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Well it’s finally happened after debating about it for a couple of years, I traded in my F at dealership numerous reasons but main ones are, lack of use since retiring and unusable during wintertime due to obviously snow n ice on a steepish driveway, anyways…it was a hard decision as I’ve loved this car from the day I bought it over 5 1/2yrs ago, and spent a fair few pounds on modifications but was worth every penny including all the fuel I burnt up over my ownership and the many miles of roads I terrorised 🤣 I got the best out of it,and although it always looked like a driveway princess, it was driven hard and fast over 92,000 miles and never skipped a heart beat…. I certainly got my money back off it with the grin and wow factor.. will I miss it…… GOD YES I spent the last week putting the car back to as near standard as possible c/f bonnet and c/f active spoiler and c/f wing inserts air intake, wheels ,side front rear body kit and numerous other parts swapped back to OEM, only non standard things left on car are.. red F start stop button and the biggy ARMYTRIX valvetronic weaponised exhaust system, made the F way more fun ohh yeah and louder 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Even took off window tints chrome delete wrap and tints of L badges and rear lights doing this helped me give the car up as it no longer looks like the car I grew to love cherish and owned, I could talk about this car all day 😂 that’s how much I loved it and I ALWAYS looked back at it when I parked it up and smiled to myself and said quietly “you lucky smug show off” end of era and a beautiful relationship and has travelled the whole of uk from north south east and west… last pic is how it ended up after de-grahaming it 😉😂 oh yeah I traded it in for a RX450h fsport with takumi package with 6k on clock, not as flashy as the RCF but neither am I 😂🫣

Thanks for the lexus forum scam warning, very good detail. I just want to warn our fellow club members about current scams doing the rounds for a few months now. They are already working on stealing your hard earned cash and they have been identified already by the relevant authorities ( i.e. me ) The scammers are called Keir and Rachel and are based in London.

This is my solution to the LBX Spacesaver problem. Photos attached. It raises the boot floor by 60mm. Boot floor is perfectly flat and rigid. Cost about £220, including new 18” spacesaver, fixing bolt and tools.

Well, to my eye, that’s a result! 👍 I can’t see how a regular body shop could have done any better - and CA claims that the result is guaranteed against deterioration for the life of my ownership. The use of a spectrophotometer to mix and match the existing paint shade - rather than using factory original paint - resulted in a relatively small area being repainted. A previous small chip on a wheel arch - caused by the window cleaner’s van door blowing open! - required the body shop to respray most of the wheel arch and the leading edge of the door. It also required giving them the car for a couple of days. So I appreciated the added convenience of having four hours of work being carried out at my house. Two colour coats were applied; the first required mixing four components and the second five - including the ‘Pearl’ top coat. As a franchise, the result is going to depend on the individual skill of the Operator. And maybe I struck lucky with my local chap - Lee Broderick. After all he also said he was perfectly happy for me to stand and watch him at work! I now have him coming back to deal with two other minor - but irritating - marks, such is my satisfaction. The only condition he applied to his work was that the panel wasn’t washed for a week - and that was no hardship at all!

Perhaps I should have written this in my introduction, but it does involve baring ones soul a little, which I'm not prone to usually, But it's my hope that I will keep my Lexus for a while, so I'll be involved in this forum as a matter of course. Very late in my life I discovered that I have Aspergers (a form of autism). Apart from it being a lightbulb moment, it means that my brain has different wiring to the majority of folks, a part of which means that I can be very blunt and forthright e.g. I don't suffer fools easily and can appear rude. It could be construed that I shouldn't be on a public forum, but I have a need to ask questions like anyone else and I feel (and have proven in the past) that I often have a helpful input in this situation. This is not an excuse for rudeness, but it is a reason and so I apologise in advance if I upset anyone. I'd like to say it's not intentional, but sometimes it is because there are people on the planet who shouldn't be allowed out without a carer. Feel free to tell me take a hike if this is inappropriate and thankyou for the welcomes, help and advice so far.👍

Just got rid of my terrible run flats, have replaced them with Goodyear efficient grip 2 what a difference! My UX is the 2023 premium sport and it’s incredible how hush the car is now, it drives better and no thumps on bad roads, I paid £167 each.

