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I agree - if tyres are non-directional there is no harm... nor there is any benefit really. In either case, this is no longer relevant for the topic, the inside wear is not related to tyre rotation at all.

Yes... but good luck finding aftermarket bushes for IS250 in UK.

No it is not about the language or the term used. It is about the purpose and practicality - staggered set-up cannot be rotated. In case of directional tyres (which most of UHP tyres are) this is outright dangerous and would result in poor performance and excessive wear... and in case of non-directional tyres it is simply not needed... because purpose of rotation is to move tyres to another axle to even wear between axles, wear on same axle is generally the same so rotating left to right just makes no sense.

It is not what tyre rotations means, nor how it is done... that is why I was slightly confused. Usually for cars with "square" set-up tyres are rotated to prolong the life, because they wear more on driving axle. On staggered set-up there is no way to rotate the tyres and it is first time I have ever heard of anyone rotating tyres on the same axle. Even if they are not directional (Brigestone Turanzas are not directional) I struggle to see benefit of such rotation. Assuming your rear tyres wear quicker due to car being RWD rotating this way doesn't help at all. I know that on some AWD cars is recommended to cross-rotate tyres, but even then it is taking rear tyres, putting on opposite side front and likewise for front - put them on opposite side rear. Importantly as Vlad said - you can't do this with directional tyres and you basically don't need to do that with staggered set-up. Finally, although it is kind of waste of time this is not the reason why you have inner edge wear, so this rotation topic is kind of irrelevant.

I don't need to own it to know how bad it is - I appreciate that not everyone wants performance car, but IS300his really not the car one buys to enjoy driving dynamics. It is factually slow, engine is not engaging and not powerful.

Overall, not much to worry about - it is well built and well equipped car (although avoid standard audio because it is horrible). My only concern is performance as it is really underwhelming, but for many people that isn't an issue. In short if you like little bit more performance from the car then IS300h is not great option, but if you want just reliable and comfortable car which isn't very quick then it is great option. Executive is one of the lower trims so I would be reluctant - I would rather look for Premier or F-Sport, especially F-Sport because it has digital dash which transforms the car from rather boring hybrid to futuristic looking dials, it straight away feels like you are in modern car.

What sizes do you run if you can rotate?

I would add brake callipers "service" to the list above, callipers on IS250 tends to get stuck, then rust and get stuck even more. If you could get them properly greased before they get stuck then it will save money and pain down the line.

I doubt they would have resulted in punctures, after all the tyre is not just a rubber and I cannot see them going through kevlar and metal mesh. More likely just fly out at motorway speeds which is not ideal either as that could cause stone chips on your car and cars behind you. Not sure I would have bothered removing them to be honest as it sounds quite painstaking job.

I think there are few factors here - in my experience IS250 tends to wear outside more when on recommended tyre pressures. I used to run my IS250 2-3PSI higher and that made thread wear more even overall. Second thing, alignment is the obvious one - if they toe out or have excessive negative camber this will be result (have you done alignment when fitting new tyres?) . Third thing bushings on IS250 are very compliant and under braking they result in toe out - there are aftermarket bushings which improves on that, but they hardly worthy for IS250 (more of IS-F thing). Finally, this could be result of those nasty speed humps, stranding them destroys inner edges, going over them destroys suspensions and spines - just a way of living in UK.

Hear! Hear! 😁 Just did mine... wasn't bad as it was sitting in the garage under cover for last 4 months, but some dust got onto it. As it was nearly a year since I did detailing I decided to top-up TAC Moonlight before taking it out to seaside on Tuesday (it is funny government specifically decided to allow going to the seaside on Monday after I decided to do it anyway). I probably should have taken the pictures as it really popped the shine on the car, but just somehow RC no longer excites me knowing all the downsides of it. To be fair I probably should polish it again as there are already some scratches from the washing and cover, but hardly worth it considering the paint is excessively good for the car on sale.

