Hello

[michaelH]

With luck (and weather permitting) I will be joining the ranks of IS250 owners later this week. I've had five and a half years of near-perfect service from my IS200 sport, but I did test drive a pair of Merc CLK 200 coupes as well as an IS250SE auto +mm. I have now provisionally bought a red 250SE-L auto +mm /sunroof that they are bringing over from Bristol for me to approve. Picture attached (hopefully). No doubt I will have some questions for you all later.

[DJ Wozza]

nice looking car, I do like the IS250 :)

[Robertb]

V Nice- good to see a mesa red one.

[ihpj]

Good luck! You must be really excited :D

[dgman]

welcomeand good luck with the car if you buy it.

[michaelH]

Well, the new IS250 is languishing at Sytner Bristol until the weather clears a little, so my old IS200 will have to soldier on for a few more days at least.

[spikes]

looks great B)

[michaelH]

Had a test drive today and looked over it carefully. All seems good except for a creaking noise from the dashboard when driving over uneven country roads. Lexus Leicester insist that they can and will fix this by inserting a foam layer behind it. Yes, I know it is a familiar problem, but I hope that means they will at least know what to do with it. I have said that I will buy the car if and when it is fixed. Not exactly a great result, and I do wonder whether I should just have walked away, but in most respects it seems like a pretty good buy: very quiet, very well specced and well looked after.

[Saraj]

no you did good by telling them you will only buy if its fixed, there'll probally fix it, let us know how you get on

[michaelH]

All sorted now:doing the part-exchange on Wednesday. Thanks to the snow and the creaky dashboard it has been a long wait.

I will take some pictures on Wednesday, before it gets any dirt on it.

[Parthiban]

Congratulations mate, look forward to the pics :)

[michaelH]

Photos as promised (old faithful and new car on trade-in day). Pity it had to rain.

[spikes]

nice to see the old and the new together,great pics B)