Hello all, Firstly thanks to anyone that participates in this forum. I am a long time lurker and this forum has answered so many questions I've had during my ownership! As the title suggests I want to discuss the current pricing of the ISF. Whilst always monitoring the market I have been monitoring the pricing since July very closely with a mind to sell my (USB MY10) 73k mile example in the new year. To help other owners I have built a spreadsheet which I will continue to add to where possible of the current listings and any previous listings I have record of. This sheet tracks the initial list price and the current price at todays date. if there were any reductions. As for past listings the price is the initial list price and last known price before taken down or sold. I will share the link to the spreadsheet here - Click Hereye I will also attach a screenshot for general ease. With all that information, the current used car market being down and RCF prices dropping into the very low twenties, where does that leave us? Based on the information I can see we are left in a position of £14-18k for 08-10? and £18-24k for 11+? depending on mileage and condition of course. With used car values on the decline since the huge bump over the last year or two I can't say I'm too surprised. Especially including the Yen to the Sterling rate recently I'm not surprised more potential buyers are looking that way. But still our Lexus' still depreciate less than all that new tat on the markets today! £700 p/a tax seem to put a few potential buyers off who I've spoken to especially, without getting political, the new labour government in and their ever-changing stance on road tax, I don't see them being too friendly to 5.0 V8s! With all that being said I'm thinking around £17.5k for my USB MY10 73k mile in the new year. FLSH etc. I will share more details closer to them time when I make the listing. Also considering how long it seems to take to sell these cars, typically way over 6 months I'm not sure I'll be overly ambitious with my pricing. Thanks for reading, I hope other owners find this useful as I have when keeping an eye on my car's value.

Just last week I had a snide comment from an acquaintance about me running an olde worlde dinosaur of a car. Apparently I should be ashamed of myself, and him having spent £45k on an all electric car (Peugeot E-3008) makes him a superior human being to me,.... so I started to explain to him about limited resources, about the real cost of recycling vs reusing, about open-cast lithium mines, about the fact that his car probably would not last the 21 years mine has already lasted, about the fact that I only spent £4400 seven years ago on my dinosaur, about the fact that I work from home and probably produce less total annual greenhouse gases than he does due to my low annual mileage, and finally about the fact that he was a self important little ****hole who could **** off and die for all I cared. So, he's no longer speaking to me, which is a relief. 🤣 A friend who overheard the brief altercation got a stitch from laughing after the ****hole stormed off. 😁 Ella thought I was a little harsh, but she smiled when she said it. ❤️

I know you were all wondering where I'd got to. Possibly. Not at all 🙄 Anyhoo, after being away from the brand for quite a while I'm now investigating the (GWS191) GS450h because I miss Lexus so. Looking at a couple tomorrow and no doubt I'll pull the trigger on one of them. My money is on the Mesa Red. I'd also like to say at this point how sad I was to hear about John (royoftherovers).

Today for the first time I can remember I've got a car through its' MOT with a straight pass and 'no advisories'. This LS430 is now 25 years old, but I've only had it for the last 5 years. It has never failed an MOT for me and looking back in the DVLA record its' first MOT was in 2005 and there is not a single failure recorded in the record. Anyone else with a 25 year old car that has never failed an MOT?

Well, it’s been a long time a-coming…..3 months to be exact. After 5 return trips of at least 4 hrs per round trip to my ‘local’ Lexus dealer, I think I’ve finally got the car I thought I bought in the first place. It’s had 1 new rear view drivers door mirror, 2 new front tyres and 2 new driveshafts. Hate to think what that lot would’ve cost me had I paid for it all at a main Lexus dealer....£2.5K?? Of course, I shouldn’t have had to make any such return trips since picking the car up🤔🤔 The UX now feels ‘tight’, with a bit of go to match, no juddering, and….wait for it….a full tank of fuel and a new tracker fitted😉😉🙂🙂🙂 If I have one little bugbear…and I’ve had this every single time I’ve collected my car(s) from a garage….why can’t I have my car(s) returned with the same settings (seat/display/mirrors/radio station….you name it) 🙄

