Malc1

Methinks Stockbroker Belt and Liz removing the upper limit on said Bankers Bonuses might have summat to do with why your Surrey fuel prices are tardy in coming down 😂 But I do recall when Peckham was in Surrey . going back a while now tho' and even in me youth I wondered how on earth Peckham could equate to a rich and £££ rewarding Surrey lifestyle .... BUT nowadays a common simple 3 bed terrace house in the heart of Peckham is £1millon + ..... how times change eh ! YEP, your Surrey petrol deserves to be expensive compared to us poor mortals outside of your Stockbroker Belt 😇 Malc

have you got a tiny crack appearing in the front of the glass I wonder . which a clear sealant might sort out ? Or is it condensation from the inside maybe ? Malc

when my windscreen was changed many moons back the price new was maybe £200 a pair and the screen insurers blew a fuse I believe ............. 😂 oh dear how sad Malc

so is the only Rust Fail the OS/R outer sill ? . get that fixed and your mechanic to sort the remainder " easy " Fails and you're " good to go " for another year Malc

chill .... de-stress ............. just run her every time you can, not just for long trips ............ ignore the Advisories and just get on with " living " ............... until the next MOT / Service is due when you can address any pertinent issues Best wishes with your health . it's a bugger but you will overcome it all 🙏 Malc

Gerry hi and welcome to this forum How long have you had this car, mileage, servicing etc ? We might be able to help advise if you told us what's happened thus far in your ownership Malc

a few years ago I asked my trusted mechanic if I should buy a fun car Saab convertible and he said simply NO it would be an unreliable mode and a money-pit .............. the Lexus simply won't be either .. with proper good and preventative maintenance Malc

this is totally non-sensical overall ........ the western nations that are worried about using fossil fuels are but a minority all over the world in usage of cars, trucks, buses etc Most of Africa, Asia, South America-s won't be able, quite simply to use EVs Charging Points in the middle of the Gobi Desert and similar ----- I mentioned prior somewhere .. Toyota will be the biggest global car producer still it's just that the petrol and diesel models won't ever be produced in the UK and the western nations which are obliterating the use of new fossil fuel cars from 2035 It's just that the UK will be competing with Germany, France, Ireland etc for the Toyota spend and investment to produce new EV cars ........ and we sadly just won't win on that front I'm sure And the Toyota spend on new petrol and diesel cars factories will be going to say India, Bangladesh Mexico etc where the costs of production and willingness to have production in those countries will make them even stronger and of course India will just beat the pants off the rest of the civilised world at some point ...... and soon methinks ............ Really don't understand the futility of UK NOT trying to burn our old fashioned fossil fuel needs cleaner and better by maybe add-on simple technology Better and new style add-on catalytic converters, washing the exhaust and other emissions at point of discharge .... for heavens sake, we can put spaceships around and nuclear bombs into Russia ( I guess ) so why oh why can't we, the UK develop some sort of " washing " emissions stuff thereby preserving the delightfully silent V8 ................ like my Ls400 Malc Malc

Gentlemen or nay 😅 back to basics please FUEL PANIC is there a sensible reason why non EV transport couldn't be driven with CLEANER fuels emissions ? sat BETTER cats etc and thereby enabling us all to drive our wonderful petrol cars with a non Climate Change effect clear conscience .. that conscience extending of course to the non depletion of ground source assets ( non renewables ) and the population physical harm that mining for EV propulsion products entails they tell us It is well argued here and everywhere that EV is NOT a clean climate change source of propulsion and itself causes much harm to the environment and society digging the stuff outta the ground EV is bad Petrol and diesel is bad too I personally don't see any argument for EV being any less BAD in " the round " Malc

and the mileage covered in that time ? Thanks Malc

I concur, if you have a mechanic you can trust then fine .. and you should save plenty of £££££ ... if not then you have no option but to use the main dealer and empty your pockets at the appropriate juncture Best wishes with your deliberations .. hopefully your servicing and preventative maintenance garage visit will be just annually with the fresh MOT Good luck Malc

methinks you guys undertaking this sort of stuff are quite amazing, incredible, barmy, barking mad whatever ..... well done to you both and may the gods be with you in your further DIY endeavours Well done ..... keep up the good work and report back with all findings please well done 🧐 Malc

There’s always going to be a punter to buy almost any car at the asking price we've seen this with a few Ls400s recently ...... seemingly barmy asking prices but hey ! Someone thinks it’s a good buy and happy with the result but good proper recent pictures should be essential and YES a Dealer makes the investment and expects a ( hopeful ) good Outcome ....... eventually there’s a real £££ cost to stock buying, holding and Preparing a car for sale ...... and can sometimes take many months or years to “turn that profit “ Malc

