Arth_Vader

Dealer should have given you some stuff including documentation with QR codes to set it up - in a little box. Post set up you can view your car details and geofence etc etc on the tracker app

From an enthusiast standpoint there isn’t much electric worth looking at apart from the Hyundai Ioniq 5N - but that only has 220 mile effective range I think. Thanks to net zero direction it’s going to become increasingly hard (and expensive tax wise) to buy expensive high carbon ICE cars new, so I imagine (in my fervent imagination) that bombproof used Japanese muscle cars with long warranties will be all the rage.

I’m not sure whether it’s due to the tracker roll out, followed by reduction in car insurance premiums, the end of LC production or the ZEV mandate meaning new ICE cars are getting harder to buy but low end LC prices appear to have firmed up considerably last fortnight.

On gears I find in sport or sports plus it never goes above 8th gear, which is great fun, higher revs and sharp throttle response but affects mpg on the motorway. I change the modes a lot depending on my mood - eco is great for lazy v8 lugging noise but if you want to get the big step up in noise that comes at 4000rpm you have to use manual or one of the sport modes. The step up at 4000rpm still excites me after three years owning it. There is a definite harder ride and more responsive nature from the chassis in sports plus. Epic epic car.

Sorry everyone I had an army reunion in Leicestershire the same weekend so I was unable to be sociable in two places at once. They loved the car.

Sorry I disagree the boot is “idiotically small”. It’s wide and while it doesn’t have much vertical height it goes quite deep into the car on the coupe. The boot is way better than that on a 911, for instance - another 2+2 coupe. We went to France as a family of three for a weekend, and think we took a small pram (yo-yo) with us. I think we could do it with four of us. Admittedly three of the four are little people but the boot is ok if you pack smart. Don’t know about prices. Used 911s are pretty resilient price wise and I know which of the two I’d have used.

I’ve got a 67 plate and it makes plenty of noise specially in manual and sport plus, at quite reasonable and legal speeds. A dab of throttle at 1500rpm and it comes to life nicely. A vantage is pretty tame until you get to 4000rpm unless you pull fuse 22, which opens the exhaust flaps and then it’s brilliant all the time. If you can somehow get both an LCs exhaust pipes to stay open all the time (there are a few options for this) then it’s similarly game on. Shame if you’ve sold without exploring the options. Hope not.

Yet more photos taken at Reims race track on family road trip. I’m led to believe the frenchie petrolheads aren’t allowed to congregate there, we bumped into a group of them about half a mile away.

This is me and @Jgtcracer meeting up in Berwick. Top man and top cars!

You really don’t need an exhaust on an LC500, it’s plenty loud enough and pretty much perfect. I had after markets on my isf and Boxster, and it’s one of the reasons I chose LC. 21” Wheels look great but have a tendency to kerb being so big. Hard to park “safely” in tiny UK car parks so choose carefully. I’ve been lucky again, but any time I don’t fancy my chances of getting out, or in again, or getting scraped by other cars, I pass. 1st world problems though, it’s an awesome car. Had mine 3 years now and not put a foot wrong.

Lexus Hatfield have now confirmed they are fitting the tracker free of charge along with the service. Originally they asked me if I had received an email on the subject but I outlined my case and they’ve added it to the work.

Wasn’t sure about where to post this as there are so many threads about canbus, exorbitant insurance and Lexus starting to fit trackers. I went on confused last night and the updated quotes had some interesting new assumptions that I had to agree or disagree with - one such assumption was a tracker is installed. My car is getting serviced in the next month and I’ve just specifically asked to have the Lexus tracker installed at next service, which is just before insurance runs out. I’m waiting to hear back. Assuming this is done my insurance is going to go down about 30-40% since last year. Finally there is hope.

Yes it’s big and wide and the doors are hard to open in confined spaces. Rear visibility is bad and reversing is a mare due to length and width. You need to think and plan where you are going to park and narrow underground/internal hotel car parks are deffo not its forte. Certainly a Porsche 911 or even modern boxsters are way more practical and faster, and better suited to British roads. However I didn’t buy it to go fast or park in multi stories. I bought it to look at and so I didn’t have to drive fast to raise the hairs on the back of my neck. I bought it for looks and noise, and very low cost of ownership compared to my previous Porsches and Astons. It still looks new and fresh and I really do still marvel at the way it looks, and sounds, but its no longer anywhere as cheap to run as it was.

My sister lives in Mach I hope you rattled her window frames driving by!!

I’d like to join if I’m able