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Any updates, @Mike Carter?

26 minutes ago, Bluemarlin said:

No, I mean the Lexus 10 year plus extended warranty, that can be bought for all cars, and requires servicing by Lexus.

No point taking it there if your car is older though is what Linas is saying. Cars 2014 or newer can only take advantage of it now.

Try calling some insurers that aren't coming up online. I find online quotes at £1100 minimum, yet my telephone quotes are sub £500. MAZDA CX-60 definitely a very good candidate. The 3.3l hybrid engines in them are super smooth & efficient. Check them out. 

7 hours ago, BkS said:

Welcome back, again 🤣 Time to get it decked! 

The F sport wheels I have are up for grabs if you want 👀

3 hours ago, Mossypossy said:

Someone went to the huge trouble of importing and then sold after less than a year?

I don't tend to keep cars for long to be honest. Doesn't mean there's something wrong. It's worth going over the service history and booking a health check if you're hesitant. Especially with these V8 convertibles.. people buy it for one season and try something different. No need to panic, just stay cautious. I bought an MX5 a few years ago, kept it for the duration of one summer and sold it. I know it's a different car, but the principle is the same.. Seasonal cars.

43 minutes ago, Linas.P said:

I don't know what is the point of estimate given in comparison sites... it means nothing.

It's somewhat market-value average based on the age. My I.C. asks me how much I purchased the car for as opposed to pulling a random number out of their a@se, however it's a modified car policy, so we then negotiate on the agreed value with all mods at which point the original purchase price becomes obsolete. I know there is virtually nobody on this forum with a modified policy, BUT it doesn't mean you can't negotiate on the value of your car since whatever they're using is pretty much just based on the age of the car.. It's like Nissan Skyline GT-R (R34), they would only see it as a 23 year old old Nissan with a value of £500.. Ignoring the fact that the real life value is £100k+

Long story short, I couldn't find a suitable replacement for the Desert Sage IS250 within my budget. The GT86 I went to see was seriously corroded underneath and the IS350 I looked at made a funny sound under load. I couldn't be without a car for any longer, so I ended up with a Subaru Forester until last weekend when I picked up YET ANOTHER IS250... 2008 Manual SE, black on black which is what I wanted. The choices are extremely limited when you start looking for something specific like that. There is only 2 on AutoTrader and both somewhat overpriced for the condition/spec.

Anyway, if anyone cares to see a stock IS250, here it is.

It's on 79k miles, seems to be good. Now, I've been gathering some parts over the last two months so there's only a handful of things I need for this car. I won't be documenting any processes because it's all very repetitive on this thread. Once I have everything I want, I'll install it all at the same time and post some pics. It's going to be similar to my last black one, just slightly improved in certain areas. 😎

IS350 brakes, 4IS conversion, I'll try 19" wheels for the first time etc.

@morgan_sa hey dude, just buy one of the Android units from AliExpress.. They all seem to be running off the same platform anyway. Mine worked fine in the green car and I paid £150.. 2G32GB. I am going to buy another one for my new IS250, however this time I'll go for the 4G64GB which is 8 core just to future proof it a bit 🙂 It's ~£190 - www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005534168076.html 

Also the one i sent is a bit more OEM looking, I had the 10.1" one without the side buttons before and it's way too big in my opinion. Looks a bit out of place in this car.

What plans you got for the car this year?

I will not be going to shedfest, but I am going to RollHard, Players Goodwood, Plus44 & Ultimate Stance. Depending on how my show & shine application goes.

On 2/18/2024 at 5:02 PM, Lmafudd said:

What the hell is going on? We pay a huge amount of road tax for various governments and councils to squander. They should stop the HS2 type vanity projects and get our roads up to spec. And soon!

It would also help if people worked from home.. at least the ones that can. Companies make a lot of staff commute for "no reason". The traffic is getting worse each year, we need less people on the roads. Nobody wants to use public transport. It takes ages, so not really a solution, but working from home would certainly help.

My commute is roughly 9 miles. Mixture of busy 40mph dual carriageways riddled with traffic lights every 400yards and regular 30mph roads. It's the time of the year where councils are using up their budget before the end of their financial year, so roadworks are everywhere. It takes me an hour to get home at 5pm. it's a 20-30min journey in the morning as I leave early enough.

