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Friday morning, saw a dark blue (might have been very dark green or even black) Soarer on the A27 Shoreham flyover about 7:30am.

Very cool looking car on some seriously nice alloys, but I didn't get a good look as I was just joining the flyover from a slip-road, and he/she was already motoring past in the outside lane! B)

Anyway, very handsome car - wonder if it belongs to anyone here?

Not being precious here folks but after starting this thread have we gone slightly off topic!     

Marked points, hmmm... The DVD based navigation system can store up to 100 marked points. In addition to that, I guess you could use "Area to avoid" of which you can store another 10. Trouble is, if you live in London for example, you're stuffed. According to the Transport for London web site, there are 600 fixed cameras in the Metropolitan Police area alone! :duh:

Every other day, I travel to work in a mates new 325i SE. He freely admits that he has a moral duty to be in front of everyone else on the road, (and he takes this duty very seriously)....

Current bid is £51....... You could buy a one year old Vauxhall Omega Estate for that!

Not unless they develop a camera that can detect that the oncoming 'speeder' is a motorcycle rather than a car, and quickly swivel round as the bike goes past to take a photo of the number on the back ;)

Actually I'll bet the technology probably exists, but they'd have to spend some of the money they wring out of motorists on actually dealing with with motoring problems..... no chance of that then

Bonus

mummy in car yesterday

no complaining

no screaming

no shouting

I am learning.

Ok.... but how did she react after you started the car...?? ;)

Forward facing cameras are fine with me - I'll just take the bike! If they can track me down from the type of bike, helmet and leathers, then good luck to 'em B)

...not that I speed of course

Someone wanted that tyre review spreadsheet? :)

Tyre_reviews_215_45_17.zip

I'll be impressed if there's a manual version of something 3Ltr or more ...

I suspect what the dealer is offering is something called "Supaguard". They usually offer it in various bundles e.g. exterior only for £250, exterior & interior + mats + a full tank of gas for £400, etc.

I went for the interior & exterior treatment as I'd had the exterior Supaguard done several years before on a new Nissan 200SX, and that car still looks the biz! B)

Would I have it done again? No way! Why not? Well, for one thing the car is no easier to clean than my previous IS which didn't have it. You still have to put just as much elbow grease into cleaning the outside of the car. The interior treatment was/is even worse. For one thing, every little bit of the dash that the mechanic missed with the treatment shows up slightly lighter. the other thing is dust - rather than reduce static and the amount of dust that clings to the dash, it makes it about ten times worse!

Seen comments about Supaguard before in these forums, and I think the concensus is that you can do it better/cheaper yourself.

Glad you got it sorted mate - it was a gorgeous car and I know how gutted you must have been. Also, well done to Lexus H.O. for stepping up to the mark where the dealer had so obviously failed.

One thought - I wonder what they're going to do with your old car?

You're allowed to love an engine (why the R1 engine in my Fazer is a sexy little number), but you're not allowed to admit it in public! :P

Someone was asking for a picture of the new BMW 3-Series. Here's a spy-shot... ;)

But you can only "mark" about 100 points on the current satnav system, and there's probably about three times that number of gatso's in Sussex alone!! ;)

Sounds like you had a fun day out :)

Here's an interesting list of ¼ mile times/speeds.

Nope, I'm "Royale-y" stumped! ;)

what do you call the quarter pounder with cheese?

the 100grammer with cheese............................... <_<

The 25%'er with curdled milk fat?

I agree - DON'T sell up. Weigh it up against all the satisfaction the Lex will have given you. Besides, if you go off and buy something else you'll still want to take care of it, and I'll bet it won't have such a good Owners Club!! :P

What about a web-cam? A mate at work has one set up to watch his (other) car - the camera was dirt cheap, easy to set up and he can watch his car from work by just using a browser :)

Howdy Bob!

(..and I promise - no swimming pool jokes) :P

Many, if not all insurance companies have this catch-all called "duty of disclosure". An example of this is:

"...you (or your agent) must provide the (insurance) Company with all material information that is likely to influence the acceptance and/or assessment of your proposal. If you are in doubt whether a particular item of information is material in this respect you should include it. Your failure to do so may give the Company the right to refuse the claims which you make, and in certain circumstances to void the (insurance) policy altogether. It is an offence under the Road Traffic Act to make any false statement or withold any material information..."

