Mybikes a cx500
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With LPG, you can have both... 15p a glorious mile -
My long term average is also 21mpg, mixed motorway and town (Prinz lpg system, one of the main reasons I bought the car)
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Interesting point of view, and a fair point, I'm the exact opposite, I hunted for a car that did have LPG, found one with a quality Prinz system, couldn't be happier with it.LPG is better for your engine that petrol, my stainless exhaust is shiny on the inside, if you look up the rear silencer with a torch! I don't think mine's been clocked- 202K miles!
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That would be it. then it was 3 degrees
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Up here in Glasgow, I tend to use it more for demisting, but the other day, the air con "switch" on the touch display came on black in colour, and not working, switching the engine off and on cleared it, wonder what it was?
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Oh,Oh! me, me I would like to have them if no-one else has bagged them... Actually, I've just gone out and looked (snowing here) and I've GOT clear ones, but thanks anyway!
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Oh,Oh! me, me I would like to have them if no-one else has bagged them...
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My son had a Lotus Elise for a time, I told him to be careful where he parked it, but he said no-one dares touch it, they assumed it belonged to a dealer....
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But Ruud. you've already got one...
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Always remember coming out of noisy nightclubs in my youth, thinking my car was running really well, because I couldn't hear a thing
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You can prise my LS400 Mk4 keys from my cold dead hands, in fact, you can bury me in it
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Same here, went with cheap disks and pads and had to change to Ferrodo pads
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4.7 amps! that's easily about 10 times what it should be, sorry to ask, but you are reading the meter correctly? 0.47 amps, ie 470 ma. would be nearer the correct reading. For 4.7Amps, I'd suspect the alternator diodes failing. The starter issue is quite possibly entirely separate, just the contacts failing, entirely consistent with your symptoms. But it does mean taking the inlet manifold off to get at the starter, not a small job.
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I did mine, took them to a tire place and got the tire off, best to clean and paint the inner rim where the tire bead seals, or you will get leaks later. I used a primer and a darker silver- gunmetal grey, as the car was maroon, then a clear coat. Not a small job, as Phil says, it's all down to the preparation. I used an old alternator clamped in a workmate so I had a revolving wheel at a good working hight. End result look excellent
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I think the battery has to be disconnected for a while before the code is required. There is also a process for removing the code entirely, seen it on here somewhere in the past, used it myself
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Wheels/tyres
Mybikes a cx500 replied to robbyg's topic in LS 400 / Lexus LS 430 / Lexus LS 460 / Lexus 600h / Lexus 500h Club
The design details are astonishing, I had my steering wheel dismantled once and there is a block of metal on a little bracket, just to balance it! -
Sounds like a dodgy battery to me
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Yes, bolts at each corner, the back ones have plastic covers that take a bit of shifting. Running the seat back and forwards makes them easily accessible. My Parrot phone kit was tapped into the speakers at the wiring loom here. A request for the wiring diagram and pinouts will maybe get a result from some obliging knowledgeable soul on here.
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What Royt said. Corrosion where the tire seals, have to take the tyres off, so as Brian says, might as well get them refurbished
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On my 1998 mk4 the power amp is under the drivers seat
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Probably just needs a new contact set
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Sounds consistent with the ignition key contacts problem
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I would agree you would expect some warning, in my case, I had noisy water pump bearings, so had the belt and pump (and idlers/tensioner) changed
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It's not so much the belt, as the water pump, if it seizes, it's not good
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Wow, even better write up than my car had, which I bought off Ebay within an hour of it being posted, then traveled to England from Scotland to collect it.- a risk, but I got it, and no regrets! If an item on Ebay is not as it is represented, you don't have to complete the transaction
