Malc

Oh my, that was a while ago ...... with my Mk1 which I gave away at 180k miles a loooooong way back ... now on my 3rd Ls400, my 95 Mk3 and the struts at 27 years young and 238k miles seem to be puuuuurfect .......... I've used SGS for rear screen /boot uplift strut on my now sadly departed Mazda 323f ... that too was a brilliant little car Malc

reading the other day here on this Forum a member with an unfathomable TPMS " fault " .. not his tyres or wheels ..... and his car having TPMS but too old for it to be an MOT failure ... actually spent @£400 to simply replace all his TPMS " stuff " with Lexus .. to remove the irritational showing of the fault It might have been an SC owner Good luck with it all whatever .... I'm blessed with an old fashioned car where kicking the tyres occasionally was the fore to TPMS .... and it works too Malc

she looks a glorious car Malc

shoot me down in flames on this one ...... if my memory serves me I'm thinking the '92 Ls400 cost new about £35k .. so at £17k it ain't bad BUT of course '92 inflation in the UK puts £35k at now equiv £77k . so an effective lot of depreciation and of course really quite sad that the owner never got the true benefit from using such a fantastic car ......... unlike you Phil .......... and me I do think I'm so blessed to have " seen the light " so early on in life ... about 22 years and 250k miles ago ...... a significant part of my driving time ..... in an amazing Ls400 ........... and all starting from being a part time car dealer in glorious beautiful Kent on the Romney Marsh Malc

and another maybe interesting point ...... the wheels on the 15" have one spoke less than the later Mk2 16" ..... the wheels aren't sadly interchangeable if you needed to find a spare .. otherwise, to the untrained, or even trained eye, they look the same ! wot a history lesson eh ! Malc

personally I wouldn't touch it ............ why you may ask ..... totally underused and unusable really . a car to be kept in aspic to retain any value over and above an " ordinary " 92 Ls400 .... and it's possibly a Mk1 with 15" wheels .... and brakes to match my first Ls400, from about 22 years ago, same colour, pearlescent white ( J54DAP and a Mk1 ) and a wonderful car compared to any other " daily " user car ..... and I had her for about 60k miles . wonderful car that I gave away at about 180k miles . bit of rust from an accident repair before my ownership .......but a super car for sure My second Ls400 M47HWO ? was my Mk2 ( write off in 2011 ) .......... and now I have my Mk3 that I've had since 2011 .. the Mk3 is better than either of the two previous for sure ........... I don't know about a Mk4 BUT certainly the first Ls400 wasn't a patch on the Mk3 from all aspects .................. NOW .... an elderly Ls400 ( mine ) does suffer from occasional electrical gremlins which you may never resolve ..... they do however have the great habit of resolving themselves thankfully ..... good servicing and preventative maintenance is the way to treat these cars in my experience I fear that an early. earlier car will suffer from these, especially one that's hardly been used Bit like me buying my yearning for S3 Bentley from the 1960s ... I won't get one coz i just know it will be troublesome from all sorts of very expensive aspects even if it just sits around, or maybe especially if it just sits around, looking pretty and for people to drool over I think Devo that if you wanted a very usuable car then do not go for an early Ls400 ..... your Ls460, with attendant issues sorted, will be a much more useful car in the years ahead Just my simplistic view ...... Malc

Thank you ... I'll try Waze BUT I do know my old phone could be the issue . it serves me well for almost all my daily needs .......... no point spending as much on a new phone as the car is worth .......... my partner is usally with me on strange trips but that time she wasn't AND her phone is summat like iphone 10 ? maybe and full of all bells and whistles workings too ... bit too teccy for me all this stuff tbh Malc

Mathewsons Auction House ...... Yorkshire ........might give you an idea of value tbh Looks a quite rare beast but sadly rarity rarely improves " value " other than to an enthusiast She looks a lovely car ... good luck with it all Malc

Well, I'm not too sure about this now ...... my IPhone 6 . being an old and ancient one just stopped Google map working at a most inconvenient time the other day when i was traversing Chelmsford . not sure why but guessing my " old " technology phone just wouldn't update itself Malc

if this is the same Delphi that makes car parts that has a huge Office etc in Gillingham Kent then maybe that's a source worth enquiring after ! Malc

OMG it's auto deleted my word a.s.s ! Malc

is that a minor *****, a bigger ***** or simply a not very grown up ***** ? Malc

I think you're very brave to be spending all this for an effective " upgrade " that has zero value should your car suffer being a write-off or indeed you ever need replacement tyres again ... but then I do understand, from prior posts on this Forum somewhere, Lexus replace tyres too ( at a premium I'm sure ) BUT will then surely be fully accountable for ensuring continuing good operation of the TPMS wish you well going forward with all this ... who'd have thought TPMS " servicing " would entail such ludicrous expense eh ! Best wishes Malc

free me anytime please .......... I've no idea what ancients used for weight measurments Malc

not pounds then ? ..... in ancient Rome Malc

remember " back orders " can now take a veeerrrry long time Malc

is it repairable . even pro tem you getting another new one .... in olden times guys used to simply repair radiators I remember Malc

looks to be " cloud " based so it possibly will ..... can't remember who controls iCloud tho' ...... is it Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Google ......... or maybe even Tesla these days .............. could be " Anonymous " even . they seem to have much control of all Peoples' Data however secure one may think it to be ..... eh Mr Poo-tin Malc sorry, we've digressed form the Heated Windscreen conundrum ..... back 11 basiks plkease

and what's that pray in Roman numerals ? ... eleven hundred and forty four pence / cents ..... Malc

self-changing the battery, I know, can often result in immense frustration in not being able to get the " hooks " to settle in together . needs someone with immense knowledge or tiny adept fingers to help you .... that was my own experience with the Honda Legend . most modern cars never have enuf room ,,,,,, in olden cars you used to have enough room to swing a cat .... or even 2 Malc

mine's never been done methinks ..... no help here I'm afraid Malc

common enuf on the Ls430 and Ls460 ... corrosion in the pipework linking rad and coolant and gearbox ........... destroys the gearbox .... 10 years and/or 100k miles is the timing on these models for sure to change the rad Malc

Don't remember them turning yellow . unless that was from the nicotine smoke effect Malc

I can open the windows if that counts Malc

a couple of days ago the old lady actually turned the 238,000 mile mark What an amaizing sense of joy and achievement and wafting along, as ever, in sheer bliss ......... fingers xd long may this idyll continue Malc