IS250 won't sound like IS350... that is for sure. As for F-sport intake - I had both F-sport and non F-Sport cars and when it comes to power and response there is absolutely no difference, as well I had K&N "Performance" filter in both F-Sport and non-F-Sport IS250 and that made even less difference. F-sport has a little tube which transfers some of intake noise into cabin and it is nice, but really minor difference. I would not bother drilling and doing all that for the tiny difference it makes for how intake note sounds in the cabin. Obviously, none of these makes any performance difference. So yes... in summary, my opinion is that it is not worth it. In the end of the day it goes opposite from what the car meant to be - Lexus made it extra well insulated and you caring around probably 200kg of sound deadening... and then you cut hole into that deadening to hear some of the sound...

Generally, they are bullet proof as long as maintained. So I would look for car with full service history. Hyper low mileages doesn't really add value to these cars, I sold mine at 193k miles and it was still solid car without any major faults in all the miles. I would say all general car buying advice applies - service history, condition inside and outside and that is pretty much all it needs. Approaching 10 years it will start to have some rust on exhaust, but that is normal. on IS mk2 calliper design is not the best, so be prepared to get those refurbished and then re-grease them once or twice a year otherwise they will get stuck. Tyres are the obvious thing to check and negotiate price on, decent set of tyres will set you back say £350-400, so if the car has bald ones or china specials then this could used to get the prices reduced accordingly. I personally would no look in 2011-2012 models - there is nothing particular better on them, same basic car, same basic features, same reliability, the only difference is that they are rarer and double the price. Sure FL adds indicators on the mirrors and DLR, but is that feature worth paying £5000 for ... you can decide. I would rather go other way - I would get as old as possible SE-L (top range model). That would have all the toys and would be best value for money. In the end of the day it is your money, so you can decide, but value wise pre-FL models are the best and has no major differences.

Good mechanical gearbox although not "Lexus like" is still fine in my opinion, but the one fitted in IS220d isn't even a good gearbox. The gear rations are rather steep and unsuitable for UK, as you mentioned 6th is totally useless under 70MPH and only really becomes useful at 80+ (which is obviously illegal). Probably in Europe where in most countries 90MPH is the legal limit that makes sense, but not in UK. On top of that manual gearbox requires more maintenance, at 100k miles expect to change clutch and DMF... parts and labour ~ £1000

I was thinking there was ~140 RC200t F-Sports, but apparently only 95. Premier only 5 total sold, this means 40% of Premiers are grey and on sale.

I always liked them and thought of them as great value and quality cars... This in particular looks mint. The only sad thing about it is that Honda decided to ruin it and make it FWD. That has always been the main issue for me when it comes to all Hondas (well except NSX and S2000).

Actually after looking around IS250 AT isn't even much more expensive to buy: https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202102018575695 It is no brainer to go for diesel disaster, when for £600 one can have one of the most reliable and best equipped cars on the market + the one above is as well SE-I which is second best trim (SE-L being best and SE-I being ~ same as F-Sport). Whereas "Advance" is pretty much the second worst trim.

IS220d/200d are the least reliable car Lexus ever made by very very long way. As short as I can say it - stay away from it as far as you can. If you want evidence, scroll few pages on this forum and you will see literal hundreds of threads. Main issue - head gaskets, very common to fail, injectors and 5th injector common to fail, other issues are more general issues with diesel cars and that is EGR and DPF blockages, if not addressed quickly then it could lead to turbo failure which is another expensive issue. This car is ticking time bomb on wheels. When you says V6 is too thirsty for the budget, I am not sure you getting your math right. In the city IS250 will be similar to IS220d - say 28-29MPG vs. 31-32MPG. 2-3MPG is hardly a deciding factor. Where IS220d has edge is long distance motorway driving where you could get close to 50MPG, whereas IS250 maxes out at mid 40's... I seen as high as 44MPG myself and some members achieved 48... but that is exception. I would say 38-42MPG is best you could expect. Now considering above ~8MPG is decent improvement, but what mileage you planning on doing? 30-50k miles a year, sure that will make huge difference. But of you planning to do 10-12k miles a year the savings on fuel going to be so minor that just additional ongoing maintenance required on diesel (EGR cleaning for example) will cost you many times more than potential saving on fuel. Where I can see the difference is the initial purchase price - sure IS250 is almost double the price of IS220d, but IS220d is cheap for a very good reason... they simply s***. And issues doesn't even end with reliability, they are only available with manual gearbox which not only little bit weird when it comes to gear ratios, but on top of that is known to be less reliable and more maintenance intensive than automatic on IS250. So if you say the car purchase price is out of your budget, then I understand that, but running cost will actually be lower on IS250. Even considering that IS250AT is one of the best value used car for sale at the moment and IS220d is the one to avoid for any price.

