ColinBarber

The Lexus website states the current prices are good until the end of the year, at which point they may revise them. It was the same situation last year however Lexus kept the prices the same and just fixed them for another year.

Welcome Jay, sorry to hear about your issues. What area of the vehicle? Pictures would be good.

I agree, I'm sure there would be some sales. Even if they are low there isn't a big risk, the vehicles are built to order anyway. The GS currently only sells around 600 per year, that figure used to be 1600 when list prices weren't so high and there were options around drivetrain - and the current GS is a much better car compared to the previous series.

Welcome Adrian :)

Yes if they let it get flat it could of reduced its capacity. At least you have a new battery now, you shouldn't have to worry about it for at least three years.

No that isn't available on the F Sport. AVS is the adaptive suspension together with Sport + mode. Most, if not all, of the early vehicles didn't have this as an option - most people, including the sales staff, didn't even know about it as an option!

Makes sense to get a higher mileage vehicle if you only do 4k miles a year, after a few years it will be back down to average mileage. You just want to get a good deal for the high mileage in the first place. £20k seems fair, it will be interesting to see if they will go that low.

Do you have AVS?

Lexus GB commissioned the sport using TTE, this isn't a TRD development. TTE did favour Eibach for their suspension components so I'd imagine they are involved. I'm assuming the parts are shown on the official EPC in the UK but things like toyodiy.com don't so up the parts because they aren't factory fit items, just country specific.

Depends on the spec. You can add £4k to the list price of an F Sport with options. You won't get a fully loaded one for £28k I'd say that price is high. This one has all the options (2k leather ventilated seats, premium nav and ML) with less miles for the same money: http://usedcars.lexus.co.uk/used-IS/IS-300h/2.5-F-Sport/Cardiff/3627529-605066456-1607064.aspx?srcmdc=se_na_re_ At 47k miles I'd expect a price of around £21k for a fully loaded example (without AVS as these are impossible to find on the early ones). If it had cloth seats then at least £1k lower.

I don't think the 2001 model was lowered. It rode so poorly on the 1999 Sport suspension they kept it all standard whilst they upgraded the shocks and roll bars to deliver a more complete solution rather than just slapping on some lowered/stiffer Eibach springs.

Batteries can die, sometimes suddenly. Recovery should have been able to connect a power source to the terminals in the engine bay to power up the vehicle and put into neutral though.

here's one more pic from the press release

Lexus GB and stupid in the same sentence ;) I don't understand it. So what if it eats into 300h sales, they still make a sale and if it is priced like the NX they will make more margin on the 200t than the expensive hybrid. Given that the IS200t is coming to the UK there isn't even the argument around cost of having to train mechanics and keep additional spares etc.

I wouldn't tar all tyres made by one manufacture with the same brush. It's a bit like saying Lexus vehicles are all noisy after just test driving a CT200h. All manufacturers have made good and bad tyres in the past and their current ranges are all built to certain prices - a low end Michelins is no match for a higher end Pirelli for example. I'd had some shocking Michelin tyres in the past.

Sometimes you do get what you pay for. I'd probably choose something in the middle but may be worth contacting Rock to see what they recommend. They are all brands that we don't hear of in the UK so any direct experience from members here will be limited. You may want to try registering and posting a question on our sister site: http://us.lexusownersclub.com/forums/

except Toyota Europe/GB aren't bringing the 200t to the UK :(

Good work Phil. :) Provided copper grease is used the sensors are normally fairly easy to undo.

It is a balancing act. On one hand Toyota are under pressure to reduce the environmental impact of vehicles and reduce servicing costs and on the other maintain their brand reputation for reliability. You could also argue that by having it sealed results in less failures because people aren't replacing the factory fill with incorrect fluids or under/over filling. Personally if I was intending to keep a CT long term then I'd replace the fluid every 5 years/80,000 miles. Luckily for CT owners, the same transmission is used in the Prius and the first ones are two years older than the first CTs - if there are problems with transmission failures those failures should start appearing on them before it is too late.

Thanks for the update Paul, good luck with the player.

Interesting reading: http://media.toyota.co.uk/wp-content/files_mf/1414750807LS400Gen1UKlaunchpack1990.pdf The full LS archive which Toyota has recently scanned in is available here: http://media.toyota.co.uk/product_info/ls-archive/

Did you replace any upstream sensors? As I stated previously these can go out of normal operating spec, not enough to throw an error code directly relating to them, buy enough to alter the mixture so that the downstream doesn't behave as the ECU expects. A faulty cat should be easy to diagnose, just get an emissions test done. Upstream sensors should switch fast, downstream sensors should switch slow - this is a correct operation. If downstream start switching as fast as the upstream then the cat could be faulty. Having said all that does the IS250 use an O2 sensor upstream? I thought it used air/fuel ratio wideband sensors - if it does use A/F sensors then your graph is incorrect and your software not set correctly.

yes you just move them to the position you want whilst it is in reverse, you don't have to do anything else.

replied in other thread.

You can set your mirrors to your desired position whilst in reverse, the vehicle will then remember the offset to use against your normal position whenever reverse is selected.