Cotswold Pete

What I love about this forum is coming across this sort of stuff. Have been noticing night driving a challenge due to glare etc. So will investigate Hoya and Essilor My dad was motorway patrol officer he always used glasses with yellow coating (no idea what it was) to aid night driving. Did one have to drive at night using polarised lenses (as I had left my normal specs at home), that was ruddy scary, especially when out on country roads.

IMHO policitians are attracted to the people who devliver the best lobbying, whether that be they shout loudest, come up with the most convincing arguement or (for sure) slip enough cash into someone coffers. Problem is politicians are not technocrats or even physcologists, they are vote collectors. So they are not capable of 'checking' all the facts, so they have been swayed towards green arguments that are more than likely less green than promised, whatever the Battery mix in a car. It is interesting that at least two countries are firing a shot across the bow of the sacred cow called EV, and like most people I am keen on having low pollution in my lungs, but have to balance that with a comfortable (and mobile) life creating (and always will create) pollution. It would be nice in this country if we properly recognised what good public transport brings which is why many mainland European cities are so much nicer than most UK cities (including the ones allow many tourists coaches and buses bobbling about the middle of towns -- Bath, Chester, Oxford to name a few). However I believe the major supplier of pollution are the building indurstry (cement), so maybe we need to start thinking about living in our cars and cutting out all that building of houses. Mind you steel production is polluting as well. The dream of zero emmisions is and always will be a totally fallacy, zero tail-pipe emmissions sure, but not total zero emissions.

IMHO the police are more than likely all attending some incident where 2 officers would do, but 15 seem to be in attendance. That is the impression I get from watching those trashy shows on Channel 5. I am sure my late father who was a station sergeant and then a motorway patrol officer would be appalled at the number of officers it seems to need to drive at high speed to all gather around while not solving other crimes. Or am I just being cynical??

Is this the F-sport on e-bay I saw recently, I was considering it, but cannot scrape the money together for some time, so decided to not even think about it. Was not quite sure if it was a good buy at that price, but 10year old 460's for sale not that common from what I have seen. I would be curious to know why it is for sale if it is such a nice car?

How about SeaSuckers, seen them on quite a few high end SUVs and saloons. Also might be worth looking at Treefrog I use Saris bones, but from my experience they work better on cars with either a long flat boot, or a vertical face (like landrover).

Turns out she is not bothered by the sheer size more the 'floatiness' of it, which I do recall when I got my first LS back 15 years ago was a bit of a 'shock', and now I have no prblems chucking the LS around corners knowing it floats like a butterfly stings like a bee. My own reasons for changing are I realyl do not have the space/time/energy to get it back to the shiny and mechanically sorted car it should be, and when I come into some money later this year it is my chance to try another Lexus. I do like the ES, though it is not anywhere near as solid (or brick outhouse like) build, though being a frugal chap not sure I am going to lighten my wallet to the tune of £40K when I could get a 460 for a lot less. So I agree with many sentiments in the replies and it is a little tough mentally letting go of my LS some time soon. I met a 460 dirver the other day (just got chatting in a supermarket car park) and is 10 years a 460 dirver with 15 years 400 driving before that and he said both brilliant but the 460 was now his true love. So my wife not averse to trying a 460, but I assume it needs to less floaty than my 400, which should not be difficult given the likely state of the control arm bushes.

well if they maintained the roads then less mucked up tyres throwing rubber into the air etc. I want to know when cows will be taxed for breaking wind, or will it be car drivers who have that f*rts taxed first

Visited Lexus Cheltenham on Saturday as the missus says time to let got of my LS400. Anyway looked at a wide range of new and pre-loved including CT, IS, ES, RC (not that I am ever going to buy an RC) UX etc. Then in the parking lot she spotted a Toyota Camry (one of the last). So we tried the ES and the Camry, and my missus was really shocked that the ES was so much nicer to open the doors on, to sit in etc, compared to the cmary which was the same price (more or less£40K) So made me realise if I was ever to go Toyota I would be epxecting it to be a lot cheaper than a Lexus, now I can see why so many cab drivers like the ES, no contest over top spec Camry. Now all I need to decide is do I go from LS400 to LS460 knowing it will not be young, but will be more solid than an ES, or maybe a GS450, or possibly IS300h (which the missus quite likes and my neighbour might be selling his) Also from talking to the sales man and sales woman (should that be persons) most people are going SUV, and I want to stick with saloon, which seems to be more choice limiting these days. One final comment - I hate those plastic arch trims that even lexus are fixing to their cars, IMHO makes them look a little naff

Well I recall a colleague who got a E-type in 1983 and he used to treat it like a car, where as he said some owners would (after each drive) clean it inside, outside, underside right down to the last wheel nut. So MAD has been going on for a while. I would expect the E-type owner to have a little less to worry about on the wheel nut front as if they were chromed a darned sight harder to scratch.

