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When Volvo announced it, I straight away crossed that brand out of my interests. They still going by same misguided opinion that peed kills and they will do whatever it takes even when it means taking away freedoms of owners and utility away from their possessions.

Yes, despite all the technology the actual policing is still the best way, simply because there is human element to it. Just speed itself does not mean much, because there is huge difference between say person speeding by 30MPH (so doing 100MPH) on completely empty motorway in the middle of the night and somebody driving like maniac, jumping from lane to lane, undertaking, cutting people-off in the traffic at 60MPH when the rest of the traffic is moving at 50MPH. In one case it could be argued it isn't even dangerous and nobody was affected, but huge fine will be issued, in other case it is clearly idiotic, but speed cameras won't catch it. As such actual police officer observing the situation could make decision to simply warn the person and let them learn (or sometimes don't even bother stopping them), or to issue a fine because circumstance warranted it. Finally, multiple studies have concluded that the severity of the fine does not corelate with effectiveness of the policy, however the likelihood of the fine does. So for example having £1000 + 12 points fine will not work if likelihood of being caught is low, but having even £1 fine every time you exceed the limit would work if it would be guaranteed one get's it. That is why average speed cameras works better than spot cameras and that is the same reason why we see this behaviour, where people drive like maniacs from camera to cameras... that is because they know where cameras are and they know there is no point to follow the rules anywhere expect in front of the camera.

I would call that common sense... which... as we all know is not common at all and even then sometimes isn't even sensible. Going to @wharfhouse examples... and if we compare his hobbies to what the goverment is currently doing on roads - they are trying to put fences around mountains because once in a while there is avalanche and on top of that they enforcing the ropes not to be longer than 2 metres and banning climbers from climbing any ledge higher than 3 metres, "safety... you know"... You just can't save everyone and even then only focusing on speed limits doesn't even address core issues.

Exactly - the speed limit reduction only affects those who are already sensible. And to add to the argument ... some driver may have been perfectly happy to drive at 50MPH, but now they becoming criminals by overtaking at even 40MPH. Has it improved situation? No I would argue it made it worse. As well thanks for sharing your experience, because that is exactly what I have seen everywhere. I would as well link it to lack of actual policing - police now simply puts the camera and send the fine via post... not so much use when somebody flies past on drugs and in stolen car. This was well illustrated by this epic sketch, yes I know it is a joke, but it has so much accuracy in it... that it almost not even funny:

No... you are right, it is now 3 years: https://www.nottinghamshire.police.uk/faqs/how-do-i-know-if-i’m-eligible-speed-awareness-course I am sure it was 2 years when it took it... sorry it sounds like you will have to stick to speed limits for another year. Other thing, make sure you don't speed in areas of MET (London, Birmingham and Manchester ... maybe few more) - they do not offer SAC, you get points straight away.

You don't need to be worried about my house order... Even suggestion about DPF removal moves your oppinion in category of irrelevance. In your previous post you have suggested that you will be looking at removing DPF and EGR and I quote because "those are the only issues with this car", thus it will be golden once done. Now whenever you have them removed or not, that is not my issue (I hope not), but if you did then there would be likely link between the issue you have. In either case IS220d is piece of garbage engineering and I would not even park next to it just in case it somehow causes my car to fail. But hey... if it is fine for your, then I hope you will enjoy it, especially considering it was "not because of the money", but because of some mystical benefits you have purchased it. And if you think IS220d does not require more maintenance than IS250, then feel free to find me the thread where somebody is complaining about IS250 idle ...

Surely, that was not caused by them traveling at 30MPH?! 😄 And here is the thing - people who end-up upside down in the middle of the road after taking out walls of the houses and light-poles don't care if speed limit is 20, 30 or 100MPH, nor if it is enforced. There are no brains in their skulls so this speed limit won't affect them, however it will affect all normal people who drive at "safe speed" and by feel and who may lose their license, their job and their life because they did 25MPH in stupid 20MPH zone in the middle of the night. P.S. As far as I can remember it is 2 years, not 3. Unless that has changed. I did my course for 2MPH over in 50MPH roadworks section on motorway... as always, it was empty road at night and no ***** road worker to be found anywhere.

