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Well, she has gone to her new home, for the time being at Lexus Leeds. Someone will get something special and immaculate. I even detail the engine bay. 🙂 As a final goodbye - for now - I thought I'd do a quick photo call of my small Lexus history. Probably the 2 standouts were the GS particularly with its yellow powder coated huge brake callipers and giving her the black treatment; and the sublime ES. You counted right - 3x Sonic Titanium but the Deep Blue is an epic colour on the ES. The correct order was CT, IS, GS, NX, ES, RX. Cheers Peter

Sorry, just dashing out so just a very hurried reply. Yes, my 2018 RX does have the facility and it works fine. Steering wheel retracts and/or moves up and the seat moves back etc. Best thing I can suggest for now is to just have a look in the manual as I'm sure the instructions will be in there somewhere.

Well, received a call from dealer today. Car gone to build yesterday. NX350H FSport ordered November 2021. Hopeful to others who ordered same spec in November 2021

I was attending a course in Uxbridge yesterday and today which required an overnight stay. I was booked in to the Slough Holiday Inn. Not one of the most salubrious establishments I have had the pleasure or good fortune of staying in but I digress. The parking looked a bit iffy - narrow spaces filled with various Scheissewagens and those awful electric Telsa things, and frankly I did not want to run the risk of Betsy incurring any dings, dents or scrapes. By luck, there was an underground car park. I hatched a plan. I would park Betsy in the furthest corner of the underground car park. She would be safe there, surely. Nobody would park next to her, would they? This is the sight which greeted me this morning after I checked out: There were plenty of other unoccupied spaces in the car park but no, they chose to park RIGHT NEXT TO BETSY. They didn't even have the courtesy to park over more towards their right hand line did they? I was parked as close to the wall as I dare to reduce the risk of unwanted damage. Had I had the time, I would have waited for the owner of that 똥 더미 to return (Google Translate is your friend) so I could question him (or her) on why they parked right next to me, and depending upon the size and build of the driver, possibly given them a bunch of fives too for good measure. I was barely able to get in. Were I an unkinder type, the rivets in my jeans might have "brushed up" against the other car's paintwork. However I am not a bad man. I didn't even leave a note underneath their wiper blade doubting their intelligence and parentage.

I think that the service deal is the right way to go with these cars. My package is costing me just £41 a month. If you are going to own one of these, for myself personally, what’s £41 a month? Plus the warranty for 12 months is a massive bonus. Mind…Lexus know their product and are confident that the car is highly unlikely for a well serviced car to break down. I bought mine last August and was given a free breakdown cover in the deal. Come August, the dealership will send over a driver to pick it up. You can’t beat Lexus, in my brief experience, for quality of service. I had them fit their dashcam, last December. A driver collected and returned it the same day. Great people to do business with.

Some people seemed determined to take offence at the slightest opportunity. 😊

I've had a few dents put in various cars by careless parkers over the years but the best one was while I was in the car waiting in a supermarket car park, which was on a slope. Two old ladies parked next to me about 3 feet away, but I thought that the door might just about hit my car if it was opened carelessly. I considered moving my car but thought I should not be paranoid. Anyway, the other car passenger door was flung open and let go, under gravity and a bit of a push from the old lady it put an almighty crease in my door. She looked at me and said: Oops, sorry, with a smile. I know there is not a lot you can do and it is just bad luck but after fuming for a while I lost it and flung my door at great speed into the side of their car and said Oops, sorry. I still regret it and know I was wrong and will go to hell. The only other time, to cut a long story short, was when the passengers of the offending car threatened to call the police just because I had him by the throat. Call the nurse for my meds please.

I’m Spartacus! … No! I’m Spartacus !! …..

Well spotted Sir. I agree with your post. I’m in Scotland and chargers (working/available) are still a bit sparse. Hence I’m playing it safe with a hybrid and home charging.

I hear what you are saying about dashcams Len - I have both front and rear ones in fact - but I think that prevention is better than cure in this regard.

Same as the rest as it’s a no brainer with the warranty as part of the deal, without that then a good Indy every time.

As Lexus are issuing a years warranty every time you service your car with them until it reaches either 10 years old or 100k, I'm using Lexus until mine reaches end of criteria.

