Markh6656

The MOT guy has said that the main things are consumables like the brakes but that there is so much rust that in order to repair or change the parts there has to be some repair work to the body work. The suspension is fine surprisingly but he thinks that everything that comes off will be twice the normal time of doing the job. Also there is a bit of welding that will need to be done.

I decided to have a MOT carried out and unsurprisingly it failed, my normally positive fitter told me that he thought it would take him about 80 hrs work to put it right. So I have decided that at my time of life I would rather spend the 80 hrs relaxing or doing something with the wife. So the car will be put up for sale as a project at half the price that I paid for it, it has a MOT certificate until September but would advise that the car be transported to its next owner. If anyone may be interested let me know,

I have a fitter coming to see me this morning to service some of the machines we have here so I am going to get him to have a look, he is also a MOT tester. We took it out for a ride yesterday evening with the roof down and it was surprisingly good despite knowing the state of underneath.

Yes the car is the one but I bought it from a guy in Pontypool South Wales who told me that he had taken it in part exchange on a house he had just sold. this is the link http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/261452179618?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT I have a rule that says you can always tell when you are being lied to and it is normally when the lips are moving, but in this case I believed the guy.

Thanks Steve, I am feeling a lot less depressed now than I did before I posted this initially. If you have any names or numbers I would very much appreciate it.

Thanks for that John and I thought my garage would say the same but he reckons that the suspension, steering and brake parts could be more than I paid for the car in the first place. But I may ask you later for the details of your guy in Leeds.

I am looking for some advice in terms of the SC430. I have been a Lexus LS owner since 1996, starting with a LS400 then moving on to a new LS430 in 2004 and kept that until it was worthless, according to our local dealer. Then I bought a LS460 and kept that until a LS600 came up that was in my price reach. I am now trying to keep my mileage below the 10K a year mark so decided to buy something to run around in during the summer and what better than an SC430 in my favourire colour of Bronze. I have always wanted one of these but could not really put up an argument with the wife whilst our daughter still lived at home. Well now she is moving out so I found one and bought it. There is where the problem starts. The car is absolutely stunning, bronze with beige interior and maple wood. It isvery clean with just a few age related scratches and the odd paint bubble, which I have seen on other cars that I have looked at. On the way home from picking it up from a private sale (Ebay) the engine management light came on as well as the VSC light. This did not cause me any immediate concern because that had happened to me on the LS430 and it was normally an exhaust management valve and as I was going to get the timing belt changed any way (132000 miles) it was not a problem. I took the car to a local specialist in Newport and within half an hour he had called me and told me that the work was not worth doing because of the state of the car underneath. The condition of the car underneath was the total opposite of what it was on top and he felt that he did not want to start taking off the exhaust to weld it because it and anything else that was connected to it was terminally rusty. The MOT (September) said some underbody corrosion but this looked like it had been parked in the North Sea. I know that I have done the most of my money but does anyone have any ideas as what to do with this fabulous looking car.