GWilso

Sorry to here of this mate but at least it's out the way now and you can move on

Think £340 is bargain. For a wing, the light and paint PLUS labour....think thats very reasonable.

No mate, he's taken £430 from me, i calculated that labour was gonna be £340!!! For a days worth of work!

Signed

I dont expect ill recieve anything within the brackets but still very much support the cause for those that it does effect,

Its well worth the haggle! after all you spending enough of your hard earned cash without added expenses afterwards

Regards

Gordon

It's a private seller btw.

J

Security & Caretaking Assistant for the Local council but not sure for how much longer

I would Say £150 for Clutch £100 for rear pads (as maty above says if this is the case?) make sure you have agood look at the state of the discs and make sure there not warped this is a common problem are you likly to get the deposit back if you pull out? is it a dealer or private might be worth taking a mate built like a brick S**t house just incase he trys to get funny

Good luck

OK, I have a little more information on the car... maybe bad news?

I have contacted Lexus Liverpool where they serviced it and asked them regarding the service history and safety document...

The clutch will need replacing

The front driver's side caliper is beginning to "bind" slightly

The rear pads have approximately 15% remaining

He hasn't told me about this and hopefully this will lead to further negotiating in price.

I'm a little worried as I don't know the extent of these jobs and parts and could do with some guidance... Anyone have ideas on prices for parts / labour?

Many thanks,

Jamie

Congrats hope all goes well on Sunday

All the best owen pop back in soon

Looking Good :D

I must admit it was like being a kid again i had so much fun this morning oh and the snow button done me no good whatsoever got stuck once and had to shuvel some snow with my bare hands to get traction

But well worth it :D

Oh my days what has the world come to?

Whenever I log on it flags up 7.4Mbps wether thats the true running speed i'm not sure

Sorry to stray marcus great find by the way that sounds awsome

But ive noticed sometimes when watchin these clips from youtube etc it can sometimes be quite jumpy pausing for a few seconds etc is it my computer setup is there anything i can do to rectify it?

Cheers

Hi mate, what internet speed you running ? its alot to do with it! but then saying that im on 4MB and it is sometimes like that for me as well, could come down to the time of day and who else is looking at it as well

Sorry to stray marcus great find by the way that sounds awsome

But ive noticed sometimes when watchin these clips from youtube etc it can sometimes be quite jumpy pausing for a few seconds etc is it my computer setup is there anything i can do to rectify it?

Cheers

Looking mint mate those seats look good what are they?

Sorry to hear this Robbo i'm in a simmilar postion to you and need to think about selling up, Ive been all day looking around second hand car fourcourts with the wife and nothing compares

sold my lexus today not a happy bunny had to cash in work has dried up and morgage needs to be paid so now the npt so proud owner of a vaux omega this is not the end for my love of lexus i will be back soon with another i hope any way only had my new car 2 hours and have kicked it twice would never do that to the lexi so 4 now this is goodbye but not fare well :shutit: :shutit:

Thanks for all the support folks

as you say raykhan i think ill just monitor the finances week by week and see how it goes, its really strange ive had a few cars in my time and never really had any probs getting rid.

The lexi although its costing more to run than any other ive had i'm so reluctant to let it go,especially after i looked at a few cars yesturday vauxhall/fords/MG and the interior etc everything is cheap plastic i think i would just miss the quality build all to much

Yeah i know what you mean about petrol etc it's a nightmare..... As much as i'd love a second car i need to be sensible and bring all costs down, insurance,petrol,warrenty etc etc i figured i could save £130 a month by downsizing and most of that is the petrol :duh:

I just cant seem to let go?

I know the misses has said its ok to keep the car but why do I get the feeling I might regret her suggestion 4 month's down the line

ive got a little corsa for work. i know its more insurance a year but im saving that and some on fuel by having the second car.

costs me £30 to fill the corsa up and it last me over a week.

lexus is 55-60 and that last just under a week.

Spotless I should hire you to do mine :D

This is hard to discuss so take it easy on me

I'm in between jobs at the minute the new job will mean starting at the bottom end of the ladder again with a lesser salary etc etc

My problem is do I sell the lexi and downsize temporarily of course :D to keep the running costs down?

The wife has said "I know how much you love that car we could probably afford to keep it IF YOU WANT" I was looking around at cars yesterday and I don’t want to look at loosing to much power so here goes I found this http://www.perrys.co.uk/dealer-used-list?p...Saloon/P/25/1/4

I know its a Rover but lets not stray of the topic I phoned A plan to get a quote its 2 insurance groups lower so insurance will be cheaper right?..............Wrong they want nearly a quarter of the premium again

This has upset me and made me realise there might not be that much of a saving downsizing to a car with a little less BHP without looking at Micra etc etc :shutit:

So do I keep looking or do I for fill wife’s suggestion of keeping the lexi and struggle on paying higher insurance petrol etc etc

Damn, I was hoping for a few posts saying the IS300 was definitely the one to go for! I'm planning on test driving both of them which will hopefully sway me one way or the other.

I had a quick look on Auto Trader in my local area & didn't see any IS250 on there for sub £20k. I would go for the SE Auto + multimedia centre. I'll have a closer look later on.

It is Manual although the cheapest i found with MM package

http://atsearch.autotrader.co.uk/www/CARS_...200705268791106

Yeah i should have said refinment with a faint rattle or two

refinement? .... i thought that it was ... if you want "rattles", then 250 is a must .... no?

Personally I prefer the styling of the old IS but if its the refinment you want then as Kazi says the 250 is a must

No need to spend 26k if your happy to go for 05/55/06 plates there is plenty in auto trader 19/20k with a few miles on the clock

Waiting for the PS3 :P although i might be waiting for some time

OMG.....

The 360 is ace, I've got it wired via component to my 43" Pioneer Plasma, and 5.1 surround to my Denon.

It's Brilliant.

Games i have are: -

Test Drive unlimited

Project Gotham 3

Top spin 2 on order.

Add me to your friends if you like.....

My gamer tag is webbbr!

Post below if you do, so i know where your from.

Chers,

Webbbr.

Seems alright as it is to me, but not really fussed either way

Seems like a good result are you going to accept the offer?

I had a simmilar incident the other day although i wasn't trying to show off :P

I was taking a corner that was caked in mud and I lost the back end if it wasn't for the TRC I would have been imbeded in the kurb and no doubt nackard the suspension

Great little gizmo