Next couple of days will tell us what the Money and Finance Markets think together with the BofE with interest rates going forward As a small business owner the prospect of hanging on to staff that cannot provide that employed individuals personal uplift in productivity and business profitability WILL result in their exit from the business ……. zero leeway to hang on to staff less than 150% effective …….. it’s so so simple ……. increased direct business costs resulting in increased retail sales prices that simply aren’t acceptable to retail buyers …….. it would be wonderful to pay lots of Corporation Tax but reality tells me the profits just ain’t going to be there going forward Not a growth fiscal environment for very many small, medium ( and even large ) businesses I’m sure …….. that business profitability will be much harder to achieve and many, as during Covid, will just simply “ give up” ……. simply not worth the bother trying to make it “ work “ …….. Joe Public generally will have even less in their pockets to spend on everything including heating and food Govt Cabinet are in cloud cuckoo land and haven’t a clue how real people have to live from day to day ……… Rachel Reeves and hubby ( NHS worker ) enjoy an annual income incl expenses of in excess of £500,000 ,,,,,,,, she hasn’t a f . .king clue 🥵 Malc

Maybe a bit of useless info, but I've been a bit obsessed with car security since since I bought my last car, a stealable, black Hyundai Tucson. On that car the the key fobs went to sleep after a few minutes of lack of movement and stopped sending signals to the car, thereby preventing relay theft. I don't know exactly how long it is before the fob goes to sleep, but I left my fob undisturbed for 7 mins which was long enough. I asked the sales person when I picked up my car on Friday if my fobs did the same, but he didn't know, so today I experimented and the answer is yes yes they do - I'd have been disappointed if they didn't in this day and age. Yes I know there's a way to disable keyless entry via the fob and this applies to my car and so I can't speak for other years and models, but I'd like to think that any model coming out of the factory recently will have the same feature. I don't rely solely on this feature and keep my fobs in a Faraday box and generally use a Stoplock as well, but it's good to know that my fobs have this feature.

I think you’ll find you fit in very well here Paul. 😊

Given I was a bit hesitant before I purchased (for fun, mostly) some stuff for the car, I thought I would post it here in case it would help any of you.... and likewise, in case someone else found something that would be fun to have, I may wanna know! So these are links to items I'm actually glad I got (disclaimer: I'm not on Aliexpress payroll or anything): Car seat gap fillers (the missus said she does not know where to rest her phone) Storage bag for the trunk This is good to keep the road triangle, the first-aid kit, and all of those things tidy in one place Lexus umbrella for the trunk it rarely rains in Britain but just in case Anti-kick pads for the back of the front seats they wipe clean easily Neck pillows (mostly good if you need to take a quick nap, or for your co-pilot to do so –we groundhogs do a lot of that)

LS owners often lose their rear fridge between back seats due to the pipes corroding through and losing refrigerant. I replaced the corroded pipes with new copper and then jointed them to old pipes with purpose made compression joints. I found a maidstone ,Kent company ‘Smart splice’ who make repair fittings for AC pipes .Primalec.co.uk they are compression fittings that are great for refrigeration or auto transmission pipework

Hi, following on from another thread, I thought I'd post details on here on how to add puddle lights / courtesy lights to the front doors of NX350h and NX450h models. Thanks to @Tickedon for sharing details. Mine is a Premium Plus model and they were missing but it looks to be the case for higher models too like Takumi's. Your front doors will have blanks as per pics. You can prise these out to reveal wiring behind. Order 2 from here, about £46 delivered. They are for UX model but they fit: https://lexuspartsdirect.co.uk/product/lexus-ux-phase-1-front-door-courtesy-light-assembly/ Connect up the wiring and pop back in. Photos should do all the talking. Hope this helps.

I don't have an hour to spare I'm knocking on 75.⚰️

You need all that time to read the manual! It runs to hundreds of pages. 😉

I bet Keir is waiting for his state invite...and waiting...and waiting.... UK Labour and the Big Orange One, I don't think so.

We get it, you’re p issed off, there’s no point keep wittering about it and your not the only one. It’s not our fault, we’re trying to help but you’re too busy feeling sorry for yourself. What are you going to do? Reject the car or sort it out.

Only time my 12v battery discharged was my own fault for leaving the doors open, ignition off whilst fitting a dashcam. It should have been in “ready” mode. Ours has been left at an airport for 19 days without any issues & tbh, if the 12v battery going flat is a concern to you then forget any type/model of hybrid. My daughter has a Tucson and her 12v battery went flat whilst unloading the car on a camping trip. Same problem with all hybrids, leave the doors open with ignition off for more than 15mins anfpd you’re inviting trouble.

