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is this including acid dip and Powder coating ? Thanks Malc

with this tale of sublime ridiculousness and seeming illegality by Adrian Flux now having spread your private data to who knows where, it's a good job that the Commissioner is taking robust and quite punitive action against these miscreants. As I said earlier, they are making big big examples of what was before trivial bad actions and there are some £'00,000s of fines being bandied about and I would think quite some in the pipeline. The error of the miscreants ways is quite plain to see, easily evidenced in court and punishable with huge fines ....... and where directors might have before hidden behind corporate ultimate insolvency when the fines hit, the time might have already approached where personal liability for known criminality ( is it criminal yet ? ) by their company will reflect on their own personal solvency and ultimate bankruptcy. GDPR might have it's faults but it is now being taken seriously .............. and about time too where breaches can so dreadfully impact upon the lives of the innocent Malc

Brian, I didn't think Chief Executives of NHS Trusts were so badly paid Malc

Marin hi and welcome I have a UK Mk3 October 1995 Ls400 and never had Traction Control on my car ! Not sure if any member here can help, it was available on later cars for sure in the UK, the Mk4 so hopefully someone can give you some useful thoughts Best wishes with it all Malcolm

haven't we all got that same speedo style ? I think I've had it on all my 3 Ls400s from my first 1992 car Malc

amayama also sell Toyota/Lexus OEM original stuff Malc

you can probably safely take it to 240k miles before doing the cambelt and waterpump again then ......... or a few more years whatever 😉 Malc

and what is your mileage ? Malc

yours is a Mk3 then for sure, no separate fog lights at the front bumper like the Mk1 and 2 and the Mk4 ...... 97 to end exact location is seemingly where i said, I didn't do the job but my indy told me it was very simple but UNDER that wood trim at the centre console .... I guess you've just got to be brave and very careful prising it up Good luck Malc

and until this year I have always bought Lexus/Toyota wiper rubbers £28+ ......... the problem being they now seem to be very old, probably 24 year old stock ....... and don't perform very well these days, the time was they lasted 3/4 years and 40k miles...... just 15k miles this last year so replacement wiper rubbers this service and MOT was £8.10 and not the OEM £28+ Genuine is good but some parts maybe not quite so if they might age related deteriorate Malc

Welcome to the Club Paul, the best car ever methinks ................ if your car is a Mk3 then the solution is to turn down the dial that sits just under the centre console wood trim After many years of your incessant problem, removing metal objects from this and that, the solution appears to be simple enough ..... but it took years to find this out I didn't actually do it, my indy mechanic did it for me AND peace and tranquility reigns supreme since Malc

take his £20 / £40 and fix a new plate, that should resolve the issue sensibly and your car will be none the worse for a humane outcome Malc

Gentlemen, under DPR there were so very few prosecutions, barely any at all BUT WITH GDPR I am very aware that the Authority is making up for lost ground and definitely making examples in often quite trivial cases just to prove the point that businesses really do now have to have total regard for GDPR rather than the usual total disregard for DPR as it was. I can see merit in the Authority dealing with AF in a robust manner even if it is now on the right path ............ divulging data erroneously is simply illegal and now severely punishable. I am sure that if my business were to blanket emails to UK persons I would receive a mega fine, whereas prior ( had i sent them, which I didn't ) the likelihood of anyone taking notice of any complaints was remote. The odd event I'm trying to grapple with right now is NatWest discussing in any manner at all my business account with another NatWest personal customer who accused me of being a scam company ( I've banked with them for 50+ years without a single fault ! ) and saying they are prevented under GDPR from telling me what it was they had said.............. about me. The funds were held in escrow pending a good outcome .... for whom I'm not sure. Not quite sure how to handle this one, if at all, as it's all been resolved ( to my financial satisfaction ) without my questioning further the GDPR concepts......... one for the future though Malc

just a thought here ............. and to be helpful Adrian Flux could be in deadly serious trouble here supposing they have sent in Debt Collectors ( letters anyway ) and divulged your private detail to this out side party on the premise of what is clearly a wrong'un They are for sure breaking the GDPR code and if referred to the Authority will no doubt receive a significant fine, maybe £ several 00,000's in fines as the Authority is clearly on a mission right now to make hard examples of even minor style misdemeanours by businesses that must know better. Dan, I would recommend that your Principals here, AF quite urgently sort this out, just in case it isn't yet too late ...... I think the Authorities probably scour Media sites like this Forum to collate data to think about prosecutions at this early time in their activities............ to set ground breaking examples and for which they will not lose in Court. Malc

