mrfunex

I never took my ISF to the drag strip, but at Silverstone, I kept on letting air out of my tyres to give around 40psi when up to temperature. It was only when I checked them before leaving for the journey home, the cold pressures were about 28-30! I’d never thought they’d change that much!

Get it done! Really simple, and the sense of satisfaction will be huge. 😎

Has anyone bought something like this before? Ebay link The GSF has grey plastic covers on the mirrors (and also the window pillars) which are totally out of keeping with everything else on the car! Don’t we just love the Japanese sense of continuity! I’ve been thinking about carbon mirror covers for a while, and at less than £100, could these be worth a punt? The worry is that the description mentions ‘perfect fit’, but also professional installation recommended as sizes could be out by 1-3cm!! I have no idea how to go about fitting CF parts - I’d imagine it’s not simple?

Mine’s going in on 1st June - I’ll add my bit to this thread soon after!

Well, as above really. Alas, I can’t make it - I’d need to take a week’s worth of leave from work and that wouldn’t please MrsFunex. Not at all. I’ll just have to watch a live stream and get the timing data from the WEC website instead.. it won’t be quite the same! Plenty of great memories - the ones of the racers arriving at Indianapolis out of the forest at 2am with brakes aglow, and the Corvette C7.Rs splitting the air apart along the Mulsanne straight in the early-morning mist will stay with me always!

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Great pictures Paul - looks like a good outing!

It was nice to have an assortment of roads to play with the TVD - the slalom mode made the car fairly agile (for a 1.8 ton saloon) around the Gorge - using the torque display on the dash it was possible to see how it was working to distribute power to make the car more nimble. Track mode seemed to make the car a bit more stable on fast, sweeping bends (although I found the effect less than slalom mode), all within the limits of what’s acceptable on the public road network.... ...it’d be great to have a play on a track day to test this performance under far more extreme circumstances! Credit where it’s due - I drove around 370miles that morning and was fairly fresh at the end. Despite, shall we say, enjoying the merits of the GSF, I averaged an astonishing 30.1mpg. It seemed to me that the car switches to the Atkinson cycle at under 2000rpm under light throttle - in top, this meant almost 40mpg at motorway speeds according to the instantaneous readout! Anyway, this is supposed to be a photo thread!

Taken in the midst of a rather sizeable hoon; from the South Coast, Cheddar Gorge, Severn Bridge, Merthyr Tydfil, Brecon, Abergavenny, Newport, back across the Salisbury Plains, then home. Epic, deserted roads if you get up early enough!

I was colossally unimpressed by the MyLexus portal. Apart from viewing service history (interesting to note it took a few visits back to the garage to get the HUD working), what’s it actually for? I’ve tried plotting a route and then sending it to the car - that didn’t work... are the newest cars a bit more ‘feature rich’? I’ve a 2016 GSF, so not exactly from the Stone Age...

The Nurburgring?

@Womble72 more photos of the mini, please. That. Is. Stunning!!

Such rare cars. It’s *almost* a shame they’re a relative unknown in the car world - even with Top Gear’s (or was it the Grand Tour?) segment on the GSF. The masses appear to value a BMW badge and image over everything; still, makes an F more of a sleeper!

We travelled thousands of miles across France last year in my wife’s 2009 RX450 and it was superb. Pretty comfy across bumpy French country roads, superb at 85 on the toll roads (didn’t seem to naturally want to go much faster, although it could certainly do it...) and fairly economical (30-32mpg) for a 2+ton brick! As mentioned before by @steveledzep, it really is like driving an armchair - the bigger Lexuses have a certain refinement that the smaller models can’t hope to match.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe the V8 in the original C63s were detuned to stop it (power wise) stepping on the toes of other, more expensive ‘63s. I think Mercedes essentially limited the throttle opening to about 90%, which was undone if you bought the Black series version. I suppose this might be the reason why a simple ECU flash would liberate another 55-60bhp? Googling reveals many, similar theories, but I have no idea if they’re true...

What’s wrong with a tin of boiled sweets?? (in fact, why have Lexus stopped putting one in the car after a service? Must remember to ask them!!)

I’m 34, safe postcode etc. I pay £230 for my GSF with Churchill. Had to have a tracker installed though...

I think I read on Facebook that the only model being offered in the UK is the ES300h. I don’t know car markets as well as Lexus/Toyota, but that seems a bit boring. Mind you, that might be the only model that’ll sell well enough to make it worthwhile... We can long for a performance variant, an ESF perhaps, but Lexus only sold around 55 GSFs, so maybe that line even lost them money?

Sorry to put a spanner in the works, Toothy! Mine had the black buttons, was a 2008 model without the LSD (and blue trimmed wheel obviously!), but didn’t have HDD nav or Bluetooth audio! It did have 2013 suspension, but that was my doing! It seems the ISF upgrade/facelift transition isn’t so clear cut! :-)

My 08 had the silver bits at the side of the nav, and that definitely wasn’t a facelift!

Mileage not a problem - buy on condition. You’ve had one before, so you should know what you’re looking at!

A modern auto will suffer no harm whatsoever sitting in D with the footbrake on. Changing to N and back will cause wear, but to such a small amount to be negligible. I normally hold the car on the footbrake in D unless the wait is really long, then I’ll put it in Park. In hybrids, it’s possible to flatten the battery with the car in Neutral, and isn’t advised. An old Merc of mine had a brake-hold feature which was handy. After you’d come to a stop, you jabbed the brake pedal which kept the brake applied and stopped the brake lights shining. Really good idea for sitting at traffic lights!

I didn’t have a warranty on my mk3 GS450h - and nothing went wrong in 2 years I didn’t have a warranty on my ISF - and nothing went wrong in 2.5 years I have a standard warranty on my GSF that it came with, but shalln’t be extending it. Nothing gone wrong in 6 months. We don’t have a warranty on my wife’s RX450h, the only cost (above normal consumables) in 5-6 years has been a new washer pump for the headlights (an MOT fail!) which was about £500. Depends on your attitude to risk and whether you’ve got a slush fund for potential problems... so far we’d be out pocket had we bought warranties. YMMV, obviously. The extended warranty on my old Mercedes SL however, paid for itself many MANY times over!

I’ve not actually taken the plastic shell out from under the boot floor, but did hear that the TVD gubbins might be underneath... anyone know if this is the case? The lack of spare tyre really bugs me. I know Lexus Assist can come out and sort what isn’t fixable by the can of gunk you get; but a puncture requiring a wheel change always happens at 10pm on Christmas Eve. Response time from the AA, or whoever gets sent out will be measured in days. Or, installing a space-saver and keeepingthe speed under 50 - you can be on your way in about 20mins...

Their model range is a little unusual, I’ve not driven an RX200t, but I’d imagine the engine to be fairly unsuitable for the type of vehicle. Shame a RC450h was never on the cards, that would have been good!