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Not only Sweden, they also exported a surplus prince to Norway.

An old saying in Denmark is: If you wait long enough, you can become king in Sweden. So - be patient.

Try another VPN. I use PrivateVPN and have no problem. Just looked at the picture you sent. Maybe not another VPN, but an adblocker.

Very nice and tidy job you have made. Impressed. Loudspeaker upgrade from standard Lexus to - ? Or are the OEM ones good? The speaker suspension gets better the longer the speakers have played, but the diaphragms (depending on the quality of the speakers) sometimes become less able to perform at their best. Bose for extreme clarity? JBL for louder sound? Some other brand?

If wrong L / R version is put on, that could be a reason for noise. Do not know if that even is possible, here we only have for right (correct) left-side-drive.

Around 15% of new cars are now delivered with run-flat tyres and that is only since a short time, so more than 90 - 95% of cars driving today still do not have run-flats. Not all people change cars every year. Most keep cars longer. Just look at what is driving around. A good tyre repair shop can fix a tiny leak in very short time and if the tyre has more than 50% thread it is stupid to throw it away.

Then it is strange that more and more car companies use sealant instead of spare wheels. Our Lexus cars come with that. Are the sealants not supposed to be used? Is Lexus crazy or UK tyre shops?

https://lexuspartsdirect.co.uk/product/lexus-tyre-valve-dust-cap/ These are the caps on our CT. They were on the car. Lexus claim they have never seen such dust caps, but if eyes are closed it is limited what to see. In maybe more than 20K Km mountain biking here I have not had a sidewall torn. For hard riding in mountains always Schwalbe and they seem to be able to take anything. https://www.continental-reifen.de/autoreifen/reifen/contisportcontact5 Would not help with torn sidewall, but be good preventing most flats.

Any tear of a sidewall will require a new tyre. Absolutely. Limping home with a sealed hole if out in nowhere is what I would do, but having been in car business very many years and so far never saw a tear on the sidewall of a car tyre, I consider that close to unlikely to ever happen. Most flats / holes come from screws and pins on the road. A tear in the sidewall would likely come from hitting a sharp rock, which is rare on the roads we normally drive on, and it would be much larger than any sealant could block. Plus, Lexus is not making Land Rover type cars. I use the sealant in mountain bike tyres but have a couple of bottles that can be used in our car. Still do not know if there is latex in the sealant in our cars, and if not informed that the Lexus sealant has no latex in it, I will use my own Quadboss sealant instead of the one from Lexus. Latex is for doctor's gloves. About the plastic caps Lexus here told me that they do not sell the original Lexus metal caps. Never have done that. When looking at mine asked from where I have them and if I wanted some plastic caps, absolutely free. I have silicone grease on mine and they look better but maybe they will be replaced with the common plastic caps one day, if starting to be difficult to get them off, any place where pressurised air is available plastic caps are like to be available. Wonder why Lexus sell metal caps, Lexus have people knowing about corrosion. Maybe some special kind of non-corroding caps. Maybe Colin will tell.

If not delivered yet your NX 2022 will not come before 2023. Sorry. That was not funny.

While I agree that in certain conditions, a tyre sealant kit may well get you out of trouble - and has the advantage that you don’t have to remove the wheel - it comes with conditions. You have either not read what I know about latex-based sealants or do not believe that I know what I write. When having inserted sealant, it is done to take the car to tyre repair shop, just like when having a spare tyre on the car. Only drive slowly, just like when having a space saver replacement wheel. Sidewall cannot be repaired well enough to drive anywhere in the world, so if that happened you need either assistance or a spare wheel. If damage is poor sealing between valve and wheel, I suppose that happens when standing still touching the valve, as how it would happen when driving I cannot understand. Happened to you while driving? Mobile phones are common these days. Honda diesel engines are first class engines. Honda make cars of equal quality with Lexus. The Accord Coupé we had was in no way less quality than what Lexus make. Less extras in it, but at the time it was a fantastic car. Automatic is more convenient than manual gear, and today with the better automatic gearboxes at least as good as manual. I had it for some years until it was written off by an Iveco truck. I would have replaced it with another diesel Accord - except Honda had stop selling them in the UK. It was purely by chance that I stumbled across the Lexus and would say that in most respects it is slightly superior to the Accord. Diesels are for now out of favour, but wait, it could happen that politicians have relapses again and again. Happened before. Also, of course, diesels have now fallen out of favour! A CT is a nice little car that fit in the place we have in the garage, brings us where we want rather comfortably and just look in the forums here, most errors or problems with CT’s are either minor or owner error related.