I think those settings are lost when the mechanic wants to hear his favourite station and then takes a testdrive changing seat mirror and what else and never ever returns them to the original position?

Just to update this. Popped into dealer this morning as on my way past. Just wanted to double check I wasn’t being dense with the boot settings. He confirmed it’s not right so going back next week. Managed to get connected services sorted so that’s a plus. Will give me a good idea on dealer aftercare I suppose.

What we have always known is you can't really raise tax from the seriously rich beyond a marginal increase. The reality is their wealth is mobile and if you make it necessary by going beyond the marginal they can and do move it. All parties know this. The poorer in society almost by implication don't have the wherewithal in their income to do much to support raising revenue. All parties know this. This leaves that 'meat' in the middle as the only target in town. That encompasses virtually everybody who doesn't fall into the other two groups. All parties know this. In the end you end up with a fairly simple formula. What you can raise from that group balanced against your willingness to either cut Govt spending, or increase it. Most other policies are simply tweaking around the edges of that formula. The Tory 'austerity' years speak for themselves although we could ask reasonable questions regarding that definition of "austerity". The Labour years we are now in will pretty much be a counterbalance of spend rather than cut. Here's the problem summarised. The trend for growth in the UK has been heading in the wrong direction for over 20 years and half of that was under a so called 'cut' Tory govt. Would you expect a Labour 'spend' govt to be better ,or worse in terms of it's impact on that trend? Rhetorical question from an economics point of view. Trends in UK business dynamism and productivity 2023.pdf The conclusion will be this. Increased Govt expenditure and debt will lead to an even lower trend in growth and a therefore a smaller economy supporting that higher debt than would otherwise have been the case. The Tory party did a pretty crap job of creating growth because they forgot who they were supposed to be economically. The PDF spells that out. However, in their defence they did that against the context of the greatest Financial crash in nearly 100 years that virtually brought the world to it's knees (2008-2012/3). A massive infight over Europe (Brexit) that caused so much internal disruption they appeared to have little time for managing anythingelse (2013/4 onwards). Finally, Covid a once in a multi lifetime event that brought economic/financial challenges on a scale hitherto unseen since the upheaval of the second World War (2020-2022/3). Yes, we can criticise , but also I cannot think of any party in office who had to deal with a sequence of events like that. Not in my lifetime anyway. To say they are the other party in a statement of "lesser of two evils" is a display of historic and economic ignorance.

Yes Malc, the whole things unravelling at a pace. Here's a comment from a friend whose family own an award winning olive oil business in Greece, "Hi Phil, the sad truth is that farmers all over Europe are being attacked. This government appears to be following the same agenda by introducing this cruel, unethical tax. It's clear that there's a systematic effort to take control of the food supply chain and this is another step to achieving this goal. As farmers did in the Netherlands, Italy, France and Greece, I really hope farmers here get organised and get out and protest. If anything, it'll help spread awareness and get the public on their side." It's hard not to conclude that this is out of the Marxist handbook first control food then the means of production then the people. 😱

Comment from a local farmer, "One thing is for sure there will be no tenant or smaller family farms left under the current government". So if you think car tax going up is expensive wait till you see food prices! 😱

They should have spoken with you beforehand or at least the FSB. If you live in a rural community like me there just may be a bright spot here concerning solar panel farms if you are contesting one near you. Changes to the hereditary tax position for farms means if you are unable to pay the death duties your only option is to sell up. But who is going to buy land with a Solar farm on it other than the energy companies or hedge funds at a knock-down price.? Being cynical it's a very cute way of supporting the net zero lunatics. ☹️

I had my IS300h serviced on Friday at T/Wells Lexus. Absolutely excellent service from them from the moment I dropped it off to the moment I collected it. They sat me down & explained everything in detail that had been done on the 40,000mile/4 years service although it had only done just over 11,000 miles. Other service centres I have been to just wanted me out of the way ASAP & I always had to take the service book back into them for it to be stamped, not here though it was all done. (As it should be). Coffee & biscuits were free flowing & everyone there was happy & chatty, very pleasant. I will definitely be going back there for my next service.