If you modify a safety feature that is designed by the manufacturer to be "on" by default, to be "off" by default, then you are altering the default operating parameters of the car, and my money is on the fact that the insurance company WILL want to know (any excuse for them to bump up your premium!)

If you disable TRC and have an accident as a result, the chances of the insurance company finding out are pretty slim, BUT if they do find out you slid your £20K beauty off the road and totalled it because you re-wired the TRC to be off by default, then my guess is they'll refuse or significantly reduce your claim (to something like 3rd party). I for one don't see the point in paying them hundreds of quid a year and then giving them an excuse to not pay a claim. Better to leave it wired "on" and just switch it off for those fun days

And another thing, it's pretty easy to get my IS to "tramp" when pulling away quickly, even on dry roads, and especially when pulling out of a side road. So I agree - the system is somewhat crude.

Might be a lubrication problem? If you're looking to buy from a dealer, it's something you could insist they address before you buy.

Always figured black wheels on a black car make it look like something out of Robocop... but having seen yours pee'j, I'm a convert - they look the poodles plums!! :)

Try this... :)

Sportcross bumper

Saloon bumper

Gold wheels + gold badges to match... or is that gonna look too much like a scooby?

Can't say I have been that quick, the bottle goes!!

However, far be it from me to bang on about the plod etc.

But, didn't some guy get nicked for speeding from a video he produced of him in his F40? He then sold it or something.

I guess as there are no road shots, no-one knows where these were taken, therefore you are all safe - but thought I'd mention it.

Can the rev limiter be removed or raised to get a little more speed?

There was certainly a biker who landed himself in jail last year.... :o

Daily Telegraph 9 March 2002 - Biker who filmed himself at 165mph sent to prison

A motorcycle enthusiast who used a video camera to record himself speeding at 165mph through country lanes was jailed for 12 months yesterday.

Wayne Soman, a 32-year-old carpenter, had eluded police speed cameras before being pulled over at a checkpoint last September. However, he became the author of his own downfall when traffic police on the A40 at Llandovery, Dyfed, noticed the camera strapped to the petrol tank and demanded that he re-play the tape.

Further inspection revealed a hydraulic device Soman had fitted to his 900cc Kawasaki to tilt his number plate to make it indecipherable to police cars and cameras. After viewing just three minutes of the footage - the bike's speedometer and rev counter clearly visible at the bottom of the frame - police arrested Soman.

The home-made "speed camera" was played yesterday at Swansea crown court to

Judge Peter Griffiths, who shook his head in disbelief. It showed Soman, who pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, giving a thumbs-up to the camera before setting off from his home in Pontypridd.

Although Soman did slow to the required 30mph in villages and built-up areas he accelerated to more than 150mph on the A470 from Merthyr and topped 165mph approaching Brecon. Then he turned left on to "little more than a country lane" and swerved around blind bends at 100mph. After joining the A40 he reached 130mph "numerous" times before being waved down by police trying to curb motorcyclists who frequently raced on the road. Four had died in high-speed crashes over the previous weekend.

Soman had been travelling so fast that he covered the equivalent of three-quarters of a football pitch in one second, the court heard. David Harries, defending, described his client as a dedicated motor-cyclist, "a fanatic", adding in mitigation that he had since sold his bike "at the insistence of the lady in his life".

Judge Griffiths, while acknowledging Soman's "undoubted driving skills", was not to be dissuaded from a custodial sentence. He jailed Soman, who had two previous convictions for speeding, for 12 months, banned him from driving for three years and ordered him to take an extended driving test on his release.

He said: "Effectively, you used the public highway as a race track. You were overtaking at speeds well in excess of 130 mph, squeezing past on-coming traffic. Any reasonable motorist would have said, 'here's a maniac'."

"You planned to drive as fast as you could and film yourself doing it. It was an appalling, outrageous piece of dangerous driving and it would be ridiculous not to send you to jail."