Do not know what kind of sealant Lexus is using. I use Quadboss sealant since 2000 on bikes and unlike all sealants (most are latex based) Quadboss does not dry out and when coming home (thanks to the sealant), you can take off the tyre and wash away the sealant with lukewarm water. I just continued using the tyres till worn out. Many tyre centres will not repair tyres with sealant inside. Why: if latex come on their machines, it is close to impossible to wash off. Several other sealants are now away from latex in the sealants. On a bike in a hot climate as here, latex will seal the punctures and dry out within 3 - 4 months, then no longer able to seal a new puncture, meaning that tyres get heavier with each new filling in order to be of any use, holes come faster than tyres are worn out. Here with lava rubbles, sharp as glass splinters and thorns from beautiful looking and dangerously pointed cacti, off road driving make many take off the wheels and repair punctures, while I rarely noticed a hole as holes would be sealed so quick that little air was lost and I first noticed when washing the bike and seeing a little white bubble on the tyre. It is on mountain-bike and not a car, but a puncture is a puncture letting air out and end up with a flat. Quadboss was not made for mountain-bikes, but for buggies racing in deserts, and I found it searching for a sealant not based on latex.

Pretty sure that no standard audio will be as good as ML audio. Have never been in a GS but believe that whatever ML put in a car sound better than most. 3 - 4 times more expensive cars than our little CT I have been in have no better audio than the ML in our CT. May be good for all.

A spare wheel is highly overrated. Sealant will seal holes well enough to get you to a place to buy new tyre is needed or to a place where you can have the hole repaired if it is just a nail or something like that. I know, have used it and never had to call help to get me to where I wanted to go. Have been living in Africa several years. Most holes in tyres are easily fixed and that faster than taking off a wheel and putting on the spare. You do not plan to go racing in Paris Dakar in a CT? I doubt there will be any flat in the more or less civilized roads we have here in Europe that cannot be fixed with sealant. Half a litre of sealant will fix nail holes in 2 tyres (1 spare tyre would not help more than 1) and should you be unlucky enough to get 3 flats, you would need assistance even if you had a spare tyre or have extra sealant with you. Where we live roads probably are no better than in UK. Sunroof is nice, good for ventilation, but air-condition in CT is fine also. Never turn it off in any car. If you do not live in a mountain area a CT will be better than any diesel, but where we live our Golf used less fuel than the CT does. Going uphill, engine is using gasoline all the time and going down 3 - 5 minutes the hybrid battery is full and that is it; the rest of the energy coming from going down is wasted. We are happy with our CT. Sunroof, excellent gear system, quiet and comfortable car. Unless you want a soft suspension. CT has a suspension that is firmer than needed if you see how much (little) power the engine has.

CT is a fine little car. We had before a Golf 2.0tdi DSG and in every way except one the CT is better. Premium or Luxury models are so full of extras that they will take first place when compared to most other brands. My favourite is the audio from Mark Levinson. Few much more expensive cars have audio in that class.

Some say that 40% mean that 40% light get through the film and some say that 40% make the windows look 40% darker. Very satisfied with the film. Supposed to be scratch proof but how would I know. Do not usually scratch windows. Heating/demist on the rear window seems not to damage the film.

In a couple of years maybe some good cars are worth converting to hydrogen. Fuel-cell cars are just EV's without the noise of a real car and when it is possible to make engines run on LPG, it probably will be made possible to run on hopefully green hydrogen and get water to drink out from the exhaust pipe.

It is harder to get fit, than to stay fit. Start walking up to 10th floor a couple of times a month and knees will get good again. Maybe not 10th floor in the beginning.

LLumar has transparent tint. front doors in our CT are as clear as before I had the film on them. 99.95% UV protection. Have a UV detection device (skin cancer (have ugly pictures from before surgery)) and it tell me when UV outside is 12, inside there is 0. Rear doors and sunroof 40%, difficult to look into, but from inside no problems looking out. https://www.llumar.com/automotive-film/types-of-automotive-film/clear-window-tint Like the look of your vehicle as-is but want to upgrade the performance of your factory auto glass? LLumar® AIR clear window film is the solution. It has the same, proven nano-ceramic construction used in premium auto tint, minus the window-darkening color. Parking space in town are made for Fiat 500 (the old ones).

The inside of racing- and rally-cars are not as pretty as the inside of our Lexus cars either. The hydrogen container in the rear of the Corolla GR Cross does not look much bigger than the LPG gas tanks and not bigger than most gasoline tanks either. Remember, if you spill hydrogen it is less dangerous than spilling gasoline.

Depending on what - near horizon - mean to you. It is possible and the first prototypes were - the first prototypes. They will be evolved and improved and only those who dislike change will be against that.

