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Sacha Welcome to club. As you can see this is the place to come for advice. However even before you collect your car you might now be worried. My advice: Get in car with key in pocket, press start, when ready comes up select D and drive without worry until at destination. Put in P, switch off. Let the car look after everything which it will do very well. John

Apologies Scott, the original illustrations which I attached seem to have gone AWOL. Looking at your photos above your main problem is that the main guide pins have been incorrectly fitted from the inside out and as a consequence the pin retaining spring is fitted to the inner brake pad when it should be fitted to the static outer pad. Hope you can make some sense of this. Dec.

I will give my 2 pence worth . . It has to be the reluctor rings ................. I have just replaced one on my 2006 SC and had to redo the other side cause the so called mechanic had changed the ring but not the bearing shield in which the reluctor ring revolves. You say you know its not the rings ............................. how do you know or are you just going by what youv been told ?

I too look forward to the future pleasure of an LC500. It might register a blip on my budget radar in a few short years but I doubt it will be the bargain a 5 year old Toyota Soarer once was. I will never understand how the Soarer continued to be overlooked by both LS and Supra fanatics alike.

Just back from 7 day trip round the NC500 route . With a few little detours off route . Anybody thinking about it just do it . Plenty more pics but here is some highlights .

This is probably the most over the top ad I have ever read for a used ISF 😀😑 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Evo-Magazines-Demo-Lexus-IS-F/264808564472

Returning from a trip to Sainsburys (wearing a mask, of course), I pulled up at a set of lights over one of the many parkways in this fine city of Peterborough. A black A6 swept up in the left lane, timing the light change just right. He/she then went round to the next set of lights which I was heading to, which were at red. I was in the right hand lane, they were in the left. As the road goes down to the parkway, the two lanes merge into one - the right lane (mine) becoming the main lane. I'd noticed it was a 3.0 TD A6 and I had a thought. "Hmm. what does this Sport Mode do?" I wondered to myself as I turned the knob to the right. The dash did its fab changey thing, the lights changed and I booted it. I have to say that I did have to hang on as the car was doing 50 by the time I had to make the turn onto the slip road. I looked in the mirror and the A6 was fairly close behind, clearly irate at having been humiliated at the lights. I made it past the part where the lanes joined and looked down at the speedo - 82 and rising! On joining the parkway, the A6 began to claw its way back, but remembering that I've not long done a speed awareness course, I eased off and took the next exit to avoid letting the side down. Vorsprung durch, 'ave that matey!

Hi. I am picking up my CT on Friday - 4500 miles on the clock. I am so excited after years of a Ford Focus! I have never had an automatic so need to get used to that. I have a couple of questions I’m hoping you can help with: 1. At traffic lights, do you put on the main foot brake (manual handbrake equivalent) but leave it in D to keep charging the battery? 2. I will be doing some high gradient hills with some tight corners: I presume go up in Sport mode and come back down in Normal mode with B selected? Or perhaps come down in Sport mode with B for better handling? Thanks in advance

One probably has premium satnav one the standard satnav. The premium satnav usually has a shark fin antenna on the rear of the roof. Face lift was after 2015. Thanks Paul

I have a 2014 RX350 with navigation. Does the rear view camera have the guiding lines displayed? My wife drives it and thinks they disappeared. I don't know if it ever had these lines? Of course the Owners Manual does not show a picture of it.

John, yes rear rubber winter mats for the ES don't exist, as far as Lexus is concerned they don't make them. Don't dismiss those mud flaps from China if they are the same ones I bought and arrived in 7 days from China !!! They are a perfect fit in every respect, no modifying them, every hole lines up with existing plug fixings in the wing liners. At £25 they were a real find. Lexus don't do them yet. THERE IS A THREAD OF MINE WITH PICTURES OF THE EBAY ADVERT AND THE FLAPS ON MY CAR. GO TO PAGE 4 ON THE ES FORUM AND YOU WILL SEE IT. I WOULD NEVER FIT SPURIOUS PARTS TO MY CAR. WHEN I BOUGHT THEM AT £25 I THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE A RISK BUYING CHINESE MUD FLAPS BUT THIS COMPANY HAD CLEARLY SET OUT TO MAKE THEM FOR THE ES. THE PROFILES OF THE INJECTED MOULDED FLAPS ARE PERFECT.

Susan, You will not receive any better advice than from that given by Neil and Nic below. Good luck.

My garage did agree there is a dead spot and I use that term loosely as it's quite a large area. It is a design fault which Lexus PR will not accept. I came on here to see if anyone else had had a problem. This is my 3rd new Lexus and I've told PR it will be my last but guess the sale of one car won't affect them.

Mine similar, due to too much polishing/dirt abuse having scratched the lens. Was going to swap it out for a new camera unit but never did as use the beeps not the image anyway (only bumped 2 things to date 🤣) Not sure about aftermarket lens, but seen a few lexus/Toyota ones on the bay for not silly money. Let us know how you get on with it and good luck of course.

I might have been near Trent Bridge Cricket ground officer but in an LS430 or a Soarer....phew! Another risk to owning a rare, known or distinctive car - if you misbehave, the Mods might find out. 🤣

I just drove to the park to walk my dog and it made a terrible creaking groan as I came to a stop in the car park. I think I'm going to give them a call in the morning as I'm pretty sure it shouldn't be like this.

