beyond the blue

I have a Thinkware F770 dash cam that came with a 'Thinkware' 32gb card. Is it necessary to use a 'Thinkware' card or will any card with the same speed spec work just as well?

Yes l agree, the parking is very off putting, cars constantly being juggled about, it's no wonder accidents happen. Lexus Stockport seems to be a bigger site and also run by the RRG group, maybe time for a change.

Very happy update. Just got the my ES back from the repairers 'Williams Body Shop Bolton'. I've gone over it with a fine tooth comb and it's an excellent repair. They replaced the bumper, headlight, 3 sensors, headlight washers, washer covers, inner wing fixings and anti-crush arm at a cost of £3,940. So far (touch wood) the AA insurance have handled things brilliantly, providing the hire car side of things goes according to plan l will be a happy customer. Until l get my renewal quote next year.

I believe the large screen started with the 2022 model that was available August 2021 which is the model l have. As well as the large touch screen it also still has the touch pad, something that l never use.

I purposely asked for nothing to do with sporty when l bought my ES, no sporty seats, no sporty tyres, no sporty styling not even a sporty name or badge. I went with a simple ES premium edition and it's great. It doesn't have seats that rearrange my kidneys or neck when I get in. I never even switch it to sports mode.

When you say a theft attempt, did they manage to move it or damage it? If you like the ES just try and protect it a little better to give you more piece of mind. Mine is currently in for repair after someone pranged the front of it, l have been given a 6 month old Audi A6 Quattro to drive meanwhile and although it's very nice it certainly isn't as nice as my ES.

Thanks again. I or should l say we as my wife is helping with this have decided to.... 1. See if my car is driveable and recover it from the Lexus car park and get it on to my drive in order to have a good look at the damage. 2. Ring our insurers tomorrow and explain why we cancelled the contract with CMC as we panicked and need clarification as to what exactly will happen, and inform them of the call we got from the TP insurers that frightened us into the cancellation. I even have the name and claim reference number of the person who called me. 3. Today we wil read thoroughly through every T&C we can find.

Thanks for your in depth reply. This is exactly what l meant when l said there have been some developments. l contacted my insurance to report the incident and told them the other driver had accepted liability they offered me two choices, 1 to go down the traditional route ie; accept a small courtesy car, pay the excess and they would sort the repairs or go with their recommended CMC and pay no excess get a new Audi A6 quattro at £218 per day hire charge but that would be charged to me to be paid within 7 days of completion of hire period but my insurance would pay for it and claim it back off the faulters insurance. It all sounded good and l signed up with the CMC. One hour later l got a call from the other guys insurance offering to take charge of everything. I told them what l had decided and they put the scenario to me that they would only ever pay a maximum of £107 per day for car hire and and advised l read the small print very carefully as any shortfall would be my responsibility to the CMC company. I read the terms and conditions and it mentioned this however the shortfall would usually be met by my insurance company. I will have to admit at that point fear set in that I COULD be faced with a shortfall that l couldn't afford so l cancelled the CMC contract under the 14 day cooling of period and intend to inform my insurance on Monday that l now want to go down the traditional route. I have now read your advice and to be perfectly honest l have since read some freightening stories on line that people have been taken to court by the CMC company when it all went wrong for them..... I'm confused except for the fact that I'm 100% sure that l don't want a debt that l can't afford. I keep thinking about 'if it sounds to good to be true it probably is.

Yes it's very tight parking at Bolton. There have been some developments since l first posted this I'm afraid. Although l have been contacted by the other guys insurance and they have accepted blame things are not going smoothly. All sortable hopefully but not until Monday. On top of all this l cracked my head badly trying to shelter under a low roof at the dealers and expecting to get a call from the hospital on Monday to go in for a long awaited heart bypass operation. To top it off the when l was leaving the dealers the service guy said 'have a nice day', yeah right!

I think he might have hit it twice by the looks of the damage to my car. I can't see how scraping it with the side of his car can cause the dent to mine. The salesman said he heard the bump and told the driver to stop but he carried on trying to park at speed.

I took my ES into Bolton Lexus this morning to have the tracker fitted. I handed back the courtesy car and went to the car park to collect my car only to find an old gentleman standing around with the sales team, when l looked at my car the front wing was hanging off and bumper badly damaged. The old gentleman had ran into while trying to park his Lexus at the side of mine. Apparently he was travelling very fast the salesmen said. Lexus Bolton was very helpful and handled all the exchange of details and calming everybody down with cups of tea etc.

Finally got the ghost2 immobilizer fit to my MY22 ES. After two unsuccessful install attempts Autowatch have finally come up with a software fix. A little confusing to use at first but hopefully will become second nature soon.

How did it go? Do you have to have it fit by the dealer you bought the car from?

37mpg😲 that's not good, are you happy with that?

Is this 40,000 miles or 4 years? I have done 8,000 in 3 years from new, if it's 40k then my car will be around 13 years old before reaching 40k miles. I signed up for a 6 year service package with Lexus.