Yesterday on a trip back from Southampton I managed to reach all the 2's. I suspect that this might be the one and only time I see this is a car I own. 10 years of owning this car, never let me down, and now thinking about what I might be looking for next, not sure if it should be a LS460 or GS450 assuming my missus stops bothering me about owning such large cars that she does not like driving them. I just love the lack of noise and sheer lovely-ness of these barges. Here's to another 10 years of owning a Lexus of some sort

I would say they for sure do not set your bum on fire like your average Merc or BMW seems to, but I do find I can keep them on for a long time on cold mornings and feel nicely warmed by the tine I get to work. First thing on a really cold morning an LS on your rear is a shock, but my view is back in the 70's my Renault had no seat heaters and I lived to tell the tale. Personally I would like heated windscreens as standard.

I certainly found the rear seating in 430 seems to be more claustrophobic than the 400, which reading this post does make we wonder if its more of a 'brain' thing the space around you right or wrong. As Malc says it is the long journeys where you really get to know if the car is 'just right' for you. Took me about 4 months with my first LS to get the seat right, and about 10 minutes with my second one.

This would be my route to suss out issue. I had similar problem with my 400, with dipped being flaky. Two new bulbs perked up the night driving One thing I noticed is that the dipped beam gets fainter but there seems to come a point when your eyes just find it too difficult to see ahead, and what I observed before my most recent bulb replacement was this. 'If you fog lights make a huge difference to the light on the road it sure is time to replace the bulbs'.

I always thought the correct term for those gaps was 'shut lines', but anyway maybe the Canada build needs to have a bit more oomph on closing becuase maybe your avargage North American is going to a bit more horny-handed than your average Japanese buyer. I decided not to waste all my time watching the whole video, so might have missed some golden nugeets in the second half🥱

27 bids now and £3600. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Not my cup of tea and would certainly scare the pigeons off where I live

IMHO the second image is a darned good looking 430, would almost tempt me, but agree the wheels need a bit of toning down, though the style is fine. Given the state of the roads, would prefer tractor tyres on any thing I own at the mo

Sort of interesting that the management system lights teh dahsboard up like a Xmas tree. Surely would be better if there was a little part of the display that read the data from the control unit and delivered a specific message 'in you case check ABS' so that at least you knew not half the car was about to give up the ghost. Best of luck for the next 137,000 miles

I use a company that specialises in rebuilding Auto-boxes, they just quoted £350 to completely drain the system (including the torque convertor) and then refill. Must be someone local to you that does such work

That is one heck of shopping trolley to put milk in, but no harm done in buying the trolley. Makes me want to scratch my LS is 23 years old itch with an upgrade

It is a jolly nice feature, very useful last night coming down the M5 in the lashing rain, especially as I rarely do long distance night time driving these days. I recall it took me 4 years (and this forum) to discover all the hidden stuff on a Mk4. I would say that modern satnavs are a lot easiert on the eye because they use LEDs rather than CFL to provide the backlighting to easier to adjust light levels.

Well sounds like it might drive well, but possibly not stop quite so well

Crikey, this is all taking me back to my dads 404, in red, was like a sofa for sure, with a bit more poke than the Austin Cambridge it replaced. The 404 was replaced by a 406, (I also owned a 406), the most uncomfortable care I ever had, but could corner like a good-un. Just meant after two years of owning it took a Chiropractor 4 months to get me sorted out

I suffer from CVB (Constantly Variable Bladder), sometimes I can get to Tebay (4hrs away) before a break is needed, sometimes I get to Strensham (40mins away) and the call comes. Cups of tea are a killer. On a serious note I have heard this is why blokes tend to get infections through not drinking enough for fear of being caught short, and that is what got my dad this year, and with Septicaemia being end result which he never fully recovered from. Got to 87 mind you and only in the last year did the problem start manifesting itself.

To add to my earlier thoughts, yesterday spent 3 hours in a CL500 going to a see a supplier and three hours back home. I was passenger Nice and quiet, more gizmos than my workshop in the cellar. Road noise certainly way less than LS on the rougher motorway surfaces BUT After three hours (no stops), it was an effort to haul my butt out of the car, and my mate the driver was even more 'crippled' then I was. Never had that even on a 5 hour no-stopping session in the LS. Also not able to use Google maps in the car, like it was somehow blocking signal, never had that before in any car, so not sure if CL has a sort of Farady Cage effect, GPS seemd to be working (really odd). Did enjoy driving my LS Sofa to work this morning😊

Given house double glazing eventually goes AWOL, then double glazing subject to the vibrations etc of a car, surely is a bit of dodgy proposition in the long run