Boomer54

Not if it was her money .😏

"but the missus would be an ex-missus fairly quickly" well, if you are ever looking for a reason !

They keep acoming.

Generally a lack of awareness. Easier to 'sleepwalk autopilot' behind the wheel. It's no different than I get when walking my dog. He's a German Shepherd and typically taught to be people neutral albeit at a distance of a metre. He will react to people or other dogs approaching me closer. Bearing that in mind when I see someone coming with another dog I have my body between him and them. Helps if the other people are awake and see it and copy. The we have two dogs separated by two people. Easy hey. Don't believe it, hardly ever happens. Most people are just sky gazing, on their phones , or away with the fairies not paying attention to anything. May be I should have posted that on 'what am I ranting about today' thread.

She's barely been doing 1,000 miles a year for the last 8 years. For 1999 she looks very good down below. Not sure if I should rewrite that. Congrats on your buy I dare say Malc will have something ( a lot) to say about it.

There is a moral there somewhere. Selling your DICKIE might be the end of you. 😏 Here's hoping he would have appreciated the joke.

Saturday used to be the day it all happened so.... Eddie Foster Eddie Foster - I Never Knew - YouTube Music

Another one came back on today £500 off the start price. Unusual really 'cos it had only done 30k miles upto 2015 and then it's basically put 100k on since. Benn a main drive for someone. Their problem is at £7k the mileage does not compare well with the market now regardless of any other issues. I only really looked because normally I would not like that colour, but with the Ecru it actually looks really well. 2007 Bronze Lexus SC 430 4.3 Convertible 2dr Petrol Automatic (269 g/km, 282 bhp) for sale for £6,990 in CANTERBURY, KENT (autotrader.co.uk)

Thanks I did not know this. "Noise ratings do not relate to the noise inside the vehicle".

"maybe just older people with an itch to scratch and no idea what to do with their surplus funds" Damn, that's a good crystal ball you got there.

I resent the implication that I might have progressed from very stupid to idiot. Having said which it is not lost upon me that no longer hitting my head against hard objects to slapping is a step in the right direction although I will no longer be able to have political aspirations.

Might be my imagination ,but as there been a bit of an uptick in people buying the SC lately? It appears to me that the stock for sale in the 'sweetspot' is shrinking by the day. By that I mean cars that are either not rubbish and shouldn't be bought at any price, and those not overpriced .

Just a bit funny for grumpy old people.

You are going to love it. There will be no looking back.

Thanks Stew. I think that's on the cards sooner than later. Are 3 coats the recommended treatments , or how did you come to the decision to use 3 coats? Is that a local place you have used before? Did they do the SC 430? Blue skies here in Preston so lost no time in dropping the hood and heading out to the coast for a couple of hours earlier in the day. Range Rover was tailgating me as I came back using the M55 so I thought what the hell punched the P3.9 and left him to wonder why he wasn't driving a SC 430 rather than that piece of mediocre beep beep. Buying this, one of my better decisions !

Thanks Neil. I wondered how you knew the MOT details and went looking and found you know what is available online. How useful is that. Just looked up my cars MOT history which was just what I expected ,but reassuring anyway. Thanks again for bringing me to that facility. Note, I can't see the black car online either.

My wife has promised me a private plate for my SC 430 as a xmas prezzy. I know what I have asked her to get ,but I will not be surprised if I get D1 CK

There was a time. Somewhere along the way I learned how to laugh at myself instead. When the fuel started to simmer I found a way to switch my awareness of what was happening to ON, and laugh at my own reaction instead. Don't know if it can work for everybody, but next time you feel yourself starting to get angry try to stand outside the moment and ask 'what are you doing , and why are you doing this to yourself'. Might as well try, because I struggle to remember when getting angry ever really helped me in any way.

If the level of noise was also matched by a level information (see dictionary) the modern world of instant connection would be of very real value. Instead it has created an almost pandemic in mental health. Once upon a time my mantra for post business was I wanted to live halfway up a mountain somewhere far removed from the intrusive noise. Instead, I just learned to switch it off. In that clip I posted I would never use that word 'stupid'. I would have substituted it with 'overly sensitive', because I find many people could find offence even if they lived on a desert island. Unfortunately , society has chosen to reinforce that and as usual the unforeseen consequence (in my view), is a marked drop in resiliance for a couple of generations of people. You don't get resiliance, or strength, by not being tested ! I could point to a raft of work in behavioural psychology that would back up that viewpoint just by looking no further than work in behavioural conditioning.

So that was you was it with the dodgy exhaust.

They will both be the same road tax as they are both pre 2006 when road tax changed. Currently they will be £395 pa. If you have no preferences for colourway etc then it really comes down to exactly what is the inspection condition and what does the history for works look like paying attention to the usual suspects like belt/pump et. A good look underneath worth doing if you have no idea of previous ownership to converse with. If you can't look get written statments on everything major re condition as they form part of the contract you may end up making. Also worth noting at least 4 cars on autotrader dropped their price in recent weeks in recognition that summer car buying is over and they want them gone sooner than later so start with wiggle room price.

" with a 4K bill ! Rear reluctor ring" Glad I can still get mine done on the NHS. 😏

"a knocking noise from under bonnet " Some Lexus owners are just so reluctant to part with their favourite 'toy'. I think hiding under the bonnet when you have sold the car is a step too far. "sometimes steering wheel" Hmm, how many owners as this car had and did any pass on while they had it? 😏

Like to insert another line in the Epitaph , because for someone a little unfiltered like me the world is now a minefield to be negotiated.

Churchillian We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in Google, we shall fight on the Internet and comparison sites, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the ether, we shall defend our chequebooks, whenever the cost be too high, we shall fight on Confused.com, we shall fight on Comparethemarket.com, we shall fight in the data fields and in the excesses, we shall fight in the NCD; we shall never surrender