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My car will be due its 9th service towards the end of the year. I seem to remember the dealer telling me this would be a normal one with the 10th being a bit of a monster can anyone confirm that? I cant seem to find anything on a service schedule. Also if I want to take out a service plan as I intend to keep it a minimum of 3 years since its warrantied for that long, can you take this out at the point of the first service or will I have to pay for this one and take it out from there? Finally I notice in my extended warranty booklet it says it has to be serviced by lexus. Is this the case I thought this could not be legally enforced these days or is it because its an extended warranty they can do what they like? I have used specialists in the past with high performance cars and generally find they know more than the dealers. Although not sure there is many around that deal with the F cars, much like the dealerships.

Toyed with the idea of getting one of these when they first came out as an alternative to a hot hatch. Drove great and I think they look fantastic, great driving position, controls all perfect. But it was a combination of lack of rear seats, just a bit too slow in a straight line (a 320d would pull away from one which is slightly depressing for a sports car) and the cheapness of the dash (hard plastics and entertainment system looking about 10 years out of date) that pushed me elsewhere in the end.

I love that orange and would have no issues owning it. RCF is supposed to be something special after all. Had a focus ST 225 in another life. Got a black one and spent the next 4 years regretting not getting it in orange.

If you can get one that year maybe a e9x m3 CS, an AMG merc or curve ball maybe a brand new mustang.

If I come so far south I get a nosebleed (of gravy obviously). Its a 3 hour treck for me which is just a bit too far I'm afraid, although I would love to meet up and meet you all and have a nosey at everyones cars.

Theres also a great video on here comparing the various setups. Sound is pretty subjective after all!

Ok to try and be of more use Jay, I am considering an exhaust change myself at the moment. I though the car sounded fantastic until I visited youtube 😞 I also dont want anything over the top. The Hayward and Scott seems to give a nice not over the top sound, guarantees no drone and replaces the fake tailpipes with real ones that look like stock, its just quite costly. I have recently also been looking at just axel back exhausts. I heard a car with the mufflers removed and it sounded great but was a little over the top and droney so I dont think thats for me. A friend recently had race mufflers fitted to his 5.0 mustang and that sounds spot on now, a little fruitier than stock but not offensive. The only example of this I can find on an ISF is where someone has had a magnaflow centre build them an axel back with a set of race mufflers but the exhaust is now single exit and I dont want them to be even faker. There is a good custom exhaust place near to me called pipewerx so I am considering asking them to build me something or seeing if H&S above will do just an axel back.

Dont be daft Martin he clearly means more like this

I tracked down and had a read of the stolen thread. Couldn't have been different from my recent experience which I just assumed to be the norm. My impression of the ombudsman was they were there to step in should an offer be obviously under market value, so for them to back up the insurers poor offer and not even give any reasons for it makes me wonder if I was just lucky or the poor chap just really unlucky.

I find that really hard to believe since I have just gone through it myself and insurers were asking for autotrader adverts as evidence of market worth. If you cant agree a valuation it goes to the ombudsman. Now considering you have to be able to replace the car with another similar one under an insurance policy, I cant see how they could justify a low price. I would say the rareness and inflated values of the ISF at lexus dealers would be a good thing should it be written off.

My last car was a 2010 S5 sportback with low miles (approx 40k) this meant there was only around 8 comparable cars for sale in the country when it was written off. I didnt struggle at all to get market value from my insurance. I rejected the first offer out of greed but would have been pretty happy accepting it unbeknown to them. GAP is great as it gives you what you actually paid for the car in the rare even its stolen or written off. However I dont believe people struggle to get what it would cost them to replace the car like for like from an insurer given my recent experiences with a rare(ish) car as suggested.

But the cheapest one of those is 10k more than the ISF

This was the first F I ever drove! It was in good condition and drove well, but I didnt have anything to compare it against and wanted a low miler. It was for sale in remote scotland privately last year, I had a email chat with the owner and he seemed to have looked after it. I wasnt in a position to buy as I needed to offload my current car. eventually it disappeared from sale and 4 months later appeared in blackburn with another 4k on the clock. I couldnt get to the bottom on if anyone had it in between but they thought 'a guy from scotland had been and traded it in for a golf gti'. I got the impression he didnt do much mileage in it so was surprised it had gone up so much if he had kept hold. Be worth a look if someone is looking for a bargain, theres plenty with higher mileage at that age.

What part of the country you thinking? Proper timing equipment? I'd be interested potentially

Did someone who drives a 5.0 V8 say a 2.0 4 pot sounds lovely on this thread or did I dream it 😮

I’m local, have a 59 plate and would happily take you for a blast. Trouble is im off to spain for 10 days tomorrow 😕

I love it! Uncle had a few when I was younger, one of the factors that turned me into a petrol head. The last one he had was PPP 2.5 and it was so fast for the power it put out kinda defied belief. Short gearing and crazy grip played a part I'm sure.

I see putting a car specific plate on as a similar mod to changing the wheels, adding a lip spoiler etc is a little aesthetic mod for a bit of individualisation. It can also hide the age of a car, mine is 8 years old but looks half that so if it had a plate on no one would know. I dont mind either but would never spend lots of money on one. Its the ones that make no sense I dont get, even from 300 yards with a squint they look nothing like the word they are supposed to.

When I rang around the usual suspects I'd used for performance cars in the past chris knott, brentacre etc I was basically told get a comparison online and we will match it, no point us giving you a price before that :/ Since i've had to make 2 claims in the last 3 years, one a non fault total loss, I now realise the benefits of using a major insurer and the hassle it can save you. Courtesy cars, child seat claims all became a massive pain taking up lots of my time. If I was with a major insurer rather than a broker it would have all been sorted in an instant. I wont be saving that £20 using a broker in the future unless its a lot cheaper due to mods etc.

I spent a weekend, viewed 5 cars (3 isf) covered 800 miles and needed a night in a hotel. Thankfully the dealer then delivered the car the 250 miles back to me. With my last car being written off I didnt have the option of playing the market. All that and I bought a silver one (which clean and in the sun looked fantastic this weekend imho)

Plenty of cars in the US with starship miles (where fuel doesnt cost the earth) without issue. I have a late 59 plate car and its not a facelift, does it have the blue band at the bottom of the steering wheel? If not its not a facelift.

hmm those GSF's look great, something about the styling is just right.

Dont understand why you wouldnt put the handbrake on when parked up?! Sounds like asking for trouble. Does anyone sit with it in drive and the handbrake on? I hadnt really considered this an option. Feel like I have to press the brake pedal quite hard to keep the car from moving so if its any longer than a few seconds it will be handbrake neutral for me going forward. I'll just need to get over my hatred of the handbrake and laziness to move a stick a notch!

I dont think he did its copied from the other forum. Not sure thats the case with every gearbox type though. SOme gearboxes have a D and a D1 but ours doesnt