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On 9/23/2024 at 12:06 PM, SH20 said:

The list price of the highest spec 2024 LS500h AWD referred to by Lexus Dealers as  the Pleat Trim level is £128,260 incl first year road tax and £23,000 more expensive than it was in December 2017.  

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.

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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.

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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

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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!  

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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.

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On 8/31/2024 at 1:07 PM, microgerry said:

Tyres are 19", how would I find out the correct tyre pressures for them please?

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

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Hi Nick,

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

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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!

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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

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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!

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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!

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Sorry Steve!

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Hi Mike,

Welcome to the lexus owners' club!

I don't mean to be critical but maybe you haven't noticed that you're talking to people possibly long deceased! The thread was last active in 2008, and most of the people involved in it are long gone.

If you try chatting to the living then you'll find that people here can be very helpful and friendly!

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Hi Han, yes, you'll have tpms sensors.  Also, I'd expect that you don't need a module ... check your manual and I think you'll find how to bring the tyre pressures up on screen.  Search for "tire pressure warning system", (with tyre misspelt!) and it will be there.

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On 7/16/2024 at 11:08 AM, BigBoomer said:

Eire is EU, and since Brexit even travelling there got more complex, but at least they don't have any LEZ. 🙂
Yes, you will need a passport. 

Ireland is in the EU, but it's also in the CTA - common travel area - for people from Ireland, Britain and Northern Ireland.

There is no legal requirement for a passport for British people to visit Ireland - you can come and go as you please.   When you arrive you may be asked by customs what nationality you are, but when you say British they won't normally pester you anymore.

Having a passport with you can however be useful if you need to prove your ID.  But so is a driving licence.

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Does the attached pdf contain the data you need to complete these calculations?  It's the older stuff on page 2 of it, rather than page 1. 

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Lexus-UK-Sales-Figures-April-2024.pdf

Hi TJ

Things might be different in Ireland, but here there isn't an upgrade for a LS500H, as far as I can find.  Why not give your dealer a ring and see if one exists for you, but I think the news is bad.

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Thanks for that follow up. In my last car, the first Battery lasted til it was 11 years old or so, so I'm hoping for a good few years from mine.

I sensed that when the time comes, I wouldn't be sure that a dealership would necessarily be able to source a correct Battery - it's good to be pre-armed with information.

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On 4/10/2024 at 8:17 AM, Deezell said:

There is a procedure though in the LS handbook to overcome this. Foot hard on brake and hold the start button for 15 seconds, which must force the hybrid battery to generate the 12v for a sufficient period to energise the ECU. Handy to know that.

Thanks for pointing this out - I hadn't known about this. It may come in handy one day.  (And yes, I've not read all of the handbook!)

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First, the tyre size.  Two different sizes of tyre were originally fitted to this model of car. The size of tyre is either 235/55R18 or 225/60R17.  This is because there have been two different sizes of wheel hub fitted.  One type has a diameter of the metal hub of 18 inches, the other 17 inches.

You can check the size of the fitted tyres by looking for a set of letters and numbers, with the slash in the middle, in big writing on the side of your tyres.

The bit above, is the metal dish that holds the bottom of the spring? Try passing something between it- such as a bit of cardboard. If it's not touching (and it won't be, because, as you say, you'd have worn down that bit of tyre) then everything is ok.

Incidentally, if you look at blackcircles.com (who sell tyres online), and put in your car registration, it should tell you the size of tyres that your car needs. 

The reason you can see so much spring is that the body is higher than a saloon car. This means the wheels have the space to travel up and down if you're driving off road.

The only issue that I can see is that if the tyres are 5 years old then they may start to perish very soon - but they will have been checked when you had your last MOT.

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