I bought a new car! After 12 years I’m driving a Lexus again. Back in 2011 I sold my lovely LS400 to buy a Prius, and I sold the Prius in 2016 to buy a MINI Clubman Cooper S. Now I have a Lexus again and it’s an absolute beast of a car. I bought the car back at the beginning of October 2023 so it’s taken me a while to update this site!

I managed to get loads of information about the car from my local Lexus dealership. It was manufactured on 25th Feb 2008, and sold on 30th May 2008. What was I doing back then? According to this blog I was visiting London Zoo with the kids.
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I had a minor issue with the centre rear seat of my MINI a few weeks ago. I pulled the catch so that I could drop down the middle section, and heard a pinging noise from behind the handle. Although the catch still worked fine, it seemed a bit looser than it used to be, and also there was a rattle coming from inside.
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This is a repair I did a while ago, and it still seems to be working fine.

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Once the surface mount bulbs have been desoldered from the circuit board, they can be “repaired” by replacing the bulb part of them with a brand new bulb. I used product code BT43 from Maplin.

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This is the first major bit of car DIY I’ve attempted since I bought the Lexus about 5 years ago. The illumination for both the driver’s and passenger’s temperature displays has failed, and it finally annoyed me enough to do something about it.
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