After many years of driving Lexus cars it's now time to own a BEV car as my yearly mileage is only around 3k. I would love the RZ but I will think it'll be too rich for me so I've ordered a Kia GT-Line S AWD. I did look at the UX300e but it wasn't for me and I wanted a BEV built on a dedicated platform. I was intending to p/x the Lexus when I get the Kia (possibly late Autumn-early Winter) but I have decided to sell the car back to a Lexus Centre whilst the used car values are still fairly high. It's an RX Takumi (November 2020) with around 4700 miles on the clock and is going to Lexus Leeds this week. It's an immaculate RX Takumi in Sonic Titanium with rich cream leather interior and brown shimamoku inlays. Comes complete with protection pack (mud flaps, boot liner and rubber floor mats) and f/r dash cams. My Lexus journey was CT, IS, GS F Sport, NX Premier, ES Takumi (my favourite) and, finally the RX (I always wanted an RX at some point). Hopefully the new owner will treat it as well as I did. Cheers Peter

^that! (same here)

I'm getting about 37 mpg at the moment while the weather is warm. I usually get about 32 mpg in the winter, overall average is about 35 mpg over 10500-odd miles.

My IS300h has recently suffered this annoying screeching sound. I took it to a local garage and explained the problem. Fortunately it happened on their test drive. They stripped the brakes and cleaned out loads of brake dust. They chap said there was "untold brake dust", so much so that he recommended a good pressure wash of the brakes when I wash the car. He said the brake "sliders" still had the original grease from the factory, but he greased them up a little more. That was done a week ago and, touching all the wood around me, that has solved the screech. Now I can creep around the car park in silence again. Hope that is of some help to other members with this problem.

Just to concur with what the other have said. I think it's called seat easy exist assist or something and it can be set to off, partial or full retract. Yours must be set to off. Have a look in the infotainment menus. I can't remember exactly where it is but it is there! Paul

95% of our driving is local (7 mile trips), (and all the outward journeys are uphill!) and our average this year is 32.2mpg (using E10 fuel). Though I do tend to drive with a light foot.

It's in the set up somewhere as I recall as I disabled it on my 4th Gen, the only caveat is if the seat is already set to it's maximum reach.

I have wind.....I am Farticus Maximus 😀

Hi Robert, you can't rely on absolute accuracy of timing with the app., mine was about two weeks or more in the build stage before it changed to left the factory. When I got that notification my car was actually already on its way as I found out with a bit of detective work on shipping movements. I knew it was in the country before I had an update from Lexus. Pleased to say my UX is now at the dealers awaiting me to go and complete paperwork, holidays got in the way unfortunately but hope to have a lovely shiny new Lexus in the next week or so. Praying for a dry sunny day, hate picking up a new car when the weather is crap, the condition you see it in the showroom will be the last time you will see it like that anyway however much you cosset it but to get it home and see it looking like any scruffy old car is most distressing. Bill D.

At the weekend I did a 500 mile round trip in my 4th Gen RX and averaged around 40mpg, 34mpg is the long term average, with a hybrid you don't get such a variation between town driving and long trips. 0-60 is similar but much more relaxed cruising in the RX I suspect, I had cruise set to 70mph and engine is typically running between 1,200-1,500rpm.

Len, sounds like a bad one! Had that happen to me once, luckily heard the horn though.

Wouldn't worry about it Rob. My NX was much the same, at least two weeks at that status. I would guess it will change to 'Left the Factory' any day now.

You aren't the only one malc😎

That's a nice jig and I've seen them in a few garages over the years. £69 for a door? Grab their hands off so longs as it's in very good nick. As for door skins it was general practice a good few decades ago and insurance approved. Don't know nowadays as I've been lucky enough not to needed that kind of service. As for the wiring loom in the door I suppose it depends where the multiplug is as that could dictate if the job would be a b itch or not. But personally I'd have a m8 to assist coz you just don't know and you'd hate yourself if you dropped it and even damaged the sill. Defo 2 man job.

I doubt it, unless by "jig" you mean somebody else's hands. As for moving the trim - as I said it may be tedious just because of vast number of parts, but they all kind of self-explanatory and old door can be used as reference as well. I reckon 4h job without much rush.

