PCthug

I bet the woman videoing it had loads of fun. Much better than watching the TV.

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This is where something like Mediamonkey is far more intelligent, if you open the album up on that you'll see the album still has both albumarts attached, and it offers the option to delete the one you don't want. iTunes doesn't do (or know) this so both albumarts try to co-exist. iTunes does do this. If you look at 'artwork' within the albums properties it will show both, and you can delete one of them.

Bit of a pain, but try looking at each track in the album as i bet that the incorrect art work will be there (delete it if it is) and it will be using that for some reason. Once you have done that it should be fine, with a little luck.

I dont have DAB on my 2005 RX400h, so that should make you feel better. Actually, dont choose your car because of the radio. Who wants to listen to radio presenters, who like the sound of their own voice, in great quality anyway? Sorry i cant offer any real words of comfort, but welcome to the site, and i am sure the benefits will soon become apparent.

If you buy your music from iTunes it's generally fine, I don't and it used to irritate me constantly. Main thing would be if an album has different tracks with different collaborations on it so the artists are different, even though the album name would be the same it splits them up. I spent hours sorting it all out so it did it correctly. But then it decided to double up every track I had, and at that point I lost my patience and gave up with it. It really is a very bad piece of software, it works if you use Apple for your complete chain, if you don't it doesn't adapt. Strange, never had that problem before. I have put on a few of my own CD compilations and they have worked fine. It may show them differently in the artists section, but in the album section they are all in the album as they should be.

I may be wrong, but i believe that they have a warranty of 5 years or 100,000 miles and that a replacement can cost a few grand.

I dont really have this issue, but you can try this... 1. Open iTunes, 2. Click on 'music' (top left) to show all your albums, 3. Double click the incorrect album (This will show all the tracks), 4. Click on a track using the right mouse button, 5. Click on 'get info' 6. Then click on 'Artwork'. You can delete it from there. To get the correct artwork either scan it in from your cd, or look on a site that sells albums and shows the album cover, like Amazon, and copy the artwork from there and drag and drop it into the album artwork on iTunes. You dont need to delete them at all actually, you can just obtain the correct ones then follow steps 1 and 2, then right click on the album itself and then step 5 and drag the artwork here instead.

Hmmm i thought that be ok as long as the letter/numbers isnt stuck together to make it look like something else ? No, the spacing has to be correct too.

Where did you get it from? I still havent got mine yet, but intend to.

PCthug, on 31 August 2010 - 11:05 PM, said:I am insured through Swift, and found them the cheapest. If your dad isnt the main driver, but you are, then you are lying to your insurance company, and can be dealt with for fraud. You WILL find it very hard to get insured in later life if your found to be lying to an insurance company, so tread carefully. "My dad is the main driver and i'm the 2nd driver so how is that doing fraud then!!! I'm here to ask people if they can direct me to a cheap insurance company or a broker!!!" So you previously stated that the car belonged to your father and he was the main driver, now you seem to have changed your mind. It is totally irresponsible to get a car and not have it correctly insured. From your posts regarding your insurance, the insurance company could well refuse to pay if anything happened as they could deem it as fraudulent. Apart from the fact that you could then potentially face a prison sentence more important is the fact that you could maim somebody and they could get no recompense. for crying out loud, if it is your car then get insurance in your own right. High rates are things we all suffered when we were younger. Dave are you weird or Dumb something i got insured on my name with bell fully comp at £2,200 and I done this post just to see who was the youngest person to get insured on lexus and who did they use is that wrong asking??????????/ In Dave's defense, you didnt say that you now own the car and that it is in your name. Your grammar is VERY poor on your first post here, so i too didnt know what exactly you meant.

If you fail to display the correct one its a £60 fine (none endorsable).

Usually codes are generic, so the same code as you will find on a Ford that you also see on a Lexus will point to the same error/sensor. For instance, code P1205 (i think) is for the EGR valve that quite a few diesels have. The connector is usually 9/10 times close to the steering wheel/drivers side. Get down on you hands and knees and look under the dash close to where your knees would go and look up. You will probably find it there. Its sometimes has a rubber cover on it. Get a reader (i bought one of ebay for £30) and plug it in and turn your key. It will come up with a code that you will be able search on the net to find what it is. Some readers (like the one i have) actually show the code and the error message too. Be aware though that a sensor can be effect by something else close by to it, so may not necessarily be the thing the message tells you is wrong. For instance, on my old Saab the code said it was the EGR valve when in fact it was the swirl actuator that is next to the EGR. BTW, the car will have MANY sensors, in various places.

