RadicalCoupe-Fuji

Good news, road tax is going up too. Nothing like throwing good money down the drain.

Fensport have always been good lexus & toyota specialists for sporty models. That celsior is perhaps a bit too rare & old so you have to pay the prices. I also used nengun.com & rhdjapan.com which are for parts imported from Japan.

you can get brembo on autodoc with the oem part number, well for RCF anyway

Ive been using Autodoc.co.uk.

Nice to see a definitive list of affected models in that article. Would be useful to pin such information to the forums. Lexus models Affected years/months Lexus LC / LC-C 2017/03 – 2024/03 Lexus RC 2017/03 – 2024/03 Lexus RX / RX L 450h 2015/10 – 2022/10 Lexus ES 2018/10 – 2024/02 Lexus GS / GS-F 2015/11 – 2020/11 Lexus NX 2017/09 – 2021/10 Lexus LS 2017/10 – 2022/09 Lexus UX / UXe 2018/10 – 2023/12

could be worse, apparently land rover & range rover owners cant even get insured because of all the theft.

I seem to remember at least on older imports that Japan uses FM signal for satnav so its useless here. That was a 1999 Altezza.

My seatbelt was not retracting either, I just gave it a clean & its OK now.

just how many cars can possibly need the fix though, it cant be many lol

If youre using the fog lamp as intended in super low visibility that makes everyone drive at a crawl, it doesnt really matter if the driver behind thinks youre a motorbike just that they see something ahead. It really shouldnt be used if you can see the regular tail lights of other cars ahead, for example if its not thick fog

I was ready to get it done along with the service & MOT but they had no parts, now when its not convenient they are requesting the car for the fix. typical.

F sport has sportier bumpers, different front grille, better brakes?, nicer wheels & has the sport+ mode that the non f sport dont have? Theres "yamaha performance dampers" front & rear too that supposedly help handling. Its a matter of tastes.

The new NX's ive seen this week all had 2 fog lamps in the bumper & 2 reverse lamps in the clusters. UK spec hybrid & phv, dont get the non hybrid NX in the uk so dont know. uk spec Landcruisers have 2 fogs for sure. I wouldnt worry about something I never see, I can count on 1 hand the amount of times ive ever needed to turn on the rear fog lamps (ie - when theres actually hardly any visibility, not just cause theres a little mist in the air like a lot of people seem to do) in 23 years of driving. No idea if my car has 2 reversing lights or not, just know that it lights up the area behind the car just fine.

Locking wheel bolts have started showing up now for 2023 nx pw456-00033 & if you didn't get a safety kit after the date it was required by regulations you can ask Lexus for one. Pw022-00061.

If you go to a car supermarket type place & are willing to part-ex or at least spend the money you get for it at their place, you could get a good price.

As long as you don't buy a range rover your chances of car theft are not that high

the air is more dense when its cold which is good for combustion

My rear tyres werent at the legal limit yet but after a week of unintentional slippy sliding I decided to get them replaced early, went with Goodyear asymetric 6. Its not a winter tyre but having extra meat on the tread & fresh rubber must be of some improvement.

10,000 miles even if you drive a sportier car hard is not very much. Id have my alignment/suspension checked if I saw excessive wear.

Once the government & media get bored of the war in Israel like they got bored with Ukraine, what will be the next cool proxy war we have to fund?

my experience with 90s/00s jdm imports is that imports never have alarm/immobilisers fitted as the Japanese dont steal each others cars so buying a system with certificate is required for insurance, the radio & satnav dont work, you need a frequency band expander to get anything but radio 2 & the satnav works on FM in Japan so its useless here. If youre not willing to work with kmph youll have to get a clock conversion to mph. The cars usually dont come with any service history, manuals or anything, if they do its all in Japanese anyway so you have no idea about the life of the car. A rear fog lamp isnt a legal thing in Japan so you might have to have one fitted or a tail light converted. USA cant import any car less than 25 years old, so a lot of the cars I like are coming of age & the prices are going crazy. Its funny that the EU syphon the cars from Japan 2nd hand or who knows how many owners they had, 5-10 yers old, then when they are 25 years old when most cars would be quite tired & passed their prime, the USA come in & will pay more than the new price of a car to import it. You could get a Skyline GT-R 34 for £20,000 15 years ago, now they are worth over £100,000 when they cost £50,000 new, I always liked the NSX type r, I regret not getting one when they were also £20k-30k.

w12 ftw, they are endangered species, I imagine at some point in the near future the government will find ways to make it very difficult to own such a thing.

Every new NX & RX ive seen are all AWD, I never noticed any without an AWD badge, I guess the fwd are a pretty rare base spec.

All UK NX are all wheel drive & have 240bhp so they are good at towing, fitting a genuine oem tow bar on the nx involves removing & cutting part of the rear bumper out, crash bar deletion, removal of the kick sensor if it has one, strip down of the boot floor & rear quarter panel to run the wiring & ecu fitting. If it wasnt done right it could affect the warranty & you wont know if the independant did it right/properly or not.

g6 Celica GT Four, mk4 Supra twin turbo, Altezza RS200, Silvia S15 Spec R, RC-F.