wildrnes

Had a super day at Arley Hall today - drove nearly every car on the books.

Nice people, until..........

We get the SC430 after waiting hours and hours and hours (you get the picture)

Take it out for a run (after being warned to take it steady - there had been complaints from local yokels about speeding through the village) off we tootle.

So far so good. :D

Stopped half way at changeover point and had a go with the roof. It was down (beautiful, sunny day), so we put it up...... and back down.

Set off

Bing bing bing bing bing ....... etc

Bugger £50 + k car and we've broken it

What to do

Looked everywhere - under hood, doors, seatbelts, pressed buttons galore nothing - by now we were slightly

I know - phone Lisa at Lexus Stockport, she'll know :D

At this point we had been passed by the other SC, an RX300 and several of the smaller Lexus (and a GS430 at about Mach4.....................)

Eventually, we discover the roof had not closed itself properly, and after closing it and opening it again another couple of times the bing stopped. And we resumed our merry way

Got back to the folks at Arley Hall to be greeted with

"With all due respect (and we ALL know what that means <_< ) you've had this car out for 40 minutes and you're only allowed 25. You were told before you set off that we have a waiting list for this car.............." you get the idea

We had the keys taken from us and were made to feel unwelcome to say the least, even though we had explained why we were late back

We were told once we got back that there was a number to ring on the laminated map in case of any problem, but we didn't use the map, and no-one had pointed this out to us before any of the test drives (they all had sat-nav anyway!)

So - a super day, totally ruined by the attitude of the Open Road staff, for something which was out of our control

Maybe we shouldn't have put the roof up and down, but no-one said we couldn't and anyway, it's a test drive, not just of the car, but of the comfort features too, isn't it?

We plan to send some form of complaint about this matter to Lexus

Let's see what they say :mat:

Hey Bloofire... don't worry, no one can blame you for buying an M3....

A stonking motor.. just a shame about the badge (maybe you should replace them with an L ???? )

Happy motoring..

I've got a spare Lexus badge if you want it.........

how are you doing :winky:

stupid boy

happy birthday sammy

or here

squeel like a pig boy

weeeeeeeeee

i use the lot mate and it works a treat

you can get it online on their website

me thinks that is a joke post

can i slip it into reverse :duh:

do you have a feeling that someone is watching you ?

ive met didri racheed :D

whats one of them

where in nw are you?

meguires!!!!

i havnt used zymol

cant afford to got too much meguires !!!!

meguires do a trim detailer which is for plastics

i use that on mine and my dads

john t b will vouch for the state od my dads engine

(k reg aristo )

looks brand new !!

top tip from the old man

retire then you have loads of time to clean it :D

cassette?

i do i do

will pm you

sorted

hmmm

realised why it wouldnt go

looking good

fitted now to attach the air pipe :zee:

got flairs stuck!

air intake

argggggggg