Paul Brooksbank

DO NOT use WD40 to lubricate anything. After a week or two it sets into a solid mass of crap which does not move. Use 3 in 1 oil or something silicone based (plastic to metal with silicone, never metal to metal). If metal to metal, try to get something graphite based. Oh, and graphite causes aluminium to pit, so use PTFE on that. Complicated, but WD40 is only good for removing glue from stickers or Cellotape from windows after your wife stuck Christmas cards everywhere.

Incidentally, my rear bumper protector has dirt around the edges and the car is F Sport white so it really shows. Can you remove the old foil without damaging the paint?

Bosch could well be made in Spain Malc. I think we've been lucky with the washing machine, maybe it was made before the accountants took over running the company in a similar vein to VW Audi, BMW and Mercedes, their quality is shockingly bad these days. I say it's luck due to having two Bosch drills that both failed within days of purchase, one with a knackered battery and its replacement where the gearbox took itself to lunch. I claimed on the guarantee and the shop sent me a Makita instead. Incidentally, my mate is a joiner he has a Makita power planer that he bought in 1977. He reckons he's fitted 5000 doors and countless archives using it and it's still on the original drive belt. Lexus quality!

Just a tip, if you blanked the plate on your Lexus to stop nosy thieves figuring where you live, you've got a picture of another car here!

We had a Hotpoint, the main bearing failed after 14 months. They're actually made by Creda/Ariston now, so they're Italian crap. We bought a Bosch to replace it, 9 years fault free so far. If you can afford it, buy a Meille, they're family owned and are actually, through pride, designed to last for 20 years.

You have to move the right door mirror into your preferred position when in reverse to program it. It will then drop with the left when the switch is in L. A lot of people don't program the right mirror because they still want some sight of what's behind them and usually parallel park on the left.

You seem to have left the topic blank mate!

I feel for you all if your income is under threat and you have car payments to make. I'm lucky, my job is safe and the car is paid for. I just need to dodge the virus if that's possible! Good luck in the coming months, this situation is going to change our world for a very long time.

Pizza is a snack, red wine is a staple!

I once drove from a motel in San Francisco to Yosemite. We left in the early morning in the dark. The sun rose over the Seirra Nevada mountains and as it did, they went from black to deep purple, then pink and then yellow. At dawn break Hotel California was played on the car radio. It was heavenly and surreal.

Park the car, make sure all interior lights are switched off including the courtesy, boot and glove box. Walk away and don't worry.

I've got three shooting permissions full of rabbit, squirrel and wood pigeon, it's a pity that the IS300h isn't four wheel drive! 😋

But surely, being locked out of a Fiat is better than being inside it? 😁

A lot of people go for a massive capacity memory card thinking it will record for longer, when the whole point is to have rewritable continuous loop files, after all, an incident only lasts for a matter of minutes at the most. Think of the memory card as being a large house with hundreds of rooms. The pictures are broken up into colours and shades, then into reference points like a game of battle ships, these elements are put into separate rooms. Then the memory of where they go is put into the entrance hall. If you buy too many rooms, the system has too many rooms to search for the whole picture and rebuild it therefore recording fails. Go for 32G max with a high rewrite speed.

When I picked mine up from the dealers we had to go straight to the care home to visit the father in law, so both sets of keys were present. The spare was in the car and the one I'd been using was in my pocket. Upon trying to lock the car the beeps started going to warn me that a key was still inside.

I traded a Honda Civic 1.8 iVtec for my Lexus. I didn't drive the Civic any differently to the Lexus in that I don't thrash around like a boy racer. I got about 28 to 32 to the gallon out of the Civic in winter, I'm getting a good 38 out of the Lexus, but in far more luxury.

The receiver unit? Therefore, nothing wrong with the sensors!

You've done a fine job there. But for reference, does the knob pull off the shaft like a cooker or hi-fi volume knob?

I'm afraid German car manufacturers are run by accountants whereas the Japanese firms (except Nissan) are run by engineers. Every German car has failure built in as a profit maker. Sorry, but the Mercedes and VW we had failed every few months with suspension and brake issues, EFI failures and coil packs burning out, whereas the MX5 hasn't had any major problems, unless you count a couple of anti roll bar bushes. In fact, we've had five MX5's, Hondas, Toyotas and now Lexus and never paid for more than an oil change. My friend is an AA man, he's never been out to a Honda or Toyota for more than an empty fuel tank. He's been to one Lexus with a flat tyre. Take your pick mate!

I'm really sorry to hear this, as a coppers son I lament the passing of the days when law and order consisted of a good slap to an errant youngster and the fear it instilled, followed by a bloody good punch to the adult who hadn't learned earlier. I don't care what anybody says, the country has gone to hell in a hand cart. Nobody fears the law or retribution these days. Why should we live in fear of sub normal troggs and genetically challenged bastards? If this upsets any "social experiment Liberals" then so be it, you've created hell on Earth.

At this time of year it's more likely to be steam rather than smoke. As the Lexus engine doesn't run much above 1500 rpm, the exhaust system takes a long time to heat up. If you need a glaring example, take a look at a condensing boiler flue on start up, you get clouds of steam on a cold day, then later it isn't as noticeable.

I tried this today on my IS300h and it worked. I did try it a few weeks ago, but I got mixed up with the full up and one notch down positions, I was allowing the lever to go back to centre. Thanks for the info. Now, all I need to know is how to get the car to move forward! 😁

Good God it beggars belief. Maybe she really wanted a number plate that reflected her name and tendencies? I struggle to believe that motoring journalists are so eager to put the Lexus down in comparison to the German "premium brands." I've owned three German cars and all of them have been seriously flawed. They are companies that are run by accountants, the lot of them. The problem being, the accountants provide the motoring press with luxury accommodation in the Alps with unlimited food and booze in exchange for a good review.

Do not buy an SLK, they rattle like hell, break suspension springs and the brake callipers seize regularly, it's the worst car we've ever owned. We went back to an MX5 very quickly. And BMW? Get another mortgage to cover parts failures and taxi journeys.