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  1. I have recently joined and wanted to say hello. I have just bought a 2002 Lexus LS430 and I am enjoying the comfort. The car has done 140k and feels like it is just run in. I have already learned quite a bit from the forum and I will do my own maintenance and repairs as far as possible. If I come across an easy way of doing a job I will post details to help others.
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  2. I had the rear reclining massage seats in my other Celsior but found them impossible to use..... couldn’t reach the pedals or the steering wheel. 😀
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  3. Check here: https://www.gov.uk/check-vehicle-recall Lexus cars are listed under Toyota.
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  4. FYI ............... as not everyone looks in other sections L.O.C. Meet Saturday 18th April at the British Motor Museum, Gaydon. Would be great to see as many of you guys & gals as possible 👍 Details - entry from 10am - LOC Members on the gate £10 (usually £14.40- concessions 12.50) Kids 5-16 £7 (usually £9) U5's Free this includes full entry to the Museum which has a great collection Address is: Banbury Road, Gaydon, Warwickshire. CV35 0BJ There's a cafe/restaurant on site which even does kids meal boxes This is LOC's first official meet in about 10 years so lets make it a good one, any questions either pm me or put a reply on here 👍 If anyone wants to peruse the venue website is here https://www.britishmotormuseum.co.uk/
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  5. FYI ............... as not everyone looks in other sections L.O.C. Meet Saturday 18th April at the British Motor Museum, Gaydon. Would be great to see as many of you guys & gals as possible 👍 Details - entry from 10am - LOC Members on the gate £10 (usually £14.40- concessions 12.50) Kids 5-16 £7 (usually £9) U5's Free this includes full entry to the Museum which has a great collection Address is: Banbury Road, Gaydon, Warwickshire. CV35 0BJ There's a cafe/restaurant on site which even does kids meal boxes This is LOC's first official meet in about 10 years so lets make it a good one, any questions either pm me or put a reply on here 👍 If anyone wants to peruse the venue website is here https://www.britishmotormuseum.co.uk/
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  6. Sorted. i didnt realise it was 15mm sat nav I needed to input. Now got PW675-00A38 as the required card Many Thanks
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  7. My passion is the old air cooled Porsche marque and i was lucky enough to invest in some a few years ago when reasonably priced. Now retired i have restored them so have plenty of summer fun car experience. I was looking for an everyday car which will not be used much and struggle to find anything i really liked until i saw the SC430. Its 2005 so cheap tax, high miles but with a lot of work having been done to it and in beautiful condition. It was very fairly priced so if it lasts me a few years and goes phut i can break it for spares and get my money back. Happy days.
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  8. Agree totally. The point I was making was the UX isn't up to meeting the competition....I am hoping the next IS,300h will be EV...IS300e....I am sure they will have something up their sleeve but feel Lexus will lose a lot of sales over the next 2 years. I wish UK government would give hybrids zero BIK as they do for EV..
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  9. Hi all, Apologies if this has been posted already (I didn't see it anywhere) but a somewhat interesting article appeared on Pistonheads today: https://www.pistonheads.com/news/ph-buying-guides/lexus-ls400---shed-buying-guide/41635 No surprise that the general consensus is buy one while you still can
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  10. I've checked that fuse and it's fine no problem. Kind of strange because my head unit works. 🤔
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  11. Japanese cars only petrol, never go for diesel.
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  12. Jack, I`ve looked at The Lexusman`s website and find that he has had some nice SC models. What is he like to deal with and are the conditions of his cars all that he says they are ? I am beginning to get an itch for an SC model as it looks like an older man`s Touring Car and I am in that category !
