Spare saver Bargain of the day

by Lexusboy, 25-04-2019, 04:20 PM

Just bought a spare saver wheel for the whole price of £5.70 it not ever been used.

The guy told me about his friend that owns a mini, in fact its the fastest mini in the world.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKQLc2BO0-g

RPM /TPS cables under dash?

by jimxms, 25-04-2019, 03:08 PM

Quick Q guys as I'm on the last leg of my Zeitronix ZT-2 install.

Where can I pick up RPM / TPS sensor cables from underneath the dashboard? I know I can pick them up from the ECU box as I've already got them tapped from when I had my SAFC installed, but I'm assuming that they will both also be present underneath the dash somewhere too?

Cost difference in servicing.

by fluff, 25-04-2019, 09:09 AM

I have booked the car in for a 80,000 8 year service. I always supply my own oil because I prefer the use of Castrol Edge fully synthetic oil where as Lexus use semi synthetic. It doesn't need an air filter either because of it's new intake.

Price for service at Lexus Woodford is £402 with me supplying oil and no need for supply and fit of air filter.

Price for service at Lexus Hatfield is £400 with me supplying oil etc etc.

Price for service at Lexus Milton Keynes is £270 etc etc.

They said if I didn't supply oil and it had an air filter then the price is £400.

Does it seem that Hatfield and Woodford and trying to swindle me out of £130?

My disappointing weekend

by Dan_Turism0, 25-04-2019, 08:02 AM

Well as many of you are aware I am slightly obsessed/in love with Supra's well after about 7 months of searching for the particular model I wanted (6 speed non-turbo) I found ONE and it was in the colour I always wanted Royal Sapphire Pearl, excellent or so I thought......

I performed the usual HPI checks and everything came back clear and not wanting to waste any time as I know how rare these are I decided to book a viewing for Sunday.

I arrived and at first glance the car looked clean as per the pictures, I then started speaking with the guy and along with Toxo we started to really look at the car and well this is what we found :


The Good :
- Engine pulled well
- Gearbox was solid and all gears flowed smoothly
- All electrics worked fine

The Bad :
- bodywork in terrible condition (heavily scratched and dented)
- car has had a front end collision which was apparent
- n/s front wing didn't line up with headlight
- n/s headlight was old and peeling, o/s had recently been replaced
- there was overspray on the horns again clarifying the front end shunt and also indicating a shoddy prep work as the bumper was sprayed on the car
- o/s rear quarter had been poorly blown in (paint was hazy and significant orange peel going on)
- rear bumper was not original
- fog light had been poorly fitted (a section the size of a import number plate had been cut out to fit the fog light and then bodywork and number plate were one piece that I could pull off and get my hand in behind)
- engine bay rails were not lining up
- radiator had been recently replaced
- car had been jacked up on the sill bending it and nowhere near the jacking point
- sills had become extremely rusty and was flaking at the touch
- rear chassis rail was rotting through and you could push your finger through it on the o/s
- very little paperwork and next to no documents on the import or mileage when it was imported + converted into miles (so true mileage isn't known)
- severe wheel wobble above 40mph (this could just be wheel balancing however with the other signs of a accident I'm not taking that risk)
- engine wiring loom had been completely butchered
- both recaro seat bolsters had dropped

All this started to add up and I roughly calculated you would need to spend around £2k to get everything sorted (this presuming the wheel wobble is nothing more serious).

As much as I really wanted a Supra the last thing I wanted to do was get a bad one and be put off them for life, so I declined giving back the keys and then proceeded to drown my sorrows in KFC at the first service station on the M1 lol.

So i'm back to searching again and looking at the possibility of importing one from Japan which may cost a little more but will be a genuinely mint one, I must say a massive thank you to Toxo for allowing me to drag him 3 and a half hours to Grimsby to view the car

Thus concludes my little weekend tale.....the search continues :thumbup:

/rant over :angry:

London Zoo

by E55EX_RACER, 24-04-2019, 05:07 PM

A few from Thursday, some of the animals I wanted to see were hiding (tigers and lions) so I mainly got some bird and monkey shots.

Adding ipod to centrafuse

by Lexusboy, 24-04-2019, 10:32 AM

Does anyone know how to add your ipod pictures and music to your new car pc system then onto centrafuse?

more unplanned work

by Adster, 24-04-2019, 07:40 AM

Saturday morning (4th June) I seen this had happened to my car
so i have more unplanned work to do, as usual in these circumstances no details were left, already have a rear light on order

carbon fibre wrapping

by Andy-R., 24-04-2019, 06:07 AM

Want to carbon wrap the dash trim parts on the Beemer so just wondered what is the best stuff to use so it looks genuine and not cheap, also how easy is it to do?
Cheers.

Ultimate engine swap IS300............

by FirebirdPhil, 23-04-2019, 10:56 AM

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Corvette-...2a111956eb

Corvette LS3 powered Lexus IS300moke:moke:moke:

Video hosting

by Lexusboy, 23-04-2019, 07:22 AM

Looking to see what option there are out there to upload my video's too, most of mine are above what most site set their limits too.

Photo bucket only allows 500mb so other than utube where else can i store my video?
Most files I have are around 6-800mb?

Free hosting would be best:ohmy: