sholao

You missed out www.4car.co.uk, so I guess you haven't visted that.

Nice Touch. Lexus Edgware Road take note!

No problems with mine, I used to have a childs seat (not recaro) in the back during the 1st year of ownership.

Playa wouldn't do such a thing, he knows how to treat a car (just like a lady). :bounce:

There was a northen meet about a month ago in blackpool, I guess you missed that. :D But if ppl are up for another one, why not?

So what did you get her? Think carefully now, the answer could get you thrown out! :D

Dodn't bother, as I was not intrested. :D

In my case adding my wife (6 months full UK) made my insurance cheaper! :?: How that works I don't know, but surely doesn't make sense (she's younger just in case someone was wondering).

I had one of them letters from my dealer as well. :?:

Maybe you need to buy your wife a new car or is it a supercharger for the Fiesta! :D I'm preparing for the big sell on the supercharger, so next Friday her 1.0 Corsa get's replaced by a Yaris Tsport. We run that in for a couple of month's and then make the 'saftey' improvements on the IS200. Then I'll be enjoying the finer things in life!

Welcome to the club, and hope you enjoy it when it arrives.

Uzziz, The price quoted seems to be fair to me. Remember that the car prices were cut about a year or so after the IS200 was introduced, so take that into account. You will only be able to get the A1 price if the car is in A1 condition and you are selling privately. Your car hasn't got any extra's apart from the tinted windows and the sports mesh which no everyone fancies. The best price would be got if sold privately, but not sure how many people buy these cars privately.

I've heard something along that line as well, and I think it had to do with Lexus wanting to keep depreciation low.

That's absolutely looking fabulous! I am so green with envy! :( I hope you enjoy every single penny spent.

Sholao waz here!

Andrew, I have answered your questions in the review article. If you would like to see the unit and try out, GPS Warehouse offer this facility, or if you are in London, we can meet up and to can have a play with mine. Click the link below for GPSW website. http://www.gpsw.co.uk/acatalog/Website/aboutus.htm

The 128MB card will hold the whole of the UK. I bought my unit (32MB) from Maplins for £800. £1000 seems to be the best price I could find for deluxe (128MB) version. http://www.gpsw.co.uk/acatalog/P_GARSPIIIDX.htm While the night mode is on, the LCD screen is still illuminated, so the screen is visible. As always, the brightness can be adjusted. Q: Does the Garmin fit nicely on the dash in that tray like thing? A: Using the supplied Bean Bag mount, yes it does, and is stable enough for normal driving. Q: Whats it like with the sun beaming in through the windscreen ? A: I have not had any problems with the sun, and the screen is fully adjustable so you can change brightness, contrast and viewing angle.

This is a portable SatNav device produced by Garmin Corp. Details of this product can be found at: http://www.garmin.com/products/spIII/index.html I bought this product because I wanted a unit that I could transfer between my 2 cars, as I had not opted for the Lexus SatNav (due to cost). This is the 1st GPS device I've used in a car, so do not have a baseline to compare it with. What I like about the product: The fact that it is portable and can be transfered between cars. It has voice prompts. It has auto-routing and auto re-routing, so it automatically calculates routes to a destination and would re-route you if you miss a turn. Criteria for calculating routes include shortest driving distance or shortest driving time. It has a colour display. One feature I particularlly like is the night mode operation. Because it knows the sunset time for your location, it goes into this mode after sunset, and as you approach junctions it shows on screen the name of the street or road ahead, as well as the house numbers on the road you are driving so locating places at night is easy. Another good feature is that it can operate on batteries, so if it is guiding you to a location, and you have to pop into the petrol station for gas, you can switch off the ignition, and you get a prompt asking if you want it to stay on battery power. If you say yes, then it saves the time required to acquire satellites when you get back in the car. My impressions: Once you have loaded the street level maps onto the memory card from the CD (the whole of the UK WILL NOT fit unto the 32MB card supplied, so if you require street level mapping for the UK a 128MB card is required, or you can add and remove regions if you only visit places on an Ad Hoc basis.) you are ready to start using the unit. Power to the unit is supplied by a cigar adaptor which also contains an inbuilt speaker for the voice prompts. Once satellites are aquired, the unit is ready. To route to a location you press the find key, and choose either an address or you can use stored Waypoints (there are other options available like services, places of interest, etc). If you have a street level map for the area you are looking for, you can enter street names and post codes. Once the street is found, you choose the 'route to' option, and the unit calculates a route (takes btwn 45-90secs) and starts the voice prompts. All key inputs are via the rocker pad. If you miss a turn the unit alerts you (off route) and re-calculates from your current location (in town you might need to pull up if the road is short and another turn is coming up, this is not required on long roads where it can keep a fix on you). I find the unit easy to use and reasonably quick, the voice prompts are load enough. At the moment I don't have any bad things to say about the unit. For those that are clever out there, it might be possible to route the audio into your car's Stereo as there is a jack at the back of the unit for the audio out. Cost of unit (Sept 2002) about £800. I would definately recommend this unit if you are looking for a cheap SatNav with turn by turn voice prompts. The bonus being you can transfer it from car to car! Features the unit could do with. Choose male or female voice for prompting. Facility for re-charging Nicad batteries (the unit would go through new batteries in 2 hrs if not power by cigar adaptor). Separate speaker box, as the cigar adaptor is quite big.

Andrew for a portable/transferable SatNav, check out the streetpilot by Garmin, it might solve your problem. Check the link below. I've got one, and it's good. http://www.garmin.com/products/spIII/index.html I haven't noticed any rattles on my 1999 car, but maybe I'm too busy enjoying the ride. :D

What's the secret in getting high scores? The best I got is 300! :(

Toyota Corporation the owner of the Lexus brand already has the know how. It might just be that they don't want oil burners in the Lexus range. :?:

Out of interest Andrew, why did you change your car? My Car's going to be 3 in a couple of months, and I am not changing it for now, instead I am getting my wife (or is it myself) a Yaris Tsport.

Security on cars Talking about car security, did anyone catch watchdog tonight on TV? There was this interesting feature on the pegeout 406 Saloon problem where someone could get into your boot with bare hands and nick contents! Very scary!

You're not from Essex then i guess!

Don't think they would stay long on my tyres in London streets!