A Favourable UK Review

[wivenhoe]

As the car is now more than a year old things have settled ok. The 12v Battery issue is common in most hybrids and I think a lot of EV’s. The manufacturers have reduced the size of the Battery as hybrids and obviously EV’s have 2 batteries and so the 12v one really only starts the car. I’ve had a flat Battery once in a year and that was more than 9 months ago. 
The real issue is if you need to leave the car for say 2 weeks. I think I’m the only one on here to have had an issue. 
You don’t need to take the car to a dealers, IF you have a problem Lexus will sort the AA to come and sort it. You couldn’t take the car to the garage as it won’t start !
To avoid the issue completely you just need to turn the car on for about 20 mins every 3 or 4 days if you’re not using it at all. I know this as the AA guy told me and I have a tracker which monitors the 12v Battery (in case thieves disconnect it thinking it would disconnect the tracker, which it doesn’t) and after 20 mins of “on Ready” the voltage is back up to 12.2v. 
If you decide to go with a different EV make sure it doesn’t have a similar issue. e.g. I have read about problems in an EQE, Toyota bz, Kia’s, Hyundai - some have sorted, some have not.
For reassurance you could buy a £ 50 jump starter pack and keep it out of sight in the under floor storage. A bit of a faff but guaranteed to sort it in a few minutes - the issue with EQE had to be sorted by a dealer as the ‘bonnets’ appear to be sealed !

[JoMit]

On 8/20/2023 at 9:45 AM, wivenhoe said:

That’s exactly what mine does when plugged in a 7kw charger. It just keeps clicking - I’ll mention that others have the same problem, but in my case it doesn’t charge. I hope you don’t get the Charging Malfunction error - if you do, disconnecting the 12v battery rectifies it but I do wonder if the 3 times I was forced to have this done then caused the battery draining I now have, or even the failure of the charging black box. 
They are replacing the large black box on top of the motor - looks very expensive. If I were you I would tell them you know of a failure of the black box which had the same clicking issue before it totally failed. 

The wheels falling off and the low temperature charging issue on the BZ caused a reputational hit to Toyota. I think the RZ could go the same way for Lexus. 

When I had the problems with the Range Rover the dealer said they would back me in rejecting the car but said as the defects were manufacturing ones, there was a good chance the replacement would have them too. At the time any new car was 9+ months wait so we decided to keep the car and the dealer was excellent in immediately sorting out the issues as they arose. The service manager left and I lost confidence in them sorting the probs - I am feeling the same way about Lexus as the 2 technicians that have worked on the car said it was all new to them and they hadn’t experienced the issues before, so were starting from scratch. 
 

I really like the car but to me it’s in the same league as the Range Rover - when it doesn’t have any faults, it’s a great car but the faults / unreliability start to outweigh the good drives. Like the Velar, I don’t know with confidence when I get in it (if I can) all will be good. With the miss-selling of the remote parking, the App not being as described and now the unreliability issues, I think Lexus have totally dropped the ball with the RZ. 
 

what is wrong with the remote parking? mine parks itself fine, is this another issue?

[JoMit]

On 8/24/2023 at 8:47 PM, F.A. said:

In the current climate 80% charge is showing a range of 220. The predicted range it shows has proven to be quite accurate.  AC knocks off about 5 miles and we drive it like a normal car. 
We mainly charge at home or at one of our business premises, which has been flawless. When we have used a rapid charger, the speeds are impressive. It comes with a 5 year subscription to Ionity which gives you a rate of 23p/ kw and we have seen sustained rates of 230kw. We have a couple on routes out of Bristol  but it’s a shame there aren’t more around the UK. 

how did you get the Ionity subcription? that sounds great. i just got mine last friday, so new to this

[wivenhoe]

As with 99% of charging subscriptions download the App and then subscribe. 

[F.A.]

8 hours ago, JoMit said:

how did you get the Ionity subcription? that sounds great. i just got mine last friday, so new to this

Our Genesis GV70 comes with a 5 year subscription to IONITY, which give the discounted rate. 

[JoMit]

i've know how to subsribe to an app 😆 i joined ionity, and i'm not getting offered 23p per kwh offered - i meant how to get that rate, did Lexus garage arrange?

[F.A.]

17 minutes ago, JoMit said:

i've know how to subsribe to an app 😆 i joined ionity, and i'm not getting offered 23p per kwh offered - i meant how to get that rate, did Lexus garage arrange?

No sorry to add with the confusion. This is a Genesis not a Lexus. I don’t think Lexus have any offers regarding charging.