There used to be a "collapsed" manhole cover on one of the roads, causing the cover to be 3 inches below the road surface. I would always look out for it, but one day I couldn't avoid it due to oncoming traffic & cyclist and unfortunately cracked my alloy. I made a claim with my council, explained what happened, told them the exact location with a screenshot from Google Streetview. After 2 weeks of waiting they replied and asked me to take a photo of the pothole as evidence. I was away on holiday when they replied so I couldn't go out there. When i returned home a week later, that pothole was "coincidentally" mended and I wasn't able to take a photo anymore... I mean yes, it could've been a coincidence because this happened a lot to other people too, so I'm sure I wasn't the only one who tried to make a claim. I felt a bit fobbed off if I'm honest. Couldn't go any further with it as I wasn't able to supply evidence in time... This was sometime 2 years ago and now the very same pothole is becoming deep again.. ridiculous.

23 hours ago, ahmedali44 said:

It's advertised on Gumtree and Facebook.

A guy came on sat to view it liked it done deal for 4700 and asked if can drop it off on London and  he called Monday morning to confirm but stopped answering my phone .

He was a mechanic working in garage in South London so I decided to take drive there as told me name of garage. After calling him many times decided to call garage and to my shock no1 working here by that name . How weird was that as came waste his time on sat for over 1 hr. Trying to enjoy it as much as I can so not in hurry to sell it. Had lot of trader's interested offering trade prices and private ones making silly offers .  Road tax 395 and v6 engine so that's what ppl scared of 🤣🤣

Your friend Andy French messaged me yesterday about my friend's IS250 that I'm selling on her behalf.. I told him to f#ck off lol.

33 minutes ago, Linas.P said:

You again with your F-Sport wheels! 😄 

Can't f#king get away from them🤣

Like Vlad said, it's most likely the alternator. Try charging the Battery over night. Check with the volt meter. 

Have a look at this video and see if you think it's difficult or not. "easy" is down to personal opinion/skillset. 

13 hours ago, Spark plug said:

Does our IS250 have Canbus? If so can anyone explain what it is and how it makes them easy to steal...

It's not the same as on the new ones. IS250s don't get stolen. Not a desirable car nor expensive one, it's not a hybrid so it won't be a subject to catalytic converter thefts either. Lots of parts available thanks to the diesels going bang so even parts demand isn't really there.

As the title states, I've got a set of F-Sport wheels for sale. All with good 4-5mm 225/40R18 tyres all round. - £650 collection only (can delivery for fuel within reasonable distance)

Headlights that aren't yellow if someone wants to "fix" their. All fully working, still on the car at the minute. - £250. Can post those at buyer's expense.

Thanks

I will be selling a rear section soon. It's less than 500 miles old, aftermarket with carbon tips, but the exhaust is quiet like stock system. I'll take some photos if anyone's interested.

6 minutes ago, Linas.P said:

Anything under £10,000 works well for private sales, anything over becomes harder as people tend to finance more expensive cars. I always sold private and never sold any money either, also usually it does not take long to sell if car is in decent shape. I guess the only benefit of PX is that you never have to deal with parking two cars or gap between selling 1 and getting another, but that is minor benefit compared to losing at least £2,000 of market value.

100%. 

I just sold my forester half an hour ago after advertising on FB & AutoTrader for 2 weeks. Got my asking price bar too (bar a hundred quid). 

10 hours ago, Mr Vlad said:

Yeah things were different 2019 and before covid reared it's ugly head.

I've never bought a car privately. Always from a dealer. Worst loss was with my first ever Lexus. £5k after 5 weeks of ownership. Best was the car I part ex'd for. I didn't lose 1p on the deal. Didn't make anything either lol.

I will however make on my current car which I got below market value. It will be part ex'd for a Lexus when the time comes.

Maybe it's time to sell privately now? I never had a loss on a private sale 

7 hours ago, Linas.P said:

I am surprised they even taking it, when I asked Lexus what they would give for mine when buying RC... they said "sorry sir we don't want to offend you with the offer... so we won't make it". 

Point is - yeah PX on 10+ years old car will be tragical and not worth considering.

