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I can see you're in Ireland. I don't know if you're aware of this: https://www.gov.uk/check-mot-history which should give a detailed result for all UK registered cars. If you're stuck for a mechanic to look at the car, if you widened the question, and asked if there was anyone who lived in Cardiff who could pop along and have a quick look at the car for you, I think you might be pleasantly surprised at the help you'll be offered. : o )

69db, which is at the quieter end of things. And yes, in practice, quiet. And a bit soft, so not so directional as a summer tyre, but very nice to drive on. I had them on my 460 for about four years. Much better on frozen roads than the summer tyres I've got on my current car. : o )

Cool. Makes a lot of sense to me. No point in having a nice car and spoiling it. And the Michelin cross climates are great tyres, especially in the winter. : o )

Consumer rights are better than a warranty. Car dealers only offer six month warranties to try to fob you off if there's a problem. Ring the dealer, and follow up with a recorded delivery letter setting out the problem straight away. Time is of the essence! Sorry to be so harsh.

Can I suggest that you put the details in the "for sale" section here? It's free, and there are likely to be interested people looking, and you can actually chat online with people. Obviously, put it in autotrader as well! : o )

Michelin thinks that it's illegal. https://www.michelin.co.uk/auto/advice/choose-tyres/mixing-tyres But really, what are they doing putting budget tyres on a car that's only 3 years old anyway? I think you need to go back and insist on a new Bridgestone Touranzo to replace the Radar.

Do you mean, if you're a bit bigger or taller or a bit infirmer than normal? I am such a person who had a 460 for over 15 years. The door opening is tall. The wheel retracts right out of the way. The seat is comfortable, and even though there is a moon roof the headroom is fine. When you get out, the seat is at a sensible height for raising yourself up to standing, though if you wish you can use the air suspension to raise the car a couple of inches. You need to ensure there is enough space when you park to open the door properly. The back is a bit rubbish though! I've driven an RX 350. There is plenty of room, but it's a bit of a clamber in and a slide out. The ride of the 460 is also much better. : o )

Loosing coolant and dumping transmission fluid? I know that older LSs had a radiator that had separate compartments for coolant and transmission fluid, and that it was important when they were 10 or 15 years old to replace the radiator in case corrosion let coolant under pressure push into and mix with the transmission fluid. If that's happened here, it's likely that the transmission made simply need replacing. And it won't be good for the engine running with insufficient coolant. Myself, I'd get a different person to look, check the fluid, so when it came to it, it wasn't just your word for it, and maybe make a video showing the lost coolant/fluid. Then I'd just take the car back and give them the keys. Sorry.

How reasonable the original price of £105,260 being increased depends (slightly) on which measure of inflation you use. If you use retail price index (RPI) then £105,260 is equivalent to £ 147,708 in July. If you use consumer price index (CPI) it's worth £147570 in August. So, less than we might expect. But I still definitely think that over £100k is too much for the car it is. : o )

That link leads to a great resource! Unfortunately, the link you've put up leads to a June 2013 brochure, that won't show all the versions available for 2014 - and it doesn't show the car you're interested in. https://autocatalogarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Lexus-IS-2015-UK.pdf This is an October 2015 catalog that does show the specifications (for that model year) and includes the Executive. : o )

How are you finding the cross climates on what is a fairly heavy car? I put them on my LS460, and though they were good in cold weather, and quiet and comfortable, I felt that directional stability suffered a bit. I presume you need them for snow in Northumberland?

Why not put them on ebay? Ask for £150 with buyer collects, then that would be a very nice donation to a charity - and they will sell! And yes, it would be a terrible shame for them to go to recycling : o )

I'll attach a document to this post. If you look at page 37 you'll see a section called "Practices to follow for best results". This is a tiresome section, that no one should bother with - do you really expect a technician to roll the car back and forth by turning a rear wheel to let the steering settle on it's own? There's other parts of this document that also are just timewasters, and best ignored. You need to find someone committed to using a wheel alignment machine properly, preferably someone who will let you watch while they do it. Hard to find, but great to cultivate a relationship with the people who do the aligning! : o ) 3850-T WinAlign® Software - Operations Manual.pdf

So take it back to the people who got it right. They'll want to make you happy so you keep on going there, and seem to know what they are doing. : o )

Open the driver's door. This information should be on the now-exposed B pillar. : o )

Hi Nick, For your protection, could I suggest that you replace your visible gmail address with perhaps just the word 'Nick'? : o )

Hopefully in you entertainment booklet thing there will be a page like this for when you type things in. For me, it was "change type" followed by "other" in the keyboard list. The sort of set up a 15 year old would make for his ICT gcse project. : o )

Oh, absolutely annoying! I had this! Two solutions. Solution 1 is to use the setting where you write the letter by hand. But the better solution, irritating as it is, get as far as you need to then change keyboard to one with capital letters, then change back. There's possibly a proper solution, but I didn't find it.

