Bluesman

Music to my ears. They do the same in the States where it can cost you in excess of $2000 to get your car back. We are just too soft in the UK, they can fine you £1000 plus court costs which normally are well in excess of any fine they might give you. Magistrates can also ban you from driving which rarely ever happens. If caught and fined in excess of £1000 plus a driving ban the problem might stop overnight.

"treat the disease, not the symptom"It's illegal what more does anyone need to know.

Q7s, X5s, GLs, RRs)... yes in disabled and family bays? Unfair? sure, but there are no other suitable spaces... It sounds like an excuse to use disabled bays and family and child places because of the size of car they have brought. Why can't these people with huge cars park over the back of the car parks where it is very rare you will find anyone else is parking. Good to find an end bay where you can park so no one can park next to your drivers door, so you can get in and out with no problem. There are always answers to these problems without being antisocial and law-breaking by blocking disabled bays.

That frontage is awful, surely they could come up with a better design than that.

Whats wrong with parking over the back of the car park where no one goes? You could find the end of a line of spaces over there and make sure you park it at the end with your drivers door with no one able to park next to it.

There can never be any excuse for taking a disabled without a blue badge. To all the poor souls with cars as big as tanks, try parking right over the back of the car park there is always enough room there to park a fleet of buses. I would love to be able to park my car over there but then I wouldn't be able to get around the supermarket because of the long walk from where the car is parked and the long walk back but to any able-bodied driver it's no problem at all unless they have lazyitis.

Your right about not being enough disabled spaces and you may have noticed that in lots of motorway services they are taking away disabled bays and turning them into electric car charging points, thank you Tesla. I saw a guy sweeping up around the disabled bays and I asked him how many cars a week use the charging points and he said he had only ever seen 2 cars since the bays were put there which was around 10 weeks.

I live in a small village and as a disabled driver with a blue badge, I am always pleased to see them putting tickets on cars whose owners are just bone idle and lazy and have absolutely no concern for those who the bays were intended for in the first place. So thumbs up to them, however, I do agree that they should be brought back into the police stations.

To keep misnaming PCNs as fines confuse the issue especially to those that receive them. They are not fines the are just charges and to keep referring to them as fines is just plain wrong. To that end, your second paragraph is wrong where you are referring to fines as they aren't they are just charges. To put your mind at rest I hate these private pirates and the sooner they are put out of business the better. I am surprised that someone who is so pedantic about some things " You don't need to be sorry, but at the same time factually both mk2 and mk3 uses same D4S bulbs and very similar" can be so unconcerned about using the incorrect terms on other subjects. I agree totally with your third paragraph.

The only problem with banning petrol/diesel engines vehicles is what are they going to run on? Electricity? never in a million years. There are millions of people who live in large towns and cities who are lucky to get within a bus ride of the road they live in let alone get close enough to be able to plug it into their electricity supply and of course that also assumes that the local drunks on their way home won't rip the charging lead out of the car. Electric vehicles, won't happen.

You miss the point Linas. Fines can only be issued by the police, traffic wardens, which are dealt with via the Magistrate Court, those who get Parking Charge Notices are issued by private companies for infringing their parking rules which are on private ground, supermarkets etc these PCNs are just invoices and will be dealt with through the County Court system.

The interiors of both cars are to die for. I would happily spend a few hours in there just playing with all the toys.

Here here well said.

Some of their members have done some of the worst work of any installers. Ignore the UKLPG branding as a kite mark to excellent work they are just a money making outfit for themselves and has nothing to do with making sure you get value for your money. There are no MOT requirements as yet, they were going to bring it into the MOT several years ago but they haven't done so far.

Couldn't see the point in pitching the cars together as they are both different animals. I've had it with TG I shan't bother to record or watch anymore. Dump the programme BBC if TG was food it would be covered in mould.

Its called old age, we all get there at some time. Many apologies to Seb. A shame only one of you welcomed Seb to the forum.

Hi Seb and welcome to the LOC, we are a friendly bunch so please dont hold back asking questions big or small should you have any problems with your car. We always welcome ideas on how to overcome problems with our cars but as they are the finest cars in the universe they dont go wrong that often. We always love to see pictures of your cars so don't be shy. Happy Lexus Motoring. Mike. Bluesman.

I have a pay as you go and last month it cost £0 and the month before that and so on. I have the phone which is an old Nokia that fits into the cradle that came with the Lexus purely for emergencies being disabled. I hate the things.

I had the same happen to mine a couple of years ago, I had gone to the village bakers, went in came out went to press the button when I realised half the key was missing, I tracked back to the bakers, no luck so went back to the car looking on the ground and there it was about 3 inches from a drain grid, I was so lucky, I bought a replacement and changed everything over, no problems since.

All OK round Hampshire way.

If the problem is the same whether you use LPG or petrol it has nothing to do with fuel other than getting it to the engine. What sort of outfit strips and rebuilds an engine and quite happy to let the customer running like a bag of nails?. Take it back to them and ask them to finish the job in a professional manner ie running nice and smoothly.

Here you go all about Cat N http://www.evo.co.uk/advice/19271/cat-a-b-s-and-n-cars-new-insurance-write-off-categories-explained

Where is this switch positioned?

Come on lads there are more important things going on in all our lives than this ridiculous argument. Any more and it will be locked as its going nowhere other than to end up with bad feelings.

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