tunnelman

I've just bought a DrivePro dash cam and am hoping to fit it over the weekend. Does any one have any advice on the easiest place to find an ignition-supplied +12v lead to tap into? What trim panels would I need to remove to access it? Thanks for any advice you may have.

In response to Ruud's comment, the reason I went from a '10 3-series to a '06 407 was that the BMW was a company car but then I changed jobs and opted to take a car allowance in lieu of a company car (for tax reasons). Incidentally the 407, whilst having all the toys, was by far the worst car I've ever had for reliabilitty. The list was endless and I ended up selling it for £1003 on eBay, a loss of £5k over 2 years, just to get rid of it. The Lexus on the other hand has been faultless, apart from the failure of the steering wheel retract (which I'm not bothered about) and the sub-woofer which I replaced with a Polk Audio sub and now sounds awesome.

Over the last 20 months and 25k miles my '04 LS430 has returned an average of 24.7mph; a best of 31 mph (on a 500 mile motorway run at 80mph, and a worst of about 19mph around town. These are accurate figures as I keep an Excel spreadsheet of all my fuel purchases, together with odometer readings and tank mpg readings, cost etc. The spreadsheet then calculates the actual mpg betweeen each fill-up, and compares it to the displayed tank mpg and gives me a percentage error. The average error is less than 2% and has never exceeded 3% which is far more accurate than on any other car I have had. It also calculates a running overall average mpg and cost of fuel (pence per mile). The average cost per mile has now come down to 22.8p since July 2013 due to the recent lower cost of petrol. In comparison these are the average mpg achieved on my previous cars since 2005 all of which included motorway, town and rural driving. 2001 Astra 2000dti 43.3 2005 Astra 1.9cdti SRi 38.9 2007 Mondeo 2.0 cdti 39.0 2010 BMW 320d 43.2 2006 Peugeot 407d 37.9 2004 LS430 24.7

I replaced my sub-woofer over Christmas with a Polk Audio speaker that cost me under £100 from a supplier in USA. Not as big a job as some people make out and the sound is now awesome! Rear blind hasn't worked since but I suspect that this due to it getting caught in the rear shelf and blowing a fuse. Well worth doing if your rear sub is blown. The Polk Audio is about 3 times heavier than the ML and clearly much better quality.

Anyone know how to contact Admin directly on here? They seem to occasionally contribute to threads but do not respond subsequently to direct questions.

I have still heard nothing back from Admin on here regarding this. I am considering not renewing my Gold membership next year as I have gained very little by joining, and admin seems to be uncontactable. :megaangry:

Asda Tyres online, and fitted at my local Halfords. Got 4nr Dunlop Sport Maxx for my LS430 there cheaper than anywhere else.

What is Admin doing about this? Have Lexus Sidcup been contacted yet?

There's 2 or 3 buttons deep down above the foot well of my LS430. One resets the tyre pressure warning. Haven't figured the others out yet though. Very difficult to even find them; bit like keyhole surgery really.

I paid nothing for mine apart from transfer fee. It was a plate I had on a '82 Jag that I recently sold for spares.

Steve, they just said that their prices were already discounted. They weren't interested in seeing any proof of membership. The last time I had a service done they did eventually agree to give me the club discount but very begrudgingly.

I had my LS430 serviced and all brake pads renewed today at Lexus Sidcup but they refused to honour the 10% discount stating that their rates are discounted anyway. Has anyone had similar experience there or at other Lexus service centres?