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A long time ago when I trained to become a driver Royal Signals I like my fellow signalmen (not called that now because of female recruitment) did a procedure before driving the vehicle anywhere called "First Parade".This entailed checking the fluids the tyres the wheel nuts the lights and all the things that were required for the safe operation of the vehicle because as they were vehicles that may have stood in a open to all elements MT pool without being used for weeks, parts deteriorated through lack of use..The reason for this forum topic is that recently we have been getting more and more malfunctions with door locks, lights etc that may not have been used for sometime and possibly are freezing through lack of use. What I am suggesting is that those of us that use our LS400s occasionly might try this First Parade procedure at least once a week and go round the car trying everything that should work, that way the parts that never get used like rear doors do get some use,and if something shows up we are more able to deal with it.

Better still convert it to lpg use it all the time , It still won't be as cheap on fuel as the smart but overall insurance tax mot depreciation ect you will save money & get to drive in luxury every day & I promise you will never get bored of it. These cars are built to be driven, If you use them on a regular basis they will run forever.

This seems the typical main dealer service. If they guess at swapping a few really expensive parts and it doesn't work,they give up and it's sod the owner! This is not just Lexus as other people have posted with similar treatment Whatever happened to motor engineers? I think maufacturers have too many models and mechanics never get fully familiar with them all. If the answer doesn't come up on the computer they are lost. We don't need a mass of computers, apart from engine management, most things will work with just a simple relay for switching things on and off, opening windows etc. Now it all has to go through a £500 computer system, linked to three more with 20 IC's on each do the same thing. Many a good car is now scrapped because some unnessary electronic gadget costs more than the car is worth, or so called main dealers cannot fix them Who said I was a Luddite!.....wait and see!