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I may have to give up driving due to health issues. I have an IS on a 3 year PCP which is 2 years and 4 months into contract. The car is is beautiful condition and less than 20k miles (within agreed mile age) Whats the best way to get out of the contract with least financial penalty and hopefully not too much of a negative impact on my credit rating? Thanks
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Ok I admit I have kerbed my alloys. Its not the first car I have done it ( yes I know - be more careful!) But it's the first time I have sen big chunks of flaking alloy come away from them. Should I push for a replacement or might I be given the cold shoulder and told that's what kerbing does for you?
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latent replied to chris348's topic in Lexus IS 250 / Lexus IS 250C Club / Lexus IS 220D & IS 200D Club
Here we go : Starting in 1985 Volvo 360 GLT Anthracite Grey Met. Ford Fiesta 1.1 Red Lada Samara Van - Red (don't ask!) Renault 19 TXE - Grey met. Ford KA2 Blue met. Audi A3 1.8T- Black Mercedes C200K Auto Evo Panorama Coupe - Sunstone Orange Mercedes E320CDI Auto - Light gold met. Volkswagen Golf GT2.0 TDI - Royal blue met. Mercedes E320CDI Auto - Black - Black int. Mercedes E320CDI Auto - Black /Light grey Int. Lexus IS250 SE-L Auto - Black/Black int. Mini Cooper - Silver and Black and finally picking up tomorrow: Sat 24th May: Lexus IS250 SE Auto - Black/Oakham Beige int. -
Well, I got rid of my IS250 a year ago to downgrade to a Mini Cooper. Because of the very low mileage I do each year, My wife and I thought that the cost of running the vehicle couldn't be justified. The Mini is fun to drive and good on fuel, a year on, we feel it's just too small ( mainly boot area...almost none :-) ) and I missed the smooth auto box and comfort of the Lexus. So, we satrted to shop around to change car. Looked at Audi's. Mercs and Honda's, but last Saturday, I popped cak into my Lexus dealer and wonderd waht he could do...thinking it was a long shot ( My wife and I said we needed to stick to a budget, otehr wise it's easy to get acrried away!)...Anyway, I was pleasantly surprised that the deal to get me back into a IS250 Auto albeit SE and not SE-L, was just up our street. This was provided that we had one of their current stock..so this limited our choice naturally. We opted for Black with OakHam beige. ( My last IS was a black on black.) I vowed I'd never but anotehr BAlck car...keeping the ruddy thing clean and all that!!, but nevermind....BTW the dealer said they have a Saturday wash club. I hadn't heard this before. I thought they only did these things in the U.S. ..Do many people use this service? So now you know I had a moment of madness but I'll shortly be back in a Lexus!!!!!!!!
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I have just ordered a 250 SE Auto in black with beige interior. I went into the dealer on Saturday and they gave me a cracking deal. I was delighted when I left the showroom..more importantly, so was the wife! However...and please try not to laugh...I am having doubts on some simple things. I have had a 250 before .. SE-L Auto ( don't ask why i got rid of it 12months ago, long story) I am glad to be getting back in to one. But the deal I have to suit my budget was on the SE. I am not bothered that i lose the HID lights or the electricrear blind and wood trim, but I hae been thinking over the weekend about not having parking sensors (OK ..stop laughing). my 'old' SELhad them and previous Mercs. So I am getting paranoid about crunching it in Tesco's car park :-) I gather you can get them done as retro fit, but not much change out of a grand! I could ask the dealer if I could change to a SE-L, but that knocks my budget and probably upset the wife!..it may be too late anyway.
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Err...am I mssing something. I have locking wheel nuts. as supplied with the car, but they don't have covers. Well at least they don't appear to. I can see the recess for the adaptor tool and in fact they are starting to get surface corrsoion
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Booked my IS250 in for dash rattles and seat belt recall notice. Picked it up last night (they had it for two days - but they did provide a courtesy car). They gave me a bottle of Champagne for my inconvenience :D However, when I dropped it off, I asked if the technician could hook up to it and enable auto door locking on drive away and auto mirror folding on park. The service desk advisor didn't know if this was possible. Anyway, the car still doesn't do this. (forgot to ask when I picked it up!) Have they not bothered or are these features not possible?