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  13. Having had a couple of Prius in the past one of the more common issues I have come across with high mileage engines is rough running on start up when the ambient temp is low. Today on start up my IS300H started displaying the same symptoms. The cause is oil in the inlet manifold, on the Prius it was because of the crankcase venting system. So I pulled the tubing that runs from the air box to the throttle body off, opened up the throttle flap and this is what I found So first job will be to clean out the egr cooler next weekend, my feeling is that it will be pretty blocked as this plays a part in the whole breather system, from there I may need to look at fitting an oil catch tank if this doesn’t resolve the issue My IS has covered about 138,000 miles now and looks like now it will need similar remedial treatment that the Prius used to need Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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  14. @Womble72 I've re-read the messages I had with the owner and he says it has a part Lexus service history. I didn't get all the specifics. I may be incorrect in my assertion above that it hasn't a FSH, but it doesn't have a full Lexus one. I don't really care much for main dealer servicing compared to a good local independent. If there's evidence of servicing having been done, I'm not too concerned whether they are wearing the main dealer overalls or not! In saying this, I know some potential buyers can be fussy about main dealer servicing when looking at a new purchase. Lexus service history aside, the owner seemed upfront and answered any questions I had for him. If he hadn't have been at the other end of the country to me, I would have been keen to have went and had a look to see what it was like.
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  15. Interesting. Is there a PCV valve or is it un-valved? If so I often find these can fail over time so maybe worth checking as well.
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  16. It would be good to see a new IS as a viable alternative to Tesla's Model 3. Sent from my Galaxy Note 10 Plus using Tapatalk
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  17. Good luck with your future purchase. The C8 looks amazing, huge fan.
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  18. Looks awesome, congratulations! Black ones truly can fly, I'll PM you with the location of the red button 😉 Value for money wise, quicksilver is cracking. I've got a couple of fave underpasses which require the window down treatment 😎
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  19. Went out for a spin yesterday to test the phone/slot mount combo. All went very well. No undue wobbling, Ergonomics for eye from road to phone and back to road timing (to check the phone app speed limits) were good. The phone stayed put. The mount gripped it tightly, even over the Whittlesey level crossing, which anyone who has taken it at 40mph will know is well bumpy. I'll give the cdslotmount a double tick VG. I've got a 320 mile round trip to the South Coast planned before the end of the month which should give it a fuller test. I shall report back!
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  20. Glad you have got a result! I have found the TSB for the rattle problem
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  21. Cut your losses and go for a 250 ( none of the DERV problems) if you like this model of car.
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  22. Well I looked at mine and unless yours are just missing I can't see how you could add them as there's a slot for them in the top of the door card.
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  23. The car is back, feels livelier, quieter in cabin, no ticking on cold start up, no ticking while driving from cold (could hear ticking in normal driving when cold 2-2500rpm) inside cabin, Bill is attached along with parts required and a couple of photos of the old units, they reckon the formation should of been....weld, flange, weld, flange......as weld, flange, flange, weld has put excessive stress on last branch, would be interesting to know if Lexus altered the weld, flange set up on the latter cars as the issue seems to mainly affect early ones, £1200 poorer but a happier poorer now its purring
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  24. Hi David, thanks, I’m looking forward to collecting tomorrow morning, I’m looking forward to the cold start up and no ticking 🤞🏻😂......power “should” feel better as I’m led to believe the manifold was well n truly knackered 🙄.......the GSFs are an improved manifold in design and materials used, obviously the same manifold that’s on the RCF, the bore size is larger so better exhaust flow should see an improvement, Ryo reckons possibly 440-450 as the GSF are 470, I also had a cat back exhaust made with resonator removal so that to should see a small improvement too, tbh I’d be happy with a cold start up and no ticking 🤞🏻😂😂
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  25. collected and oh how I have missed her this last week glad she's back, total cost £467.88 Auto Electric Co Alternator £298.48 ( exchange ) Yuasa battery £79.40 Labour content £90 Malc just out of curiosity they also supply dynamos ( bloody expensive for some ) and replacement brushes at sub £2 to almost a heady £5 ( not the 2/6 pence I remember from aeons ago )
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  26. Good morning all and thank you for all the suggestions. I've had a good fiddle about this morning, and the steering wheel option is doing it for me! I didn't realise it was there until you mentioned it, so thank you Dan and David! I did try to sort out voice, but it was pretty disastrous, and going through the command list my options don't seem as extensive as the printed list - every time I tried it I either got 'pardon?' (grr) or the first two digits of a phone number. Hopeless! I looked for the voice recognition training function, but couldn't find it under 'voice' in the settings menu, which is where the manual says to look. After getting thoroughly confused I gave up! if anyone has any tips on how to get this function working, please do let me know! At least now I can navigate, change music sources and make calls without having to take my eyes off the road, which is a huge step forward 🙂 Thanks again for your generous responses.
