RichTea

Just to advise everyone, the car is all sorted, and running beautifully. It was the clogged air filter that was causing the problems :)

I agree, I Debated to myself whether I should continue with the Lexus service history as it had a full one. but glad I never paid £300 for them not to do half the job

Hi folks, just a quick hello. I'm Rich from Scotland, got an IS220D and spent the past few weeks fixing the usual issues. I'm an engineer, so hate paying other people to fix stuff for me, and spend much of my time restoring old cars and mountain biking. Cheers, Richie.

Hi guys, tried to download this app for android butit's not on the play store any more. I use tapatalk for other forums, but Lexus oc doesn't seem to be signed up there either. Can anyone advise?

That's amazing normski, I mean the air filter costs about £7 (for a decent quality one such as crossland that I used) and can be changed in less than sixty seconds. It begs the question, what exactly does their service schedule consist of? For what Lexus charge their customers for a service, it's unbelievable that they would miss off such a simple yet critical component. This is why I don't trust 'full service histories' and give more kudos to owner serviced, or independent serviced cars. Yet perversely, residual car values are greater when accompanied by a FLSH. I can't test it properly until first Feb, but I'm 90% sure this was the cause of my issues. I would urge any 220d owners to check their air filters , if their car has been serviced by Lexus OR they are suffering poor performance and mpg as I was. See if it's an issue!

I wish I'd taken a picture of the air box before I cleaned it out, it was full of grass, sand, dust, dirt etc. There's definitely no link from air box to the exhaust, but I'd agree it looks like that!!

Last service by Lexus was apparently 7 months ago, 7000 miles ago

Hi guys, just thought I'd bring you up to speed. I've kept the car off the road whilst I investigate and fix it. Planning on putting it back on the road on 1st February. In the mean time, I have changed oil, and the air, oil and fuel filters. The air filter looks as though it's never been changed from New? It's as black as a smokers lungs. Yet I have a full service history from Lexus Glasgow - do they routinely change these filters? I actually think it might have been the cause of the issues. Also, what a git of a job the fuel filter is to change, never want to do that again!!!

Many thanks Normski, I'll check out the connectors. I had a look on some of the Toyota forums earlier, and found a few other with the same issue on the avensis and auris. One person claimed to fix it by running wynns turbo cleaner through the air inlet, and putting a dpf cleaner in the tank. The other traced it to the fuel filter at 77k miles (they're scheduled for replacement every 40k by Lexus, but I'd personally replace every 20k anyway) Seeing as this is relatively cheap to do all the above and service it. Nothing to lose. A local motor engineer also suggested dpf blockage, in which case a good Italian tune up should clear it, 20 miles or so at 3500 rpm on the bypass apparently?

Hi guys, I'm new to here. Recently purchased an IS220D (57 reg with 78K miles, full lexus service history) The car has a power issue when it's under load. The turbo spools as it should at low revs, and in first and second gear, it generally carries on up the rev range and accelerates well, with a bit of light stuttering in second gear. However in third gear, it gets to about 3000rpm then just goes flat, no power. It then sort of 'hits and misses' in spurts where it kinda goes, then doesn't. Basically, you can't get it above 3000 rpm in third. I have cleaned the EGR valve (The valve, the pipe and the manifold were badly coked, but now seem to operate well and the valve seats and seals well, following a leak test I conducted!) and I have also cleaned the MAF. This hasn't fixed it though. I plugged in the OBD2 and there are no stored codes. The car isn't giving me any errors or warnings at all. The car drives lovely and smooth otherwise, no smoke whatsoever. No mixture of oil / coolant / etc I am at a loss with what to try next; has anybody else experienced this before and can offer any pointers on what I could check or any other tests I could undertake to diagnose the cause? Only thing I haven't cleaned is the O2 sensors. I guess there's a chance these could be coked up with carbon too, making it think the car is running too rich, and thus it cuts the fuel when I put the engine under load? Thanks in advance for any help, Richie.