I've had alignment problems in my previous LS. When it comes to it, you need people who you can trust. Many alignment places just don't really know what they are doing, and this includes Lexus dealers who've been sold Hunter machines in the hope of making some easy money. There are two things that come to mind. First, has the steering wheel been properly centred before adjustments are made? Just because the car has driven onto the thingie doesn't mean that it's in the correct position. The car needs to be driven onto the stand, straightened, then rolled off the rotating platform at the front and rolled back on. Then the angles can be checked and adjusted. And you need to stress the need for the steering wheel to be centred at this point. Then get the back wheels done too. If they're out, then the car will try to steer one way or another when you put in power. But ultimately, you do need someone who knows what they're doing. Find a specialist if you need to, or just someone who knows what he's doing, and actually cares. If I were you, I'd go with @googsy 's suggestion! : o )

Wow! ... I've not seen that document before. A different approach to selling the LS in AU. The boot space thing. There are two things that eat into the boot space. On the L sport, it will be the rear chair stuff, such as the cooling stuff. On the 600 there's even less space because they've got the hybrid battery under the boot. I lived with an LS with a 385 capacity boot also with a growing family of 3. The space was a challenge. To be honest, the boot in my 430, which was about 550 litres was only just comfortable with 5 large suitcases in. If the Australian L sport had been available here I'd have bought one. Lexus's gorgeous, naturally aspirated V8 engine is an absolute dream, plus the vehicle had all the kit (and a little more) than my 460. Sorry not to be very encouraging in all this. If you do get an LS, however, you may well find it very difficult to be happy in any other car afterwards, and you may, like me, be stuck with them for life. : o )

Hiya, In this country F sport was only ever used as far as I know for a 460 version. The 600 (which had the longer wheelbase) was called Premier. In 2015, for instance, there were two versions of the 460, the luxury and the F sport. Both versions of the 460 had been seriously nerfed by Lexus after 2009, and all the better kit was only available on the 600. There was boggo straightforward cruise on the 460 by this time - the adaptive cruise which was available between 2006- 2009 on the 460 was now only available on the 600. Significant bits of the safety system had also been despecified. If you find a British 600 you'll get the full kit, and it will be called Premier. The F sport was never popular. Something like 9 or 10 went out to dealers as demonstrators in 2014. I watched them online; it took years before they disappeared from forecourts, and even now there are only 11 F sports in existence ( there were a maximum of 13 around at one time). Personally I thought it was offensive that Toyota/Lexus would offer this car which now had so little left to it. About 60 Luxuries were sold, but, again, same thing - a badly nerfed shell of a car. I've attached the Lexus 600/460 brochure from March 2015 - I hope it's helpful! : o ) ls600 and ls460.pdf

Hi, I presume it's the aura around the compass icon that's the problem. What it looks like to me an oily fingerprinty smear on the optics. Have you tried a cloth on the top cover of the hud unit? If not, I'm presuming its on the lens (inside the box!) or the object screen (also inside the box) It's unfortunate that Twickenham couldn't be bothered. Fish Brothers in Swindon Lexus haven't done anything yet to offend me, but the way that Lexus dealers are set up does make it difficult to get anything more technical than changing wiper blades done. Incidentally, I've gone minimal on my display. Speed, speed limit, and the lane keep/cruise I have on, but have turned off the rest as just too much information! Good luck : o )

B&B? Luxury! Sleeping in my Ford Anglia was never really a possibility, so it tended to be a tent and thin foam mattress. I've always been a bit cheap! : o )

The first image, Brian's car, if I had that when I was younger then I'd put a mattress in the back and use it to tour round the north of Scotland .... I'm too old for any fun like that now, of course! : o )

Sorry Steve! : o )