Mincey

My offside front and rear needed swapping - nearside was fine.

Just pumped the tyres up - only the offside front and rear were in the wrong position in the app which is easily sorted. The chap over the road who was washing his car kept checking on what I was doing. "Pumping tyres up? On a mobile...?"

You've got it to read photos?! I've been trying to get mine to recognise them for months - FAT32 stick, 4GB, 8.3 filenames, correct folder names - nothing, it just doesn't want to know.

To answer my question about leaving it plugged in, and to satisfy anyone else's curiosity, it's basically ok: https://www.amazon.com/ask/questions/TxH2MSLDIMMUMX/ref=ask_ql_ql_al_hza#:~:text=Can the carista obd2 adapter,safely%3F&text=However%2C we still do not,you're not using it.

I sloped off. After initially trying to pair the app with the car (which would never have worked), I saw the error of my ways and instead paired the Carista device with my phone. It takes a while for the pressure for each tyre to register, but here's the result. Is it ok to leave the thing in the OBD socket all the time? Now I just need to tell it which tyre is at which corner. It's a bloody good idea though so big thanks to @Thackeray for the heads-up :-) Now for a weekend of fun trying out the Hybrid Assistant app... EDIT - my tyres need some puff in them (they should all be 36psi apparently - https://blog.lexus.co.uk/lexus-tyre-pressure-size-guide/)

It has arrived. How can I slope off from work early...?

Oh come on Amazon! Don't you know how keen I am to try this out. Why do I never get deliveries from them in the morning. It's not like there's a bloody great big distribution centre about four miles from here....

A good point - I've just ordered one so let's see how it goes!

Mincey's Stupid Question Of The Day - I've had a look at the Carista OBD doofer and am very interested. However, if I take the plunge, then subscribe, will I be able to use it to check other cars or is the subscription limited to one specified car?

It's German. What should the owner expect :-)

That's a great idea - I will try that.

You could well have a point there Paul - I will give it a go and report back!

Humble Pie for Mincey! Last night I had the "turbo lag" thing coming off a sliproad onto a dual carriageway. A very nice man (or woman - I couldn't tell) flashed me out so I stuck my foot down and nothing. Nada, zilch. Eventually a large dollop of wallop arrived and I was able to carry on with my progress. My destination was an out of town retail park with a rather busy roundabout as the entrance. Not wanting lightning to strike twice (although this was the first time it had struck) I engaged "Child Mode" - sorry, "Sport Mode" and waited for a gap in the traffic. One appeared. Right foot was duly planted into the floor mat and off we went with gusto. I've not had to do that before - it has always been ok off the line. This was more of an experiment than anything else and it got me wondering if the lag occurs at a certain speed, wind direction, day of the week, or I've just been lucky so far?

Vorsprung durch technik :-)

Absolutely. Go and get the BMW and prepare for lots of waiting around on the hard shoulder.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=23&t=1890285 "I didn’t know they were that bad on the motorway. The CVT is annoying, the car feels like it has half the horsepower it actually does and the lack of response at roundabout etc takes some getting used to." I don't agree with any of that. What say you, my fellow IS300h owners?

I could have done without the songs - I think he should stick with the format from the first two. I'll never be able to look at another pizza delivery bike without thinking of the fourth emergency service of the apocalypse...

Episode 3 is live. Does that GS belong to anyone here?

Had that been the case, and I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt now, he could/should have realised that I was overtaking and waited before accelerating. The swine!

It's not only speed signs being obscured which don't help. It's taxi drivers. I had one in front of me doing about 30 in a 40. When the single carriageway became a dual carriageway, I pulled out to overtake. He then thought it would be mildly amusing to accelerate to 40, thus making me exceed the limit in order to complete my overtake. It was when I saw the scamera van parked at the end of the road, eager to relieve members of the public of their hard earned readies, I realised what the Son of Satan had been planning all along. EDIT: it's ironic. I've only ever had two speeding tickets. The first was on a downward stretch of the A43 near Silverstone when those bloody roadworks were everywhere. It was late at night, nobody was working and I let my concentration slip momentarily. I was flashed at 48mph near that Green Man pub. When I let friends and colleagues know about this, the number of "oh yeah, we were done there too" replies almost made me form a "Friends of the Green Man on the A43 Speed Camera Society". I'd even designed the window sticker. Anyway I digress. Both tickets have been earned in black Lexi. So far, my silver Lexi have been luckier.

She's just being a tease.

As it's not quite a year since I attended a speed awareness course, I'm employing all methods I can to prevent me picking up another NIP!

I use Radarbot to keep me on the straight and narrow. Other better apps might be available though.

But why would you want to turn off that sultry voice? I let her talk to me even if I know where I'm going :-)

This reminds me of my first IS. It used to rattle and bang over bumps, which I thought was more Lada-like than Lexus-like. I ended up driving a Lexus mechanic around in the boot while he looked for where the rattling was coming from. Fair play to him, he took it away and fixed it. He said "I won't tell you what it was" which always had me worried whether I'd left something in there or if there had been some terrible assembly or manufacturing fault.