DanD

There are numerous threads on this forum regarding mirror glasses and how to replace them - do a search. Sticking a new one on top of the old one is a bodged job that will simply not work. Moreover, the side mirrors are linked to the internal one: at night, all three are electrochromatic and darken at night. The side mirrors also dip down when the reverse is selected... you will need to be careful not to damage the wires and the mechanism when removing the old glass. I may be wrong, but I am not convinced that the glass you have ordered is a genuine replacement. There is no mention of the darkening function, and I do not remember the mirrors in the RX400h being convex! Finally, if you look at the reviews, several people mentionned that these replacements don't fit!!!

You might want to read this thread... http://www.lexusownersclub.co.uk/forum/topic/104826-parking-sensors-having-a-hissy-fit/#comment-934471

It is not available on pre-facelift cars. As mentionned above, these only have two front sensors in the corners.

Question: have the fog lights truly been deleted, or have they migrated to within the headlights?

I defer to your professional knowledge. This is your area of expertise, not mine!

Thanks to all for your comments. The car park in question has particularly narrow spaces, which does not help, and is shared with the local library and doctor's surgery as such used primarily by elderly drivers during the day. I am by no means being discriminatory here, and I am not saying that the culprit was an elderly driver. However it is likely. I can see the benefits of dashcams, but I have to admit that I am not really keen on them. I appreciate that it's all about protecting yourself etc., and that if you don't do anything wrong then you don't have anything to worry about, but I find it difficult to buy into the growing "Big Brother" culture. We do have a smaller car, but I tend to use it. I can cover up to 24k miles per year and it makes more economical sense to put the bulk of these miles onto the smaller car rather than the Lexus... although I may have to review this. Already, my wife uses the smaller car for hospital appointments or when she knows parking will be difficult. I agree with your comments re the insurance. It is unfortunate that a simple query will be recorded against you.

Paul, I have had issues with compromised balance resulting from an inner ear infection. Possibly of interest to you, I was given a course of medication called Temetil for a few weeks, which greatly reduced the balance issues. I was told that, as a result of an infection, the inner ear can be permanently damaged, but that the brain adapts and compensates. However, if you are run down or under the weather, your brain is not as good as managing this, resulting - temporarily - in vertigo etc.

The product Lexus offers is good enough... if you don't pay for it. My dealer has always offered it to me, but at no charge. The one that I was offered in the past was not Supaguard though, it was 3G GlassCoat I believe.

You won't want to hear this now, but my RX is velvet black and it's a bloody nightmare to keep clean! - Much more difficult to maintain than my other car which is solid white. My next Lexus will be either Sonic T or Sonic White. Incidentally, I was wondering that the Sonic T / Red leather combination would look like... Now I know... Thanks David!

Thanks for the info. I look forward to hearing how you get on with it. I recall there are other threads dedicated to dashcams... I'll take a look at these also.

You may be right. I take it I would need one for the front and one for the back? Which have you got and how easy was it to install?

Update: Local dealer got a quote from a local workshop and the work was completed two weeks ago for... £400+VAT. The quality of the work is excellent, and I am very pleased with the result. I was going to say it was £400 well spent... although I would have preferred not to have to spend it in the first place. So, for the past two weeks our Lexus has looked like new again - just about - until yesterday... when my wife got back to the car after a shopping trip and found that, once again, someone had misjudged going into / reversing out of the parking space next to hers. And left a nice dent all along the driver's door. Of course the culprit did not leave any contact detail. It is now the 4th time in 18 months. Makes my blood boil.

Looks spotless! - How many miles has it done... not many by the looks of things!

While working abroad recently, my wife reported unusual condensation in our RX (including ice on the inside of the windscreen). I put it down to the weather, combined with the fact that she had done a succession of short journeys with car full of teenagers, however she found that one of the rear windows was open just a fraction. Not enough to be noticeable, but enough to let humidity in overnight. She closed the window and left the car running with the heating and aircon on full blast for about 10 minutes. This was enough to remove moisture from inside of the car and she has not had any problem since.

Sorry, but what is an "ottoman" in this context!?

I do hope that Thar was not looking for approval from any of us! Thar, you can do much better for that money!

It could indeed be smell related. I once recruited a lady who used to wear a perfume called Opium. Within minutes of her coming into the office, I would feel nauseous and get severe headaches. It got so bad that I had to mention it to her. She stopped wearing this particular perfume in the office and the situation resolved itself. With regards to motion sickness, I recently read a very interesting paper on motion sickness in space travel, specifically in zero gravity environments. In all vertebrates, the vestibular part of the ear (aka inner ear) contains 3 very small pebble-like bone formations called otoliths. As your head moves, these otoliths come into contact with hairs inside the inner ear, and messages are subsequently sent to the brain as to the position of your head. Similar position-related messages are relayed to the brain from your eyes. In some circumstances such as in a zero gravity environment, or more commonly (!) while reading in a car, the signals sent by the otoliths and the ones sent by the eyes contradict each other, confusing the brain and resulting in motion sickness. For instance, if you are reading a book whilst a passenger in a car travelling along a winding road, your inner ear will register the side to side movements and advising your brain accordingly, while your eyes will say, "no mate, you've got it wrong... We're reading a book and it's not moving at all" Hence you are less likely to be sick if you are looking out of the window (forward, as opposed to side window), and if you are on deck rather than below deck on a boat. It is also why astronauts suffer from motion sickness (their otoliths were all over the place due to lack of gravity) and so do submarine crews. Incidentally, you are also less likely to feel seasick if you are deaf because your inner ear is inherently deficient. With regards to Paul's complaint, and to some extent in view of the above, is it possible that, in the CT, you sit much lower than you did in your previous car? - This would contribute to the upper part of the dashboard being more into your line of sight where your eyes are seeing a larger, non-moving part of the dash, against the moving scenery? Does that make any sense? Also, do you wear glasses and have you changed them recently? Varifocals? Did you know that all vertebrates can suffer from motion sickness... including fish! However, you will be please to know that neither cows nor horses can actually be physically sick due to the morphology of their digestive system! Things you didn't know you didn't know!

They were Yokohama tyres.

I think that if you check the oil level just after a drive, the level will always appear low on the basis that most of the oil will still be somewhere around the engine. Before checking your dipstick, you should wait at least 5 to 10 minutes to allow gravity to do its bit and for the oil to find its way back down and collect into its reservoir (sump?)

You should do a search on this forum, there are several threads dedicated to the RX reversing lights... in fact I seem to recall that one of them is longest thread ever recorded on the Lexus forum!

I have the same problem, so maybe it is specific to the pre-facelift model. I mention it each and every time the car goes in for a service, but it has never been resolved. It is a real shame as the car is otherwise so quiet. The only that I find helps is to move the seat forward slightly, rather than leave it in its rear-most position.

I am driving a 66 plate F-Sport this week and yes, the suspension is rock hard but, on the plus side, it is like driving a go-kart... I love it. What I am finding more difficult to live with is the road noise though, especially when considering that engine seems so well insulated.

I have the same problem with my RX so tend to only use the foot parking brake when parking on a slope. Are there any cons with not using the footbrake for long periods of time?

You can also fins some F-Sports that were ordered with Premium Nav as a factory extra.

You also have to consider that the bottoms of tanks are rarely completely flat because they are molded to fit in with whatever is around them. This means that you end up with some petrol left in some part of the tank that remains inaccessible no matter what.