Mincey

On an unrelated note, have you ever left the engine running while filling up? I did it twice - the engine is too quiet...

My 250 once had a right hissy fit when I put my jacket with my keys in a pocket in the boot after I'd locked it (scenario: had jacket on in car, got out, locked car, put keys in pocket as normal. Decided it was too warm outside for jacket, took jacket off and put it in boot). It was a while ago but I'm sure it beeped at me or did something in an attempt to stop me walking away. I was 160 miles from home at the time so I was rather glad the car intervened.

Absolutely - mine read 38.5 and Excel said 36.07

Snap - I'm doing lots of short journeys with the occasional 50 mile round trip thrown in at the moment, and am at around 36 mpg based on Excel calculations from the two last complete fill ups. I don't mind - I know I can get more out of her, and I'd usually walk the short journeys instead of driving. However, it's a lot nicer going to Sainsburys in the IS than it is on foot 😉

I hope those photos are just work in progress, and that they haven't got around to finishing ruining the car by adding gold Lexus logos and badging yet...

LOLs!

Gorgeous

At the 7.25 mark, I found myself backing away from my laptop's screen in case the spring pinged off...

That's awful news - I'm gutted for you. As Rich says, I hope you get it back quickly and it's in good shape.

I regularly transported one of these in the boot of my IS250 without too much trouble :-) ...and taken apart, one of these fitted in the car with the passenger seat fully reclined:

You Sir, have won the day. The month in fact.

But then I found this: The music isn't really my cup of tea at all, but it is displaying what it is on the screen. I think I shall withdraw gracefully now, due to an overload of ignorance on the subject!

I've found a manual. It looks like no info "(NO DATA)" is displayed for CD music, but it works for mp3 music. It's from page 206 onwards. IS250_nav_manual_OM53A02U.pdf

To be honest, I think I was always a little disappointed with the ML system's lack of technological advancement. The sound was great, but there was no indication of which radio show was playing or (as I'm getting surer by the minute now) any display of artist or track name on the CD player. The DVD player played about two movies during my time with the car. It was U2 Under A Blood Red Sky on both occasions when showing my new toy off to friends. My wife went through a Ford, a Peugeot, two more Fords and then a Hyundai in the time I had my IS250 and their ICE was always a little cleverer than mine. Annoyingly so. My IS300h lacks some of the cleverness which her Hyundai has which grieves me no end. There's no need to hold the wiper lever up for ten seconds then let it go down for another ten, then run round the car in an anticlockwise direction at precisely 5mph for six minutes without drawing breath to change the number of flashes which the indicators make. No, there's an option in the Hyundai system menu to choose 3, 5 or 7 flashes....

I'm not sure mine ever did either. For the last five or six years of ownership I generally listened to the radio all the time though. Some more learned members here may be able to shed some light on the matter however.

I used my Park Assist system to reverse park into a space at my local Sainsbury's this afternoon. I thought I had done a pretty good job, so I got out and canvassed the opinions of my fellow shoppers. They all said "well done Reginald Molehusband!" which will only mean something to a select few of you.

I had a 1999 Sport and then a 2002 Sport, so it's highly likely there was one available in 2001.

Just a thought - it's a parking "assist" system, not a "we'll guarantee that you park perfectly straight every time" system.

Jesus H ***** on a bike, what is she expecting? A Ten from Len if she lines up inch perfect in a space?

Excellent - thanks. I'm glad I'll only have to go through that palaver once.

Holy thread resurrection Batman! Only having three blinks was annoying me - far too few in my humble opinion. It took a couple of attempts but I'm now on seven blinks. In my wife's Ioniq, she just goes into a menu in the car's settings. Come on Lexus, keep up at the back! EDIT: does this change stay permanently or can things done during a service mean going through the palaver again?

No, I've only been driven by a colleague from Kelsterbach to Phillipsburg and the car was German spec so the speedometer did not make any sense :-)

You can tell that I have never driven on an Autobahn...

If I may digress slightly for a moment, in the late 90s, I went to the French GP at Magny Cours with a couple of mates. Both had TVR Griffiths. Much fun was had on the way down, and even more at the race track campsite, where many interested European petrolheads came to look at the strange British sports cars, and for the opportunity to sit behind the wheel and rev the burbling V8s, would gladly ply us with beers. The day after the race, we packed up and headed back to Dear Old Blighty. On one of the autoroutes, we were making steady progress when some buffoon in a Porsche 911 thought he fancied a go. The guy driving me backed out at 130 at which point the Beetle on Steroids slowly came past. My other friend in the second TVR decided that the UK's honour needed restoring and mashed his right foot into the carpet unleashing the full majestic force of the V8. The sound as he shot by, was rather special. It's a shame I could not have seen the look on the Porsche driver's face as he was forced to move over. Blackpool 1, Stuttgart 0. Then there was the story from the next year's trip of a Mustang which tried to keep up disappearing in a cloud of smoke behind us....