What loophole? You have a smash in the Ferrari and the insurance company doesn't pay up for the damage to the Ferrari only to the person/object you crash into. You loose the insurance and any NCB on the Fiat. Its the loophole that ALLOW people to LEGALLY drive cars FAR greater than they are initially insured for. Yes of course there is always going to be the risk of crashing it, as there is the fiat (although more of a chance in the ferrari), and the chances are you will only have third party in any case (going by the cost of insurance for young drivers), so you will be out of pocket no matter what (by more so with a performance car). If you dont crash it you build up a nice no claims discount and can legally drive a performance car for FAR less insurance than you would pay on the car itself, and that is if you could get insurance in the first place. The OP would still have to fork out if he crashed the Lexus as i doubt he will have been fully comp. It is still a loophole, and being a traffic cop i come across this, and know that there is nothing that can be done as it is legal.

They didnt insure him on it, they insured him on HIS car, which was a fiat punto. His insurance allowed him to driver ANY other car, so it could quite easily have been a ferrari he drove as he would still have been insured on it 3rd party. Its a crazy loophole that the insurance companies havent cottened on to yet. What they should do is, if your insured on a 1000cc car, then you can only drive upto a 1000cc car, but they dont, they allow you to drive ANY car.

How old was he. 20 years old i think.

Another thing you can do is buy a cheap banger of a car and get insured on that, but have it on your insurance that you can driver any other car. What this means is that you will have your own car and insurance, so will get no claims bonuses, but will also be able to drive your dads lexus on a third party basis whenever you want, providing he has insurance for it himself. You may be able to get a decent car for £500 or so, and insurance for a grand or two. This will still be cheaper than you as a named driver. I know a lad who does this. He is insured on a Fiat Punto, but drives 'his mams' Mitsubishi Evo. BTW, he was grassed up to the insurance company for actually being the main driver.

When i first got my 2005 RX400h 7 weeks ago i was getting 33mpg with mainly national speed limit driving. I am now getting about 29mpg. I will attribute this to the fact that is getting colder now, so the engine works a little harder and i am using heat settings (seat, heater, demister etc). Also when i first got it i would set off for work 10 minutes earlier than normal due to wanting to play in my new toy so could drive nice and slow. Now the novelty has worn off a little i set off my normal time (too late) and find i am rushing to get to work, so drive faster and use more fuel. Its costing about £58 to fill the tank, and i get about 330 miles before i refuel.

Yep, looks good, but its a £60 fine waiting to happen.

What equipment do you use? I too 'dabble' in photography and have... Canon 5d mkII Canon 100-400L Canon 100 macro Canon 24-105L Bowens studio lights Loads of studio equipment and props. I am a bit of a jack of all trades, and take photos of almost anything. I used to have a studio to take portfolio photographs for women and men who wanted to get into modelling, but got rid of it due to lack of time i could give to it. I basically got too busy that i had to end it, due to also working 12 hour shifts at my full time job. In the 90's i used to have a darkroom and do my own developing too. Maybe we should start a photography thread to post images and offer advice to those who may need it.

There are a couple of ways to look at this. Firstly it was 'wrote off' Cat D meaning the cost of repair would have been more than the price to buy for its year/mileage. So 3 years ago it would have been only 1 year old, with 6k on and worth about £30,000. That is one hell of a repair bill. If you got it for a really good price (say £20,000), then the cost of the inverter may not be 'that' bad (although still an unexpected sting). You say that 'many' 2006 models suffer this problem, but i have only seen you report it so far, so where did you hear this? Only interested as i have a 2006 model with 22,000 miles on it, so hope i dont suffer the same fate. Have you looked for a second hand inverter?

I have a 2006 (on a '55 plate) RX400h and want to ask a few questions... 1. Why, when i start the car (READY showing) does the engine sometimes start? The batteries have loads of power in them, so it cant be due to them being low on power. I was hoping that when i start up very early in the morning i could drive away without any noise, but this isnt so, some of the time. 2. Why does the reversing camera sometimes say 'guidance unavailable'? 3. The 2 buttons operating the moon roof appear to do exactly the same thing. Both can tilt the roof and both can retract the roof too? What is the point in 2 buttons?

Thanks for the advice and links so far, i have a lot to read. I have the iPhone 4, but can only see one of those that actually list theirs as compatable.

Have you had a word with the supermarket to see if they have CCTV? It may be worth reporting it to the police.

I have a '55 plate RX400h, with the standard stereo and SatNav (not the ML). I asked at a Lexus dealer today regarding getting the iPhone adaptor fitted, costing about £200 all in. Its the one that goes inside the glove box. I had heard from somewhere that the kit does away with the CD multichanger, but the guy in the dealer stated that it is a seperate unit that actually comes on the SatNav screen, and is controlled from there too. It allows you to still use the CD/Tape/radio etc as usual. I am not convinced he is correct, as it contradicts what i have heard before. Does anyone have a definitive answer for me?