malcolmw

Did it have a wicker coffin in the back on the way to a woodland interment. 🙂 Very green. Actually, this is a good application for an electric vehicle. The journeys are mostly local and charging at the funeral directors will be simple.

I raised this with Lexus ages ago. I think that the design of the system was done by "city boys" who have street lights.

Related to this, my pet hate is signs which say "road closed ahead" when it is a side road that is closed. Why not "next road on left closed" for example.

You need to see the one in Southampton Road, Salisbury which is the biggest traffic bottleneck in the area. They have spent £500K on refurbishing the bike lane complete with hideous green areas to indicate entrances to premises etc. This road is a dual carriageway but cyclists are allowed to use the lane contra to the flow of traffic which I think is hazardous as you are looking in the opposite direction for other road users. I use this road regularly and have yet to see more than one or two cyclists using it. IMO this is because: - it is a trunk road used by people doing longer journeys not suited to cycling which is really a local activity. - the road is lined with warehouse type retail premises and supermarkets which people don't visit on bikes as they need carrying capacity for their shopping. Completely insane.

On a related subject, has anyone played with the settings to change the point where the satnav changes from day to night mode (and vice versa)?

Set to minimum here also.

I filled up the NX today at Tesco in Salisbury. E10 at 144.9p per litre. I wonder why the difference?

I was at Hedge End today (no, not at the Lexus dealer!) and on our way back to J7 of the M27 from M&S we saw and waved at another Sonic Red LC500 just like mine. Anyone watching must have thought it was a (very rare) convoy. The number plate was "L500xxx". Anyone on here?

Brown seats? Not for me but the charcoal wheels look good.

Just filled up the NX in Tesco in Salisbury. Minimal queuing, no limit on amount of fuel purchased and 133.9 per litre.

We went out on a 20 mile round trip today which took us past 5 filling stations. All had some fuel available (not sure what types) with short queues of about 3 cars. On the subject of apt names for reporters, the Times had an article some time ago about child abuse in the church. The reporter was Roger Boyes.

Just refilled after having used a second full tank of E10. As before, no noticeable change in car feel or typical mpg compared with E5. Perhaps the Atkinson cycle and low state of tune of the NX engine make any difference unnoticeable.

Any building work going on around you? Malcolm's law of builders is that their vans spew out nails and screws. If you have any work done yourself then carefully sweep your driveway afterwards. In my case, I had the soffits and fascias replaced on my house and afterwards found 30 nails on the drive!

I found the review a bit schizophrenic. I agree about the two characters of the car. In traffic a quiet cruiser but on less crowded roads the performance is quite surprising. His criticism of the warning "bongs" is a bit paranoid. For example, he criticises the seat belt warning. I never get this because... I always put my belt on. He also says the car is "too big". This from an American. In fact, the LC is almost identical in dimensions to the Aston DB9 and a lot of other cars in this class. My main criticism is that, despite saying that the LC is not a track car, he then spends a lot of time modifying it for the circuit and complaining that it lacks a transmission cooler which it needs on the track! Why didn't he buy a track car to start with? Oh yes, he did - the Ariel Atom and he didn't like it much. The LC is a grown up cruiser which has very good acceleration for the occasional blast past slower cars. It is not a racer and is not intended to be. If you remember the Top Gear test of the LC, they compared it on the track with a Civic Type R. They are idiots as well. Sorry about the semi-rant but people don't seem to get the market that the LC is aimed at. Lexus understand this and that is why they progressively softened the suspension over model years and did not release an LC-F higher performance model.

On the V8, I have always filled up with Super Unleaded (98/99 Octane) from new. Not fussy about the label on it.

This was in the Times today: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sir-geoff-hurst-tries-for-a-hat-trick-of-world-cup-number-plate-sales-t77rmshdk

I wonder what they do in Germany where winter tyres are compulsory?

Just refuelled the NX today with our second tankful of E10. There is no noticeable difference to the running of the car versus E5 fuel. We have achieved 38.4 mpg on the first tankful of E10 which is pretty typical of our general economy on E5. Of course, the economy achieved depends on journey patterns and a lot of other factors but it seems to be much the same. We will see how it goes over a longer period.

I don't seem to have this issue with the Climate Concierge. Mine is always on and warms the seats on a cool day and ventilates them on hot ones. After fiddling about, I found that the default settings work pretty well. The fans speed up and slows down according to the excess temperatures detected. They don't come on all the time. I have the climate control set to auto in all cases and the default set to Eco mode which seems perfectly sufficient in the UK.

This will probably sound a bit silly but the seat air conditioning fans on my LC run quite often and sound like cooling fans in the back of the car. If you have the Climate Concierge switched on and the internal temperature set low then these may well switch on automatically and sound like battery cooling fans.

ICE cars will not be banned and will be around until at least 2050. Fuel will continue to be available at moderate cost. The "poverty lobby" will ensure this. If you want an example, look at the arrangements which were made for cars which could not run on unleaded fuel when this was introduced globally. At present, E5 will continue to be available (albeit at slightly greater cost) to cover the vehicles which cannot use E10 (and people like me with V8s).

Once upon a time, all watches were mechanical but then battery operated watches came along. These, although expensive at first, took over the mainstream market for time measurement and mechanical watches became a minority interest. Then people started to find quartz watches a bit dull and a resurgence of mechanical watches happened at the higher end of the market leaving the mass market as electric. The electric watches needed their batteries changed from time to time and sometimes went flat. Mechanical watches gave a very high level of satisfaction to their owners who cherished and collected them.

We put the first E10 fuel in our NX yesterday. It took 42 litres so the previous E5 fuel should not dilute the new load vey much. We are keeping a close eye on the mpg and any changes to the driveability. we will post our results later on. Has anyone else used E10 yet?

Wouldn't this course of action leave me with no warranty from cancellation until my next service? I thought one of the criteria was that you had to have a Lexus service after the 1st June to qualify.

Chipsaway told me that they would not touch the Sonic paints as they are too complex to match properly.