Having made the switch to a new Toyota CH-R after two Lexus NX300h and a 450h, I thought I’d post some of my thoughts here (similar to a post I made on the Toyota forums). I’ve now had my own CH-R Excel for just over two weeks, and a Design courtesy car for a week prior to that while mine was being prepared. I thought it might be interesting to articulate my initial impressions after a few miles, and having downsized from my 2021 Lexus RX 450h. First, the good. I’m very happy with my choice, and the downsize hasn’t shown as many compromises as I feared. I now only complete 2-3k miles each year, so a smaller car was a sensible switch, but even so I did love my RX and did approach the change with some trepidation. I needn’t have. The interior quality is excellent (mainly). The technology works well, and I like the touchscreen vs my previous Lexus ‘trackpad.’ The drive is also very good, being quiet and refined. I’m actually surprised at how quiet the car is, despite a long test drive some months ago. It is largely very impressive (but more on that later). The dealer did try and convince me to drive the 2.0 litre CH-R first but, knowing how limited my mileage was going to be, I decided to try the 1.8 instead. As it seemed perfectly adequate I went with that. It’s no ball of fire, but I value refinement and smoothness more these days and I find it perfectly acceptable for my needs. Equipment levels on the Excel are also good enough for me. I’ve lost ventilated leather seats and a HUD - neither of which bother me. I have also lost an opening glass roof which is a shame. I’d have preferred the option, but it is what it is. A heated steering wheel should also be included imho. I must also comment on the quality of the switchgear - indicator stalks, buttons, steering wheel etc. It really is very good and gives a real impression of being well designed and nice to use. What don’t I like so much? I would have preferred a rear wiper, but don’t find it too problematic. I would also have liked ‘dipping’ mirrors as I’ve said on another thread. Yes, I know I have 360 degree cameras, but to this driver it’s still easier to place the car when reversing with the simple old school dipping mirrors that I’ve had on every car for twenty years plus. I’m sure I’ll get used to it, but even so - simple sometimes just works better! The dashboard reflects in the front windscreen quite a lot, which is a bit off-putting initially. I did say interior quality was impressive - and I think it is - the exception being the rear door cards which are pretty cheap in comparison with the front. Hardly the end of the world, and common to other cars I test drove, but seems to be a bit unnecessary to me. I guess the savings over thousands of cars all add up. Generally the car is very quiet on the move, but the Design spec courtesy car I had was quieter. I can only assume it’s down to the tyres. My car has Bridgestone Turanza, whereas the courtesy car had Falken. I have to admit that Falken have been my brand of choice for years, being a great balance between price and performance, whereas Bridgestone haven’t been so good on previous Honda cars. I’ll be looking to change them to all season tyres after a few months. Last thing. I’d have preferred a rear parcel blind rather than an old fashioned shelf. But that’s a proper ‘first world’ complaint! Overall it’s a solid 8.5/10. I really like the CH-R, and am comfortable that I made a good choice. I do miss the Lexus, but not as much as I thought I would. The biggest compromise isn’t the power, or the space, and certainly not the quality as the two cars are remarkably similar in that regard. The biggest compromise is ride quality, but even then the Toyota isn’t bad in comparison with its peers, just in comparison with the RX.

If you check the UK Lexus website there's a special offer, ends November 1st, where every new SUV hybrid or fully electric car comes with a free UK moggy. The colour chart is available on line.

Hello, The Titanic traveled today to its new home, the first thing was to clean and nourish the seats, tomorrow, I will wash the bodywork, I will upload photos

I understand but sadly I feel that the companies have been forced to produce electric vehicles way before their development has reached a suitable level. I think that we can all agree that a 10 minute interlude at an expensive motorway fuel stop is sometimes necessary on a long journey. What I can't accept is an extra 2 hours (in some cases) during a 500 mile trip, just for charging. Then when one gets to where one is travelling to it has to be charged again. All this dependant on chargers being available of course. I accept that we will have to move away from petrol eventually - but let's have it at a fair pace that we can all deal with. Rushing to net zero will only cause misery for we Brits and bankrupt UK-PLC. Meanwhile the Chinese will keep producing cars, that are more than adequate by-the-way, using electricity made from burning coal with unfiltered chimneys pumping-out more CO2 in a month than the UK produces in a year! Where is the sense?

FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY RESOLVED! FFFFFIIIIINNNNAAAALLLLYYYYY 🥳 Replacing the fuse has bought the arrows back and removed the P3108 code - let joy be unconfounded. 😁 I'm off to dance around the driveway!

