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IF this is a legit IS, then someone will have a bargain on their hands.....

I'm paying £58 per month for a train ticket, like someone has said it fair bit of wad to pay upfront, but I can use any train and bus in the specified zone. Without a monthly train ticket, I'd be paying £20 return as well, per day.

Since the cost of petrol has been going up recently, I've decided to catch the train into work, I'm only driving the IS on the evenings/weekends now, rest of the time the IS is parked up in the garage at home. Before I used to spend £30-£40 a week on petrol, but I now spend this amount per month now. I'm also in the process of buying a house (need to save up for solicitor's bills, stamp duty fees, but what a rip off stamp duty is!, furniture etc), so I've decided to cut back on my fuel bill by using the train to/from work. I've also found that running for the train is keeping me fit! Lastly, I don't want to get rid of the IS, but if the current petrol price trends continue, I may have to consider giving up the IS

Another one for you that should tickle ur ribs.....Enjoy THE FUNDAMENTAL DIFFRENCES BETWEEN MEN & WOMEN NICKNAMES If Laura, Suzanne, Kate and Sarah go out for lunch, they will call each other Laura, Suzanne, Kate and Sarah. If Mike, Charlie, Dave and John go out, they will affectionately refer to each other as Fat Boy, Godzilla, Peanut-Head and Scrappy. EATING OUT When the bill arrives, Mike, Charlie, Dave and John will each throw in £20, even though it's only for £32.50. None of them will have anything smaller, and none will actually admit they want change back. When the girls get their bill, out come the pocket calculators. MONEY A man will pay £2 for a £1 item he needs. A woman will pay £1 for a £2 item that she doesn't need but it's on sale. BATHROOMS A man has six items in his bathroom: toothbrush and toothpaste, shaving cream, razor, a bar of soap, and a towel from M&S. The average number of items in the typical woman's bathroom is 337. A man would not be able to identify most of these items. ARGUMENTS A woman has the last word in any argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument. CATS Women love cats. Men say they love cats, but when women aren't looking, men kick cats. FUTURE A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband. A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife. SUCCESS A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. MARRIAGE A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't. A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change and she does. DRESSING UP A woman will dress up to go shopping, water the plants, empty the bins, answer the phone, read a book, and get the post. A man will dress up for weddings and funerals. NATURAL Men wake up as good-looking as they went to bed. Women somehow deteriorate during the night. OFFSPRING Ah, children. A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments and romances, best friends, favourite foods, secret fears and hopes and dreams. A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house. THOUGHT FOR THE DAY Any married man should forget his mistakes. There's no use in two people remembering the same thing!

Little joke for you guys.............. Dear Technical Support, 18 months ago, I upgraded to Girlfriend 1.0 from Drinking Mates 4.2, which I had used for years without any trouble. However, there are apparently conflicts between these two products and the only solution was to try and run Girlfriend 1.0 with the sound turned off. To make matters worse, Girlfriend 1.0 is incompatible with several other applications, such as LadsNightOut 3.1, Football 4.5, and Playboy 6.9. Successive versions of GirlFriend proved no better. I tried a shareware program, Slapper 2.1, but it had many bugs and left a virus in my system, forcing me to shut down completely for several weeks. Eventually, I tried to run GirlFriend 1.2 and Girlfriend 1.0 at the same time, only to discover that when these two systems detected each other they caused severe damage to my hardware. I eventually upgraded to Fiancée 1.0, only to discover that this product soon had to be upgraded further to Wife 1.0. While Wife 1.0 tends to use up all my available resources, it does come bundled with FreeWashing&IroningPlus and Cleanhouse2005. Shortly after this upgrade, however, I found that Wife 1.0 could be very unstable and costly to run. Any mistakes I made were automatically stored in Wife 1.0's memory and could not be deleted. They then resurfaced months later when I had forgotten about them. Wife 1.0 also has an automatic Diary, Explorer, and E-mail filter, and can, without warning, launch TurboStrop and Multi-Whinge. These latter products have no Help files, and I have to try to guess what the problem is. Additional problems are that Wife 1.0 needs updating regularly, requiring ShoeShop Browser for new attachments and Hairstyle Express which needs to be reinstalled every other week. Also, when Wife 1.0 attaches itself to my Saab 93 Convertible hard drive, it often crashes. Wife 1.0 also comes with an irritating pop-up called MotherInLaw, which can't be turned off. Recently I've been tempted to install Mistress 2003, but there could be problems. A friend of mine has alerted me to the fact that if Wife 1.0 detects Mistress 2003, it tends to delete all of your Money before uninstalling itself. Help requested please

