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Very few seem to have original colour due kerbing repairs and flaking. As long as the colour suits the car I don't see it being an issue if it's not an exact factory match. Stu

My gripes.....1. Lack of driver memory seat on F Sport, with no option to upgrade. Should be standard in this price band, and pretty stupid not to offer it as an option across the range. 2. Remote touch pad - far too sensitive, and unusable if you wear gloves in winter. A good job the car has forward collision alert, because if you are trying to use this pad whilst driving you are likely to need it. A triumph of design over usability. 3 Electric tailgate - wake me up when it's finally shut. 4.Position of the remote jump/charging points, and the 12V battery if you ever need to charge it - why put the positive terminal inside a fuse box, and the recommended negative/earth point under the engine cover? I normally trickle charge directly to the battery, but Lexus have decided to hide this away under a difficult to remove, and even more difficult to refit piece of trim in the side of the boot.

Excellent service from Lexus Chester today. No charge for the loan car and they did the 50k service, MOT and one of the recall jobs. The other needs parts that will come in next week The loan car was an IS300h which was highly impressive. If I did 15,000+ miles a year I could see me having one of those. Even better they had 2 RC-Fs in the showroom. Black looks exceptionally good, but the blue is even better. It sounds great when revved too. I couldn't take one as out as they will not be registered until 1 March, but will have a go when I go back for the fuel recall. Its also the first time I've seen 3 IS-Fs together. A Blue one was for sale, there was another Blue one on a 07 plate (obviously a private plate) and mine. Nice

If you go the Lexus route for parts you get top quality---but at a heavy price. If you go aftermarket you tend to get a mixed bag, quality wise. Some aftermarket stuff really is up to OEM standard, but most is not. For example, some time back, I ordered 2 X Beck Arnley replacement engine mounts from an independant parts supplier; one mount looked up to the claimed Lexus standard and the other was cheap rubbish which I had to get a refund on. Both were packed in separate Beck Arnley boxes.

Correct as Taiwan is certainly not China !! Regards John

Stuart hi, your Raybestos UCAs seem to come with a 3 year warranty so you should be ok ! 113k is a tiny mileage for original one's tbh ........... are they just Advisory ( where they might last a few more years actually ) before becoming an urgent " to do " Advisory ? Much Advisory stuff with MOTs is down to the individual tester and another might say they are all ok, just keep an eye on them ! Malc

Insurance companies should be able to insure a car on the VIN but if Admiral won't you may have to contact a few specialist insurer's. I have in the past taken out a days cover to move a car, not cheap at around £30.00 a day but cheaper than a transporter which is the other option. Apparently Adrian Flux will insure on the VIN.

It does beg the question why does OEM lasts 200k and chinese only a year? They didn't use polyurethene back in 93 as far as I'm aware. How different can rubber be? Perhaps I'll put up a thread for people to give their experience - what bought, approx cost, how many miles to date, what experience. I'm all for paying a fair price but OEM is astronomic.

So sorry to hear that. If you want to sell it, put it on eBay as an auction. You will get much more than £115 for it. Make a good advert with everything about the car and its condition and service history, etc, and 12 good photos and briefly explain the fault. Start it a £1 with no reserve and I think you will find it will sell for a good sum of money (certainly more than you have been offered). I did this a couple of years ago with my wife's MOT failure, 15 year old, BMW 3 series and I got £400 for it. There was a lot more wrong with it than your car and it was in poor condition. Well worth looking at eBay. Someone somewhere will have access to this part and will be willing to spend time repairing it, so it still has some value. See what similar GS300s have sold for which are spares or repairs. Giles.

found this on a lambda website quite interesting ECU's are progressively becoming able to accurately identify a failing lambda sensor, but for older engine management systems, this is not the case. Fault codes do exist for lambda failure but most older ECU's only detect an absence of signal, for example if you had cut the sensor wires, or average 'too rich' and average 'too lean' mixtures over a long period of time. These fault codes do not always work but the increasing number of Lambda-code related MOT failures we encounter would support their usefulness. It still applies that the absence of a lambda-related fault code cannot be taken as a guarantee the Lambda is functioning correctly. This is especially true of some ECU systems with sophisticated LOS strategies, such as Toyota or Lexus, which will cope with a failing sensor but fuel consumption will be markedly up as a result of more fuel being used to maintain driveability

I prefer to call it a CRAFT moment, of which I have many!

i am going to have a go at doing this,keep up the good work matt

Disconnect battery first. Switch is fitted to steering wheel and requires airbag removal. Whip off side covers and behind there are 2 clips which release airbag. Then its a simple secure switch, connect, refit airbag and reconnect battery.