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30 minutes ago, dutchie01 said:
Cloth seaths, cotton to be precise, as this is more comfortable than leather.
Old Rolls Royces etc had cloth for the cabin for the car owner - and leather was used for the drivers seat that often was out in the open, like so:
Somehow people started associating leather with luxury cars despite it being used for the hired help only due to the hard wearing nature! And thanks to that perversion of impression, we now all have to suffer the indignation of leather seats.
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19 minutes ago, Rabbers said:
Not sure if the French, for example, wouldn't judge their double entendres to be an equally skilful form of wit.
Fun fact, double entendres does not make sense in actual French.
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Better file that one, along with titles such as:
- 12 Surprising Lexus Tricks You Don’t Know
- 7 way you can triple your Lexus performance
- You Won’t Believe the Secret Ingredient in our Lexus build
- 13 unbelievable Lexus statistics you won’t believe
- The biggest Lexus trends of 2020 (you won’t believe #9)
- Why You’ve Never Heard of This Top Travel Destination for your Lexus
- 8 reasons why Lexus owners love this workout program
- What you don’t know about custom designing a Lexus
- The Best Lexus Improvement Trends of 2020
- This is why you’re losing money on your Lexus
- See 7 ways business owners are saving money on their Lexus
- Steve Coogan and others think this is the best Lexus for you
- Find out how you can travel without having to devalue your Lexus
- 8 ways you’re getting screwed by Lexus
- 13 Lexus inventions you didn’t believe existed
- These 4 photos will make you think twice about Lexus
- Revolutionary ways for you to get the most out of your Lexus
- These are the most common ways a Lexus fails a majority of the time
- The top 10 ways you’re putting your Lexus into jeopardy
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LexusPartsDirect lists two - one without subwoofer, one with. I'd assume you'd need the latter?
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42 minutes ago, royoftherovers said:
Acute.................................one word or two ?🤣
Are you being obtuse? Or going off on a tangent? Luckily it's not a sin(e).
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The powertrain package is the same as the 2008-2017 Lexus LS 600h & LS 600h L; however, as the fifth-generation LS does not feature this powertrain, it is now unique to the Century.
And it's the Toyota N platform, which applies to:
QuoteApplications
- Lexus LF-X concept (2003)
- Toyota Crown/Crown Majesta — S180 (2003–2008), S200 (2008–2012), S210 (2012–2020)
- Toyota Mark X sedan — X120 (2004–2009), X130 (2009–2019)[2][3][4]
- Toyota Century — G60 (2018–present)[5]
- Lexus IS — XE20 (2005–2014)
- Lexus GS — S190 (2005–2012)
- Lexus LS — XF40 (2006–2017)
I think it looks handsome, but it's a car that you need to be driven in.
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2 hours ago, royoftherovers said:
Why do you and Dublet think it is true Herbie?
I was being a bit facetious. My point was more that the warranty on cars is much better than it is on a lot of other consumer items, especially considering what they go through.
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35 minutes ago, EvilRacer329 said:
You're 100% correct; I almost went with the 4WD option because I hoped it would help improve cornering by counteracting understeer, but in the end I couldn't find any confirmation online that it actually worked as I'd hope. And I wasn't willing to take the disadvantages and extra cost on board to find out.
Some of the 4WD drive trains these days are part time 4WD for fuel efficiency reasons. This however means that when they engage the 4WD due to weather conditions, it can lead to unpredictable handling. See the Haldex systems for instance.
I wouldn't personally trust any such automatically system myself, which is why my previous 4WD cars were all full time 4WD (Subaru Legacy, Celica GT4).
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3 minutes ago, Malc said:
well, I know BP is developing it's hydrogen fuel facility in the north of England and I'm surmising will be fitting said fuel pumps at each and all it's 1100 ? estate in the UK as a starter ! ........ and then some more in Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury and Morrisons no doubt
http://www.ukh2mobility.co.uk/stations/#go-hydrogen_infrastructure 4 planned in England.
Quoteother than maybe several '000's of fuel stations as no doubt Shell, Esso, and all the other odd-ball named fuel stations will be stocking-up too
The UK is shockingly bad at having coherent plans for public infrastructure. Petrol/diesel fuel stations were not set up as part of public infrastructure, which adds to my point. Similarly, UK railways are expensive, unreliable and generally appalling due to a lack of forward planning from successive governments. I mean, even the roads are terrible.
So, who is going to set up these mythical hydrogen refuelling stations. Certainly not the UK government. Not Toyota. Shell is dragging their heels. 🤷♂️
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9 minutes ago, Herbie said:
As it stands, DAB is a very, very poor substitute for FM. It could be equal and even better than FM if the bitrate was sufficiently high but as usual, our penny-pinching government want to squeeze us until we squeak and they've divided the spectrum up into such small channels (so that they have more to sell) that sufficiently high bitrates can't be achieved.
The bit rate is not government responsibility. They are at fault for a lot of society's failures but not this one. Please blame the multiplex operator - likely Arqiva - for wanting to extract maximum revenue from their bandwidth.