Whose not very horny? You or the car? (Sorry, bad joke )

Not being funny, but haven't the resale values for the current IS200 already dropped dramatically? I've seen IS200's in the Autotrader/Ebay starting @ the £5.5k mark. Ok, I admit these are probably 2 or 3 owner cars with 100K+ on the clock, with stone chipped bumpers and bonnets, but you get the picture.... For example: 1999 V Reg LEXUS IS 200 2.0 SPORT4 Doors, Manual, Saloon, Petrol, 108,000 miles, Gunmetal Grey. Full service history, Half Leather Interior, Sports Design Interior, Alloy wheels, ABS, Traction control, Climate Control, Power assisted steering, Driver airbag, Passenger airbag, Side airbags, Remote locking, Electric windows, Electric mirrors, Electric sunroof, Electric Seats, Alarm, Immobiliser, On Board Computer, 6 Speed Manual, Heated seats, CD Audio System. £5,984.

I'd like to have my say: It's gonna be interesting to see what happens to the current IS regarding resale values.....but I'm thinking that when the IS220d hits the market that is when the current IS values will take a big hit, because the IS220d will mainly be bought the the fleet/company car sector, and when these IS220d's are on the 2nd hand market (as ex-company cars) people will be getting rid of their 'current' model IS200's in favour of the IS220d- I know I will be trading my IS200 for an IS220d when the IS220d is for sale on the 2nd market, because I don't want to be running a big 2.5/3.0 petrol motor....

Browsing on ebay and I spotted this: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/LEXUS-IS200-NAVIGATI...1QQcmdZViewItem

, but year did you pass your driving test in? I passed in Feb 1997, 6 months after the introduction of the Theory Test.

Wish these speedo's came fitted to UK IS200/300's, they look fantastic!

ditto

3 series BMW's are mostly driven by company car drivers, this seems to be 'standard issue' for company car drivers/salesman....

i feel for ya mate, hope you get the car back soon ........also hope they catch the thevin :tsktsk: that's nicked your motor..... honestly, why don't these :tsktsk: understand if you want the nicer things in life you gotta work for them.... Rant over.

Wow.....£34.5K for an IS250, you could probably buy an GS300SE for £36K, like the saying goes, each to their own....

Mate, since you're based in Yorkshire, why don't you try Dewsbury Auto Salvage (Jap auto salvage specialists), I think they've got a couple of IS's in, you should be able to get their number from Yellow Pages (or them 118 118 directory enquiry type services). Try a search on google- I think they have a website as well.

Number things you need to check out: Have the discs and pads been bedding in properly? You should avoid hard braking for the first couple of hundred miles. Have the wheel nuts been tightened in the correct order, this can causing the juddering that you are experiencing. Are the brake calipers sezied? This can also cause juddering. Have the new pads been fitted with anti squeel shims, this may cause the juddering? I wouldn't believe what Lexus are telling you, re: you're getting brake juddering coz your not using genuine Lexus parts. Hope this helps, and I'm sure someone else will be along to offer you some more advice.

I dunno about khumo tyres, as I never had them on my IS, but when I bought my IS 3 yrs ago it came with some awful Nankangs on the rears, like I sed, no grip in the rain......soon got rid of them....

Tyre size is 215/45/17. Buy quality tyres, avoid cheap budget tyres like Nankangs- they've got no gip in the rain. I'd spend £100-£120 a corner on some decent rubber.

Nope ................... ← I didn't think so........... :)

With a manual box you can use the gears to brake, (low gear, high revs help slow you down), does the same theory not apply to autos?

I have recieved a letter from Lexus saying that they are offering a free air con checkup until 31st August. Has anyone else? Will be getting my IS booked in for this week.

i agree with kazdul, the IS manual box isn't to everyone liking.....personally i find it ok, although changing between 1st and 2nd gear can be described as 'notchy'....

recently, i had a bumper scuff repaired by my local chipsaway man, did a good job. i'd only use chipsaway for bump scuffs not for doing repairs on metalwork (eg: a door which had been keyed) for a job like that i'd go to a professional bodyshop.