Why hydrogen cars still make sense despite energy loss Some consumers are questioning the value of H2 vehicles when EVs plug in and charge directly. When comparing hydrogen cars and battery electric vehicles, many people wonder why anyone would choose an H2 option when fuel cell vehicles suffer energy loss. All vehicles experience energy loss, including internal combustion engines, electrics and H2-powered. Energy is lost no matter what type of vehicle is driven. It’s easy to assume that an electric vehicle would not be included in that group, as it uses electricity directly from the grid. However, an electric vehicle’s drive system still experiences an energy loss of between 15 percent and 20 percent. Comparatively, a gasoline-powered internal combustion engine experiences a much higher 64 percent to 75 percent energy loss, according to US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data. Fuel cell vehicles experience an energy loss of somewhere between 40 percent and 60 percent, though that technology is rapidly evolving; fuel cells have not been around very long compared to combustion engines, and efficiency levels are improving, according to the California Hydrogen Business Council. Energy loss in a hydrogen car is partly offset by its energy storage capacity using renewable electricity. As important as energy loss most certainly is, there are many other factors that determine whether a vehicle – even one that has zero-emission operations, like a hydrogen car or EV – is truly environmentally friendly and makes the anticipated difference in reducing carbon emissions to combat climate change. In deciding whether battery electric vehicles or hydrogen cars are better for the environment, it is vital to consider how the electricity or hydrogen fuel is produced. After all, both can be produced by burning coal or natural gas with unabated greenhouse gas emissions. In those cases, the electricity or H2 still contribute to emission levels, even if it is not occurring within its end use in powering a vehicle. An electric vehicle could only consider itself truly CO2 emission-free if it was powered by electricity generated by renewable sources such as solar and wind. Similarly, only green H2 produced using electrolysers powered by renewable energy such as solar and wind would mean that operating a hydrogen car is truly clean. When using renewables, storing the energy as H2 can help to ensure a steady supply of fuel, as reliability of sunny days, windy days, and the limitations of availability (such as the lack of solar power production at night) can mean that even if energy loss does occur, it takes advantage of any renewable electricity produced but that is not immediately used and would otherwise be lost altogether. Batteries self-discharge while hydrogen can be stored without loss long periods.

https://www-neumaticoslider-es.translate.goog/neumatico-auto/sumitomo/htr-z5/215-45-zr17-91y-1292982?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc This is the size that would fit a CT and a bit far from what I would think of ideal tyre. https://www.sumitomotire.com/ seems not to be functioning, which is not that great. Fuel consumption D is pretty poor. 70db noise acceptable and A in rain is good. Price is not hight, so maybe OK. If the tyre is made for extreme sports cars, there is no Lexus ever made that fit that description. 275 compared to 255 mean they are 2cm wider which by itself will be OK in dry summer, but worse in wet winter. If there is room enough for 2cm wider and 1.4cm higher tyres in the wheel arches of the car I have no idea about, but speedometer would be not correct but showing a bit more than 2% less than OEM tyres, if OEM is 255. No really a problem for many, but maybe a problem for MOT. Here it would be, do not know about UK.

Chinese researchers successfully achieve hydrogen production with seawater The team of scientists in China developed a device able to split salt water for producing H2 directly. A Chinese research team has announced that they have successfully developed a device able to split salty seawater for direct hydrogen production. The new device is able to overcome the issues previously causing a barrier to seawater electrolysis. The device developed by the researchers is a membrane-based seawater electrolyzer. This device helps to address the corrosion and side-reaction problems that occur when trying to electrolyze seawater using traditional methods. The results of the research were published in the Nature journal, in which the team under Nanjing Tech University chemical engineering professor Zongping Shao stated that their device “ran for over 3,200 hours under practical application conditions without failure.” Currently, the majority of H2 is made using methods powered by fossil fuel, meaning that even though H2 itself doesn’t lead to CO2 emissions when used as a fuel, there are greenhouse gasses emitted from producing it. “Electrochemical saline water electrolysis using renewable energy as input is a highly desirable and sustainable method for the mass production of green hydrogen,” said the research team in a news release. Electrolyzing seawater has been a top goal for hydrogen production, but barriers were considerable. Being able to electrolyze salt water into H2 to be used as a green fuel is an appealing goal, but seawater is notorious for the corrosion it causes to electrodes used in electrolyzers. As a result, electrolyzing seawater is typically seen as unviable. While some hydrogen production researchers have applied polyanion coatings in attempts to resist the corrosion from chloride ions and some have tried highly selective electrocatalysts, but they have not been appropriate for practical application. Desalinating water requires energy, reducing the efficiency of the hydrogen production in the first place. “Our strategy realizes efficient, size-flexible, and scalable direct seawater electrolysis in a way similar to freshwater splitting without a notable increase in operation cost,” explained Shao in a media statement. The team focused their seawater hydrogen production on the use of a concentrated potassium hydroxide electrolyte solution in which the electrodes were dipped. This, combined with a porous membrane helped to separate the seawater and electrolyte solution. The membrane was fluorine rich, allowing water vapor to penetrate it while blocking liquid water.