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I find my passenger window rattles if open about four inches, as driving along. Anyone had this experience and know what causes it? Seems to go up and down OK although the wife has diifficulty using the switch her side. It does however work.

Couldn't agree more. Mine came with aftermarket alloys on it, which are OK, but if I could find a set of originals that I could afford I'd change back to the stock look as soon as possible :) Not sure if anyone has pointed this out but if I hadn't bought a set of new alloys to fit I'd have wanted these. I had Maxxis on my S320 and quite like them. Just waiting to buy a set when my present mixture has run down a bit more. BTW this is third time of listing so if they are near to you - may be able to barter (OK emblems missing) http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lexus-ls400-alloy-wheels-/151713298793?

Reza Mohammed and Jo Brand make a good team. Eminently politically correct on so many fronts, and he could do all the car research and the others provide the humor and the cringeworthy aspect. Suspect he chooses - clause in the Contract y'no.

and lisa Tarbuck - must hear your "views" on her. Ha Ha Ha! Mad as a hatter springs to mind

Had a look yesterday. Fewer and fewer parts for early LS (1993). Exhaust parts may only be Nos.1 Y pipe left. No other parts. Brake Hoses as low as £2.80 (marked clearance). Looked at them and bit worried as photo on two showed different styles. Bendix didn't look right? price good up to about £6. Haven't checked shipping cost but t'bay min around £17 each UK, unless Goodrich package.

One things for sure they'll be people who show adoration for C.E. - Sycophants is that the word.? Guess this is really an "oldies v youngsters" view on the subject. After all, who could imagine so many people worshipping GC. The mind boggles. A fallen God to some! I switch off at the hyper style of presentation that CE is associated with, which seems to be the Beebs preferred style. Don't listen to BBC Radio2 since he replaced someone. Is he still on there?? no idea. These days I find it increasingly difficult to watch Television with all this in/out of focus photography, blast your ears with music almost drowning out the presentation of facts, spoiling every decent documentary that I'd really like to see and listen to. Photography today doing nothing for those suffer or are likely to develop Epilepsy. Adverts photography being worse. Guess I've got to face facts my brain can't handle things as it once could.

Thats Beer bottle bottom glasses especially after a glass of sherbet!

Sorry my mind playing tricks on me. Not an advisoryin 2014, but I asked my mechanic to give a thorough check to everything after getting the MOT history of the Car back to 2011. Halfords MOT Jan 2011 said slight play in rear suspension arm bushes. Not mentioned in any subsequent MOT In January 15 (112724 miles on the clock at July 2014 MOT) Mechanic he said that there was some movement in rear UCA's. I was getting a knocking noise going over speed humps at 2 mph. Have replaced both front UCA's (saga on this) which were an advisory and also got lower front Ball joints yet to fit, but told slight play. Rear coil springs slightly corroded go back to 2011 Halfords MOT and subsequent, so i've purchased a pair for future replacement when UCA's replaced. Brake pipe corrosion mentioend back to 2011. Car has now done 120,875 so sems thing need changing long before Toms mileage.

I bought a pair of UCA's for the rear in February. Cost from Amayama £477.06 plus Import duty £95.48. This is for an older car but if you go on the bay.com you will find them at well over £400 each - plus shipping and duty to be added. Yet to have them fitted and next MOT July. Will see if a fail - if not won't be paying the expense of labour just yet.(were on an advisory)

"I couldn't possibly comment" - seems to be a truthful answer. Does the BBC ask people to lie? surely not

Won't be watching - didn't like Clarkson either, though did find some of the stuff funny. Doubt this guy will be amusing and whoever teams up with him may expect to be kept well away from being regarded as a "team" member. Didn't the man deny that he was interested right up to the point of accepting? Barefaced lying is not a character trait that I find endearing. Maybe I'm wrong on that, as not paid much attention to this life changing issue.

