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100% the pyro fuse on battery lead, explosively severs the battery connection to the car 12v battery, if airbag is deployed. Will probably need the whole battery harness replaced, as unlikely you can buy just the fuse part. Google Mat Armstrong on YouTube, he has many examples of this in the cars he has repaired….

European Rx are Japan made, American RX are USA made. Have had a couple of low 40mpg runs over 150-200mile motorway journeys. Generally need to keep speed down, flatish roads and summer time though…..

As a 500h owner over 1.5yrs and 20k+ miles can answer a few questions. my useage type is mostly motorway with only some town and B road. Summer mpg on motorway is high 30’s, occasionally low 40’s depending on how quick I wish to progress. Town driving can be anywhere from low 20’s to 40+ depending on how well you can maximise the small hybrid battery. After trying all the various modes, I’ve settled on driving it almost exclusively in Eco mode, which seems to give a better throttle pedal travel map, allows easier slow speed use of EV mode, doesn’t change power or delivery at out of town speeds. Winter, can knock 10-15% off above. The gearbox is conventional 6spd auto, it’s ok, quick to shift not noisy, tends to hold its gears occasionally. Car is pretty swift, especially in gear times, 30-70, or 50-100 it is more than capable of embarrassing many a more conventionally sporty car! it’s definitely setup as Fsport only with a more sporty intent. The rear wheel steer gives it a lovely turn in and pivot, makes it quite agile. On downside the suspension gives way too much body roll and head toss, so spirited driving on a and b roads can be a rolly polly experience. Sport mode on dampers doesn’t improve much other than make the ride stiffer. I did need to use it on the German autobahn to reduce a floaty feeling in excess of 100 though. Tyres on mine were Michelin Pilot Sport4, I need to look to replace the fronts now at 24k, rest of the car has been virtually faultless apart from a few software niggles and recalls for minor things. Unheard of for me for what was a launch model.

Could be wheel alignment, I had an Audi that handled terribly after a recall to fix something in rear axles, the wheel alignment was all to pot…

It should be fine, it has a snow/rock/mud button, but no ev mode button on the 500h. It will run in EV mode up to about 40mph for a short distance though. It also has rear steering and a 6spd auto. It drives and handles very differently to the RX450 4th gen. I would advise a test drive. tyre size is a bit odd at 235/50/r21, not sure how available cross climate or snow tyres are. Summers are only available from a few brands.

Mmm, interesting views on the Dunlop. I have Michelin PS4 on my 500h and at 22k miles fronts are approaching 3mm and will need changing soon. I was looking at choices and the size is pretty odd so not much choice, coupled with Michelins being double the price of the Dunlops…. Looks like price per mile maybe similar though. FYI, I do mostly motorway miles

Is that for a RX5? Pic is for RX4

Tank also has a very slow fill and when pump first clicks off, I can usually get another gallon at least in it, with big air gurgles as it fills. So in my view, it’s a conservative range estimate, and a poor tank design, means short fills and more trips to the petrol station. It is 65ltrs though I have had that in it a couple of times.

Not in my experience, 22k miles so far and engine/gearbox has been great. Nothing done other than service every 10k miles as usual.

I was given 1 fob with metal blade and 1 metal blade. 2nd Fob turned up 12mths later. couple in at same time as me with RZ had same issue as you, given extra fob but only 1 blade, they were complaining as didn’t have the ring to attach it to anything….

Hi, you can tone down and turn off some of the settings like the driver monitor msgs, and turn the volume down on the various beeps and bongs. Other settings like the speed limit beeping, you need to turn off every time the car starts. I’ve got used to that, just turned the volume of it down to the minimum. If you have radio or music on you barely hear it. I have a love hate with the lane keep assistance, great on a motorway when on cruise control, poor on other roads where it seems to have a tendency to try and pull you towards the verge or centreline rather than keep you in lane, it’s easily confused so I turn it off. Lane change assistance is useless in my view. Adaptive cruise that stops and restarts is great in traffic jams, almost works flawlessly but has a habit of resuming automatically fine then just not doing it anymore, so you have to touch the accel after a while. I can’t fathom why. my radar cruise also has trouble in the wet, where a light spray seems to make it loose the car in front intermittently. Very disconcerting. It’s about to go in for a service and hoping they can fix it.

Mmm, thanks for looking, I swear I’ve seen a different part online. The Italian front plate size is 355x110mm. Need an Italian RX 5 owner to confirm what they have. The Italy Lexus site shows a render same as UK. Now off to try and find a pic of an Italian RX……..

I want to change the front number plate plinth to a shorter one as I want to mount a short UK private number plate. The UK plinth would have excess black plastic either side which I don’t want. There appears to be a range of number plate plinths globally and the Italian region one looks perfect for my needs. The plinth appears to mount on 2 bolts into the grille/crash bar and some clips into the Fsport grille, so I imagine they are interchangeable. I can’t get a UK Lexus dealer to tell me what the part is or costs as they say they need a VIN from an Italian car to search for and reduce the hundreds of options available to them. can anyone tell me a part number or is prepared to share a VIN so I can search? It must be a FSport version as the grille design is different. Thanks in advance.

I was one year, January 23 to Jan 24 to get key and locking wheel nuts. RX owner.

The speed limit exceed bong has to be turned off every time. The speed limit change bong can be turned off permanently. I’ve learned to just ignore it, it eventually fades into the background, you can set the various bongs and noises to be the lowest setting and if you have music on you can barely hear it. Lane Keep assist also seems to have to be turned off every time, but at least that is 1 button on the steering wheel. we need a list of all the different bings and bongs as there are so many it is itself distracting.