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As above, if anyone is needing some all seasons for their NX, just had 4 fitted at Costco for £508, including balancing, fitting and nitrogen. Had my 3rd service and first MOT at the weekend and that flagged the fronts were down to 2mm. Main dealer price to fit was north of £700, so a good saving to be had at the minute.

Most dealers will price match tyres - worth bearing in mind for future.

I have done over 25k miles on my 20 inch Bridgestones and they still have lots of tread.

I was just thinking, but what ever happened to bluesman? Hr hasnt been on this forum for ages

Well today I bit the bullet and changed the spark plugs on my gen 3 RX , not a lot of fun but quite doable if you’ve got the time. Followed a very good video on u-tube It took about 5hours the only difficult bits were removing and refitting a couple of bolts at the back of the engine near the bulkhead (trouble is I’ve got very big hands!) comparing old with new ……..was it necessary at 65000?? lots of bits to take off!

Hi all, I’m a converted Lexus owner after many years of German car ownership after we bought my wife a 21 plate Yaris, I was so impressed that I thought I would look at the brand as a whole starting with the Corolla, CHR but final going for the Lexus and then getting a LBX Takumi in silver. I must say I love it it’s miles better than my last car which was a BMW X2, the ride, the fit and finish and the overall quality is very good although my only gripe is the phone charge pad which tends to have moments when or if it will charge my phone, I have an iPhone 14 Pro and wondering if anyone else was experiencing a similar sort of issue?

Hey folks, Been around the Lexus brand for many years now having worked for them for a lengthy period up to 7 years ago. Recent job move has seen me in the market for a car of my own so the hunt was on for a GS (gen 3) in hybrid form, and preferably an F-Sport or a Premier, in a nice colour. Found advertised 230 miles away a 2014 model GS 300h F-Sport in Crimson Red pearl, with Mark Levinson Hi-Fi and only 41k miles with total Lexus history from day one. Collected at the weekend and Sunday was spent refining the paintwork with a two stage machine polish and other than that it just needs using! It'd been a while since I'd driven a GS so it took a little time to drag through the memory banks to remember how everything worked. More than happy with it at the moment, i'll get some pics up soon. Cheers, Matt

I carry a small electric tire inflator, so if I get a warning of low tyre pressure I can hopefully reinflate it. This should increase the chances of being able to get the run flat tyre repaired rather than having to replace it.

I found that RRG ( Red Rubber Grease) works very well on the slide pins to prevent seizing. It’s very thick so only needs a thin smear and doesn’t break down.

Couldn't beleive that this song has had 1.3 Billion - Yes BILLION views. Don't recall any other song quite reaching one billion.

In the West we are too naive and continue to look at situations through our western eyes with our values. China has been undermining western economies for decades by undercutting all they supply heavily in price compared to our home production. And we all fall for it. Buy jeans for 9 euros, fake cartridges, cheap toys and so on. It is only now with the EV business that it gets more attention. In the same time we are witnessing european de industrialisation with companies de investing and moving production out of europe. Automotive, chemicals, steel the list is endless. Remember China is subsidising all export they are fighting a war without guns.

Mine 21 plate and as far as I know you cannot

Well we took a 2 hour test drive and I have to say the LBX is a lovely car to be in and drive, smooth, quiet, responsive and very refined. But - had to be a but - my wife could not get comfortable in the passenger seat. Tried it every way and found it was most comfortable at its lowest setting, but then too low to see anything! After much scrabbling about we found that as the seat is raised the rear of the seat rises more than the front so it begins to "slope” downwards from back to front, you then lose support along your thighs and behind the knees. Couldn’t find anyway to adjust the tilt of the seat to compensate. The test car was a Takumi trim with an electric drivers seat and on that as well as raising the seat you can also tilt the squab to maintain support behind the knees. Great for the driver but not available for the passenger. So sadly we are reconsidering our options, booked a test drive in the new Mini Countryman so will see how we get on in that. Incidentally how they can call the new Countryman a Mini escapes me! It is longer than a Qashquai which is hardly mini’ish. Probably end up just keeping my Skoda Yeti as this rate!!