You cannot get engine codes. Only infotainment and possible climate control.

Interesting to think that the day will come (unless Greta gets too much of her way) that the LC500 may be available for very little money. Sadly by the time that comes father time may just say "too late"!!

My husband is obsessed with getting high mpg so I’ve renamed ‘Eco’ mode as his name; I like good mpg but also like to get a bit of a thrill sometimes so ‘Sport’ mode is my name 😁 I trialled it on the one I’m buying.

Website looks good and lots of positive reviews plus limit for free delivery starts at £30! I shall be ordering then some Bilt Hamber auto foam and auto wash! 🤔👍

Similar in my GS too. T`was much worse than my N.A.S.A..... test when I applied for membership of the Mercury 7! (lol)

Hi Gary, You can get TPMS "service kits" from either Lexus or E-bay. These contain a new valve core, stem nut and fitting seal. I have just replaced mine as I had the TPMS sensors out to renew the batteries but the original valves and seals were still perfectly OK. Be aware that the valve stem nuts must only be tightened to 4Nm. so be carefull not to overtighten. I got my service kits from Rockauto for under £1 each set where Lexus are five or six times more expensive. I have to take issue with Phil's comment above that the TPMS system does not measure the air pressure in each individual wheel but rather the change in wheel speed caused by tyre deflation as measured by the ABS/wheel speed sensors. The system in the 2009 IS250C (the IS250 does not have this feature) measures the pressure individually at each TPMS sensor and transmits this info to the ECU. Unfortunately the system only tells the driver that one of the wheels has a loss of pressure but does not identify which wheel. All wheels need to be checked for correct pressure to find the culprit. Dec.

Personally i do this: At traffic lights I keep it in drive with my foot on the brake (middle pedal). On steep hills I leave it in drive going up. Coming down I leave it in drive unless it's long and steep then I use B which will fire up the engine.

Hi Max, This may be of interest to you. Read to the end. Dec.

Nice post Steve, as you say, they are the only components connected with the ABS on the right rear quarter. If the reluctor ring and the housing it sits in are really bad then replacing the whole thing is easier than a repair including the fitting of the reluctor ring but as you say, finding a good used one could be tricky and a false economy. Far better to install a new reluctor ring and clean the housing if possible. It's not an easy job but probably made slightly easier on a lift. I suspect things were lost in translation. Perhaps all 4 wheels were removed to view the rings through the sensor points. Maybe the auto electrician determined the signal to the right rear sensor was the offending article. Lextech may have explained that the rear suspension links need to be disconnected from the hub assembly to do the job but it doesn't need to be replaced unless that's worn too and it has nothing to do with the ABS fault. I had one of my reluctor rings renewed during a routine service and I think it came to about £150 with me supplying 2 rings using the same company that you linked to. I've replaced ABS sensors on other similar Lexus cars in minutes. Occasionally specs of dirt or debris from the reluctor housing can cause a fault on them but otherwise they seem to be quite robust. If Lextech needed help from an auto electrician then they may not have previous experience of this type of fault on an SC or just needed confirmation.

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Personally I feel that sequential indicators are a good thing, if implemented properly - for example, if hazards come on bright then fade away but turn signals sweep then they convey more information than by colour alone. This would also help in the circumstance where three cars are parked on double yellow lines - does the middle one have its hazards on or a turn signal and is trying to pull out? In terms of peripheral vision, I have very poor colour vision in my periphery (everyone does to some extent due to rods/cones on the retina, but from what i can gauge mine is worse than most), and if I am in a queue of traffic with a lane of cars to my right such that a car's rear lights are in my peripheral vision through my side window then I can not tell the difference between a brake light and and indicator without looking across - I perceive that the light comes on, but I can not perceive what it is - dynamic indicator provides a differentiation. Anyway, back to the OP's actual question. I have, in the line of my work, disassembled a few dynamic turn-signal light clusters. On the Audi Q7 cluster it's trivial to enable/disable the dynamic turn signal (and audi charge £300 extra to enable it) - it's simply one of the 6 pins on the connector. However, on the PSA DS7 rear cluster it is totally baked-in - there's no way to disable it without delving deep into the electronics inside the sealed cluster (ie cut into the plastics and the resulting lack of sealing after that... bad news). The OEM (magnetti marelli) is the same in both of those cases. Hard to know how the Lexus clusters are implemented and I don't know who the OEM is (but likely Denso, Stanley or Mitsubishi). I'd say there's a pretty good possibilty that there is an easy way to defeat the dynamic indicator in any Lexus model because the US is their biggest market and the US forbids dynamic indicator (sort of - we're all familiar with it on the likes of Mustangs and it was all the rage on american cars in the 70s. However, the way that the US regulates it requires that each element that lights up in turn must have a minimum area that is pretty big - each one of the big 3-segment tail/brake/indicator segments on the mustang is big enough, but each step of an audi or Lexus dynamic indicator is not big enough. Not a problem for the DS7 cluster mentioned above as PSA have no presence in north america). It might be as simple as pulling a wire out of a connector, but how willing are you to risk damage to your vehicle/light clusters should something go wrong during the experimentation/implementation?

I have an NX with sequential indicators and to partially answer the original question, no i have not found any way of changing the way the indicators operate. Weather it is possible at the dealer, i dont know. Originally i didnt like them, but i have to say, they are growing on me.