Depends who it is. Bigger dealers will either do what yours did or take it and send it to the auctions. Smaller dealers will keep it on their lot. 

1 hour ago, chr15gb said:

 

Part ex offer = £1,800. 

That will sit in the dealers lot with a £3000 sticker. 

"1989 was the year, when Japanese cars suddenly changed and became world class, on another level.  I would almost argue that it marked an era when Japanese cars caught up to German and American innovations, and took the lead perhaps for a time.

It was the period of couple of years when the Nissan R32 GT-R redefined racing AWD platform, so that the AWD was not only just a traction enhancement idea, but that of sports handling tuning device. A feature to harness more power to the contact patch in extreme torque applications at high speed on asphalt, but more importantly, to retain certain sets of the more classical handing parameters that was unprecedented, and allowed drivers to really engage without most of the handling quirks of AWD systems to date.  

It was also the time when Lexus LS400 first debuted and reinvented the price structure of a luxury sedan, and broke the ceiling on minimal vibration, noise, reliability, and efficient delivery of power for this class of cars. If the Nissan RB26 and the Toyota 2JZ-GTE defined the upper tiers of classic engines in the stratospheric levels of durability in performance cars during this time, the LS400's 1UZ-FE was certainly a new generation of V8 engines that silently baffled the best engineers of the time, with the sheer lack of noise, and physics-defying efficiency, then unknown to buyers of 3 ton class luxury sedans.

It was also the year when NSX debuted as Japan's first true modern supercar, and it also redefined the nature of these cars from something only intrinsically cool, and delicate, to something reliable, easy, very light and agile, and enhancing the role to more regular use and dependability.
A couple of years later in 1992, the NSX Type R, introduced a whole new generation of performance engine choice of unprecedented racing influence in mundane cars from Honda, and trickled to Integra and Civics that re-wrote the capability ceiling for front drive car performance in true naturally aspirated driver-engagement and not just in numbers. 

Mazda also came in with the MX5 Roadster, commonly referred to as the Miata in this period too, and the old European classics that were disappearing had another life to live, vicariously through this single car that became the most popular sports car of all time."

I don't think we'll ever see the birth of iconic cars like this again. 

Mine went from £420 to £480 this year. I'm happy as I've got 10,000 miles, protected NCB & all modifications declared like for like. It really depends on your area. My mate who's the same age, has the same car and lives 30min away pays over a grand.

1 hour ago, ahmedali44 said:

Not been on here for a while and is250 still for sale as been Xmas and people looking for smaller cars due to tax fuel economy etc . people give u really stupid offers so still for sale ,sell when get sensible offers .72k 2009 fsh , just had mot pass without any advisories again.

How much?

1 hour ago, Linas.P said:

Or DCC...

MM can be sat-nav, no ML. Although it is small loss considering standard audio is very decent in mk2 anyway. 

Wasn't every UK model with sat-nav also M&L though? (2005-2013) I know that not all 3rd Gen and JDM (2nd Gen) cars had M&L even if they had a touch screen, but I've never seen one in the UK without M&L. I think 98% of the time it's safe to assume all touch-screen/sat-nav cars in the UK also have M&L. 

47 minutes ago, Zorny182 said:

Thank you.

my dad’s is silver with full cream leather and all the toys.

I remember him telling me that it was a special one but he never actually said why.

Does the MM stand for multimedia?

Yeah, SE-L is the top spec. It would have everything 🙂
Yeah, some people say that.. basically referring to the touch screen and the Mark & Levinson audio system. Do you have any photos? 

A sunroof would make it special, otherwise it sounds like your regular SE-L. 

Sorry to hear that. 

if it’s got a full service history (stamp every year or 10k miles), 2 keys, is in very good condition with no damage it’s going to be REALISTICALLY £5000-£5750 car depending on colour combination. Funnily enough I’m about to advertise my friend’s 2009 facelift SE-L in white pearl. 80k, FSH, 2 keys, few stone chips but overall very good condition. I will be advertising for £5200. Realistically will take £4900 but we don’t want to be sitting on it for a long time. It’s priced to sell. Yes, you’ll find some cars of similar age & spec on auto trader for £5700ish but those cars are gonna stay there for a while. As much as I’d like their value to stay up, it’s not realistic.