A very rare occurence indeed, Paul! We still have every confidence in the Lexus brand. In fact we have had 12 different Lexus cars since 2001 and the only problems we have encountered before were a steering rack problem with our first RX400h (swiftly sorted under warranty), a rear hatch motorised strut on our current gen 4 RX450h that didn't actually fail but shuddered slightly when opening and closing (again replaced under warranty) and this fuel pump failure again all sorted under warranty. Although it took a long time to ship the part we were well looked after by Lexus. I hate to think what would have happened if it had been any other manufacturer!

Hi Stephen, we had a dealer fit, Lexus approved, tow bar fitted when we bought our RX last year. We use it with an Atera 2 bike carrying rack that we have adapted to carry our tandem. We toured France last year and it was secure and quiet. You do need to disable the rear cross traffic assist otherwise the car slams the brakes on which is a tad disconcerting 😏. Also the blind spot monitoring system could “see” the bike and was flickering like crazy - so, another assistance to disable.

I would like to think that we will get more than 27,000 miles out of all 4 tyres but as you say - we will see.

Just phone them and ask!

I think “ never having had it so good “. springs to mind ……. I know my forebears, 60/ 80/100 years back had an incredibly tough life compared to me ……. NHS is sparklingly BRILLIANT looking after all us old codgers who might have kicked the bucket long back had we now been in the 1950s 60s and 70s ……… we just got to remember someone has to pay for it and the 1.25 million staff that help us get better etc Jeez I have 4 cars, zero worries about anything really and never stint with the food shopping whatever ……. Life’s good, a peach and most around me is in a “ good state “ of play Real Poverty in the UK is almost vanished with State Pensions and DWP payouts in all sorts of ways …… and whilst Foodbanks are with us, it’s sad I know, I’m satisfied that very few fall thru that safety net of compassion and societal help in very many respects I'm quietly OPTIMISTIC for our future ……. pessimism doesn’t often feature in my world thankfully 😇 Malc

I was informed by an air con mechanic its best to keep the system running permanently for longevity. Just a tip for the future perhaps. 🙂

Hi everyone have eventually fitted new top control arms front and back, plus coil over suspension. Taken about 5 days around other nesscary tasks and compulsory overtime at work. Rear top control arms are not easiest to remove or fit. Rear subframe has to be lowered as only way of getting to bolts hold control arm. Had to resort to using angle grinder to cut bolts off 🤔 as heating bolts wasn't working. Bushes where smoking badly. Having a fire at back of car would not be helpful. Replaced with stainless steel bolts with a film of copper grease to ease possible later removal. Ride is very good compared to air suspension. Need to soften rear springs a bit. Hopefully later this week I will have lightweight rims and tyres ready for fitting. It is good to be behind the wheel of my LS430 again. 🙂

shame nothing's seagull poo repellent ! Malc

Insurer was NFU Mutual in the end. Not the cheapest but the best cover and best claims handling service overall. One thing I liked was there's not year on year hikes as no shareholders to keep affluent.

Never had a problem with the a/c on auto, the system copes very well with changing conditions even changing the airflow side to side with the direction of the sun.. The climate concierge even set the seat heating/cooling very efficiently ..