Well on the one occasion that I had to do it, the Police did it for me after having viewed the video footage. But that was a driving incident rather than damage and driving away. In that circumstance I believe the DVLA will supply the registered owner details if you provide sufficient evidence - which I suggest that video footage of driving away after causing damage may well qualify. I believe it involves a Form V888 and the handing over of a modest sum. Alternatively, of course, if the damage is severe, I would expect your Insurers would do it all.

Another option would be to source the part and get an independent body shop to do the work, should still give you change from the payout. Moving all the trim and adjustment of the door to get the alignment right might not be easy, I would guess body shops have a jig for holding doors as they are being attached.

Funny enough, that was exactly the reason which pushed me over the line replacing my old IS250 - because of accident and insurance company write it off. Else I was really struggling to fault it for anything and find replacement despite it being near 200k miles.

The door skin would be the same regardless if car has ML or not, it is only the question of transferring internal panel from old car with all the wiring and speakers. Obviously, even easier option would be to get exact matching door (although I guess wiring would be cut and door still would need to be disassembled to reconnect everything. Good point regarding weight - the it would be easiest to fit plain door skin and align it before putting anything on it. Door with all the bits will be very heavy indeed (if I am not mistaken 30-40kg). Funny enough that is colour of my car and it has ML, just not parting it out... yet.

Same. £107 last night again at Esso which is frustrating but what can you do. I think it's about £6 a tank difference at the moment.

Eh up Bilal. Well done in getting that 2.5k from the 3rd party insurance company. Do you have a car body repair shop anywhere near you? Maybe getting a new door skin then all existing wiring will be there still. Otherwise getting a door from a scrapper is the only option. Having help though as the door may well be heavier than you'd expect. As for ML speakers and wiring then that depends on spec of car the used door came from.

That is great outcome - well done on dealing with insurance scammers and getting it your way (not common). Replacing door is really not difficult and most of the doors I have seen for sale comes as whole package with internal panels, speakers locks and so on. Even if it comes without anything then it is pretty much the case of taking your door out and having them side by side to transfer few bits over. It may be tedious work, but definitely not very difficult. Everything is in the repair manual so you can even follow step by step instructions.

A few of the US guys moaning about squeak, but RR took them back and fitted to other cars without squeak. Its down to torqueing up correctly - or so Rafi explained. I have a set ready to go on, just going to ensure my mechanic follows the instructions to a T.

It's nothing new, must be nearly 20yrs ago, I was parked up in a deserted seaside car park when a car pulled up beside us and 'bang' driver clouts our nearside rear door. I leaped out much to the old boy's surprise (the Alhambra had limo tint, he obviously thought no one was in the car) and checked the damage. A quite severe crease in the door. He initially denied it but when my wife and daughters all lowered their windows he capitulated and surrendered his insurance details (the same company as me). Slightly ironically the car he was driving was a bodyshop courtesy car! Two weeks later, arriving home the insurance papers were on the doormat repairs all authorised. Total cost £1500 as new door skin required..

When spaces are tight, logic dictates to park in an alternating pattern of forward-reverse so that driver/passenger sides match up between cars - passenger sides can be a few inches from each other, leaving plenty of space on the drivers' side. But that would require an extra 0.0001% mental effort. Surely we cannot expect that.

I'm just here to say I, the exceptional, sympathise. Ignore fellow commenters, they are numb on sedatives. This was a member of the cretinati, it's a large movement. On the plus side, they at least folded the mirrors, but that's probably only because it's automatic and they wouldn't know how to turn it off.

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Take it to a proper place who can do alignment, ie not Lexus.. my car has 134 thousand miles, corrosion is nonsense bull. Take your money elsewhere A main dealer, Lexus or otherwise is unlikely to be equipped or concerned with something as tedious as wheel alignment, however it's very important.. obviously, so it's worth seeking out people who do this specifically and have the correct tools to adjust camber and such.

They are 'okay' and stay in position but they're not the best fit.

Neither have I, though I probably wouldn’t. I’m pretty sure cars today have the ability to adjust parameters to maintain performance. I’ll usually use Vpower intermittently for the cleaning properties it provides.