Reading this old article and in conjunction to a thread I've already posted today, I contacted a guy in UK who sells the upper Flanges to see if he could make lower flanges. The Cats have a 54mm external diameter 7mm length good pipe protruding where the gasket fits over. If I could find a piece of 54.5mm S/S pipe about 10-15 mm?? length pre-flanged (no bolt holes) to weld onto the Y pipe after the remains of that flange is removed it may be a permanent fix. So welded both ends. Not totally simple, as the y pipe has a strengthening spine and length of part difficult to be sure of. He is giving the problem some thought. Don't hold your breath.

ps photo would be interesting - please?

I've just sent £20 to a firm I booked to have the flange/cat problem sorted but I can't afford the £400 quote they gave me so embarrassingly have canceled the job. This car has drained me financially. Interested in your thread because seeing the flange which seems to be a sleeve turning upwards, I imagine that Longlife would have had to at some point unplug the Lambda sensors to be able to screw them in to the new pipe fitting, or did they screw in the lambda's before welding the female receptors to the pipe? If they had to unplug this its a carpets out job I'm told. Also, what always worries me about welding is the ECU being damaged especially if its polaxed by current via the Lambda which if the female part is welded with Lambda in situ ?? Happy to pay £200 but not £400. So still using the silicone sealant and praying it will go through MOT without an emissions problem. Did you remove the battery termnial after the fix. Is this necessary to re-set the ECU diagnostics?

doing a bit of research on seats and watched this video. Perhaps he didn't try the Lexus range?

I'd like to thank all who have commented on my last post. I did wonder if it had anything to do with the trousers I was wearing. Cargoes do have back pockets but I don't keep anything in them. Just maybe the stitching on the pockets could sit on a nerve? Never had to think about it before. I did try changing the driving position on a few occasions to try to get more comfortable. For the first few hours I had no problem . May also highten the wheel slightly. I can't move my leg under it and maybe its too low? There is a crease in the leather on the drivers seat left hand side cushion area and maybe I need check this out. didn't appear to be raised. I would add my wife also doesn't find the seat quite as comfortable but she didn't get any stiffness. Although praising Merc seats, I did have an earlier Merc W123 series where the seats were like Granny's old spring bed and were killers for backache. Once a spring twanged as I was returning from Stansted airport and by the time I got home to North Essex my back was in agony. In my W126 it had similar spring seats covered with MB Tex and I used Gorilla filler to give the seat a better and more substantial cushion as I recall. I'll check the various options as it must be me or just poor setting. Didn't see a single LS400 or 430 during our fortnight in France - very exclusive Car now! . I'll find a way around this dilemma.

I'm trying to hard to love this car but after returning in the wee hours this Morning from a 600 mile drive in France I have to query this as being a comfy cruiser. I never had a feeling of an aching bum in my W140 or W1 26 Mercs but with this car not only on the out 600 mile journey but when coming home found I was twisting and turning to get comfortable. Also, when I got out I had a severe hip joint ache on my left side. Now this could be because I have had back problems in the past? I had fixed the seat reclining trouble. I do notice the floor pan is angled at the side that may have caused my leg joint to ache after my foot has been at an incline for hours and hours of driving - 14 or more to be precise. Despite repeated moving of the leg within the limited space I was hobbling about at the last pit stop just beyond Rouen and climbing the Ferry Stairs. When I got home I could barely stand up. The Merc has a wider body and floorpan and I never had any problem of this nature. Built with the Japanese stature in mind if you are six one size or broad in the beam this aint for you. Don't really know how the yanks found them comfortable.Maybe they were more popular with women and now the trim youngsters? Apart from the fortune I've spent on parts and labour since I bought the car (comparatively speaking - about twice times the purchase price £1000 and rising) I feel the car has a wonderful Engine and good MPG. I like the status feel of the car and for its age the bodywork looks nice if not immaculate, but its because of the very expensive maintenance parts and labour that there are so few on the roads, of this I'm sure. I've said I'll stick with this and see it to the end, but if I'd had foresight I wouldn't have touched the car with a bargepole. Only need the Starter motor to fail to throw in the towel I fear, even though the part to repair is cheap.I don't like doing my own mechanics. I really hate being a whinger but this is my experience FWIW.

