New Advance

Richard1200 · May 20, 2015

My new IS300h Advance model arrived at the dealers today. Will be taking delivery next week.

This is the first of this model to arrive and replaces the Luxury I think. Same spec as my Luxury which has leather and sat nav.

Going for a look around it tomorrow but it is covered in cling film type covering. Having a grey interior this time. The PCP deal was attractive but I have the cash and I want the car to be mine when I drive it away. I am lucky as I have never needed finance.

rayaans · May 20, 2015

Nice!

Pics are mandatory of course! Im surprised the dealers taking a week! My handover was done 1 day after it arrived :)

Richard1200 · May 20, 2015

Nice!

Pics are mandatory of course! Im surprised the dealers taking a week! My handover was done 1 day after it arrived :)

My choice to wait until next week as I am going to Devon for a few days. My wife would say no need for photos as it looks the same as the car we have, sorry, women do not understand the new car thing.

bluenose1940 · May 21, 2015

What part of Devon are you visiting Richard/ Looks as though the weather is set to be reasonably good down here all over the weekend. I'm sure that you will enjoy your trip.

Richard1200 · May 21, 2015

Going to Sidmouth, our favorite little town on the coast.

bluenose1940 · May 21, 2015

Going to Sidmouth, our favorite little town on the coast.

Hi again Richard, well that's amazing, Sidmouth is our favourite place too, we go there frequently. We also like Lyme Regis, in fact we have a static caravan based at Charmouth, just a couple of miles further on.

How long are you down for?

Anaplian · May 21, 2015

My new IS300h Advance model arrived at the dealers today. Will be taking delivery next week.

This is the first of this model to arrive and replaces the Luxury I think. Same spec as my Luxury which has leather and sat nav.

Going for a look around it tomorrow but it is covered in cling film type covering. Having a grey interior this time. The PCP deal was attractive but I have the cash and I want the car to be mine when I drive it away. I am lucky as I have never needed finance.

Cool. How long did you have to wait after ordering? I'm being quoted 12 weeks for my order :-(

Richard1200 · May 21, 2015

My new IS300h Advance model arrived at the dealers today. Will be taking delivery next week.

This is the first of this model to arrive and replaces the Luxury I think. Same spec as my Luxury which has leather and sat nav.

Going for a look around it tomorrow but it is covered in cling film type covering. Having a grey interior this time. The PCP deal was attractive but I have the cash and I want the car to be mine when I drive it away. I am lucky as I have never needed finance.

Cool. How long did you have to wait after ordering? I'm being quoted 12 weeks for my order :-(

Ordered on 22/4/15, they just happened to have the spec that I wanted on the ship.

Anaplian · May 21, 2015

My new IS300h Advance model arrived at the dealers today. Will be taking delivery next week.

This is the first of this model to arrive and replaces the Luxury I think. Same spec as my Luxury which has leather and sat nav.

Going for a look around it tomorrow but it is covered in cling film type covering. Having a grey interior this time. The PCP deal was attractive but I have the cash and I want the car to be mine when I drive it away. I am lucky as I have never needed finance.

Cool. How long did you have to wait after ordering? I'm being quoted 12 weeks for my order :-(

Ordered on 22/4/15, they just happened to have the spec that I wanted on the ship.

Excellent! I toyed with the idea of asking them to check what was available immediately but decided against it in the end.

Richard1200 · May 30, 2015

Picked up the car today. Have paired the phones but even though it says contacts transferred they are not on the car. Have failed to input any memory points yet as everything ids different. I think I will be heading back to lexus Bristol Monday for some lessons.

New roatary mouse, anybody else have this sort. The mouse hump is gone, it's now a phone tray apparently.

ColinBarber · May 30, 2015

The standard nav vehicles all have the rotary remote dial controller. The premium nav equipped vehicles still use the remote touch mouse with the hump (hand rest).

Richard1200 · May 30, 2015

What is the differance between ordinary and premium nav?

Steve44 · May 30, 2015

Connected services (Lexus portal, Google search, street view, parking search), real time traffic, rear view camera, remote touch interface, all on the premium Nav.

You do get a Back button though, one thing I wish they had on the remote touch interface!

What phone are you trying to pair?

