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Be warned: A BMW 520 is so underpowered it could be a problem - for anyone driving it. (I seem to remember 0-60 in 11 secs.)

Yonzie, you are a genius!

Hiya y'all Next week, on the inside back page of Autocar, will be a piece on the LS400. We shall be able to feel smug at the complimentary bits and then cross at the rude ones! Now a question: A few years ago, also on the inside back page of Autocar, was a piece entitled "Why I love the Lexus LS 400". (It may have been written by the late Russell Bulgin.) Does anyone know the date of the issue it was in? Ta-ta for now

Yes, I also find that rotating tyres tend to wear.

£160 Fully Comp? You are having a giraffe, surely.

Sorry I misunderstood the question, I thought 'how old are you if you drive a etc.' was a question addressed to the overall LOC membership so voted 75+ as I think it's an old mans car ... "Old" men have also been young men and now make their choices from experience. Young men usually only make choices from prejudice. I drove an IS200 as a loan car and thought its handling and roadholding were excellent. But its torque was so feeble it couldn't have pulled a hen off a nest. Had to drive it like a madman to make it go at all: all too frenetic. Give me the effortless speed of an LS any day. Take that, you cheeky young whipper-snapper!

Interesting & fun idea, Jemram!

An LS400 with rorty exhaust? Why not a TVR with four doors and soft suspension?

Laziness, mainly, caused me to buy both blades from the Lexus Main Agent. The relatively high price (for the driver's side one) was forgotten when I discovered the new blades were virtually silent, compared with the non-standard ones that had been replaced.

The '94 Celsior only had a single-drainer sink.

Perhaps he was just living up to his name?

The modification kit for the backlighting was £27 The new LCD unit was £81 Labour was £37 Not cheap, but worth it - I like everything to work properly, too! www.autosound.co.uk

I have a mark 3 and Autosound repaired stereo lighting & display perfectly. Lexus use them!

I can only speak for Lexus Norwich, but if a car is more than five years old, the labour charge is "only" £75/hr. Dunno if this is a Lexus nationwide policy.

Apparently, an over-sensitive motion sensor, located "in the rear of the centre console". They wound its sensitivity right down, which seems to have done the trick. I have to say that as I sat myself down in service reception when I went to fetch it, I was rather nervous.

1996 LS400 Mk3: alarm kept going off for no (apparent) reason. But just to complicate things, sometimes it behaved normally. Decided to take car to Main Agent for first time. Reason for this apparent recklessness? - I reckoned anywhere else might not have enough 'knowledge' and would just keep replacing things until it was cured. Well, not only did Lexus Norwich fix the alarm, but they also presented me with a Visual Safety Report, which was virtually an MOT report, and they cleaned the car inside and out to boot. I was charged for 0.75hrs labour; total cost, inc VAT = £66.09 I am well impressed and would paste several Smilies if I knew how!

Apparently Autocar are testing the LS 460 next week. (Last time they promised a test of a 430 "mk2", it never appeared.) I predict they will heap superlatives on it and then award it three stars "beacause it lacks character", or some-such lazy excuse.

I actually think Captain Smash deserves a round of applause. Or even to be promoted to Major. I would like to have seen his face when it all lit up!

Am I alone in believing Skelton has lost it?

What is a "cylinder cover"?

no way do i want a test drive. i would end up robbing a bank in order to buy one! GOOD POINT. MIGHT MAKE OUR LS400s SEEM SLUGGISH & NOISY. HAVE YOU ANY EXPERIENCE OF DRIVING A GETAWAY CAR, MANEESH? MAYBE WE COULD COME TO AN ARRANGEMENT?

Mine's also a '96 Mk III. Element(s) most prob burnt out. At bottom rear of seat, undo two screws and lift off seat back. Each seat has two heat pads: one for back and one for botty. Simple test will show which has failed.

Ah well I must disagree here, I'm sure you can do the maths. Filled up to the brim, drove just over 200 miles to Sheffield, filled up again and had used £25 of fuel. Now I tend to use Sainsbury's Super unleaded which cost me 85.9 pl but in Sheffield the same was 89.9 so a good 20p extra per gallon. So at approximately £4 to a gallon that would equate to 6 gallons. And that was definately not my imagination or incorrect calculations. Oh and it's a 1990 LS400. This is all rather vague. And I make this between 32 & 34 mpg. Which is still NOT 36mpg! As for those who rely on their trip computers to calculate mpg, these things are always a trifle optimistic. I still say 36mpg in an 1800kg car with a 32-valve, 8-cylinder engine with auto transmission is just not on (silence, Maneesh!); I reckon 32 is about top whack and amazing enough, really. Especially to someone who used to run Jaguars with carburetters, where 20mpg on a run was cause for great satisfaction. (As was a month without something falling off, but that's another story.) I promise to shut up now. I just believe accuracy is more useful as information, that's all.

About spot on, I'd say. These 36mpg claims must be obtained by people whose arithmetic is faulty or whose imaginations are fertile.