Thanks I'll have to check out those channels. I did manage to pull out what looked like a grommet by the bonnet strut (there's one both sides) and what did I find, the thread part of a long bolt. Of course I've forgotten in my heath robinson moment that I need to have indicators working. In France the Gendarmes are particularly fearce in enforcing their use. It really irks me travelling through the night when cars overtake on virtually empty roads they indicate that they are pulling in front of me, flash, flash, flash, flash, I'm trying to sleep back here for G's sake!!

I did manage to pull back the carpet to be met with a rubber liner that looked fairly impenetrable. Drilling blind is not something I felt too sure about so abandoned the job. Two thoughts. On the inside of the bulkhead by the bonnet spar there is what looks like a grommet. I tried to pull this out thinking its a way in. Tugged and tugged to no avail. Hate breaking parts, but maybe its the way in? Anyone know? Why oh why, when they mention tow bar in the Electricals, did they not provide a positive post in the boot? Can't fathom it. OK necessity being the Morther of invention, and as for the moment I only need the tow bar for one 30 mile job in France I've decided to "temporarily" run a cable via a 12v Motorcycle battery in the boot to the plug leads for the Trailer lights and via a switch which my wife can hold and when I say BRAKE!! she'll flick the switch. Ha ha ha, just in case the Gendarmes should be hanging around as they sometimes do near to my journey.

Well, here's the "Raybestos" (oops sorry, made in Taiwan) "quality" part which was fitted early March 2015 and has done under 2000 miles. Absolutely shocking. Why waste time manufacturing a part and putting a piece of rubber on that will have such a short life, saving what? a couple of quid for a quality rubber gaiter? - I just can't fathom these Taiwan mnfrs nor the Yankjs for allowing such cr*p to be sold under what was once a respected brand name.. As I may have said earlier, having spotted the situation I have banadaged the gaiter with black cling film, balck nsulating tape and a couple of tie clips in the hope of stopping ingress of dirt and water. I did remove the gaiters from the old Wishbones and nbo doubt come the MOT they won't be happy and I'll have to pay to have the Wisbone removed and giater replaced.

That's because that kit doesn't use the relay you want to fit. I've fitted two bars using a relay ( 1 Toyota, 1 Honda) , and taken the live feed direct from the battery, and, as you say, used an inline fuse. Mike, I've got to get this wiring done and so today thouight I'd give it a go. Not an easy task. See someone said that their mechanic took twelve hours to route the cable from front to rear. I've only taken off the door foot trim and blimey haven't a clue howe to get the passenger carpt up to find a hole in the bulkhead. Can't efen see how to undo the plastic under the glove compartment. Nice not to see fasteners - until you have to find them. did you run your cable under the car? How did you route it?

Arr the ingenuity of it Steve. Actually looking at that car for sale photo's the air filter hole is just right for a Computer fan to be fitted in reverse and at 12v no need for that extension lead! Couldn't cope myself with all that extra power

Looking at the write up and photo's on this one, I was particularly interested as for a long time I've been planning to instal a single point LPG system (against all advice) and having purchased a V8 Range Rover brand new front end kit for £200 the photo of the layout given here is interesting compared to other installations. The mixer attached to the Throttel body I've not seen one this large before. Not sure I'm too impressed by the "Induction system" here. Looks like asking for trouble with the amount of dust that gets under the bonnet. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LEXUS-LS400-LPG-CONVERTED-TOYOTA-CELSIOR-GREAT-EXTRAS-JAP-IMPORT-/301608088735

When I recently changed my air filter it was apparant that some water had got into it and this was with the full conduit parts in place.

OK So, I'm no boy racer. I just purchased for a good price on the bay, a new Ripspeed Air induction kit. I bought it to replace an old fashioned wire air filter on my Mercedes OM636 Boat engine as the wire mesh is really rusty. I was surprised how large it is and thinking it may not fit within the existing engine housing area, I wondered if I may try it on the Lexus. Before I get shot down in flames I would say, 1, I don't like messing with replacing original parts 2, I only recently replaced the air filter (cost more than this kit) 3. if performance is dependent on the coldness of the air, then being under the bonnet is not likely to be as good for the engine, as airflow from ouside. 4. I will need a flange connector. Has anyone tried this modification?