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  1. Yes the air filer and assembly is ok, the throttle body and top intake I removed a couple days ago and cleaned up by hand (the throttle body was really dirty on the back side, maybe because it has been running so rich on Limp Home Mode). Thanks for the sudjestion, and yes I am fast running out of love for it. Just wish I could park next to another LS400 and start swaping parts with known good units like ECU, MAP ect.. Don't give up. Have two or three days without touching it until you feel mentally stronger again. I am deadly serious - I have been there with other cars and many other malfunctioning things. (I could write a small book about my central heating woes.) Somebody will come up with the answer and since the engine itself is sound, it is likely something relatively simple. Have a rest. And when it is fixed, you will be DELIGHTED you stuck with it. I guarantee this.
  2. Absolutely agree with all of this! Whilst bearing in mind that one man's meat is another man's poisson, I reckon a BMW X1 is of such laughable ugliness that it should be forced to drive around behind a veil. On the other hand I love the current 6-series. It's all so subjective, init? I never thought my MkIII Ls 400 was beautiful from the front, being more dated than ugly; but the side view of the rear pillar is a visual treat. If only I could upload a piccy I took a while ago...
  3. I absolutely agree - far nicer than a 400, particularly the Mks 1,2 & 3. Am I alone if I say I also prefer the interior of the LS430 to that of the 460? Mind, the exterior of the Mk1 LS430 is another matter. Ahem.
  4. My wife's former car was a Golf, bought new. And she ran it to over 100,000 miles. Throughout this time it pulled to the left - despite all manner of attempts to find cause and cure it. Very strange. I do not believe tracking maladjustment will make a car pull one way or the other, BTW.
  5. I do hope you get your 12½ month Peace Of Mind ticket. Funny thing occurred to me reading these recent posts for MOTs on our LS400s. It is in some ways more of a worry now that these cars are worth so little, for if a large sum of money were needed to pass, it may be more than the car is worth and so one has the dilemma of whether to scrap or carry on. This is not a debate if you run a 430 or even a 460!
  6. Could it be a coincidence that "Chris Skelton" contains the word "Citroen"?
  7. Yea, yea, on the track it's all good. We're not on the track. Right? Get it? Good! Well I think I am on the right track about RWD !
  8. If Macleans doesn't work, the normal procedure is to degrease the relevant surfaces and then force the tapers together with a lever - and then tighten. You may need an extra pair of hands, of course.
  9. When one of mine went, the gasket was £5 and I was charged an hour's labour at a Lexus specialist (but not Lexus themselves). Thus bill was c.£50, I think.
  10. If front wheel drive is so marvellous, how come all racing cars and all the premium high-performance sports cars are either rear or four-wheel drive? When the Sierra Cosworth kept walking away with the Touring Car Championship, being RWD versus all the FWDs, they had to make them carry ballast to make them slower. Rear wheel drive is for Real Men!
  11. I used to be a mechanic (Jaguar, mainly) and I am certain that the cambelt on your new car @ 50k miles will be as good as new. Postpone its replacement for another two years' motoring and save your money, Squire. Meanwhile, enjoy your new toy and I bet you smiled a lot on the journey home.
  12. Before you buy it, here is a dire warning: You will love it to bits, find that in the long term it is no more expensive to run than a many a new and smaller car, and will more likely than not find you won't want to run anything else. I bought mine just to run for a twelvemonth, so I could get the feel of owning a luxury car out of my system before I rejoined the tin box brigade. That was over six years ago... Look, I love it so much that I am currently in the process of widening my garage at vast cost in time and dosh (anyone want a dirt cheap r/c roller door, 4.8m wide?). This is so it will fit in again without a squeeze now that Her Ladyship has a large estate car.
  13. Does one get that reg no. as well? Although not a fan of personalised plates, it is a good one and would have been even better if it had started with a 'K'.
  14. There are two things that are good about getting older (but not infirm): 1) Something I cannot mention here 2) Cheaper car insurance I currently pay £185, of which the optional Motor Legal Protection accounts for £26. I am with Direct Line and this is fully comp for a Mk III LS400, 1996. The trick is to decline the No Claims Discount Protection which many people now realize is a bit of a fiddle.
  15. Interesting. Perhaps a good mantra for us all could be "If you're not seriously wealthy and you like the idea of wafting about in a luxury car, then buy the most reliable one".
  16. For your budget, you can get a very good Mk3. Lexus made a whole raft of improvements to the suspension for the Mk3 and it therefore has rather better handling than the previous two iterations of the LS. Mister Chris Skel(e)ton has a very good Car/Setright article about this. Of course, if you had £2500, you could get a very nice MkIV... etc, etc...
  17. One hundred smackers for Peace Of Mind seems well worth it. Provided, mind, that they don't decide that a further £3bn needs to be spent.
  18. Great tip now where is that can of silicone spray. I cannot be certain that my trouble & strife will welcome silicon spray on her clothing.
  19. You jammy *******! The most expensive replacement item (tyres aside) in over six years on my '98 LS, has been a set of mats. Well done that man!
  20. This apparent discrepancy in the fuel consumptions has come about because the governmental testing method changed. This topic comes up over & over. ALL LS MODELS - 400s and 430s (and probably even 460s!) have broadly similar fuel consumptions. In my Lexus "Official Fuel Economy Information" leaflet, dated March 1996, the figures for the LS400 Mk3 are as follows (mpg): 93/116/EEC Urban 16.1 Extra-urban 28.2 Combined 22.1 80/1268/EEC Urban 20.3 Steady 56mph 36.2 Steady 75mph 29.7 Hark at the bean - as Skellington might say.
  21. I once put ludicrously cheap front pads on my Opel Monza and it would brake fade as badly as a drum-braked Jaguar I once owned. It was scary. I think the pads were made from banana skins.
  22. There I was, fantasising about my next LS, when I inadvertently clicked Price High to Low on the Lexus website. The most expensive LS came up, for sale in Milton Keynes. What have they done to the LS?!? Does the design team need to go to Specsavers?
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