Bob King

Used a very fine wirewool with metal polish 👍🏻

Some days are just right for polishing 😎 headlamps both a little discoloured at the top and the tailpipes had never touched ! Bit of metal polish and fine wire wool it’s taken 15 years off them .

As an ex-mot tester I can say that its all about the mot tester covering himself …you can’t fail what you can’t see ! yet there could be a corroded hole under many of the plastic covered modern cars undersides . So by writing..underbelly pans fitted…the tester has covered his arse 👍🏻

That low exhaust wouldn’t last 5mins in my area of suburban London …speed humps/ speed platforms etc 😳😳

Time to see a few photos of what you might be selling Neil 👍🏻 ..or put your YouTube build video up 👍🏻👍🏻

Liverpool Victoria 👍🏻

I tried classic insurance with my latest SC, being a 2007 they just laughed ! Think the quote came back at over £700 ! My current insurance came up trumps with multi cover at £165 😎

The Red south London car looks good ..although it has a set of Chinese "ditch finder" tyres on it ! And god knows why the rear fog lamps have had chrome trim fitted around them 😮 very desirable colour combination . http://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202308211052506 Read some of the dealers feed back…very helpful before the sale , then once paid for they drop you like a hot brick !

The old fellow selling it is just looking at prices of others for sale, not the fact his wants paintwork and interior leather refurbished .

The retired mechanic in me can see potential with this car, it’s ‘young’ metal in terms of the SC430 production times. Most used cars have had paintwork done, it just wether the new owner knows it’s been done . my last mint sc430, full Lexus history , 46k on the clock , outstanding in every respect but on speaking to the workshop manager a few months later about sparks should have been changed last service …he said he remembers the car , it had bonnet, wing, both bumpers paint while it was at the workshop !…yet I couldn’t tell . So its okay to get bodywork done, it’s just about how much it cost and how good they are at doing it .

It’s everyone’s free choice to modify their cars, several things to take on board , you’ll never get your money back on what’s been done, and limit the market buyers when it comes to be sold. From knowing a few SC430 owners that have modified their cars, the cost is unimportant as is the resale value, it’s about enjoy the car you have and getting it just how you want it 👍🏻

A new car could have lived it life at the coast, so would have more corrosion that one inland, or lived in Scotland were they have more months of salt on the roads .

Just the damp/mould in the boot would put me off 😳

If course there is another plan of action…..take wife’s car to shops 😁😁

Done that with my previous SC430 👍🏻…..say no to door banging ✊🏻✊🏻

genuine LEXUS floor mat set . https://lexuspartsdirect.co.uk/product/lexus-sc430-black-carpet-mats/ 👍🏻👍🏻

11 year old timing belt wants to be changed.

My first SC430 in 2016 I done mine at home on the drive, had no history of it being done…once it was all stripped…it HAD been done 🙄 so I just replaced the belt as I’d already bought it .

Just a thought …West Malling Garage use to be a Toyota dealer worth a price from them . www.westmallinggarage.co.uk

Ring up Gatwick ,Tunbridge Wells and Sidcup and get a quote from each, see if you can them to price match against each other . Any well established independent garage would be able to do the job 👍🏻

Insurance Cat D so best kept away from 👍🏻

I thought I was the only one that likes the hunt, more than the ownership 😁😁

Hpi check was all good, so not a right-off or on financed . its had 10 previous owners , 9 number plate changes and he’s owned it 8 months .

Neil on here had done extensive development on his SC430 exhaust, and what they guys had done would only be 5-6bhp max. I had that car lined up to go look at and done an HPI check etc but that’s when it was at 8995.00 ….the price is more appealing now. He ducks and dives and had two other cars for sale ,Mercedes and Range Rover…so I’m sure he wants this SC sold. It’s another local to you, so you could just go and look 👍🏻 You mention blue car ?