LOL... the guy who said maintaining DERV IS220D isn't much more complex than petrol IS250 and who has EGR blanked off and DPF removed. Maybe start by looking at what your EGR does and where is your DPF? May explain some of the issues - surely there were sensors for both, which are "programmed-out" or blanked off. Don't you think tooling around sensors could have something to do with it?

Thanks for opening can of worms! Speed limits are absolutely ridiculous as they are. 30MPH I understand in town and it is reasonably sensible, but 20MPH are clearly unjustified. They say that apparently it is 60% more likely for person to survive after being hit at 20MPH, however I think they looking at it from wrong perspective! The "person" should not be on the road in the first place, if they are not on the road then it is 100% they will survive being hit, because they won't be hit! Simple! Not only that, but in practice lower speed limits encourage pedestrians to cross the road in stupid places and they are less careful as well. Meaning - you may reduce death rate from collision by 60%, but you may increase number of collision 3 times (that means 20% more deaths, not less). Not only that, but death even at 30MPH are rare, so reducing them by 60% isn't even relevant, however injuries from any collision in car are common all the way to walking pace (3-4MPH). So 20MPH zones are absolute non-sense. It is not fault of driver that pedestrians are careless and jay walk into the road without looking. The correct measure would be to educate pedestrians, penalise them if needed. The next step-up... there are many roads limited to 50MPH despite being 3-4 lanes wide, with middle partition and overall built at the quality of motorway... again absolute madness. If the road infrastructure allows higher speed, then higher speed should be applied. Even 70MPH... and especially reason behind it are retarded. It was set-up as temporary limit in 60's and it is still there, the cars have long changes and even our skills and perception to speed have changed. Not only that we have national limits (60MPH) on narrow single lane roads where no sane person could safely drive at that speed. yet we allow only 10MPH more on 4 lanes super-wide and super-straight motorway. This is just stupid. Most normal countries have 80-90MPH and even that is on the slow side. Where is the problem? The problem is that driving in UK despite being considered "privilege" is very inclusive and that is bad thing. Our training, the rules etc. tries to make as many people eligible to be on the roads as possible, but it is achieved by lowering the standards for everyone. So instead of having fewer, better trained and generally better drivers (making it more exclusive), we have every retard and it's cousin on the road and then we have to fall back on reducing speeds and retarding all infrastructure, because realistically we have people on the road who can't even leave their driveway safely never mind driving on the road with other drivers. This clearly becomes and issue when we consider that drivers should not drive at the speed limit, but at the "safe speed" for the circumstances - how can one expect retard to know what safe speed is, when they can't leave their parking without hitting the rubbish bins?! Sadly there is no solution, in this country we hate drivers anyway, so any argument made by motorist (not matter how valid) will always be dismissed.

All true... Are you in charge of product description as well? 😄 Seems overly convenient to have oil which is recommended for precisely two cars you own - "Suitable for: Lexus IS250 4GR-FSE, Toyota GT86 / Subaru BRZ FA20 and many more. Please refer to your owner’s manual."

Just to note - magnetic plug isn't really a preventative measure, it is more useful in a sense that "if something horrible happens" you will know and it will be obvious. Certainly does not hurt having it, but in healthy and well maintained engine it is kind of unnecessary. If you really have piece of metal in the engine or a significant shaving then it is likely that engine is gone anyway. However, it is more likely that you simply going to have oil diluted with with petrol or carbon due to blow-by (especially on higher mileage cars) than having actual pieces of metal. As for the HKS or Shell oil I can't argue, I am sure it is great product and being fully synthetic it will be better than Magnatec (again fully synthetic Castrol would be Edge, Magnatec is hydrocracked semi-synthetic). However, having even cheap oil replaced every 5k miles will be more beneficial than having HKS oil replaced every 10k miles. Likewise replacing oil more often would achieve more than magnetic drain plug i.e. it will drain the contaminants from the engine if there are any and would give engine fresh oil with fresh additives to clean and protect. Now obviously, you could argue that replacing HKS oil every 5k miles (or even more often) is even better, and you are correct, but at this point I feel we getting into diminishing returns territory. P.S. Looking at the price of 4L of HKS it actually seems like good deal for £27 and fully-synthetic oil.

