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I quite fancy going to live here - looks nice. Now all I need is my new matter teleporter/transporter and a wormhole. Beam me up Scotty. Kepler-62 e is a Super-Earth exoplanet that orbits in the inner habitable zone of its star, Kepler-62 (which is slightly smaller and cooler than our sun). This exoplanet which is believed to be a water world lies just about 1,200 light years away from us in the constellation Lyra making it one of the most potentially habitable planets. It completes one orbit every 122 days and is 1.6 times larger than Earth.

Very good point. Nature always corrects unbalanced systems usually using disease, as you infer. The difference is that I was talking about extinction not reduction/correction. Some unlucky few will survive the virus and develop immunity but at what cost?

I tried to read all the interesting comments in this thread and they are all worthy of consideration. The elephant in the room is that we will actually extinguish ourselves well before natural forces take place. The end of the world for us stupid humans will be due to the nuclear winter following the nuclear strikes started by ( choose any one of the following in no particular order 😞 USA - Russia - China - North Korea - Iran ( soon ) . Sorry if I missed anyone. Have a nice day and cheer up🙂

I noticed the same thing, mostly in winter when the tyres were cold and especially on a cold wet surface. It also depended on the road surface type. Block brick driveways etc. The tyres (sort of ) skip a bit, like a little slip or sideways motion. It is normal I believe. Tyres are Michelin pilot 4 sports.

V power is generally about 10p a litre more expensive than tesco momentum 99 octane around here. One particular garage chain monopoly are still asking 169p per litre - I go elsewhere. I notice absolutely no difference in performance between the two; in the isF the 200t and the harley 114 cu in. BUT, having worked for shell research in the 70's I know the amount of study that goes into the composition of this fuel and those extras are very important for the benefit and lifespan of your engine. So, begrudgingly I pay up, about £5 extra per fill-up. BTW, shell rewards at £1 per ten fills is a derisory benefit. Using 10 litres of momentum saves you £1. I just wish all the shell concessionnaire garages would play fair and not try to rip us off.😬

Well I thought I was stupid until I read all these rants on this thread. I got threatened with a ban here just for calling insurance companies bar stewards. In my many years of life experience I have come to the conclusion that it is best to ignore the idiots and not get angry because it only upsets you and does you no good. if that does not work for you just stab them.

There's a few "dark forces" knocking about with USB sticks. I have not tried this on the lexus but sometimes, if it is available, it is best to format the USB stick from the lexus menu and not from windows -if this option is on the menu. Don't even ask why. I had a sony 64GB usb stick intended for recording films from the TV. Absolutely nothing would get it to work on the TV - not even recognised. But on the PC = no probs. Put a different usb stick in the telly, formatted it on the telly and bingo! Works a treat. One thing worth trying is to try it on a different lexus, maybe a friendly dealer will let you give it a go?

you could think of fat 32 and ntfs as preparing a blank sheet of paper for writing on by drawing lines on it to accept the words in their correct format ( data in this case ). File allocation table - 32 bit- speaks for itself really. NTFS is new technology file system which was developed as a professional ( as opposed to home computing ) networking compatible way of formatting disks for the now redundant windows NT. NT is the base system on which all the new windows operating systems are based on, and even that sits on a DOS structure. We still use DOS to brute force systems into doing as they are told!😡 Nurse! get me meds quick!

FAT 32 is an ancient disk formatting standard developed by Microsoft for windows MS DOS. ( NTFS is the current one ) MP3 is a compressed file format. Chalk and cheese really. I found the best way to get music onto a USB stick for use in the car was to rip all the stuff to media player from the CD or wherever. Next update everything ( automatic ). Next RIP it to the - pre-formatted Fat 32 - USB stick and choose the MP3 option within media player itself. Worked for me.😉

The car looks lovely and should be good for many more years🥰. A specialist bodywork garage owner told me that Lexus are notorious for "soft" paint, likewise with some other Japanese companies. I do not know why this is so. My IsF 11yrs old has quite a few stone chips but absolutely no rust patches. I recently cleaned inside the wheel arches ( I was bored at the time ) and amazingly, under the dust and dirt, the paintwork inside was like new! The only area which I may refurbish is the laquer flaking off the wheels on the inside of the rims, probably £50-£70 per wheel? At one time most cars rotted away in the wheel arches after about 4 yrs on salty UK roads, especially Vauxhall, Fords and Minis. The list goes on.

