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Brechin Slate

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  1. Think this should be £565 and £305?? J: 186 to 200g/km £305 K*: 201 to 225g/km £330 L: 226 to 255g/km £565
  2. In a word, yes. I just sold a 130,000 mile IS250 and the new owner is delighted with it. I put new discs and pads on it 2 years ago but the car never missed a beat otherwise. Bodywork was beautiful and the car still looked the business 14 years after it was new. Mine was AT though..
  3. Fixed! Finally got to clean the car today with the rebuilt lance. Foam sticks to the car like ***** to a blanket. Shiny as you like, now to work through this bottle of Polar Blast so I can try the Bilt Hambler that gets such good reviews 👌
  4. When people ask me why I chose a Lexus I tell them that for a year I worked as a plater when I was between 'proper' jobs. A plater is a delivery driver who picks up cars and takes them from the owner to an auction site or transfers them between dealers and auction sites or vice versa but you get the picture. In that year I drove hundreds of cars, sometimes 5 a day and sometimes just 2 a day on longer journeys but what I did get was a lot of different driving experiences. From Motability Smart cars to S class limos from the Russian embassy in London, from supercars to granny mobiles I drove them all but nothing felt as good as getting in a Lexus and being confident that I'd not only get to my destination but in comfort. Once the burst of exhilaration at flooring a 911 or Maserati was over I realised that there was more to driving than acceleration or top speed and having been a passenger in a navy fast jet even that was ho hum after the adrenaline wore off. I could have bought pretty much anything that the market had to offer but it was the Lexus brand that stood out after a year of intensive study. Performance? Yes up to a point but it's not the be all and end all that motoring journos major on. I remember one of our really good Sea King pilots wearing a tee shirt that said 'Jets are for kids', there's an analogy there somewhere.
  5. I discovered after years of IS ownership that IS stands for Intelligent Sport. I know that the original post was about discontinuing the model and I for one am sad that it's happened but I will say that I didn't by mine for performance/sportiness, it was purely refinement and reliability and it has both in spades.
  6. Is this the diagnosis from an error code? Are you noticing anything untoward when the engine is running? Is there vibration and can you detect a misfire?
  7. That's a lot of stickers, are any of them necessary?
  8. Really hope this all works out, it's not a good advert for Lexus
  9. I'd still love to know what caused it. I like mysteries but not expensive ones
  10. Me too, my apprenticeship was 4 years full on but at the end of it I had the mindset that most things were worth attempting especially as I was at sea and there was no help to call on. It's stood me well for later in life and as a result I've had some very interesting and diverse jobs. BUT, it's a personal thing and not for everyone, I'm glad that everyone is not as bloody minded as I am 🤣
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