And you think people relying on Foodbanks can contribute to your lifestyle ....... get real please 🤥 Malc

Blo-ody Camels ...... u smoke ‘em, ride ‘em ...... whatever u get pollution from ‘em BUT maybe their poo helps the climate fertilising whatever their Shiite falls upon ....... and of course u can eat ‘em too ...... but the “eye” of one ........ could be a tasty morsel to contemplate away from all this irreconcilable pullava over Fuel Panics .......... I think it’s commendable to be able to make a profit on ones electric home bill and donating that to the local Foodbank In appropriate form would be a wonderful and welcome gesture ........ from those with the wherewithal so to do 😇 Malc

There is soooo much oil under the seas all around the world and would be economically viable to extract ...... at the right price of course trouble is the more they extract the lower the price goes and profits diminish ...... of course And of course as soon as this debacle and tragedy of war in Ukraine stops then Russian oil and gas will be sold to everyone again with a “safe” Ruskie Govt allowed to receive it ok ....... to pay for the war damage repairing Ukraine £600 billion is it up to now ? Oil and gas abounds and the price will be / can be affordable sometime soon if the world Govts allow And just burn it all cleaner to save the planet and stop this Climate Change Much more sensible cleaning up and / or cutting down on emissions should enable us to make use of this immense world supply of available fossil fuels EVs are preposterous for posterity and methinks should be rapidly pushed up a Musk posterior Malc

simply burn cleaner ............. fossil fuels are in plentiful supply once drilled for etc .... oil, gas and coal being the old fashioned ones SO THEN why not just get them to burn cleanly . it can be done, they tried it with catalytic converters on cars and washing the gases from coal powered Power Stations . just needs doing better and more effectively methinks It's certainly not beyond the wit of man to do this . it just needs the clever scientists to get their acts together with universal Govts support ( as if that would ever happen 😂 ) and fossil fuel cars can live for ever I'm sure Malc

isn't there a quite simple equation here to be refuted by some, admonished by others or indeed supported EVs are good for some, good for many BUT with £££ in short supply for most people the prospect of getting an EV is simply " pie in the sky " Of the 26 million ? cars on the roads in the UK and in this economic climate .... just how many people can afford to buy,lease,rent whatever a new car ........ I can but won't but I'm thinking I'm in a huge minority of people with too much money left at the end of the month ............ and I certainly wouldn't " invest" in a new car Nope. most car owners will simply be trading up to a replacement secondhand fossil fuel car with the end of the line cars going on those ships to parts of Africa for their true end of life ............ after a few more years good use Whatever we enlightened Lexus drivers might think . old and well used fossil fuel cars are with the planet for many decades to come, somewhere in the world .............. and as an aside, my chatting with that 1989 Ls400 guy ( see my post ) he told me that so many Ls400 engines are being used in all sorts of guises in the USA, especially not ordinary cars ... and was i reading some way back that the Ls400 engine had been approved by the USA air authorities for use in light aircraft ... so there goes another source of Ls400 pollution .. you're breathing it in from " up high " 😅 I am in fact noticing these past months that the local " breakers " yard looks bereft of stock too Malc

was about 3 years ago so they still might try to get me then ............... oh, the relevant car has now been sold AND I think either gone to Poland or been scrapped ! I await their call with fear and trepidation Malc

is the standard rule of thumb .....................don't do anything with the gearbox oil for the first 100k miles then every 36k miles thereafter to drain off two ltrs and refill ? does that keep the oil in fair fettle for the life of the gearbox ( forever ? ) Malc

I had Parking Eye try to "fine " me a while back whilst in a Aldi carpark. Aldi said they tried to help with their PE "fine" but never managed to sort it out at all ( I no longer had my till receipt nor paid on my debit card ) ........ so impasse ................ I just told them to b.gger off and after lots of acrimonious calls and email correspondence with Aldi and absolutely NO way of phoning PE ( uncontactable by human endeavour on a 1 2 1 basis ) I vowed just never to use Aldi again PE stopped contacting me in the end BUT as for Aldi, well, crap customer care tbh Malc

Floggit/Steve wow what a crap employer you have ............................ 22yrs and they won't lift a finger to help you .......... do you want to name and shame ? I'd happily buy a share and go to the next shareholders meeting and raise kane for you if it's a PLC Malc .

blimey, you're brave taking that lot to pieces Malc

I would be so wary of cheaper tyres from Chinese origin the latest scam I heard is the CE mark (in general ) when questioned, officially now means " Chinese Export "................................... Malc

Regarding semi synthetic oil. My Indy has only ever indicated the use of semi owing to the age and wear and tear on the engine nothing to do with cost at all. He says it's the most suitable in the circumstances Malc