Mincey

Wise words Len!

I always check for small children or wild animals which may have been sucked into the side ducts on the front of my IS before travelling anywhere.

Someone polished it off... 😉

Absolutely - it's a right faff to have to set that each time.

No - it doesn't stick! Each time you turn the ignition off, you have to turn the limit back on again.

Duly signed.

Ok, warning set to 77, off I go to test it (on a suitable road of course, where there were no Rozzers). 70, 72, 73, 74, 76, 77 - beeeeeeeeeeeep! Perfect. Can anyone tell me why I'm not 100% happy though?

Ah yes - I remember Onyx. Here's the guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Van_Rossem

I'm quaking in my boots, make no mistake! Anyway, I had a look in my car's manual and couldn't see anything. I'll admit that I didn't look "that" hard, but I feel slightly vindicated. Here's a video of where to find it anyway. Here's the short of it - go to Settings, then when you get to Meter settings, scroll down or up, then the menu with the Speed limiter will appear. Set the Speed Limiter to On then you can set the target speed with the option below. As you'll see, this was done after I set mine to 77mph as you can see it on the screen in the Rev Counter dial thing: 2021-04-24 14.54.44.mp4

Found it in the pdf! I was using the wrong term - it's on p133. I'm going to spend the morning looking for an Advanced Searching Course as my skills are clearly not up to scratch!

Many thanks for the replies everyone - I've already got my road sign warning set up but that doesn't do anything for NSL roads. I have another look over the weekend to see if I can find the speed limit warning. There's no mention of it in my PDF manual, I guess I'll have to dust of the real one!

Going back to Audi for a moment, haven't they made a slight mistake....? At least we now know that it IS possible to polish one...

The other day, I was out in my IS. The sun was shining, Planet Rock was playing some particularly fine tunes, and the roads were relatively empty. As I was thinking to myself that my IS300H was a rocket ship and the best car in its segment bar none, I suddenly glanced down at the speedometer and noticed that I was exceeding the speed limit by nearly 15mph. This caused me some consternation because I still have about 18 months to go before the Speed Awareness course I took "wears out". It got me wondering. "Mincey, " I wondered to myself, "I wonder if there is some speed alert I can engage to make things change colour if I go over a certain speed, like there was in the old IS250". Well, when I got home I went straight for the manual I can tell you. Sadly I didn't find anything. I can set a rev alert (a bit pointless), but there was no mention of a speed alert. I checked the forum. Nothing. I checked Google. Bingo! I found this video from one of those American types in an IS350 F Sport. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXuxXOagZZI Is there any chance that there's a hidden menu squirrelled away somewhere which allows those of us with more environmentally friendly engines and the steering wheel on the correct side of the car, to engage a speed alert? I may be an old luddite, but I find it much easier to see speed on a dial and not via a digital representation. Something to tell me that I've entered Licence Damaging Territory would be nice...

I'll admit that when they came out, I did think about one. I think the dark metallic blue suits them nicely. My sensible head said stick with Lexus though.

Holy thread resurrection Batman!

Aren't they engineered to fall to bits?

Company car drivers who have left BMW for the BIK benefit of an EV.

Are you sure you're not my boss...? He'd have pointed out something like that! The reason I liked the spray is that it lifted the bird mess and could be rinsed off without any physical contact or scratching.

Saw a red LC coming off the roundabout on the A1 near Morrisons on the road to Elstree this afternoon. Was it anyone here? First one I've seen on the road - looked very nice indeed

Most people here have used their Lexus AA membership for breakdowns with other cars in their families. I have yet to see a Lexus stuck at the side of the road, unlike their German competition, which seem to have an affinity for the hard shoulder...

Way back in 2008 when I bought my IS250 from Lexus Leicester, I was cajoled into having the car Supagarded. I'd read stuff in this very forum about how it made rain run off the car and I'd not have to wax it for three years yada yada yada, so I paid for it and got my big bag of cleany gear (see below). Impressive isn't it? Look at all those shiny cans and boxes of cleany stuff and that alloy cleaning brush is the dog's bits: (The bag is pristine - the brown "stains" is the setting sun - honest!) The eagle-eyed among you will have noticed that it looks untouched. Well, you're right. It was totally untouched. It could in fact, go into a Supagard museum. Anyway, I digress.Roll the clock forward to December 2019 and another spending spree at Lexus Leicester on a replacement IS. This time I held out and said I didn't want Supagard. "Supagard?" they said. "You foolish young man - we don't offer that anymore, it's Gardex now!". I held out and said "No. No, I don't want Gardex either". I ended up having it thrown in for free, so I was quite chuffed. Even though I think the car had already been Gardexed anyway (it was an ex-demonstrator). When I picked up the car, I was given the Gardex "bag". Not quite as impressive as the Supagard bag, is it? "No Mincey, it is not!" I hear you all cry in unison. I have removed the tyre sealant though - that's in the boot. Just in case. So what, I'm sure you're wondering is the point of this post? What is the point to any of my posts? That's a very good question indeed. That's a question even I cannot answer. Well, my sensible car owning chums, let me tell you. For reasons far too complicated to go into, I had to park my car underneath a tree overnight. This morning I went out to discover to my horror, that the boot lid was plastered with a substance which I can only describe as "bird ****". And a lot of it. Pigeons. Need I say more? Given that my last IS had a few patches where I'd scrubbed a bit too hard to remove bird poo, I was concerned. I then remembered my Supagard pack. Would the Bird Poo remover remove all the bird poo which had plastered my boot? I was both concerned and intrigued. Could some 12 year old chemicals restore my boot lid to its previously pristine state? Would it remove the poo and the paint? I thought I needed to take one for my chums here on the forum, so I did. I took the 12 year old can of bird poo remover from the Supagard bag, shook it for a minute and then sprayed it all over the poo on my boot. Was I going to need to invoke the paint protection I HAD taken out on my car? Everything would be obvious in a minute or so. I was scared, very scared. It was a very long minute. The timer on my phone beeped. I poured the bucket of water I'd had ready all over my boot lid. The white foam which had come out of the can was now a dirty brown. It washed away leaving a totally fab clean silver boot lid. I punched the air. The woman who was on the other side of the road talking to a friend on her mobile phone stopped talking and gave me a thumbs up. She knew what I'd been up to, and she approved heartily. This was success on an unparalleled level. There must be a point to this story. It's probably "go to Halfords and buy a can of bird poo remover in case you have to leave your car parked under a tree at night. It will save you a few quid.". I bet you're all wondering why I didn't use the bird poo remover from the Gardex pack? Well, it wasn't as big and beefy as the Supagard one. The woman over the road would not have been half as impressed had I used the little girlie can of Gardex Poo Remover, and that's a fact. Like there being nine million bicycles in Beijing. I hope this post has been of use.

Well that's the ES crossed of my list then... I'd have to have my right leg chopped off before I got into a BMW though. I would hate to have my neighbours thinking I was an onanist. Or did I mean organist?

I'm considering moving to an ES when I replace my IS. I saw a black one the other day and my Jazz Club meter went off the scale.

Sadly this was a roundabout he'd been round pretty much every day for the past 50 years.... 😉