There are certainly Panasonic and Sharp friges, microvaves and smaller appliances like toasters, irons etc. But you right in UK is hard to comeby. LG and Samsung makes dishwashers and washing machines, but to be fair I have never heard anything good about them. They seems to follow very Korean trend (like car manufacturers) - include every single possible function, but none of them work very well. Obviously, Samsung and LG smart fridges are well known and I think as friges they are alright, the problem comes with all "smart" functions - not only they make no sense, but as well they are the things which makes the firdge obsolete very quickly... and that is not good for appliance which could easily last 20 years... and as always all that unnecessary stuff not only costs extra money, but as well becomes aditional point of failure.

You are absolutely right - the best tyre is usually the best tyre to you! But that said some characteristics can be tested objectively and that is how tyre comparisons work. Good example is Michelin PS4 - objectively it is one of the best tyres there are, that is the reason I got them on my old IS. However, from my experience I can tell that for the car with 200hp they were just overkill and overall made cars worse to drive than previous Dunlop RTs. That does not say much about PS4 - they are still great tyres, problem is that they were great in the ways which were either not important or I could not fully appreciate in car like IS250. Perhaps in the track they would pull 0.2s better lap time than Dunlop RTs, but in real driving they were less comfortable, less fuel efficient and added grip was not important as IS250 didn't even have enough grip let Dunlop RTs lose nevermind PS4. So that is my experience with PS4... I had many Michelin tyres over the years and I would say one stand out thing for them is longevity, for normal driving they consistently have best wear without noticeable sacrifice on anything else. Comfort - reasonable. But they usually as well the most expensive for any given size and that is why one can often find better tyre for particular purpose and for less. As well you right to say that all Premium tyres nowadays are very good and one cannot go really wrong with any brand. I agree with that in general. The only exception would be - Michelin and Continental are noticeable more expensive, Pirelli sometimes joins them at the top as well. All good tyres, but not necessarily good value for money. For such reason I tend to go with Dunlop/Goodyear - somehow they just manages to provide premium tyres for better price and their performance and longevity more than adequate for daily driven car. If I had high performance car then I would look into Michelin most likely, although Continentals are very competitive as well. Not so good brands are Yokohama and Bridgestone - they still premium, but what they offer is just not great when price is considered. Had a lot of them especially as they are popular OE on Japanese cars, but never had one I liked. For light track use Potenza RA050 is not bad, but as road tyre is rather terrible - it is quite sticky, poor fuel economy, bad wear and noisy. Although, I heard Bridgestone is planning big comeback with Potenza Sport... Apparently should be at the similar level as PS4 at least.