I’m new to this forum and posting in general so bear with me if I get anything wrong. I’ve recently bought a LBX and suffered the same issues as many posters here. I’m still carrying out monitoring activities on my LBX battery and will report my observations in due course. Going back to this video, I watched this a number of times and this is my take on it. The guy is using the battery analyser to carry out a test on the Cold Cranking performance of the batteries and as some people have pointed out is not relevant to its use in a hybrid vehicle. What is interesting though is the other information displayed on the meter namely the battery voltage. The VW Varta battery shows a voltage at the start of the test of 12.83v which on the SOC vs Batt volts curve I’m using equates to about 95% charged. He then puts a on a load of about 30A for 10 mins, lets it settle for ten mins then carries out the test again. The batt volts read 12.55v equivalent to about 73% charged, a loss of 23%. For the Turkish Mutly the results are start volts 12.85v equivalent to 97% charged, finish volts 12.54v equivalent to 73% charged, a loss of 24%. For the Yuasa LBX battery the results are start volts 12.65 equivalent to 80% charged finish volts 12.32v equivalent to 56% charged, a loss of 24%. I think there are a number of issues associated with this guy’s test : The CCA test is not a relevant test for hybrid owners. Despite his meter saying the LBX battery is 100% charged I believe that unlike the other2 batteries, it’s only at 80% charge, he should have ensured all batteries were fully charged before starting the test. It would have been more helpful if he had waited a lot longer than the 10 mins after applying the load before carrying out the final test to allow the batteries to settle to their stable voltage. My conclusion therefore is that all 3 batteries showed a similar loss in capacity after the test and so were performing in a similar manner. The 24% ish loss of capacity is probably less than that had the batteries been allow to settle back to a higher finishing voltage as the theoretical loss of 30A for 10mins is only about 5Ah. I believe the real issue with the LBX battery is it’s just not got the capacity to do the task it’s being asked to do, for any length of time, with all the electrical load being placed on it.

You will get warning beeps if the car isn't turned off. What is important is if you are just sitting in the car listening to the radio or programming a route in to the Sat Nav that you put the car into 'Ready' mode (foot on the brake and press the start button), even if that means the petrol engine will start and stop, and not just turn on accessory or ignition mode (pressing the button without your foot on the brake). If you aren't in ready mode then your battery will go flat very quickly.

Well it is a ‘super’ car👍

Every 3 dB increase doubles the loudness. It's logarithmic.

Yep - Standard stuff happens every year. Pv=k in practice. Just top 'em up for winter.

JDM Fogs 🤩

Some good news and sad news sold( pending collection,) my beautiful car to a lovely couple who also own another LS600hl, sad to see her go, but glad she is going to a good home.

Mine not working, but changed the battery and started ticking away....not my LBX but a Lexus watch my wife had bought me for a present. What is it with Lexus and batteries. Thinking of fitting a battery monitor to it

We must wait a few more days for the Financial and Money Markets to fully absorb all this and the BofE early next week Care Homes will be going bust with the new NIs and their inmates will be being dumped outside hospitals I fear …… really actually YES Tim Martin of Wetherspoons next Wednesdays Annual Meeting ? will be telling us really what the impact is on the retail sector ….. his anyway Fullers pubs / brewery are saying a 30/40p uplift in the price of a pint at the pub NOT that 1p shaving off the price in the budget Im still not sure that Starmer Reeves will be around in a couple of weeks …….. Rayner Abbott Ashworth Corbyn might yet see their day of immense fame 🤔 Malc

You need to have the daylight saving button off ...

it's ok. I gave them your address 😂🤣 Malc

I can think of one word that describes it very well. Hypocrisy.

You're not going to like me for this but are you aware of Age Champions from Age Uk? They are MP's who have pledged to support older people and their quality of life. Unbelievably on the list are Labour MP's who voted with the government to stop the WFA. 😱😱😱. A spokesman from the OED said there are no words to describe this 😕

It's legal to have different makes of tyre on the same axle, you can even mix runflats and non runflats if you want, although not advisable. The only legal requirement is that they are both radials. As long as they are the correct size and speed rating you should be ok, although I wouldn't want them on my car, I'm very fussy about tyres and like a matched set of premium ones. I use Black Circles for tyres so I can choose exactly the ones I want.