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1 hour ago, Rich said:
Would that not be a balancing issue if you just had new tyres fitted? What did you go for?
I had some new tyres fitted yesterday at Costco. It felt weird taking the car somewhere else where I couldn't chat while they were working on it or look underneath when it's on the ramp.
As for the geo I've not looked at where else we could go. Not needed one for years since they were first done by Tony/Joe.
Had Pirelly Powercy fitted - now have a mix of PZero and these new ones. Its been a few years since Geo so probably the time to get it sorted as well as alloy wheel restoration....
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Hi all, just had some new tyres fitted to my lexus (two) and have noticed some vibration at high speed. Obviously I always went to WIM for the geo. @Rich anyone else Watford way any idea where I can go now? Cheers
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Would you recommend the michelins Rich?
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I like the look of it but someone my size would never fit in a sprite!
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On 10/01/2023 at 21:45, M1UYA said:
Well I only really use it through the summer months, it's pretty much a road legal track car now fully stripped with every available brace bar, BC Racing coilovers, adjustable drop links, Bucket seat and harness.. and lots I've probably forgotten
Got a full exhaust system to go on before I get it out again this year and hopefully get some more track time in her!
Nice - the TTE kit cars from this era are getting rare
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my 2003 Lexus has 128,000 miles now and is developing rust around the rear sills. headlights clouded as well. I was told work would need to be done next couple of years so will decide later whether or not to go ahead. nearly 20 years for a car is good going though
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Sounds like the Honda has plenty of life left in it - roll on 200,000 miles! What do you use to polish up the headlights?
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On 02/10/2022 at 13:27, Rich said:
That's pretty good considering. Could that be a sign they don't think things will be as bad as they're predicting.
Have you just come off a fixed rate deal or have you been on a SVR for a while?
Guess it depends what the rate is but I would've thought that'd make your repayments quite high. My fix was 1.89% but the SVR would've been 5% if I left it.
Fixed deal of 5 years at 2% odd ended and I forgot to renew it as was so busy with work - payments up of course now and the mrs is fuming with me for not sorting it.
That nationwide deal looks ok will look into that as well as natwest who seem to be best buy this week
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On 02/10/2022 at 13:39, Rich said:
Sounds like it'll be ok then. I read about them getting stolen in other countries but I'm not sure what year those are, probably older ones. Subarus aren't that popular over here so I doubt if they'd even know the location of them.
I think a lot of car makers are starting to move the cats into the engine bay
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On 02/10/2022 at 09:57, liner33 said:
Probably wouldn't make a lot of difference to the day to day mpg, apparently they run 21psi of boost standard and the guy I watched over in Aus reckons that's as much as he recommends but you can get 300hp and 330ft lbs from a map and downpipe but that's the limit of the gearbox as well, I need to do more research as some of the options that they use in North America aren't compatible here for some reason
if you can get 300 off just a remap and downpipe then could be worth going for it!
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On 07/09/2022 at 11:30, liner33 said:
The standard Lexus infotainment is poor , much better than the Gen3 Prius we had but still very poor something the Japanese in general haven't kept pace with , no touchscreen and the weird pad to use to navigate the screen, but once you add Car Play its fine , you still need to use the touchpad but you can also use Siri
Driving the 2022 version as a loaner I was disappointed to see its still the same infotainment
The Mark Levinson sound is way better than my BMW though
The standard infotainment system is worse than poor IMO - basically atrocious - same one as toyota. Keeps losing connection with phone when playing spotify and the updates from Lexus/Toyota cost an arm and a leg. Some can be updated to support apple car play / android so worth looking into to do that
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On 26/09/2022 at 11:48, liner33 said:
Just for those that dont know about these they have the 2.0 boxer engine currently fitted to the WRX and develop about 240hp in the UK but are detuned from the WRX and other markets 250hp, suffice to say its nippy and fairly sporty for what it is
Its coupled to a interesting CVT , in normal driving its behaves like a convention CVT and is seamless but in S mode the transmission behaves like a 6 speed conventional auto with defined shifts , in Sports # (# = Sharp) it behaves like a 8 speed, it has a manual mode as well
Been reading that you can get them tuned up to best part of 300 horsepower but that would turn it into a 20mpg guzzler lol
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On 28/09/2022 at 10:48, liner33 said:
Yeah the UP GTI is a great little car. well not that little as its pretty similar to a mk1 Golf , the idea was to make a new Golf GTI harkening back to the original
The Forester isn't going to be great on fuel for sure but I don't do loads of miles around 3k a year so its not a major concern, its a similar engine to the GT86/BRZ as in a FA20 but turbocharged , its currently fitted to the WRX I don't think anything else, its currently averaging 31mpg on Tesco 99
The forester looks like a cool car - my neighbour has one they have owned since I moved in - the boxer engines sound good
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202209240071865 Seen this one online - Lichfield remap STI from Japan in the Scooby blue
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On 27/09/2022 at 09:22, Rich said:
Wow, what is Truss and the Government up to!! Things are just going from bad to worse. Seems they're predicting the base rate to increase to 6% by next year.