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See how far you get when you try to claim warranty after using your £3k TV to get down the M1. 😉
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The population is effectively blanketed, just like mobile phones. But it's still easy to get no reception, certainly while driving.
You only need to look at the map to see vast areas of Wales and Scotland simply are not covered: http://www.ukdigitalradio.com/images/coverage-map.jpg
Even the green bits are merely 95% coverage.
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Funnily enough, a TV will only get you 2 years of warranty, unless you take out extended warranty.
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Zap Map has some UK statistics: https://www.zap-map.com/statistics/ 25280 locations, with 10844 rapid chargers.
So far fewer chargers for a much larger country.
As a Dutch citizen in the UK - the UK is not good at public infrastructure.
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4 hours ago, Linas.P said:
I would see equation rather like "no charging = no fuel", because I think you will find that not being able to there to charge at home is more common than hydrogen pump running out of hydrogen (on the premise that unlike hydrogen you must be able to charge at home to own BEV).
My point is more that in an emergency, you could charge if you asked someone to hook up, whereas with hydrogen you require an actual refuelling station.
QuoteCharging point are very often out of order as well
Yes, but these days there are plenty.
QuoteWhat I want to make absolutely clear is that momentary issues with particular supplier, brand or cannot be generalised into issue with technology.[..] Likewise issues with one particular hydrogen station running out of hydrogen does not mean that hydrogen cell vehicle technology is flawed.
Yes, but with hydrogen you are simply in need of a station, which is most cases is simply not there. With BEV charging, you have other options.
QuoteFinally, let's not forget you don't need just "any electricity", you specifically need high-voltage fast charging electricity if you in BEV...
No, you don't. You simply need enough charge to get to a fast charging station. Zap map shows that near me in approx 2 miles, there are 2 pubs, 2 super markets and a car parking offering charging. I could go to Tesco, do my shopping while it charges, and hey presto.
At present BEV would be a mild inconvenience to me, whereas hydrogen just not an option at all.
My only problem with hydrogen is that as of now, the infrastructure is not there. It could be but the planned amount of refuelling stations is quite minimal. And BEV is stealing a march on it as a result.
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On 2/16/2021 at 3:27 PM, Neo_gsf said:
Think he meant what "shade" of black 😀😀
Blast fromt he past, this bit of the discussion reminds me of this bit from Parks & Rec:
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5 hours ago, First_Lexus said:
^^ Aviva have confirmed that I can only have replacement through National Windscreens - despite what my policy actually says! Will book in and hope for the best. Told they need me to leave it for a full day and that I’m ‘unlikely’ to get an automatic courtesy car which is what I need.
They do say you only find out how good your insurance is when you need to make a claim. Based on this with Aviva so far, I’d say that their customer service and general interest is appalling! Not exactly what their TV advertisements would have you believe, shock horror…
Yikes. As someone with Aviva - as they were reasonably highly rated - perhaps I'll switch come renewal time.
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Even 2WD cars are "Four Wheel Brake".
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11 hours ago, Linas.P said:
Well, that is kind of the key thing - with hydrogen you can simply refuel same as you refuel petrol, takes 2-3 minutes, so hydrogen at home is not an issue.
Right no, no you cannot. My closest hydrogen refuelling station is in east London and approx 30 minutes drive away and almost all of the reviews say that it's constantly out of hydrogen.
The other refuelling stations are in west London and take anywhere from 45 minutes to 1.5h to drive there. Maybe they'll have some hydrogen. Of course if I try the Rainham refuelling station first and find they're out, I need to drive across London. So that makes 2.5 driving for some hydrogen to fill up, with another hour or so to get back home.
Also, as for the claim that hydrogen refuelling stations can deliver fuel more quickly. In theory, but the Hydrogen Map clearly states a limit of hydrogen per day that the stations are able to provide, so *right now* it's not correct.
This is the problem with emerging infrastructure that BEV circumvent by the very nature of electricity is that electricity is *EVERYWHERE* thanks to the National Grid.
Slow charging > no fuel.
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18 minutes ago, ganzoom said:
This is why I keep on coming back to reality and actions. Show me how/when a hydrogen fuel cell car will be as convenient and easy to own a my current BEV and I'll consider buying one. But even if wealthy early adopters cannot be persuaded by hydrogen technology who is actually going to buy it??
Loads of people love to talk about how great hydrogen is, but why aren't people buying the cars?? And if no one buys the cars who is going to develop them or the fueling suppprt needed??
With BEV, you can charge at home, probably. Where as no one has a hydrogen generation facility at home, let alone the equipment to liquify it. Maybe you can get BOC to deliver a can to your home?
Though their site suggests you'd need to buy industrial quantities.
A slight Tesla master stroke was to invest themselves into the Supercharger network, thus alleviating some of the long range anxiety. You don't see Toyota sponsoring the hydrogen infrastructure in the UK. Though they're doing some in the US:
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I was actually looking for this for my RC300h and found a thread on this very forum that says if you have HID or LED lights, you don't need them.
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brembo has an OEM replacement series. They feature a coating on the non contact braking surface to prevent rusting. I've used their discs successfully on my previous Toyotas and Subaru. Cheaper than OEM too.
Though 
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