Mincey

I hope so. It was my mother's pride and joy - a Bosch Rotax Li something or other. She loved it. It was really light to use, cut nicely and had a long battery life (that's got me thinking - will there ever be an electric IS?). As she's moved to a flat, she has no further need for the mower and I'm glad it has gone to a good home. Had I known how lovely the two lovely ladies were, I would have charged them less.

Now the correct answer would have been "Azure Blue", but to the two lovely old ladies who had come to buy one of my surplus lawnmowers, the appropriate answer was "it's a Lexus". They then wanted to know all about Betsy - how many miles I did each month and what mpg I was getting (eyebrows were raised and "oooh"'s uttered when I told them of my peak 53mpg average on a trip to the Saarf Coast and back). It's a shame that they came in their own car, otherwise I could have used Betsy for her intended purpose and taxied them home again.

I'm still very happy with my AAWireless adapter. The only slight issue is that whenever I'm near Peterborough railway station, it cuts out in the same place every time. Issue with the overhead wires perhaps?

All sorted. 20 minutes on hold then another 10 to "update their systems". I'm still struggling to understand a) why the dealer didn't do their job properly and b) why it took so long. Don't they realise some of us have fares to pick up?

I apologise in advance for the Daily Star link: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/teenager-killed-after-jumping-front-27164140

Absolutely gorgeous!

Thank you for clarifying that. I would be mortified to think that any fellow Lexus owners who may have suffered a one in a million breakdown this Bank Holiday weekend might have taken my post to think that they would have been left high and dry on the side of the road. I'm glad that I wrote "Just in case anyone needs to talk to Lexus Assistance to get their cover sorted out" and not "Just in case anyone needs to talk to Lexus Assistance in the very unlikely event of a breakdown". It's very easy to misconstrue things, isn't it?

Just in case anyone needs to talk to Lexus Assistance to get their cover sorted out, they don't work on Bank Holidays. It's lucky that some people do, i.e. the software team at Thompson Reuters, or I'd be in a right pickle now after some server upgrades went Pete Tong yesterday.

I just rang now as I had a some spare time. Five minutes at least of recorded announcements then "Please ring back during our office hours which are Monday...." aaargh!

Are there any Rozzers here?

I contacted the number Lexus Customer Services gave me. It all seemed kosher at the time. I will be calling 0800 169 0393 on Monday morning.

When I swapped my IS300h (the fastest car in it's segment, rocket ship etc) for Betsy (the airport transfer car, executive taxi etc) I contacted the AA to let them know that the car on my personal plate had changed. "Oh don't worry Mincey," they told me, "all will be well". Well, "well" it isn't. I've come home today to find a letter from Lexus telling me that my AA cover will run out in mid-June. It took bloody ages to persuade them that my IS was now an ES back in last October. I hope that the phone call on Monday will be a successful one. I will report back asap as I can tell that all of you are already waiting with baited breath to see how this goes....

If I was in a flippant mood, I'd say a connector for a taxi fare meter 🙂

I got excited then as I thought you might be buying my old IS300h which has been on their forecourt since last October, but I've just read your OP - different car 😞

It's a can of gunge in an IS300h, not a spare wheel unfortunately. I had a rattle/bang in my '99 IS200 and it took the dealer ages to pinpoint the cause. They never told me what it was though.

I had the pleasure of taking a colleague on a 250 mile round trip in Betsy last week. On the way back we started talking about transmissions. He has one of those awful Audi things with DSG transmission. "The gearbox in this car is very smooth" he said, "it's not one of those cvt jobs is it?". "Mais oui!" I replied, practicing my French for some unknown reason. "But," he replied "I've been in colleague A's Toyota Corolla and colleague B's Toyota CRV, and the CVTs in their cars are awful, waily, loud things". "But this is a Lexus." I replied, and the conversation was quickly moved on to other things.

That reminds me of the time I came across a Stag (the animal kind, not an old Triumph) late at night. This wouldn't normally be a problem but he was standing in the middle of the road through Thetford Forest and I was heading towards him at 60mph. Luckily we both had a bit of sense - I pushed the brake pedal into the floor mat and he decided to saunter off to scare the living daylights out of someone another day.

Three times now I've nearly reversed into something whilst parking in Betsy. On each occasions I've had someone in the car rabbiting away at me. The parking sensor beeps and the BRAKE! warning don't seem to make any difference. This demonstrates why I do not like having passengers. I am yet to discover whether Betsy will take over and apply the brakes before it is too late. Oh and another thing. Why do non Lexus drivers have to slam the door of any Lexus they are fortunate to be travelling in? Is it because the fit and finish of their Scheissewagens necessitates this? The next person to slam one of Betsy's doors is going to get a bunch of fives, make no mistake.

I've been hearnig the same old songs in the car all week now. Just now, I checked what Spotify was playing outside the car and.... it was playing the same songs. I cleared the cache in the app and it seems to be playing some of the other 3950 songs on my Liked Songs list now. Squirrel that one away guys'n'gals.

The weather's good, it's a Bank Holiday weekend and those factors put together can only mean one thing: it's not safe out on the roads. Why? Old f*****s in Nissan Qashqai's, driving around completely oblivious to any other road users, road markings or Highway Code procedures. Is the opening gambit of the Nissan salesman when approaching a prospective Qashqai customer something like "Are you a few sandwiches short of a picnic? Are you not quite the shilling?" If the answer to at least one iis yes, he can proceed with the sale. Many of you will know that I have a thing against drivers of German cars. The thing is, they're generally a predictable bunch - you know one is going to cut you up, or glue themselves to your rear bumper on dual carriageways or motorways or be driving like a complete [insert expletive of choice here] most of the time. Qashqai drivers are a very different thing though. Dangerously unpredictable. Heed my advice and steer clear. Steer very clear.

Yay! Lexus caters for us southpaws 😁

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This is an outrage!