Amurica have their own issues and I don't agree with some of their gun laws (nor habits of owning arsenal sufficient to equip small army), but to have a right to own gun for self-defence and to shoot intruded at your home seems like logical idea. You will be surprised to learn that there are actually far more countries that allows guns for self-defence (and especially at your own home) than not. UK and Ireland is in minority with overly strict laws - gun law here is comparable to countries like Belarus, China and North Korea (dictatorships), not exactly fitting place for UK. Now I certainly see no issue with shooting intruders dead if they decided to invade one’s home, but when I said "self-defence" I actually didn't even mean guns. In UK even if you take knife and stab them, as it happened to this poor pensioner (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-43639183), you may be charged with murder, which is absurd! The key issue why I don't consider UK "self-defence" to be proper, is what is called "reasonable force" which is most absurd thing ever. In nutshell it means that you can only use "proportionate" force to level of threat. Now that would seem fine at first, but once you start looking at all the caveats it becomes absurd very quickly. In practice it means you can't attack or injure burglar if they are not attacking you and simply want to take your belonging. From law perspective their crime of stealing your stuff is lesser crime than you breaking their arm or stabbing them. Even kicking of punching them could be unreasonable! So the only thing you can do is to push them back and hope they won't fall over and injure themselves. Are their criminals or babies?! As for my statement it being UK specific problem, sure there are countries far worse than UK e.g. South Africa or Russia, but in general such type of crime - i.e. breaking into home to get car keys when it is occupied is extremely rare. Fair to say even in UK compared to other types of car theft it is not common, but in comparable developed European countries it is so rare in fact that I can't find any statistics of that ever happening. This is simply because most countries have far more sensible self-defence laws and the risk of going into occupied home for car keys just does not worth the reward as such thieves always prefers not getting into contact with owners at any cost. Finally, what "proper self-defence" means - in my opinion that would be allowing people to defend themselves and their belonging at any means necessary, including killing, rather than proving whatever "reasonable force" means. Sure if thief is running away and you catch them two block away this isn't self-defence, but as long as they are in your home and refuse to leave, there should be no limits on what you can do to force them out. Should you be able to take axe, golf club or baseball bat and use it if thief refuses to leave - absolutelly!

To be fair this is problem which only exists in UK. In most other countries where proper self-defence is premitted this would be expectioanlly rare, but in UK seems to be quite common relativelly speaking.

Yes we live in the world where everyone is babysitting us... now including our cars. I had similar isseu with my RC, left sunroof slightly open to keep it ventilated and I believe fly got inside and triggered the alarm. To be fair nowadays all cars does that, but I was pleasantly surprised with clever detail on 2021 MB C300. I believe the car locks itself after 3 or 5 minutes, but when I left all the windows open and left it for a while it locked itself as expected, but didn't closed the windows all the way. In stead it left ~5mm from the very top for ventilation. It seems Le Zermans considered that driver may want to ventilate the car and programmed it to keep some ventilation, but not enought for anyone to squeeze their finger throught.

Not tried to hold nozzle upside-down, but I often have to hold it slightly to the side. This is not Lexus issue as far as I am aware (as I had it with other cars as well), but more specifically UK issue... UK pumps are funny like that - not only the lock mechanims are disabled (you can't just lock it and leave it), but they are very sensitive compared to rest of the Europe. Must be something to do with obssesion over risk aversion at any cost in this country.

Congrats! I think Lexus had what was called "protection pack" and that had rubber bootliner, mud guards and few other bits. Not sure if you could purchase bootliner alone, but protection pack was ~£400. Lexus dealers should certainly know what it is.