Richard1200 · May 30, 2015

I have the rear view camera so the new Advance seems to be a bit of both systems. The pairing is ok it's the transfer of contacts. My phone has the BPAP or whatever it is, the automatic transfer is turned on and the car says transfer done but nothing on the list. Going back to lexus Monday morning. Have now got all my destinations in the sat nav memory.

Samsung galaxy s mini.

ColinBarber · May 30, 2015

That's right, the new Advance has created a third nav option which has some of the features from both systems. I think you may be the first owner here with this model.

Does the reversing camera provide you with the guidance lines that move with the steering wheel?

Richard1200 · May 30, 2015

No guidance lines that move with the wheels, just lines that show the width of the car and a red line for distance.

Also it has electric leather with heated, ventilated seats (no memory)

ColinBarber · May 30, 2015

That makes sense, that is one area where Lexus make a saving, along with the connected services and the input controller.

I don't mind the rotary controller, although it does take slightly longer to input addresses compared to the remote touch controller.

Richard1200 · May 30, 2015

I will find out in the coming days if the reversing lines are a loss but all the other connections I did not use anyway. The quality of the audio is the same as far as my old ears can tell.

When inputting addresses/post codes you can switch to a keyboard or use the rotary selector.

Steve44 · May 30, 2015

So on the reverse camera, I guess you don't get the different parking options either, ie parallel or perpendicular parking and the different lines on each.

Is your Galaxy Mini up to date with the latest Android. Updates? Also, check in the phonebook or people options where the contacts are being stored. Are they all from your Google account, or from the phone, SIM, or elsewhere. Are all the options enabled in the phonebook options on the phone, so all the contacts displayed? When you go to the car and check the contacts options, how many does it show it has transferred? Mine is showing 2002 of 2500.

I still get random contacts which appear in the phone and not in the car. This is with various Android phones and I can't determine why. I've also found if you have a contact with more than 4 listed numbers, the car duplicates the contact name and spreads the numbers over both.

rayaans · May 30, 2015

extra 2 speakers with the premium nav too I've been told

Steve44 · May 31, 2015

Good point Rayaans, forgot about them. Premium nav gets extra centre speaker in dash and rear parcel shelf, making 8 in total. Std non nav had 6.

Richard1200 · May 31, 2015

Phone contacts transfer sorted. Simple really, my contacts were all stored on my sim because I had recently changed phones, just imported them to the phone and sorted. The older I get the more difficult I find all these tech issues, I learnt a little about computers in the later years of working and find reading instructions which use all the technically correct terms very difficult.

The use of mobile phones while driving is an offence, but using a mouse, screen, contacts list etc all while driving (not that I do it as I my wife does it) is as distracting, the time will come when only a simple hands free will be the only thing that will work when the car is in drive mode.

rayaans · May 31, 2015

Phone contacts transfer sorted. Simple really, my contacts were all stored on my sim because I had recently changed phones, just imported them to the phone and sorted. The older I get the more difficult I find all these tech issues, I learnt a little about computers in the later years of working and find reading instructions which use all the technically correct terms very difficult.

The use of mobile phones while driving is an offence, but using a mouse, screen, contacts list etc all while driving (not that I do it as I my wife does it) is as distracting, the time will come when only a simple hands free will be the only thing that will work when the car is in drive mode.

I think the main reason using a hand held phone in car is illegal is because your hands won't be ready to put straight onto the steering wheel unless you drop your phone if a hazard arises but even then, that's thinking time lost about dropping the phone

With in car tech,you can move your hands straight from the controller to the steering wheel

Steve44 · May 31, 2015

Great stuff Richard, glad you got it sorted.

Richard1200 · June 2, 2015

Have now done several reverse parkings using the camera and miracles do happen as each time the car was straight. As I have said in another thread parking straight was a problem for me and others, maybe the yellow lines connected to the steering were a distraction to me, have not tried many front in parking yet so time will tell.

One thing I have noticed, the picture from the reversing camera is at a slightly different angle as I can now see a small bit of the number plate along the bottom, the distance is also better so maybe the camera field of view change is an update?

Auto locking/unlocking is much quieter, not as clunky. Like the change in texture/colour on the center consul, looks like it will not look so dusty.