Blisteringblue

Car is great, 1000 miles driven and averaging 54.3 mpg !! That is simply amazing from a 2.5l petrol.

Touch wood all my electronics seem to be fine too. Hope that is not tempting fate though.

Anybody knows who Lexus subscribe to for this?

It is working OK and showed almost an hour and a half delays driving home from Derby last night, so as it's first proper traffic event I let the car choose the route. Ended up taking me from Stoke to Leek, through Buxton, Stockport then onto M60.

I've no issue if this was the best route as I often went direct from Derby to Buxton myself using TomTom traffic when the A50/M6 was bad.

However until I trust this traffic data totally I'm always going to be cautious.

I may even vent mount my TomTom next traffic laden journey as a direct comparison but figured I would investigate the Lexus traffic source first.

Strange? Don't think I'm doing anything special, I just drive with the MPG showing on the mini dash display, with mindset of the longer the blue line the better?

Don't forget 67 miles was on the clock when I got it. I filled it up at that point. So heading for around 650 out of my first tank.

ECO Mode 73-75 ish with cruise on. The M6/M5 junction helped though with a nice electric run. Actually enjoyed being in traffic, LOL

4 days in, 600 miles driven and just under 54 mpg. Happy Days, and still 120 miles in the tank. This certainly is looking like the perfect George Osbourne busting Tax Machine :shruriken:

Satnav seemed to behave itself driving down to Birmingham this morning. Can be a bind getting the wifi hotspot in my Iphone cranked up but that is more apple IOS failings that Lexus. I was quite happy with the traffic quality too. I'm quite anal about my traffic and coming from TomTom Live Traffic which was near perfect I was hoping it was at least acceptable and it did update quite frequently and picked up stationary traffic correctly.

Parking seemed to constantly update too even though set to manual so I've switched that off altogether now, can't say I will ever use it anyway.

3mb of data used between Bolton and Halesowen, but will take readings again on the way home with the parking updates off.

Anyway it's off to a good start, will see if it's the same once the calls start coming through too.

But anyway, the Lexus offer this weekend isn't targeted at company buyers.

Very true, the offer that was on when I ordered mine was free premium nav for orders via Toyota Fleet

Turns out Lex were wrong, it came from Lexus Bradford, who rang to say what is the earliest they can deliver so it was here at 8am.

Slightly miffed they drove it from Bradford though, so my nice new car has 67 miles on the clock. Hate it when lease companies do that but it's not the first time it's happened to me.

Car looks better than I thought the demo was that long ago, So Happy Days :zee:

Interesting, Hopefully get my car this month and anything less than 53242 and they better update it FOC, let alone a discount.

New car finally arrived and it shipped with 53242 already in which is excellent news, also the NAV firmware was VC03101D from the factory, so will leave it all be and see how it behaves. Connected up with WIFI and that seems to be working for traffic etc.

I asked them because I was planning on going to pick it up to save a few days, but in the end I'm too busy next week anyway so they can deliver on Friday and take the old one away.

Damn! Popped in for a chat with my local dealer today to see if they could shed light on why its taking so long for delivery. They couldn't as they're not sure they are sourcing it for Lex.

Mine is coming through Lex Autolease too, and the supplying dealer is RRG Manchester

http://www.rrg-group.com/centre/lexus-manchester

I know, it was the ***** up with the extra 4 months on my current lease that has been the killer. I was gearing to swap for 1st March only to get a proper slap in the face.

Anyway counting down the 7 days :outforcount:

Black Black (Solid), The car was already over my allowance Company Car so I'm chipping in. It's the SE with parking sensors and Premium Nav (when free offer was on).

I had my demo in October so it's been a while

WooHoo !! Car is in stock, being delivered on 20th June. Finally

Boring Black in Pov Spec so won't be posting a pic with all you flash boys :winky:

Lease company confirmed yesterday my delivery date has gone back from w/c 14th July, to estimated 29th July at the dealers. that means almost 20wks/5mths from order, not happy :megaangry: .

I've been waiting forever too, and thought I would check on my delivery date with the lease company again.

Slightly better news in my case though, my stock date has been brought forward a week to 23rd June. May get it before July after all

And on a plus note the dealer is quite local so can save a few days picking it up myself :D

Interesting, Hopefully get my car this month and anything less than 53242 and they better update it FOC, let alone a discount.

Aso, Blisteringblue - that's a helluva wait!! Mine was a 10 week delivery! You poor sod :<

Lol, cheers, to be fair it wasn't Lexus's fault, it was that horrendous moment when I was told my current car was on a 40 month lease rather than the normal 36 month. Toys out the pram might be a slight understatement

So counting down big style ....

Sorry, absolutely cannot help with the patience bit!

Tell me about it, I'm still being told 30th June from a Feb 1st order! Almost under a month now. The suspense is killing me, I had my demo for a week back in October 2013 :yack:

Enjoy !! Still at least 6 weeks till mine, Ordered in Feb !! One day she will be mine .........

So are there any cars out there with a fully working entertainment satnav system? I don't remember my demo being that bad, I had it back in October though. My Iphone 5 worked and so did my old ipod classic?

When you say it deletes your contacts? It's physically removing them from the phone or just from the infotainment system?

What file format is your USB Stick? I think it will have to be Fat32 to be recognised.

This is from the USB section of the manual:

Ah, do I need to turn on something on the phone like personal hotspot because I was just trying to connect with just a phone bluetooth connection

Yes from the Iphone, Click Settings, Personal Hotspot, it will show you the wifi password (random characters so pretty safe) and a switch to turn it on and off.

When you switch it on you should see a wifi network the same name as your phone, connect to this and type in your wifi password and you should be off and running.

Your re-routes without the wifi will be using old school Traffic Message Channel (TMC) contained in the FM Radio Signals of certain channels

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_message_channel

While these can be perfectly fine they are just not as up-to-date as the realtime traffic systems that the wifi version will subscribe to.

Until I get my Lexus I use TomTom with Live Traffic on my Iphone and this is brilliant, but I know they get their data from Vodafone where all their phone users actually supply the information they use.

I'm not sure where the Lexus portal gets it from but they will subscribe to a source like that? Most also seem to carry the Highways Agency feeds too, but these aren't brilliant. Mobile phone based data seems to be the best.

Going back to a time before Smartphones, I used to run TomTom on a PDA and its first ever traffic service (it was quite dire though) it used to Bluetooth to an old PAYG phone I left in the car. When I did this a £10 top-up used to last around 6 months, and this was driving 35k a year with updates every 15 mins. But again this was before "data bundles" and 3G signals it was good old GPRS.

Personally I will just use the hotspot service on my Iphone, it's easy enough to switch on and off. I'll probably just leave on all the time if the Battery drain is not massive, they security key is never going to be hacked.

Afraid you will be stuck with just the Iphone as the satnav. I've used it for a few years and was all set to carry on in the Lexus until the offer of the free satnav came. I certainly wouldn't pay 2k for it but took it for free.

Non Nav cars are equipped with mirrorlink, but apple never subscribed. It was a consortium of mainly Sony, Android and older Nokia's. However as Steve44 says it is limited because you cannot use your infotainment while using mirrorlink.

http://www.mirrorlink.com/

There is a video on youtube showing it working in a brand new IS 250

I saw another pov spec SE with Solid Black like mine will be this week. Still looks nice though