Finally Picked Up My Is300h Fsport

reeves1985 · August 17, 2015

Well today I have finally picked up my new toy although not without a slight hiccup over my private plate so still waiting for dvla on that 1.

I'm over the moon and there will be pics to follow I have however noticed something odd

The auto tilt mirrors don't function correctly.

The passanger sides tilts down but the drivers side tilts up ever so slightly and not down!

Coming from a premier ct with this function I assume it may need a trip to the dealer.

Also still not having much luck with the nav screen however I found a bottle of Lexus Sat nav and screen cleaner in my ct glove box (never knew I had it) and used that and guess what?

That makes the screen worse!!! So surely something's not right!

I'll be bringing this up with the dealer also

Other than that I'm well pleased and I'm suprised how much of a heavy foot I have even coming from the CT I could easily achieve 55-60mpg and was shocked to see 35mpg in the IS.

However ill put that down to excitement of the new toy and also the bigger engine and heavier car

I'm sure once I settle down with it those numbers will climb into the late 40's

ColinBarber · August 17, 2015

You can set your mirrors to your desired position whilst in reverse, the vehicle will then remember the offset to use against your normal position whenever reverse is selected.

reeves1985 · August 17, 2015

You can set your mirrors to your desired position whilst in reverse, the vehicle will then remember the offset to use against your normal position whenever reverse is selected.

Cheers Colin

You don't happen to know how to do this off hand do you as I don't have the manual handy

Very good to know though appreciate it

Might have looked a tad daft telling dealer my wing mirrors are drunk

reeves1985 · August 17, 2015

Or is it just a case of putting them in the right spot whilst in reverse?

ColinBarber · August 17, 2015

yes you just move them to the position you want whilst it is in reverse, you don't have to do anything else.

reeves1985 · August 17, 2015

Top man just sorted it.

Now to get on their nerves about the nav screen!!

reeves1985 · August 18, 2015

Quick update about the nav screen

Dealer was next to useless but seemed reluctant to replace so I have found a good enough solution .

I'm kicking myself as I don't have a before shot of it!

But I removed all of the initial coating using a baby wipe (that contains alcohol) which took about 5 minutes. I was going to use surgical spirit initially but tried baby wipes first just to be on the safe side.

The result was the coating removed and screen looks perfect.

To counteract the uv coating being removed thus having no protection for the screen against direct sunlight (which I'm sure wouldn't have made a difference anyway).

I then carefully measured the screen dimensions and put them into the pc

I have signwriting equipment so I put the dimensions into my cutters software and cut a piece of clear laminate vinyl to these dimensions and fitted it to the screen.

The end result looks like it's factory finished.

The clear laminate vinyl used in the sign trade has a uv protection layer within it so turned out very well.

In effect I've added a uv screen protector after removing the crappy factory uv coating.

The best part its can be fully cleaned thoroughly without the worry of the initial problem happening again and can also be removed at any point in the future