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Hi Jim, it may have been, but I don't have the car now, sold it in the summer. That's why I've been looking at them again lately as missing it. I just left the pic on my avatar for now. Washington is only about 25 miles from us, so could have been our old car. He doesn't work at Nissan though, he lives in the town, and had had a stroke, bought it because he liked the car, and the tilt wheel, electric seat, and memory made it easy for him to get in and out.

I was thinking that too, just got it in my email. It was a on a private plate when I mentioned it. Thing is he says no relaxation pack in the description, the other one did. Only way to tell for sure is to do a text the reg, but don't want to spend another £3 to find out when I'm not interested in it. Wouldn't touch him with a bargepole now...lol

Yeah, i know that mate, I just meant he doesn't help people who live around there to sell their cars, as his actions will make people cautious of adverts in that area in case he has multiple ebay accounts, probably has...lol Good luck with the sale. :)

Shocking Bluesman, only one word for him, conman! Yeah, I saw after I posted that Ifty, the one with pics taken in a car park. It is the one I thought was him again, not wanting to be biased against Dudley...lol :) He doesn't help genuine people trying to sell a car around that area. :)

Yep, that's what I said, plus he has another one on now, an LS400, looks quite nice actually, and good price, but wouldn't touch him now. He's obviously dishonest even though he makes a big thing of checking his feedback, leaving out that it had been a write-off from the advert is deceitful, and wastes everyone's time. Is Ifty your name on eBay, I think I've come across your ad when I've been looking, but dismissed it thinking it may be that sonofadam using another name, with it being in the same region. Obviously not. :)

I''ve been looking for another Lexus after regretting selling our LS400 earlier in the year. I rang that seller called sonOFadam last week about an LS430 he had advertised, looked very good, low miles at 68,000, sold with a private plate on it. I asked a few questions, tyres, exhaust ok, asked no dents dings etc, as they're normally in very good condition. He said it had had a pair of new wings on before he got it. I said could it have been in a frontal impact as they don't tend to rust, and both wings would indicate a frontal impact, rather than one being bumped in a car park. I said has it been a Cat C or D, he says yeah, I think that was it. I did a basic textthereg on it, and it came back as having been an insurance total loss. It's not advertised now, so looks like someone bought it. He sounded quite young an nervous on the phone, spoke very fast. He told me it was his dads, and he'd been using it, and was getting a LS460 as his reason for sale. He's obviously a trader by the amount of cars he lists.

Seems expensive for what if does. I have an afternarket radio in my Pajero form Aldi that does all this stuff for £50, they work very well. mp3 on memory car, usb stick, or cd, bluetooth connection for your phone, stream music over bluetooth to radio etc. But probably like me, you wouldn't want ot change the Lexus radio as they look nice, and integrate into the dash well. Another option if you have a cassette slot on the radio (have to see on that small photo), is a cassette adaptor. It fits the cassette slot and has a pick up head where the tape would normally run. The cable has a standard 3.5mm headphone plug on it which you plug into your iPod, Smartphone, mp3 player headphone socket. Turn the volume down stighly on you mp3 player to revent feedback, and use the volume on your car radio. We got one for the mx5 when we had it last year, and have tried it in the LS400 we've just got, works fine. They're very cheap on eBay, don't think you've allowed to put a link on here, but if you go on eBay and put this item number in the search box you'll find them. Item No: 150775916487 It's a much cheaper option to do the same thing, and no worse than the trailing wire you on that adaptor.

I'm late reading this thread I know, but of all those brands you listed I've only heard of Apex and Eibach. Our local motor factor that we all use for parts at work when working on cars, consistently supplies Apex more than any other. I've never heard of any problems with them, over any other brand. It's the speed humps that;s the problem....lol Is Stein a shortened name for Bilstein, as I've never heard of them, but the Bilstein name goes back years.

Hi Norman, I know what you mean the "Lexus rear light" look started it all off some years ago, and all the manufacturers seem to have gone that way, clear lenses with coloured bulbs. They do look nice, but to my eyes I find them harder to see flashing in bright sunlight compared to the old style lenses. Can't seem to see anywhere on ebay doing them apart from foreign sellers, China or US, I did look after I saw Edd China fit them as they do make the car look younger.

I'm not up to speed on the fineries of the LS engine yet, having only had ours a couple of weeks. But if it has hydraulic tappets like most engines nowadays, it was probably just a sticking lifter. We had this happen to our mx5 last year after it had been stood a couple of weeks, sounded like an old sewing machine, but sorted itself out after about half an hour running, never did it again. It's usually when the engine stops in just the wrong spot leaving the valve lifter under pressure so it slowly squeezes all the oil out, sometimes takes a while to prime itself with oil again. Re flushing fluids, I've never used them, and we never use them in our fleet vehicles at work. The rule in the trade with worn engines is the carbon build up etc may be compensating for wear in the engine. If you remove the carbon then you may introduce slack into the engine and cause burning oil etc. If you use good quality oil, and do regular oil changes any build up should be minimal anyway. I think they're more of a placebo effect than genuinely useful. I've always been told not to use synthetic oil in an older engine, because of the seals in older engines being made of a different material to newer seals, and the synthetic oil would damage the seals in older engines causing leaks to develop. At work we have two different oils that have to go in certain vehicles depending on the age due to this. It's ok saying we have filters, loose deposits need to get to the filter first. It they snag up in an oilway, some of which can be quite narrow, it can cause a blockage leading to reduced oil flow and even seizure (think blocked arteries in your heart stopping the blood from getting round properly).

Thanks Mark. The touch screen is good, though I don't even want to think about it going wrong, but the satnav is outdated and clunky to use. I'm not sure if it can be updated usefully, or what it might cost (think we can safely assume not cheap!!), but I just plug my old tom tom one in on the rare occasion I need satnav. I know what you mean about the satnav, from what I've read they moved from a cd based system, to a dvd based one, so probably not possible to update. Although the touch screen functions look nice to have for the radio, climate control etc. I guess you'd have to come from the angle of just enjoy using it while it works, and it it breaks eventually, just don't repair it, due to the value of the cars now. Enjoy. :)

Hi Norman, I noticed the clear lenses after I sent that last post, so thought you must have done the conversion. I saw Edd China do it on the LS400 episode of Wheeler Dealers, he also fitted different alloy wheels, and it does modernise the look of the car. The only thing stops me doing it, as although they look good, I'm not a fan of clear lenses with coloured bulbs on any car, to be honest. From a safety point of view, they're much harder to see in bright sunlight than amber lights. But all the new cars seem to be going that way, style over function maybe?

I see in now Norman, looks very nice. Where did you get your chrome tailpipes? I've been looking for some, but you can't fit normal ones with the ends of the tailpipes being curved, unless you chop the curve off, which I don't really want to. Although looking at yours pointing down rather than straight out, have you just fitted them to the curve at the end?

Hi Mike, looks very nice. I see you've got the in dash satnav / control centre with it being the later model. That's something I would have liked being into my gadgets. :)

You could just put a link to the album on Norman, then we can click on it to go to the album. One we can see them, we may be able to link back to them for you. We've had the car two weeks today, and done 600 miles already. :)