when the western world's bankers decided they ran the world and it all went pear shaped with greed and being all toooooo clever, and the insurance companies decided the customer was a nuisance rather than an asset to have and to cherish ..... and the police ( Govt funding ) decided criminality was too expensive to bring to heel ....... that's when Uberrimae Fidei lost it's way sadly Malc

in my case they ( AF and Trinity's Claims guys Hadleigh ) have told me 6 months to refer it to the Financial Ombudsman Malc

well maybe not so. A few years ago ( 8 actually ) my Mk2 Ls400 was vandalised to write-off status and SAGA were absolutely brilliant on paying out ............. paid, after much arguing the toss as one does, over the odds enabling me to buy my present Mk3 and pocket the £500 cash difference. I hear the NFU are similar in considerations too But doubtless the premiums are a little higher I guess. Malc

I guess this feature isn't on my Mk3 ? ........................ too much technology to worry about methinks Thought TPMS was only on much later vehicles, and compulsory from 2014 ? Malc

much as in Eire, a good wallop of EU money to repair and build new infrastructure ....... destroying the ambience of the idyll for ever ...... but bringing in ££££s and filling B&Bs etc Sturgeon's dream no doubt Malc

I would always use my Ls400 for all trips .................... Malc

think about what existing insce cover you might actually have to meet such costs ? if you're a member of the FSB maybe, just maybe, they might give you some free professional advice, maybe your existing home cover might do so too just a thought Malc

it was my own house, we decided to downsize from a 6 bed Arts and Crafts house to a smaller house deep into the country, up a track, next the woods ..... blissful to be sure Malc

well in my book that's a darned good profit level ................ I own and run my on-line travel business and a 3% profit ain't that bad as I keep telling the guys who moan incessantly about profitability ..... Thomas Cook, a 150 year old UK business just turning in a £1.46 billion loss ................ TUI really up the swanny and Easyjet and Ryanair ( don't we love 'em ) always moaning about disastrous happenings affecting them. State run airlines do best worldwide even though they often make big big losses ..... their owners, the State take all that monster airline ticket taxation .. up to £515 equiv. on a long haul flight for instance. Insurance companies at 3%, wowee, bring out the champagne, oh, excuse me, they do that for sure ......... I previously sold a house to the retiring chairman of a Lloyds insce company ...... his 6th house and it sure wasn't a cheapy, on the sea front and golf course ......... insurance companies really don't deserve our sympathy Rant over Malc

and if there's any element of fraud in all this, which of course there must be, then tell the POLICE ..... they will likely dismiss it as not worthy of investigation however AND ..... as I said before, take care your/the insurance company just don't lump it all against you for their expediency .... they don't always worry about fault or liability, if it moves then they may try to just move it on to you and penalise you at your next renewal ( with whichever company you're with at the time ) saying that they have the " right " to act in this manner under some previous clausing in any prior documentation you might have had with them. TAKE GREAT CARE here, the insurance companies, as I said, can be absolute BAS...ds Malc

I trust AF BUT maybe not so much their Claims Handling guys nor their Insurance company client ( is it Trinity lane ? ) I'm having a very serious issue right now where they simply have failed, in my opinion, to have looked after me, their fully comprehensively insured client, in what to my mind started off as a fraudulent claim by a 3rd party ................ and gravitated to a suggested and booked Court Hearing date, which I so much wanted and to which they bailed out at the last minute Long 2 year story but the upshot is I must now refer it all to the Financial Ombudsman to review, my option, and I'm deciding whether to go thru the Malta one or the UK one as the Insurance company is Malta registered Doesn't help you at all BUT if any of these companies are in your scheme of things then BEWARE , they will possibly NOT look after your best interests, just their own in the end But i did get on well with the AF guys for sure and they have helped all they can I guess ! Good Luck with your issue, they may want to accept liability on your behalf whether or not any of it was down to you, just to make life easy for themselves ...... veritable Bas...ds Malc