On its way 😄 I just got notifications on the Lexus link app and an email from Lexus uk . Order placed 27/11/2021 NX Lexus 350h pro-link

Tyre wear pattern is the ultimate indication of the 'correct' pressure. As long as the wear is even across the tyre the pressure surely must be right? As it says in the handbook, these are recommended (cold tyre) pressures ...

I know what you mean, Mike but I like a regular change in cars and, given my now low, local miles (post Covid) it was time to change to a BEV. I'll be pushing up the daisies before I get my money back on PVs and battery storage that I'm getting installed next month but I can currently pay for it so why not. Hopefully, the RX's next owner will benefit from a tremendous car but I fancied a change.

As a current Tesla owner, previous BMW owner I find the thought of having any kind of extended warranty on our IS300H to be quite amusing. Our IS300H is going to be 8 years old at the next service/MOT. Apart from tires and air filter, it's literally not needed any thing repairing or replacing. It's still on its original 12V battery and I've started to only get an oil change every 2 years as its not ever needed a single drop of oil adding outside of the oil changes.........the Tesla and my old BMW on the otherhand, even the official manufacturer extended warranties have 'get out' clauses written into them longer than Shakespeares complete works :). The realibily of our IS300H is simply beyond belief.

That's the reason I ordered self-charging hybrid. Looking at the pace of the technological progress I should be fine for the next 10 - 15 years, so for the lifetime of my car, I don't intend to use it longer... And all those cowboys in their Teslas bragging about how cool they are on LinkedIn went quiet when I asked how about a trip to Scotland or living in the North West where I live, not mentioned the energy cost - I think (and it's only my opinion) that the decision (=tax) makers will make our life 'interesting' once they unplug us from petrol/diesel. We will be paying for the roads' usage based on mileage being reported online from our cars like the energy smart-meters from our houses now or maybe we'll be paying just for the energy but on whole different level... How many times in the history the energy was really cheap, I mean like really, really cheap? I want to be wrong, please don't attack me - I'm ALL yours about EV cars - I'm just sceptical, down-to-earth guy who doesn't believe what 'experts on the telly' said and I think I need to skip this learning curve. And the chargers and this whole infrastructure is another thing to maintain, update, also another point of failure in the house, sometimes even a hassle, an obstacle. A lot of people agreed with me but they are afraid to talk, being accused of environmental murderers and not going with the wind of change. For me, this wind is not blowing hard enough yet. And once again - I wish the change will be different, I wish to be all wrong about all of that.

Finally managed to get some photos. Had it around 3 weeks now but done very few miles. Absolutely loving the car, brilliant drive, very quiet and comfortable - I came from a SQ5 so was worried I would miss the performance - shouldn't have been, performance is very impressive. Sorry I can't comment on economy, it came with a full tank and still has a full tank. I've charged it twice and as my mileage is mainly local, it never runs the engine. I am keen to get a few miles on the engine before any long motorway trips so have been trying to flatten the battery, proving more difficult than I anticipated. Battery just reached 30% and the engine has just started to kick in, although I only know by looking at the dash. Still waiting to hear back about the wall box charger but to be fair the included charger comfortably charges the car overnight. I was surprised to find that it came with heated rear seats, I thought they had been dropped. Loving the black seats by the way, they are more grey to be fair and I figured they would be a more practical choice with kids in the car. Had hazel in two RX's which did start to look grubby - easily cleaned though. Don't remember what lead me to think that it came with card and digital key, it doesn't (450h+ F Sport Takumi). I did get a speed limiter, which I wasn't anticipating. Works really well as the limiter pretty much adjusts the speed according to the speed limits picked up by either the nav or road signs, just requires a button press to acknowledge the change. Heads up is brilliant as are the steering wheel controls, 14in infotainment system and digital rear view mirror. Lexus Hull made a great job of fitting the front and rear dash cams which came at a very reasonable £375 in fact, the service was first rate from start to finish. I already feel this is going to be one of my favourite cars to date.

Just ask for one. I am surprised that one should drive a £50k plus vehicle on a number of long journeys without having familiarised oneself with its essentials.