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Looks like fungus actually....

The air suspension on the 450hs don't make much difference to the ride quality. The 450h is a lot heavier and due to safety regulations, SUVs do have to be stiffer to prevent rolling as much as possible. A tyre change might help. The 450h has almost no road noise at all.

Its exactly that - a rumour..... and a pretty bad one at that. Someone has just made it up For a start, Lexus won't be using a 416hp engine in an IS F-Sport, especially as the F-Sport trim level is a handling and cosmetic package meaning that they'd have to use this engine across the board rather than in just the F-Sport trim level. Additionally, Lexus are developing an engine to replace the NA V6. This could be an all new 3.0l turbo V6 or they might just do a cost cutting exercise and take 1 turbo off the 3.5l TT V6. Either way, the engine will have roughly 350-360hp. I would imagine if Lexus are contemplating using the TTV6, it would be exclusively for an F model and possibly tuned to the region of 440-450hp

Again, sounds normal. It moves a bit but shouldnt be rolling by more than 1 inch

Yep I meant the 4's not 3's. Either way, when it says it improves economy, I doubt you would notice a huge difference. Maybe 1-2 mpg more. I would ditch the XL though, its not needed.

Does any car with a small sunroof have an electric cover? Go for the panoramic sunroof if it bothers you

XL basically means stiffer sidewall so you might notice the car crashes over bumps and ridges a bit more Would personally have gone for Michelin Primacy 3 if economy was your primary concern

In the facelifted 3RX it would give that option and you had to press the centre button on the right side of the steering wheel

Sounds normal, has happened in every auto I can think of

If the clearcoat is peeling it is likely to be refurbished in the past. Nothing you can do unless getting it re-done. Even if you do put clearcoat on, or nail varnish on, it'll spread and start doing it elsewhere.

They're painted alloys not diamond cut. Don't really need anything on them, theyre pretty resistant to corrosion unlike 2nd gen wheels. Have a few scuffs on ours and they're still the same.

Certainly. Especially after the shoddy mess Ive seen of my friends ford fiesta. Bought it used with 7k on the clock, was in great condition. 1 week later gets rear-ended on a roundabout, gets sent for repair, comes back a week later with a boot that doesn't close well and misaligned panels, gets sent back and a week later comes back with a good closing boot and a panel gap maybe 1mm less than it was before. The engineer who passed off the work should be shot if he passed that as "within tolerances". The quote for the IS was £1400. I have no doubt another bodyshop would keep the bumper on, take the small dent out and just paint it for a mere £400-500. I should mention that Lexus approved repairers have a habit of replacing things rather than repairing too which I actually prefer to be honest.

Yep, saw that a while back. General reviews are positive so far but no-one has driven it yet with the new hybrid system Will probably sell quite well in the US and Europe too.

You dont need to change the plugs if the car has lower mileage Spark plugs deteriorate based on use, not time

OK so just a few things to clarify then that I have learnt: 1) The excess actually goes to the bodyshop. You have to pay an excess to the bodyshop regardless of fault if you use your own repairer. This is the case with admiral and all its associated companies and is because Admiral do not have an "using your own repairer" excess which other companies do - this is normally £250. 2) Motor legal cover is a must if using your own repairer. 3) Whilst you can get a "Guaranteed" courtesy car with other companies, even if using your own repairer this is usually a 1.0l manual hatchback. I can guarantee my wife will either sit in the house not doing anything if she was given a 1.0l hatchback, or crash it into someone. Shes had autos since 2004. Some companies offer "guaranteed courtesy car plus" etc. Again, these are usually not like for like, instead just giving you something a bit larger like a 1.6l mid-size hatchback To be fair to Admiral, they've been polite and handed things well. It hasn't taken them too long to do what they needed to do. Ive compared their policy with others, and generally you do have to pay something or other if you're using your own repair shop, be it £250 non approved repairer fee or your policy excess. Admiral did say that if I chose one of their own repairers, I would not pay a penny. The issue is that I dont really trust their approved bodyshops. Ive heard nothing but bad things about insurers repairers. Additionally, Admiral Law, whilst under the Admiral name are just "normal" lawyers. They essentially told me to do everything myself i.e. claim back the excess as the other insurance company won't want to be dealing with lawyers as it ultimately means they have to pay out more. So, my plan for renewal is still to go to the cheapest insurer that I have heard of but will buy motor legal cover entitling me to claim back any uninsured losses such as non-approved repairer excess and hire car charges. The main issue here is that you don't know what to expect until something happens as the policy doesn't cover all scenarios I used to be with direct line many years ago until I bought a Lexus and they pumped up my price to £1k per car. I pay £1k for both at the moment!

Booked the car in for repair. Earliest they could get it in was 11th. Bodyshop can provide courtesy car but they need a cover note from Admiral. Admiral don't provide a cover note as it's not their approved bodyshop. Or insure it myself. Therefore will have to forego the courtesy car as there'd be more hassle of claiming it back so booked it in for 19th July as car is driveable and my son is around to ferry around if needs be. The bodyshop is removing the affected bumper, ensuring there's no damage underneath and then painting/refitting and corrosion protection to Lexus standards to maintain the 12 year corrosion warranty, something which I have no doubt the insurance approved bodyshop would conveniently miss out! Lesson to self and maybe others - if you want to use your own repairer, strongly advise buying motor legal cover! Ill try claiming the excess back but didn't want to risk hire car charges at £300 per week for a premium auto hatchback or £450 per week for like for like vehicle. If I had motor legal, I would undoubtedly be getting a hire car for my wife whilst car is in for repair

Yep I've always heard that too although that means FWD cars would need rotating as they wear the fronts out first. Having said that, the counterargument is that 70% of braking is done by the front brakes and this goes through the tyres so having decent tread up front is a must too

That cant be right. The button should work as normal. If the button doesn't lock, it also won't unlock if it happened to get locked in an accident

The theory is that if you're putting rear tyres with say 3mm on the front and 6mm front tyres on the rear, pretty soon you'll have a vehicle with 2mm all around. Instead it's better to let the tyres wear out as they are doing normally and have 8mm on one axle and 6mm on other.

I don't think they're corner specific. They don't give any information other than if pressure is lower than a certain level. It's more sophisticated on cars with more detailed tyre pressure readings like the RX Also rotating tyres? Deemed to be bad practice nowadays.....

No chance. That colours been out of the lineup for a while now. Graphite black. Which actually ends up looking dark grey

Yep the badge is the same on all hybrid models. Hate sonic titanium with a passion unless on something rare, like an RC-F! Otherwise its quite dull and seems to always look dirty. That blue colour is great and a shame its not available on the F-Sport really. Would look great with a White F-Sport interior - if they did that on the IS that is!

Why can't you?

It's the same as a normal hatchback. In any case it'll be bigger than the CT so I doubt it's much of an issue

Just an update. Got an email from Admiral today saying that the repair has been approved. I'll contact RRG body shop in Bolton tomorrow and get it in for repair. So far, not too bad from Admiral. Will have to pay £450 excess to the bodyshop but I'll try to claim this back from the third parties insurance company once the repair is done