuel prices, but it works out around 50p a litre so I always tell them to shut it and stop moaning! It made the 2litre Foucs automatic I had on hoiday there in April really cheap to run in my book! Good luck with the fuel saving! TIPS ON FILLING YOUR CAR I don't know what you guys are paying for petrol..... but here in Durban we are also paying high prices, up to R 8.50 per litre. My line of work is in petroleum and has been for about 31 years now. So here are some tricks to get more of your money's worth for every litre. Here at Marian Hill Pipeline where I work in Durban , we deliver about 4 million litres in a 24 hour period thru the pipeline. One day is diesel, the next day is jet fuel, and petrol, LPR and Unleaded. We have 34 storage tanks here with a total capacity of 16,800,000 litres. Only buy or fill up your car in the early morning when the ground temperature is still cold.. Remember that all Service Stations have their storage tanks buried beneath the ground. The colder the ground the more dense the fuel. When it gets warmer petrol expands, so buying in the afternoon or evening .......... your litre is not exactly a litre. In the petroleum business, the specific gravity and the temperature of the petrol, diesel, jet fuel, ethanol and other petroleum products play an important role. A one degree rise in temperature is a big deal in this business but the Service Stations do not have temperature compensation at the pumps. When you are filling up do not squeeze the trigger of the nozzle to a fast mode. If you look you will see that the trigger has three (3) stages; low, middle and high. In slow mode you should be pumping on low speed, thereby minimising the vapours that are created while you are pumping.. All hoses at the pump have a vapour return. If you you are pumping on the fast rate, some of the liquid that goes into your tank becomes vapour. Those vapours are being sucked up and back into the underground storage tank so you're getting less worth for your money. One of the most important tips is to fill up when your tank is HALF FULL. The reason for this is, the more fuel you have in you tank, the less air occupying its empty space.. Petrol evaporates faster than you can imagine. Petroleum storage tanks have an internal floating roof. This roof serves as zero clearance between petrol and the atmosphere, so it minimises the evaporation. Unlike Service Stations, here where I work, every truck that we load is temperature compensated so that every litre is actually the exact amount. Another reminder. If there is a fuel truck pumping into storage tanks when you stop to buy, DO NOT FILL UP. Most likely the petrol/diesel is being stirred up as the fuel is being delivered and you might pick up some dirt that normally settles on the bottom. Hope this will help you get the most value for your money. Remember to always fill your car when the tank shows 'half'. Always fill up in the early morning. Always fill up in slow mode.

I lost one off mine too. How on earth could that happen? I don't have a Lexus dealer where I live so I bought a Toyota stud, just a basic one, not locking, cost me a bloody fiver!

After all that, he doesn't get the car! I've read the thread the whole way through for nowt <_< Got to say, any insurance company underwriting a car with a youngster on it as a named driver has got to be run by muppets if they don't do some sort of randomly carried out surveillance on such customers to see driving habits etc. There's loads of corporate surveillance carried out and they are not subject to RIPA the same way as law enforcement agencies such as Old Bill or SOCA are, which makes speculative surveillance really easy, and well worth their while i would have thought. 0800 on a Monday morning and various occupants start leaving a house to go to work, Dad gets into his Mondeo and drives away, 5 minutes later Mum leaves in her Clio, then 30 mins later, 18 yr old Joey leaves in the Lexus. The pattern is repeated on another day... bingo, got ya. They'll keep taking the premiums cos it's money in the bank for them, but come claim time, it's goodnight Vienna. And possibly Hello Judge :-0

I'm edging towards gold... with red as a possibility.... or maybe blue... but not yellow any more

Cheers guys that is the info I was after. What a great forum this LOC thang is :zee: I think I'll wait until this fekkin wind stops as I'll have to paint em out on the drive cos no space in the garage