Las Palmas

Ask a xenonpro if xenon is good or bad is like asking a politician if he/she is reliable. Xenon are not good for high beam as high beam is often used to give a warning blink and xenon takes a while to light up, where LED light up full power immediately (almost immediately).

Lucky you to know what VSC means. Can you please explain to some that does not know?

Most expensive single item in a CT is the hybrid battery. Finding one where the warranty is in place as long as needed for the budget can be something to consider. We did not buy from Lexus and still have a perfect car. Bought it before the 5 years warranty was gone and went to have it serviced to keep hybrid battery warranty. We service at Lexus/Toyota as they hopefully know more about the cars than most other service places. The CT is one of the most reliable cars and having had a lot of cars costing several times more, we consider a CT a perfect choice if not needing a bigger car. Fuel economy is not as Lexus promise, but that is the same with all other companies: they all promise that a car can drive much longer then they can in real life.

If it fails because of blinding or having wrong beam pattern it makes sense or not having washer for the lamp system or not regulating the height of the beam when empty or loaded it makes sense, if it fails because of some writer of a testing system has made a mistake and perhaps was lobbied by lamp or bulb factories it should be corrected. By the way if a LED bulb is blinding because the beam height is not regulated by a sensor the same will be the case with a halogen bulb. In colder countries (not now of course with all the global warming) the washer would not keep the lamp free of snow or ice very long. Lobby-ism is the most dangerous kind of bribery because it is legal.

The CT we have is equipped with LED from factory on low beam and fog light, but high beam has halogen. Will install LED and if they look to me OK will go with the LED next year and see what they will say. They should have no problems with the LED as the headlamp has the washer and automatic level for the LED as low beam are in the car with LED from factory. I suppose the car will pass and they will not say anything, probably not even notice. I will not put super bright in, just white LED with about same lumen as the halogen. 5500 - 5800 Kelvin is what I find correct, but will probably end up with 6000 as that is what is sold. Yellow light was modern in 1970 -80 in French cars, but today it is not so.

If adjusted correct and having the right beam pattern, LED would be blinding the same as halogen. If not adjusted correct etc. LED could blind more than halogen. When HID lamps were the new coming thing, all that was needed to make the light legal were that there was a lamp washer and a regulator of the height of the beam pattern controlled by a sensor on the rear axle of the car. Of course, they were not allowed to give 3 or more times more light than the original, but as long as the lamp height adjuster and washer were in place HID would pass the control. 1998 - 99 in Denmark (long time ago so a year or more could be not correct) we were selling these where I was working.

1984 in 1949

You summed up some of the reasons not to have any so called social accounts.

Facebook is not going to be missed here. Never had an account and no intention getting one.

Motorways always charge extra motorways prices. Funny that instead of traveling on them there are excellent non-motorways roads that lead through much better-looking landscapes and where you can find excellent restaurants, where eating fine food cost less than in the McDonald like junk food stores you find on the Motorways. Have been travelling from Denmark to south Spain so many times that I lost count (starting before there were motorways in Spain) and use the old roads lead to more relaxed and pleasant journeys.

BBC is "overhyping" maybe. I read that though some places fuel are coming back, in south of the island there is still not much fuel. I think the Pandora Papers are more serious stuff than the fuel problems (not for us of course). According to The Guardian.

Someone seems to believe the politicians actually are working. If so they must be incredibly stupid as what they have done so far has helped nothing on climate change, nothing on getting rid of poverty etc. etc. But OK. That is how it is. If that is the best they can do, OK. We are the stupid ones electing them.

There is some polish cream that can repair little damages on DVD and Bruray discs that might be able to do that. Do not know how or where I got it but little scratches make a Bluray disc not function and I have repaired one disc with the cream

The oily feel is coming on the windshied when air is circulating it comes from the cooling liquid.

If it is a leaking heat element there should be a sweet kind of smell from the coolant in it. Have had that in another car several years ago and when circulating the air to clean the windshield it would be like an oily film on it. The smell is not nice.

Depending on load and how much you press the gas pedal. When going up from our garage engine is revving, but as soon as on level ground it goes back to normal quiet beautiful sounding noiseless. Going uphill in mountains it makes as much noise as all gasoline cars if I only press the pedal a little. If I floor the pedal, it does not sound sweet at all.

Better luck tomorrow.

One of the most reliable powers here are the tide, and though a Norwegian thought about getting electricity from that very long time ago instead of blocking the rivers and damaging the trails to fish breeding grounds (salmon etc.), so far nothing has come of that.

You are convincing. And partly right. How many have died from nuclear waste is hard to say, but look at the leftovers in the Thule Air Base that have been leaking since the accident and seems not to be possible to clean. The local population that used to live from fishing and hunting in that area are not happy with no longer having access and those who got ill from being there are seldom mentioned. How many have died from obtaining rare earth for battery storage of power is also not easy to find out.

UK has problems with fuel. Spain and other counties have problems with electricity. Prices for electricity has doubled and here we are told price will continue up. Some of the politicians here have softly been suggesting building atomic power plants. Very softly. While electricity from atomic plants is relative clean, the leftovers are not. Those speaking positive about A power are either thinking that we can develop a way to reuse the dangerous leftovers or think that leftovers are a problem for coming generations that can pay for the way we live.

Could be correct. But since cars were first made, some have been going around stealing them.

Having read what Herbie mean and do not want to carry a double barrel as proposed by Steve, I see no real reason to spend extra on a catlock. Will ask Lexus how much they will charge to install a tilt sensor even though Herbie mean that is no use either.

We have now and then dust coming from Sahara (kalima) in quantities so high that you can feel them and chew on the fine sand. Sometimes completely dimming the sun and making the day dark and it can almost look like early evening in mid-day. Those days are very hot. Wind is coming from north so lava-dust and gas from La Palma is not coming our way.

All those laying on the car and not let air circulate are doing more harm than good. Dust can be washed off easy. A big tent would be better than a standard cover.

In the CT forum Roy is right. Outside the forum - you have a point.