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  27. I have one of these ones, looks the part, quite classy looking. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bright-Stone-Universal-One-Hand-Operation/dp/B0791WSRV8/ref=sr_1_16?keywords=cd+slot+holder&qid=1578438727&sr=8-16
    1 point
  28. Do preserve your anonymity Mr Bond, as it is too outstanding a vehicle to lose !!
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  29. Not exactly similar - I bought a Model 3 with my own money. It is a fantastic car. I've really been enjoying driving it, and it's more comfortable for me personally (as driver) than our GS450h Premier. A lot of what is said about Tesla build quality is overstated (as in people say it's much worse than it really is)... It isn't as good as our GS, but it's better than our Volvo V70, Honda Accord or Nissan Leaf were. The only material in the cabin that I find disappointing is the fake leather seats (but that's also true of the mercedes and lexus equivalents). I put up a review here: Just to add to that, over christmas we went from where we live in Todmorden to visit my brother in Ilford. On our way back where google maps gives 4hr26 for the journey, we covered it in 5hr15 including charging stops and arrived home with 25% (so could have charged less en-route. I I'd been a little more on the ball about it we could have cut one charge stop entirely if we'd extended another by a few minutes, so probably cut 15 minutes total journey time off). Doing that same journey in an ICE car (and in fact we did the exact same journey in november in the GS for my brother's birthday) was still very close to 5 hours because of pee/coffee/food stopping. In fact, the november journey down took longer in the GS because of a 45 minute traffic hold-up. In 4 months we've now covered 5000 miles with it. It's now faster, charges faster and has new features and capabilities that it did not have when we got it. I see you're in Yorkshire, so if you want a proper look and a ride out in it then let me know, if Todmorden isn't too far away. I am happy to answer EV novice questions etc.
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  30. More importantly the end of September is end of quarter for most car dealers so the last couple of weeks is when you will have the best bargaining power. I did this 4 years ago with a 1500 miles ex demo car in December and saved £6000 over the previous weeks price because it had been in stock for 90 days. I put 20000 miles on it and traded it for more than I bought it for.
    1 point
  31. Just installed mudguards yesterday on my vehicle. See attachments for Installation manuals and OEM part-numbers. IS_Mudflaps_Front_PZ416_L1966_00_AIM_003_289_1.pdf IS_Mudflaps_Rear_PZ416_C1967_00_AIM_003_290_2.pdf
    1 point
  32. You could ask at your dealer and you might get lucky, or buy the repair kit and do it yourself. Part no-86134-53030. It's not expensive.
    1 point
  33. Well I’ve tried moving the clamps and dampers from the front of the main exhaust pipe, to the centre and then to the rear just before the silencer. The only result was a change in the vibration frequency, seemed to lower it a bit, but it still happened around the 1150-1200rpm mark. So it looks as though I’ll have to live with it until it’s time to change to something else.
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  34. But, as I posted in another thread on here... this is what toyota said in November. No demand. If Toyota really believe this then the next IS, if there is one, will be another ICE hybrid and release into a drastically shrinking market. In 2020 I think there's a very good chance that Tesla, with their 3 models on sale, will sell more cars in Europe than Lexus with their 8 models. Certainly in the UK for 2020 the Model 3 alone will outsell all Lexus models combined. And then the model Y...
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