I would certainly do... sadly Lexus does not sell "nice" coupe in UK... at least none that I could afford 🙂

You bet I will! Besides if you think that you have to be respected for your age, then think again - being older does not make your right and respect does not grow with your age - it is earned... So your world is just as good as you could provides sources for it, only using your age as a reason already diminishes whatever little respect there is. As for moderators closing the thread - it may happen, because you keep polluting threads with your endless posts about nothing. Like now - you basically arguing whenever Michelin is MOST comfortable tyre maker overall instead of just agreeing they are reasonably comfortable, without even being able to provide single specific model comparison. I can at least compare my experience on PS4 and RT on IS250, both of which are popular tyres and provide some feedback on how comfortable they are based on my experience on exact car. @Hugh R... It would make sense to fit Kuhmo to have all same tyres on the car, I always prefer that as car will act more predictably. However, depending of how worn the fronts are, maybe it would be better to replace all 4 tyres with something else. Dunlop RT2s as you mentioned is great choice, however I would remind that Dunlop and Goodyear is the same company. RTs were almost identical to Asymmetric 3s, RT2 were newer and better than Asymmetric 3, but Asymmetric 5 are never than RT2's. I don't know if Asymmetric 5s are better than RT2's, but they will certainly not going to be worse. So for balanced and good value UHP tyre I would choose either of those. Yet for comfort I would go with something else entirely. Perhaps Goodyear Efficient Grip - they are one of the latest tyres from Goodyear and seems to beat Michelin Primacy 4 in both wear and comfort. Michelin Primacy 4 actually being solid second place here in non-UHP tyres, but Michelins are far more expensive. Here may be a review which could answer your some of your questions (spoilers alerts Bridgestone Turanza T005 are second worse tyre in it's own category).

Absolutely, terrible choice and advise thought. Dunlop Sportmaxx RT2s and Goodyear Asymmetric 5s are just two alternatives which both are cheaper and far better. I have never seen review where Brigestone Turanzas would be recommended or even in top 10. Almost literally any premium tyre would be better choice.

That is just not true. They are reasonably comfortable for the performance they provide. PS4 and especially PS4s are one of the most capable UHP tyres there are. My last set of tyres was PS4... it was comfortable enough... but they are very long way from "most comfortable on the market". Like for like set before that were Dunlop RT's and they were more comfortable and that isn't even tyre known for comfort. If I had IS350 I would probably put PS4 on it, or if I had IS-F would would put PS4s on it... but for IS250 I felt it was already in territory of diminishing returns - car is not powerful enough to need as much mechanical grip as PS4 can provide, but PS4 is already high performance tyre where it starts to feel it sacrifices comfort for grip an handling. In short PS4 were overkill for IS250 - more comfortable tyres can be had for less money and without sacrificing anything. Tyres are always sacrifice - a lot of grip, means more wear... very comfortable, means vague steering... very soft, means higher fuel consumption. Best tyres are just compromise which has right balance of all these variables. Sure sometimes there are new rubber compound where all characteristics are improved at once, but mostly all premium tyres going to be very similar, just going to have slight different balance. I found that balance to be closest to my liking on Dunlop RT2 and I assume Goodyear Asymmetric 5 will be similar (Dunlop and Goodyear is the same company). Michelin PS4 and Continental Premium Contact would be more performance oriented + more expensive. PS4s and Sport Contact would yet another step further in higher and performance direction. He is not going for Kuhmo - Kuhmo is already on the car. If they in any sort of decent shape it would be wasteful to replace perfectly good tyres.

Michelin are good, but not for comfort... they are great for mileage in my experience, but they are very expensive, so perhaps not the best value. I would says PS4 are good for performance tyre outside of track tyres, but again they are not that comfortable. I had PS4 on my old IS250 and they were kind of overkill already, PS4s would be complete overkill and costing double the price than Dunlop RT2 or Goodyear Asymmetric 5... I just cannot see the benefits you getting from Michelin. Kuhmo are ~OK... I would not throw them away if I get them when buying the car, but I would not get them myself... the that "relatively cheap is the reason"... for something like £5-8 more per tyre it is possible to find substantially better options... and for purchase like tyres which will last at very least 2-3 years £20-30 is negligible amount, for substantial difference. Same could be said about many mid-range brands nowadays, say Uniroyal Rainsport 5 - excellent tyre all around, but currently they are price as such that you can get Goodyear Asymmetric 5 for the same price and sometimes few £ cheaper... and that tyre is just on another league.