This question really belongs in detailing section as there is not RC specific advice. Sonic Titanium is one of the easiest colours to clean, generally grey cars don't show dirt and scratches as much and metallic paints hide them even better (In this case almost pearlescent), so it should not be difficult to keep the car looking great. That said - I much appreciate your desire to take good care of your car, that is definitely good attitude to have, but I just want to warn you here. You can easily damage your car more than needed when detailing/cleaning if you do it wrong, it is very easy to cause so called "love marks". So the answer - unless you really want to dive deep into detailing, just regularly washing your car will be 90% as good as it gets. So to start with, you need to ask yourself a question - how much you really want to take care of it? You can certainly wash car yourself, but I can assure you that 80% of the owners would make more damage washing their car themselves than they would by just taking it to regular automatic or hand wash. In other words - for 80% of owners just taking the car to car wash every 2-4 weeks will be sufficient and the car will look good after 5 years of ownership. Will it have scratches - yes, washing = scratching, but that is just inevitable. If you really want to beat say handwash in terms of minimising scratches to the paint, then you need quite a lot of knowledge and experience. I would even say RC is probably wrong car to practice on... because it has a lot of small and trickly details, shapes and Lexus paint in general is very soft (so easy to scratch). Next question - do you own anything for washing at the moment e.g. pressure washer? How much you looking to invest int into the tools? and what you looking to achieve? Because my basic set-up would look something like this: Pressure washer, snow foam lance would be nice 2 buckets with grit guard 50 general purpose MF cloths 5 thick drying MF cloths 5 Window MF cloths 5 car wash mitts ideally MF or soft wool 3 wheel woollies 1 tyre brush Set of detailing brushes (usually like 6 in the set) 2 pressure sprayers Shampoo concentrate (Bilt Hamber has great concentrate, but others are aslo good Gyeon, Gtechniq, Koch Chemie etc.) 5L of APC, that is chemical that you can use basically for everything just adjust the concentration so just buy bulk and keep it (again Bilt Hamber Surfex HD or Koch Chemie GS are two of my favourites) Some protection - I would advise ceramic spray nowadays, unless you want to go into full ceramic, but that is next level-up (even something like Autoglym Rapid Ceramic would be fine for this, generally I avoid Autoglym and TrutleWax, but current generation ceramic sprays are really good) Glass cleaner (I use Koch Chemie spray, but Sonax is also good) Specialty items which you may need from time to time: bug remover (explanation in the name) glue and tar remover (explanation in the name) "bleeding" fall out spray (maybe useful twice a year to move have brake dust that APC can't remove) rust inhibitor (good product to prevent rusting, especially on brake callipers, but also suspension, requires application once every 3 years, but can be done annually) I get my detailing supplies mostly from https://www.in2detailing.co.uk (you can also use discount code DW10), but sometimes I find better price in Amazon, eBay, sometimes directly from Gyeon, Gtechniq or Dodo Juice (i2D does not sell their products). My cleaning routine would look something like this - pressure wash wheels and lose dirt from body if needed > spray wheels with APC using pressure sprayer > scrub wheels with woollies and tyre with brush > spray car with foam > spray with APC and agitate around badges and grilles with detailing brush of appropriate size > pressure wash the car again > then onto contact wash with 2 buckets (1 for shampoo and 1 for rinsing), dunk mitt into rinsing bucket, rinse well, dunk it into shampoo bucket and wash the car from the roof down. I like to use at least 3 mitts for this (1 for upper half, 1 for lower half, 1 around arches, bottom of the sills, bumpers etc) > pressure wash for third time > wait for few minutes for majority of water to run down spray panel with ceramic spray (most of them are formulated as drying aids and water spot removers), wipe with thick drying MF cloth then buff with MF cloth, go top to bottom and around the car doing panel by panel > clean the wheels same way with dedicated MF cloth for wheels Autoglym ceramic spray can be used on tyres, but you can also buy dedicated tyre dressing (something like Gtechniq Trim & Tyres, or Gyeon)> finally clean windows and mirrors inside and out. I would probably start with interior, but you have not asked about it and it requires separate explanation. As you can see - quite a few steps involved, but I would argue if you not doing at least that, then it is not worth even starting to wash car yourself. I guess the it is possible to buy just the ceramic spray (detailing spray) and after taking your car to hand wash finish some spots that they miss yourself, but then again you basically not washing your car, just finishing the details. Could it be done without pressure washer - yes, technically you can do it all with just 2 buckets, but then I reckon you will scratch car more than hand wash. When else... if anything that touches paint falls on ground, it goes to the bin, be it 80p MF cloth or £10 drying cloth or wash mitt, if you try to use it again you will scratch the paint all over. I tend to use MF cloths few times and the rotate them down (top half of the car first, then bottom of the car, then wheels and then maybe I keep it around just as a rag). Never wash car in direct sunlight (water spotting, dried chemicals etc. are not good).

Just had renewal from £208 to £280 with Aviva, no one comes close when checking everyone else. From £400 up to Direct Line who want £900 😲and this was the optimum 21 days before renewal. Guess who we're going with? 😋

Mine had a attempted theft, the Ghost stopped them from taking it, caused £4k of damage Some added protection, will hopefully deter a attempted theft again