Bart

Michael, you mention: If you're looking to help you fight your corner, 'Which?' are supposed to be the consumers' champion. They certainly do a good job of the legal side of things and have helped many consumers in many areas and particularly with cars. They are always looking for good stories and are responsive to emails. Try mailing 'which@which.co.uk' it seems a general mailbox, but it always worked for me! and pass them your potted history and the link to this thread. I've always had a good experience with them and the last thing LGB would want is headline news from Which? If they insist you need a membership number, I can help you out with mine! Bart.

When I got my RX300sel (Dec 2004), I chose not to have the standard Lexus fit DVD and got an extremely competent local ICE dealer to fit a much better alternative. I'm pleased to say that my 6 DVD changer that's hidden in the boot (under the panel where the jack etc. fits) is indeed a far better alternative. The kids can't kick it under the front seat, there's no ugly black tubing between the seat and headrest (the cables go up the headrest supports) and I have larger screens to boot! Plus I can add a Playstation if I like as well. The best bit is that it cost LESS that the standard Lexus stuff! I know that my Lexus dealer was impressed and that they have sent other cars there for the same fitment since then! Sometimes it pays to shop around! :D

I used to drive a Subaru Legacy 4-Cam Turbo ( the turbo nutter thing before the days of the Imprezza) and got miffed one day when some 2 litre GT jelly mould thing burnt me off at the lights one day :-( . I took the car to the dealer mentioning that I was suffering from poor performance and they ran every test under the sun including plugging a fancy box of computerised tricks into a socket that was dragged from under the dash (hot wire style)..."the rally boys tune theirs like” this the technician said…any way to cut a long story short after noting that there was nothing wrong, but agreeing that it wouldn’t pull the skin of a rice pudding (so to speak), the guy asked what fuel I put in it and where did you get it from. Regular unleaded from the supermarket I said – it’s the closest to home!. After he got up off the floor, he advised to use a ‘proper petrol station’ and only use super unleaded. If it didn’t cure the performance I should go back in a week or two. Needless to say it transformed the car into what it should have been before. I don’t know why or how but I never did take that trip back to the dealer after a couple of weeks! Yes it cost an arm and a leg, but boy it was worth it. These days I’d like to think I’d grown up a bit and I can’t stand the nagging about pointless extra fuel costs etc…but I still feel there is some truth in the proper petrol and super grade unleaded story – especially if you have a performance car. However, I’d argue that the RX isn’t exactly a performance car (3.0V6 or not)…you pays yer money, you takes yer choice!

The gangsta thing must be right. even JC thinks so! http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/article/0...1074049,00.html