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Nice, neat job!

Yep, that's right. TELNET! To watch the match live, in ASCII, just click Start, Run, type in telnet ascii-wm.net 2006 or telnet diego.ascii-wm.net 2006, then click OK. Transmission starts 10 minutes before kick-off, note that if you're behind a firewall, outgoing traffic needs to be enabled on port 2006. If the page flashes up then disappears it's because they've already got too many connections.

Time for Mr. Shipley to step in with his 10K service price for the IS250! 10K service prices listed for Lexus Hanley currently range from £74.49 (GS300 :P ) to £128.70 (LS430/SC430). I'd expect the IS250 to slot in there somewhere. I've dodged the screenwash and wiper charges in the past by filling the bottle and/or changing the blades on the day, and pointing out that they don't require replacement when handing over my keys.

An LPG conversion on a hybrid would be awkward. The engine's cooling system is normally used to heat the gas up in a device called a vaporiser. In the case of a hybrid, this might need some assistance in the form of an electric heater, and I don't know if these are available. If successful, the gas ECU would have to be reprogrammed so that it would both start and run on gas (the default on my Romano is to wait 25 seconds or until the engine reaches 25°C, this opens the tank-side solenoid, then wait for the engine to reach 1600 RPM, this opens the engine-bay solenoid and the system switches to gas). Besides, running a hybrid on LPG? That's just tight! Still, if it claws back the money shelled out on an RX400h... You are correct. The petrol tank stays where it is (although in some vehicles they can fit a smaller petrol tank to make room for a bigger gas one). If you run out of LPG, the system will switch back to petrol automatically.

Took the GS to Lexus Hanley on Monday, for a 50,000 mile (intermediate) service. Sceptical that the prices Chris Shipley posted might have hidden extras, I was pleasantly surprised to find myself paying slightly LESS! All done and dusted (well, vacuumed) in two hours, not bad considering the engine would've been roasting after the long drive there - not what you want when doing an oil change! Everyone very friendly, including Chris! Worth the trek, you'll save more on the service than you'll spend on fuel getting there. Definitely going there for the next one!

Chef:- :D

Nice! If Toyota Motor Corp. didn't exist, Hondas would be very high on my list.

Paid. If I remember I'll bring some Encona, that'll spice the burgers up a bit! :o

:) :D :D :)

The liftback version is a bargain too, at just £5,819! Oh no, hang about, we're in Britain, make that £8,610! Even a Prius is only £11,500 over there, yet over six grand dearer here!

There were a***holes trying that out at Japfest, over at the far side of the track. Didn't flinch :P

B)--> QUOTE(T7RY B @ May 31 2006, 08:53 PM) ← You cannot "legally" drive the car or your mate even if they are fully comp because the car HAS to be insured by somebody. Trade plates or Trade Policy will cover you. You can tow it or trailer it. A lot of auction houses will deliver at a cost. If you get stopped by the police most cops will turn a blind eye at No Tax or MOT when they see that you have the paperwork from the auction but I don't think that they would let you off with no insurance. Ergo if they nick you for no insurance then they will nick you for everything. This is what was on my old insurance policy:- That tells me that if the car belongs to someone else (in this case a relative) and is registered to someone else (in this case still the former keeper), I'm covered by my own policy ONLY. Any other policy applying to the car doesn't come into play at all. Strictly speaking, if there's an MOT but no road tax the car can be driven on trade plates, but if there's no MOT it can only be driven to/from a pre-appointed MOT test, under its own plates - NOT the trade plates.

Buy an old LS for a grand and spend the rest on fuel!

I think it's a speaker. Never heard anything out of it when I had a Mk.1, though.

Looks like the cops are involved now. BBC News page

Nice thread. Gonna hijack it with this though... What was I thinking when i did this pic?

Agree! its the best glass cleaner i've ever used, smells nice too :D Meguiars stuff always does. Factory must smell like a cake shop! I've found Auto Glym Fast Glass to be good, but I don't know what it's like on window tint.

Big engine = lots of metal, all storing heat energy. Add about six litres of coolant and you've got yourself one very big kettle. Blowing cold air on it isn't going to cool it down in a hurry!

Another one from the generally Not Safe For Work b3ta boards...

If you try one of the ones on the web where you give them your phone number (LANDLINE, not mobile 'cos they'll sting you on the texts) and the part you're after, don't go for the first dealer who rings you, I did this and got two more prices (both significantly cheaper) within half an hour!

The kits Prolex were doing a special deal on a few months ago were Meccatune Red Sun. Quite nice, too! :D

Don't you mean "and don't understand English like what we do"? :P

What's the size of the file you're using? Avatar (pronounced avahtar, or as one member prefers, avayter ) needs to be a maximum of 150 x 113 pixels and 20K in size. Needs to be a JPEG (tend to be smaller files), GIF (bigger, but can be animated) or PNG file.

According to this page you need to mix it 50:50. See the way my car's parked over there on the left? Park the other way round to that (up the hill) when filling, it may help get rid of the bubbles behind the dash.