Maybe not such a bad thing - if they don't know that they are selling, maybe it is and opportunity to negotiate better 🙂

Lexus Recommends E95 for IS250, so engine basically does not take advantage of 97, 99 or 104 or whatever other octane you would have. I don't want to repeat same old topic, but what I am trying to say - apart from placebo it won't change how your engine is running, expecially at low to med RPM. More or less same for engine oil - all current oils exceed manufacturer spec for what effectivelly is 2003 engine desing. Mobil ESP is great oil and certainly won't cause issues, equivalent on Castrol side would be Edge (full syntetic) rather than Magnatec (hydro-cracked synthetic), but overall getting cheaper oil and replacing it more often is probably more beneficial than getting best possible oil and keeping it for long time. I have always ran over bumps at full speed and never cared for suspension. I even get ****** off when other drivers nearly stops over the bumps (to be fair I appreciate they simply care for their car and thatis their right) and I have even overtaken other drivers over the bumps when they slow down for them. I have never changed any suspension component and car had all original suspension in good shape when I sold it at 192k. There where some age related things like perihing boots on ball joints, rusty steering tie-rod ends which had to be replaced as I could not get alignment done, but none of major components failed or had to be replaced and I certainly did not take any care about the car supension and didn't try to avoid bumps. In short in my oppinion the suspension components on IS250 are nukeproof.

Won't fit - those covers are for IS mk3 mirrors.

What is mileage of the car and how long since last oil chnage? In my experience after around 6,000 miles my old IS250 used to have hydraulic lifter sticking issue. Basically, when you start the engine cold the oild would be too thick to get into necessary place and lubricate the lifters resulting in roughter than normal running until oil warms up a little bit. Or maybe pasages would get blocked preventing normal flow. I don't think there is real solution for it, but from my experience engine flush as suggested by Colin does extend the life of the oil (probably by making oil passages cleaner), but ultimatelly the oil replacement after around 5,000 miles would cure it for sure. 10,000 miles service is non-sense and it is aimed at reducing servicing costs, not at protecting the engine. In most contries normal service intervals are considered either 6,000 miles or 3,000 miles. Most of the time I ran the car with Magnatec 5W30 A5 and it is great oil (far better then Toyota intended when developing the engine for sure). However, my car used to burn ~0.6L of Magnatec per 10,000 miles, which is not terrible considering mileage. I only used Mobil 1 ESP Long Life once for a long trip and it was 0W40. It was noticeable inprovement over Magnatec because no oil was burned and after ~7,500 miles it still looked very clean (althought it was only used for 2 months). During the time I had no issue with sticking valves either. The only issue I have with Magnatec to be honest (apart of it burning for some reason) is that it is quite dark out of the bottle, because it aparently has some aditives. This overall makes it difficult to tell how dirty the oil is, becase even after 1,000 miles it looks like old oil you would excpet to look after 10 times more.

I guess it is early days, but IS-F price is "through the roof" and I would even argue they are over priced. Absolutely agree, for first 10 years the only thing it will do - it will increase used Lexus value and even after 10 years car with FLSH will be more valuable compared to the car with "opportunity" to extend the warranty for thousands just to get the car warranted for 2 more years at the cost which is half the price of the car for most models.

I think the perception for most owners/buyers will be that new offer is even better. Yes - we after reading T&Cs know that it is not a good, but average Joe Shmoe is none the wiser. The way Lexus advertises this new warranty sounds like industry leading plan which is "free" with service. So public perception about Lexus only going to improve because of this, because on the face of it amazing. I think this was absolutely brilliant idea from business perspective... they made the warranty worse, but made it sound like significantly better! Customers who buys new or nearly new cars from them will benefit, customers who are unprofitable anyway will cost them less to support. As I said before - I would be mad at them, but I can't be just because I see how much business sense it makes. It was genius move!

I agree that cosmetic mods could be done at the owners discretion, even performance mods to some degree, but not mods which pollutes more. Number plates do not unnecessary poison people around you for 10hp gain. Although some plates fitted on motorbikes are definitely very illegal and fitted for single purpose of avoiding responsibility. As I said previously - for track car that is fine, for road car it isn't. If you can't modify the car to keep it road legal, or without a need to cheat during MOT, then I don't think such modification should be considered.

That would be amazing deal if the car condition is reasonable. I have not seen GS-F for under £40k for long time! This is certainly cheaper than any GS450h facelift at the moment.

Likelihood of blowing through clear by using one of the mildest compounds is next to 0%, so don't worry about that 🙂