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I might try that .....on my face :)

They need to iron out any wrinkles - standard procedure. BO-0016L-0114_IR.pdf

i hope this helps someone for a while now i have been trying to remove the internal boot trim and today i have found out how to undo the last to clips that are located in the two door handles,you need to put a flat screw driver in the slot and move it up like in the video i have done a little video to show how to unlock the clips. http://i566.photobucket.com/albums/ss107/parkside2002/th_video-2015-03-22-11-41-56_zps58ndwi4o.mp4

While the R8 is a great car (especially the V10 Spyder ) and a good all round every day car, it is a bit more of a, em, 'Prima Donna' than the LS 400! One thing to watch out for are that there are only certain Audi dealers who have R8 trained 'technicians' (ah, remember when we had mechanics?!). Still, in Scotland, there are more of them than the two Lexus dealers we currently have! It is so annoying when things are not right with cars! My wife just sighs and lets me rant and rave - well, to a point! She told me today that I had "extreme OCD with your (flippin') cars" as I was trying to trace a tiny rattle in the Daimler's driver's door! Found it though! Ha! I hope your LS gets fixed to your satisfaction.

Welcome Chris :)

I tend to abide by the rule in life that if you can't say something nice about people, say nothing. Which is why I referred to a false start with a member without giving detail. But since I have just been called "abusive", and this being the internet, no-one knows the caracters concerned, I feel the need to set the record straight. 1. On March 5th, just after bringing my car back from Ireland, I wrote (post #27) that I was away with work for 10 days and would update when I got back. That trip was to India. 2. In my correspondence with Bilmac, discussing how to conclude the sale I wrote on Feb 20th: "I have to go to India on the 6th, so otherwise it would have to wait til late March." 3. My vendor did not "allow himself to be bullied" as Bilmac so charmingly puts it. He was about to start a new job 3,000 miles from Ireland and was delighted to conclude the sale as his car had not attracted any enquiries in Ireland until my interest. He did present the car for export inspection and calculated his entitlements from the state. In fact he was a pleasure to deal with. 4. Below is the full text of my email to Bilmac I didn't reply last night because I was so angry, and that is never great for writing emails. However I am no happier this morning. "The error was pointed out", you say. But you didn't call or write to me and apologise for an error - you just presented me with a demand for more money without any explanation. That is rude and dishonest. But it wasn't an error, in any case. When you put the car for sale on the forum you said 4,000 euro was "just about half what the car stands me". When i read that I went through what you had spent as follows: car 5,000 euro, service 800 euro, tyres 800 euro, wrap 1400 euro = total 8,000 euro. So even though the wrap has no value to me, as I would rather be able to see the paintwork, I could see how you calculated you had spent 8,000 euro on the car. The point being, writing 4,000 euro wasn't a mistake - it was the price you had decided to charge, and you explained the calculation. As I did my research, I could see that selling it to a UK forum member, which allows you to claim close to 2,000 euro VRT refund, meant it wasn't as bad as it looked for over a year's comfortable motoring. So again, I think you have been dishonest in now claiming you meant £4,000 instead of 4,000 euro. You're right, there are quite a few on donedeal. That's mainly because they are not selling. After close to 3 months with your car listed on the forum at 4,000 euro, you found one buyer - me. Now you want to try and sell it for 5,400 euro. Do you really think that putting the price up will produce more buyers for you? And even if you sell it to an Irish buyer for that price, you will end up with less because you don't get the export refund. I generally think the best of people until such time as they let me down, and after investing many hours in researching your car, how to register it and get it home etc. I am very disappointed and disillusioned that you turned out to be dishonest. Members reading this can form their own conclusion as to how abusive I was, but bear in mind the context was a discussion of which flight I was taking to buy the vehicle. 5. I wasn't planning to prejudice Bilmac's ability to sell the car to anyone else, but in the circumstances I am revealing that an Irish Cartell report reveals that the vehicle was originally silver, then black. It is now wrapped in blue plastic. So buyers have no scope to determine the current quality of the paintwork under the wrap, but it is not original. The report also states it is running on a Hackney license. 6 I believe the member to whom Bilmac sold his LS400 was very happy with the car. He also inspected a car for a fellow member. So clearly he is not a bad person. But I believe I am now the third member of this forum he has chosen to antagonise or insult, and frankly, life is too short. I hope this clarifies my position. Jon

Away to look at a 2cv hahahahahahahaha

....... ah the bliss of a 20 year old Ls400 ................... totally stress free Malc

Cannot wait to hear about the answers you will provide on their questionnaire asking for your views on the service they have provided. Regards John

Welcome to the LOC and congratulations on your 220d purchase,happy motoring Lexus style :)

Eureka! Atfer yet another search I finally found the elusive button only a few feet away from the location of the key, the search was severely hampered by the fact we have just had a new flat roof fitted and there are little bits of tar everywhere but there it was intact. So problem hopefully sorted once I get all the bits back together,it's such a pain having to put the key in the door lock :)

Your problem was that you asked your Dealer..............what does he know, apart from levering open wallets :D

Just found this topic -- does anybody know if it would be possible to retrofit an AUX port into an '08 RX400h ?