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Lexus philosophy: You buy an expensive car, so you must have a lot of money. We have to have as much as possible. Not much different from many other companies.

How will the insurance company find out if it is the main driver (registered owner or whatever) drive most? As far as I know 1984 is not now - or?

I stopped working in car business in 2005, but already in 2004 there was talk about LED bulbs to replace HID. Lexus must have been one of the first to put real LED bulbs in cars. The LED in the one we have is great. Almost never any use for high beam, even on the twisted roads we have here. The big difference between HID and LED is the start-up time. LED's are faster than halogen bulbs. First models of HID took about a second to be bright, do not know if later HID lamps are faster.

What we can all find on the internet. 2004: Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) The first LED lights were used in the Audi A8’s daytime running light (DRL) assembly. These lights are long-lasting and consume little energy to produce an excellently bright stream of light. The Lexus LS 600h was the first car to use LED low beams in 2006. By the following year, the V10 Audi R8 was the first car completely outfitted from front to rear in LED lights. This was made possible with the modification of using 25 LEDs in each headlight with adaptable settings to dim individual diodes as required to avoid blinding other drivers.

As well as LED lights.

You can easily see it yourself. In night stop the car on a level area front towards a wall. Low beam must be flat and it is good. If low beam is like old cars halogen headlights they need to be adjusted. Long time ago it was done with tape on the headlight so the beam would be flat, if needed: https://www.autobulbsdirect.co.uk/simply-headlight-beam-adaptors-deflectors.html

Your idea of democrazy is close to mine.

Many of us here in the forum have been voting (or been able to) the last 50 years and we have all the blame for electing the fools that believe that making the rich richer is the way forward. Yes: The blame is on us. And, unfortunately: Most have learned nothing. Will vote for the same idiots again.

Not sure what you mean a scratch is. I call it a scratch if only a bit of the paint that has been brushed off. If it is down in the metal it is more than a scratch.

As long as it is not dent - only scratch and the like : https://www.ebay.de/itm/304409270696 Not as good as new, but makes the scrath almost invisible.

We do not agree. Super cat for 22 million cats will not be made without pollution. We agree: Private used cars are a micro part of the pollution. That our politicians have made us depending on fuel from Russia and batteries from China is our own fault as we have elected the idiots. If you think that climate change is to blame or not has little to do with lack of water to irrigate, wash cars in, and much worse to drink or that the forests are burning in large areas, or that in other parts of the world than we live in see livestock dying of thirst while other countries have monsoon rain in far higher levels than usual.. It does not matter what you and I think. Reality is that several places there is no cheap drinking water for people. In Denmark water in the tabs used to be OK to drink, now (probably the last 5 - more years) in most of the wells there are so high levels of PFAS that people wanting to stay healthy (and have money) drink imported water in bottles. Clean fuel production: https://greenhydrogensystems.com/ https://www.maersk.com/news/articles/2021/08/18/maersk-secures-green-e-methanol

All use of fossil fuels is mis-use if there is something that is not polluting. It has been known for almost as long as we (we mean you and I) have been living that there is, but our stupid elected leaders have only one thing in mind and that is not something that has anything to do with helping their population.

Yes Malc, discuss tons of fossil fuels that will burn well and make pollution just like we have been doing a long time. Ozone layer deteriorating, skin cancer multiply. Exhaust gas from engines burning fossil fuel is not good for health. As long as all political parties are "green" in the way that they will reduce man made pollution if it does not harm economy or the rich (super rich), we will destroy the possibility for our younger generations children to live as good a life as we have been living. We cut down trees faster than new ones grow and still think nature will take care of itself; nature will, but that will be without stupid humans destroying the planet. Burning coal to make electricity is just as stupid as building atomic power plants as long as we do not know how to store the used fuel. The other way around is the same. Only fuel, known today, that is renewable and not giving us a problem how to store the used fuel is hydrogen. Come from water and when burned returns to water. Electricity can be made from wind, water (rivers or tide) without much pollution. Produce food to feed livestock and not people are a total waste.

I believe Dutchie is sarcastic. Yes, the Gulf stream goes just by where we live and in the 17 years we have lived here the sea water temperature has gone from around 20 Celsius to 23. We live just 100 meter from the sea and have fresh air in so need no aircondition here, but where temperature in night was around 20 it is now around 25. Our children will probably live with whatever our stupid politicians decide "to do or not to do" but if our grandchildren will have a reasonable life if temperatures keep climbing and forest fires keeps burning and water reservoires keep holding less water can be questionable.

Well; moaning is not helping so why moan?

You forgot something my friend. I learned when I was a not very big boy (yes, that is long time ago) that Adam was created a man not a boy. By the way if you want dry air it just could be (if not completely dry then almost) possible to get filling the tyres when op here in the mountains above the clouds.

Having read that the engine needs unleaded normal (here it is 95 octane) that is what was used the first several months we had the car. Then for some reason started with Shell V-Power super bla. bla. bla. and used that for a very long time, did not get better mileage. The last half year went back to the 95 and engine sound like always, mileage is no worse. Do not think the CT engine will run better on super (98) than on normal (95). These are the only 2 unleaded choices we have here.

You have a point there. Still water is not really lost. It just needs cleaning before can be drinking water. So what is wasted is energy to clean it, but if evaporated and falling down as rain again it is good as new; better than desalted sea water.

Enjoy!

Congratulation with the car. Enjoy it! Same here. Nobody told anything about how to drive a hybrid, so it was different and partly strange in the beginning. Herbie say the manual is a way to learn and while it is correct, I have never seen such a poorly written manual for a car like the one coming with the CT. Think it is translated by Google from Japanese. The pictures in it are better than the words.

That certainly is something that would be nice to have other countries copying.

Established Member Name: Linas Lexus Model: None Year of Lexus: 2022 Location: Other/NonUK So, Linas; when are you going to change your Lexus Model from None to the nice car you are getting out of something that could hardly start? I like what you are doing.

Maybe not directly, but maintenance of filters, pumps, tubes and personnel can hardly be completely free.

While fuel costs have not changed our driving habits, price for electricity certainly has. Now looking at the app telling price for electricity per hour, having made us use washing machine, and dishwasher at different hours and tumble dryer is almost not used at all, hanging clothes to dry outside instead. Worst is that the price seems to be continuously climbing. Here water will soon be more expensive as the sea water we have in tabs here are desalted and they probably use a lot of electricity doing that.

Here the water in our tabs is desalted sea water. Problem is that it is getting expensive. In Israel they water fields with sea water (source: CNN) so desalting may not be needed. Here on the beach palms grow fine on the beach few metres from the sea; and maybe if growing potatoes in sea water you can boil them in less salt. The places where we get our car washed, the water is for sure reused (does not smell nice) ,and as far as I know they are still working.