Thanks kindly for the sympathy Derek. Yes, you have to be careful of Kidney damage so I just suffer it. One side effect is that not being able to put a shoe on and with the swelling and pain too, I cannot ride the motorbike because I cannot change gear😥 All those ripoff insurance payments and it is stuck in the garage!☹️

Now I get a telling off for calling Insurance companies bad names. Lets just say I don't trust Insurance companies. They are a load of "not nice persons". Happy?😷 Sorry about the naughty word regarding insurance companies. After two weeks of severe gout and just had a couple of beers I can get a bit grumpy. The gout is relenting a bit now - thanks for asking🤒

You can discuss it until the cows come home. The simple fact is that they just want to cheat and rob you. A good friend just got a £42000 bill for medical help while in the USA. They said he had undeclared pre-existing medical conditions =insurance void💩. With the ombudsman at the moment.

Don't say that,🥸 his wife might be reading!

Same as mine but mine IS a garage queen😭. Went out today in the sunshine and gave it a bit of welly - just to help with potential carbon deposits of course! I still can't get the grin off my face😁

2012 isf. I had a look at the 200t and the gap was much larger. I don't know if it can be adjusted.

Now then Pete let's not try to understand the French Psyche, that's a losing wicket!😵‍💫 True story - sign in a café in Montpellier: Café - 1.70 Un café SVP - 1.50 Bonjour Monsieur un café SVP -1.30 BTW SVP is s'il vous plait, or (if) you please for all our anglophile mates.

I see the point and on a general basis your logic rings true. But every car and owner is different. I like to think my pandered Isf has a lowish mileage, and I am trying to keep it low. ( Sept 2012 MY -62K miles) It is treated like Lord Muck and goes for little runs for its own sake. - ( No! Not on its own! ) The big issue is that it does not go out in the rain and certainly not on salty roads. Does that mean it will remain in excellent condition and last for ages? I hope so. But things will age, especially bushes and the like, they can easily be replaced. I do all the things that I was taught to keep an engine/trans in good condition but I will not bore you withy the details. TBH it is just the best car I have ever had and I want to keep it that way.😍💞💓 A car that has done all that mileage over British roads and in winter too is worthy of a lengthy inspection underneath.

Clonk or Donk Over certain bumps in the road giving a not so subtle bdonk. Not big or even small imperfections in the road just a certain type, like a 2 inch ridge. 2 x services and specific research by Lexus - No Sir everything is perfect thank you. 2 x MOTs by independent MOT stations = All fine nothing loose, not even the exhaust. Check boot all secure. Check Amp in boot and behind seat All good. Found the culprit yesterday and 5 bobs worth of draught excluder fixed it. The boot lid was sitting a tad too low and hitting the rear bumper assembly occasionally. Finally spotted the scuff marks - plastic on plastic fortunately. Sherlock Holmes eat your heart out.🤔☺️

Looks really nice at first glance, but a bit of a high mileage. The bit that raises my eyebrows is in the picture of the service history where it seems that the same pen and writing style are shown on the service record over different locations and years???? I may be completely wrong but...... I like the one at £29K. Just need to see if the price comes down to a reasonable £26K. I bet someone will snap it up although it may take a while.

Absolutely agree David. We lived there for 18 years and it is a beautiful uncrowded country. Our idea was to send all the French to live in the UK and vice versa.

Hi Malc Sorry to be a pain but Life in French is feminine - C'est la vie. Maybe that is why life can sometimes be difficult? Another funny French one - If a woman gives evidence in court she is female but if she is a witness she becomes male! I.e. le témoin. Cars and vans are females but trucks are male......... Don't ask 😇

For many years I was under the impression that price fixing and cartels were illegal or at least frowned upon, but now it seems like our leaders in parliament see fit to throw us to the dogs and let certain companies fix their high prices, make obscene profits and give virtually no customer service. All the time making vast payouts to their already wealthy patrons. There really is not a lot that we can do about it apart from trying to get someone in charge who actually cares about the majority of us who have "normal" or limited means. With a full service due at approx £750. Insurance at approx £800 ( if not a lot more!! ) and road tax at £700, all to be paid in October, then the IsF is going SORN for the first time. £2250 + or - for winter use of maybe 200 miles is just a step too far.

Lucid Air sapphire beautiful? And they are not even chinese. They are from Arizona designed in California. I want one. Ford scorpio ugly. Made in Germany just like the new fugly BMWs

Absolutely right. The new BMs look truly ugly especially compared to their earlier models - even the 2002tii was a looker