I really don't know what to do now. The more I think about it the less keen I am to rent when we move with how things are. I was hoping to move before things got worse. We're planning on going next year but it's trying to get a job and move at the same time that's concerning me. Especially when I haven't really seen any jobs to apply for yet.
Or just take a fix now for 2 years, I can get just over 4% and put our move off. But what if property prices continue to rise, we could find ourselves not being able to afford a house we really want and having to settle for something else. If we're moving 150 miles away I'd rather get a house that we're going to love, not just like!
I have seen predictions of up to 8% on interest rates - I'm pretty exposed as on the SVR on my mortgage - have been looking at fixing but the fees have shot up and when you are a bit older its harder to remortgage as the banks seem to be allergic to lending to people over 50!
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Maybe look at Continental ExtremeContact or Pirelli as well?
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Nice car. You're lucky that Apple play was just a software update - I have seen some models of the same year could not be updated.
As far as reliability goes, Lexus is right up there with the best of them!
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On 30/04/2022 at 20:15, Rich said:
Thanks Adam and Geoff. I've enjoyed looking after the forum. Being a small one it doesn't need that much work really!
The forum has been more of a social platform the last few years anyway, rather than business oriented, especially when Tony was no longer at the centre.
I've checked when the hosting expires and it's the end of June so we have a couple of months left. There are plenty of forums still using old software so if I can find hosting that's cheap enough I might be able to keep it going a little bit longer.
If you have any photos and PMs you want I would suggest you save them sooner rather than later.
What is the total cost to keep it going for another year Rich?
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yeah true - I should have read your first post properly Rich - as you say erp is huge on a fixed deal
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I fixed for five years at 2.8% a couple of years back. I have seen fixed deals for ten years out there - fix as long as you can!
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They were really good - they did one for supercars a few years back, ferraris and lambos - that was a good day!
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This is a real shame. I have known Tony since his days at STS in Watford and he always took so much pride in his work - he was the one that originally calculated the correct geometry settings for my Lexus IS300 back in 2003 when I took my car to him with worn out tyres after only 4,000 miles. #
One thing that amazed me about Tony was how good he was with the geometry numbers and how he could calculate things that most people would need a spreadsheet to do. From then on Tony had always done the geometry on my lexus (which I still own) and he did it again for me a couple of years back (seemingly for the last time).
Always had a lot of time for Tony and was happy to take my car to WIM because I would get treated well and we would also have a laugh.
Here's a photo of where it all started, with the Lexus Owners Club at STS in Watford back in 2005.
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On 12/02/2022 at 07:16, andyelcomb said:
Depends on the car, but might have to replace rubber fuel lines, carb diaphragms and even possibly carb floats.
Shouldn't need to tweak the timing as you are probably always doing that when changing points etc.
Haven't done anything with my Mk1 MX5, but will do the rubbers on my '62 Vitesse in due course - but as it doesn't do massive mileage I run it on E5 Super so the problem shouldn't occur.
E5 Super is the simple answer for low mileage classics.
Agreed that Super is the easy solution on the classics - I guess going forward that the replacement fuel lines etc will come as "E10" kits but it is still a cost to upgrade all these bits.
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39 minutes ago, Rich said:
I've had to replace the calipers on every jap car I've owned! Did you use Fairway?
yeah I did - only place I got get the car in at short notice - did a decent job by the looks of things
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the tyres feel about the same as the pzeros - i know the wheels are knackered - they need to be refurbed but the car itself needs a bit of work as well on the body