emjay82

I swapped a Japanese navigation unit on my 2010 is350, a couple of the connectors wouldn't fit, however, all I lost was Bluetooth. I Setup an Alexa auto, which bypassed the lack of Bluetooth. 

Love that colour combination, well worth the effort! Enjoy!

5 hours ago, Flytvr said:

£770!  I'll be sat there drinking their coffee and eating whatever they have ALL DAY at that sort of money 🙂

In all seriousness, how long does it take to carry out the service? What's typical hourly rate - £180?

Takes a while to be fair, the oil can take 30 minutes to drain and it's a long wait drinking tea and eating digestives. 

Give it a bit longer, Wednesday onwards is usually good activity on here.....

Great idea @Flytvr I'd be keen to join in my RX450h (with mods). 👍

2 hours ago, TG1 said:

Hi Mark! It really is a small world, I just joined the forum and saw your thread. The car really is lovely, I will start a thread on here at some point to track any changes.

Hi Taj, 

Glad you're enjoying the car, the F cars really are something special. The car has gone to a good home....😊, which slightly eases my depression after selling it 🤣.

No doubt I'll be back looking at an F in the near future!

23 minutes ago, HughTwo said:

Might be worth trying a couple of the Lexus dealers - potentially easier than a private sale, if they'll give you a number you're happy with.

From my point of view I didn't have the time or inclination to sell privately and I got a £ number I was happy with. Still sorry to see it go though.

Good luck with it - hope you get a good price.

Thank you, I doubt I'll get a decent offer out of Lexus, so I'll try a private sale first.

20 hours ago, Rob RCF said:

If it's any help I bought mine 1 year ago for £35k (2016, 17k miles at the time).

For a private sale I'd imagine £29-32k is reasonable, depending on condition.

Many thanks, I'm going to price it keenly at 27-28k and see what interest there is. 

Sadly, as I'm changing career (going back on the tools) the RCF is going to be sold, just need time to put together a full advert on here. I'd welcome any thoughts on a realistic sale price, I am realistic that the used car market for these cars is somewhat erratic. It's a 2015 car with FLSH. Just serviced and new MOT on 08.08.2022. 44,000 miles. alloys need a refurb. Many thanks.

I think I know one of the previous owners of this car, but that's not particularly helpful. Still seems a lot, in my opinion, when there was a grey RCF on Autotrader with 60,000 miles on the clock for sale recently for £29k.

9 minutes ago, Big Rat said:

Ha none of that bothers him look at him outside his gaff…….

 

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Ok, ok, ok 🐀.....I need another one to add to my impressive collection of F cars 😜.....that photo reminds me that I need to jet wash my perimeter wall 👍

17 minutes ago, Flytvr said:

The way everyone is going electric, give it six months and you could well find yourself getting a deal. Less and less people are looking for big capacity engine cars that are expensive to tax. Mix in the fact the cost of living, inflation, interest rate increases and it could soon be a buyers market!

I do understand your concerns, maybe I'm in the minority. Do you drive RCF?

I'm a big fan of the track edition 😍, ultimate F car in my opinion, but it would be very much a heart over head decision to buy one at that price point. 

Having been out of an F car for a few years now (other priorities sadly), I'm now ready to come back to the fold. If anyone is interested in selling their RCF please let me know. I'm in no real rush, so can be a flexible buyer, although I'm looking at a couple of cars over the next couple of weeks. Thanks in advance.

14 minutes ago, Flytvr said:

What you saying!!!!!!?

@emjay82 left this chat....

19 minutes ago, Flytvr said:

£32k. Nice. I sold it for £34k 😂😂😂😂

It was yours? Not interested on that basis, I'd take the cash. 

7 minutes ago, Flytvr said:

Took me hours to paint those tips red!!!

You really have no taste flytrv 😉. It's been on the market for a long time, a red flag vehicle.

On 7/16/2021 at 7:07 PM, Arqum said:

Anyone done it? Any tips?

Looking to book it all for Sept

Great scenery, you've got to do it but definitely spend some time in the Cairngorms, that has a bit of everything! 

On 11/16/2020 at 7:04 PM, -Rich- said:

Most of the crap is around the valve itself and not the pipe. If you unplug the connector and remove the 2 screws on the black plastic cover, does the rod move in and out freely or stick?

Do you get any vibrating? I did before I cleaned the EGR valve.

Thanks for your reply. The car does vibrate/rough idle. The pipe was gunked up, I would say 25% of the flow must have been reduced.

Is this a design fault of the valve, is it worth replacing the EGR valve for a newer part? I need to check rod!

I'm wondering if anyone has experience anything similar. The car will be stationary and on Battery power (parked up), when the engine kicks backs in there's a mechanical creaking noise (sounds like a stiff valve or hinge). After a creak or two the engine kicks in and runs fine. A few months ago I cleaned the EGR pipe but this made little improvement, other than improving the MPG.

Thanks in advance!

7 minutes ago, Flytvr said:

Sorry - I binned them

What's wrong with you? Future classic and you bin them!?!?

£300 if you deliver to Slough?

8 hours ago, Fair and square said:

A "none" carbon edition now up for sale. 

20,000 miles more than Toms.

Asking price almost £3,000 more.

Where is that listed Linus?

3 hours ago, tomRCFcarbon said:

I think I have though? Within £1,000 pounds there are cars with significantly more miles and/or less good spec and/or questionable servicing/care...

...fortunately for me I am in no hurry but I certainly don’t feel I’ve priced it too high. 

I completely appreciate that it’s a specialist proposition- any 20mpg v8 is right now, even more one with a non-German badge and less mainstream kerb appeal and even, even more one that looks like it’s had an accident in a Halfords parts department (I don’t think this is the case by the way). 

I haven't seen your specific advert, just sharing my experience. If you're not in any rush just sit it out. 👍

When I sold my ISF I purposely undercut the others available for sale as I know there are very few buyers in the market for F cars at one given time. I sold it within a couple of weeks. If you're prepared to sit and wait you may eventually get a buyer but I'm too impatient for that.