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I'm not sure about 'legality' but it's certainly not best practice. When we go abroad we have to use adapters because their pump nozzles are different to ours and vice versa. However, adapters are not supposed to be used on a UK-based car filling up at UK pumps. Not only that, it has been known for the adapters that Robert will need to use to snap off because some pumps have their hoses 'tethered' to them by a wire rope that's under tension and can exert quite a force on the adapter. Looks to be a nice, neat installation and compares with another LS430 that I've seen (pic below) but I would have had the filler point on a bracket mounted centrally under the rear bumper so that it's easy to fill from either side.

I got those for the front doors of our RX450h. I'm very impressed with how well they work and how good they look

I would think you'd need Techstream to do it. You can get a miniVCI cable from eBay for about £20 and it will invariably have a copy of Techstream with it but it'll be a pirate copy, so it's upto your conscience whether you use it or not. You can legally download a copy of Techstream from Toyota and pay for a licence but you'll obviously still need the miniVCI cable to connect the car to the computer anyway.

We traded the car in about four or five weeks ago but the Avons are lasting well - still plenty of tread on them and still as sure-footed as the day they were fitted. Highly recommended.

You should have gone for my LPG RX300 with all the toys Regarding the tyres, here's the text from a post I made in November 2016: Well, I took the plunge. I ordered four Avon ZX7s (235/55 R18 100V) from http://www.tyreshopper.co.uk at a fully fitted price of £387.48, but used a discount code (TS4 - buying four tyres gets you 5% discount) to bring the price down to £368.11. I also went through http://www.topcashback.co.uk and got 3.15% cashback, making the final, fully-fitted price £356.51. They are being fitted on Friday afternoon at a local branch of National Tyres who, if I'd bought the exact same tyres directly from them, would have charged me £421.64. Not a bad bargain methinks

For a total of about 15 years, I've been running around with an LPG tank in the spare wheel well instead of the spare wheel, and not a single puncture was had. Four weeks into my ownership of an RX450h with a spare wheel and I get a puncture! Not only that, it's so close to the sidewall to make repair impossible, so tomorrow I'll be swapping one hundred and fifty of our Great British beer tokens for a new tyre At least the upside was that Lexus Breakdown Services got the AA guy out within 15 minutes because, rather embarrassingly, I've not yet familiarised myself with the location of jacking points and didn't want to damage anything if I went for the wrong place. EDIT - The fronts are Bridgestones (can't remember exactly which ones and as it's dark, cold and wet, I'm not going out to find out) and the rears - of which this is one - are Dunlop SP Sport 270. I usually like to have all four tyres the same but I just can't afford to do that now, especially as all these tyres have a decent amount of tread. The Dunlops seem to get bad reviews, although in the 1,000 miles I've done since getting the car, I have to say they seem alright to me. I'm just wondering if I should take the opportunity to change to a brand that I'm more comfortable with and that get better reviews, but that would mean there would be three different brands of tyre on the car and I'm guessing that that isn't really 'a good thing'TM Should I stick with Dunlop to match its axle-mate or should I get something different and start the gradual migration to a whole set?

That's very expensive! As long as the electronics are alright, this guy on eBay will supply an empty shell for you to put your own electronics in and also cut the key blade to either the key code if you have it, or if not he'll cut it to a photograph you send him - and all for just £14.60 including delivery. I had one from him for my RX300 and it was excellent.

That it indeed a possibility, the relay may have burnt or pitted contacts on one side. Make sure the earth connection is clean and tight and if that's not it, then you really need a multimeter to measure the presence (or otherwise) and values of voltages at the various connectors.

Not for me - I live in Preston, about 30-35 miles from Manchester and this is what I get:

£25.99 from eBay. @MLW Any recommendation for the polish to use before this wax?

Presumably you put the offside bulb in the nearside connector to try it and it worked. Did you also put the nearside bulb (known to be good) in the offside connector to see if it worked, or did you not bother and just relied on seeing the suspect bulb light up in the nearside connector? If both bulbs are good, and the fuse for the offside is also good, make sure connections are clean and tight. If it still doesn't work then you have a break in the wiring somewhere and you'll have to start tracing the route back from lamp to switch to fuse to see where it is. Time to buy a multimeter if you haven't already got one. EDIT: Doh, I forgot about the relays - well done Colin

Well I know there's a Lexus dealership in Edinburgh but if you mean an independent specialist, I don't know.

At least the inverter pump looks easy enough to be a DIY job or a fairly inexpensive job at a garage - fingers crossed

I think there is Lee

I passed my test in 1975 in a manual car and I never wanted an auto - until I got my first one in 1987 and I've never had manual since (apart from hire or courtesy cars). The auto transmission is definitely one of mankind's better inventions! I always kept to the way I was taught in a manual, ie, at traffic lights handbrake on and select Neutral. It's not strictly necessary in an auto but it's a hard habit to break - feels completely alien leaving it in gear now that I've got a hybrid (traction battery doesn't charge in Neutral). Until you're used to it, keep your left foot back towards the seat and you'll be less likely to attempt to 'press the clutch' and always put it in drive before accelerating. In fact, keep your foot on the brake, put it into 'D' and when you feel the very slight 'jerk' as it takes up drive, then move your foot off the brake and onto the accelerator.

I agree Colin. At the time we had the RX300, which is why I went for a powerful one but it's also good to have in order to maybe help other stranded folks with flat batteries too.

I got this one over a year ago but not had to use it yet so I can't say how good it is, although all reviews reckon it's great

No, as far as I understand it, that's what it does. It reduces power to the wheels to avoid wheel spin and allow a bit more traction. We've got no snow here so I couldn't try mine.

PHIL - they gave us £2,000 for it. I would have liked more and probably would have got more if I'd put it in Autotrader privately, but it would have been quite a headache logistically so we thought it best to go for the trade in - one car in, one car out, all on the same day. ABU - It was averaging 15.4mpg according to my fuelly page for it, which isn't bad for the sort of use it had (mainly town with a couple of 200 mile round trip motorway blasts per month). It's a very decent car and, truthfully, the only reason we changed it was that our financial circumstances changed, allowing us to get something much newer to set us up for retirement, otherwise we'd have kept it. As for the RX450h - it's a whole order of magnitude above the RX300. It's absolutely brilliant, and beautiful, and we love it! I'll do a proper write-up when I have the chance but yes, well chuffed with it.

If anyone is after a very decent 05-plate, LPG converted RX300, I've just spotted my old one that I traded in to Lexus Teeside four weeks ago, for sale in Yardley, West Midlands

Yes, I think that's what happened. To be honest I'm on some strong pain-killing meds that make me fairly forgetful but I do know that all the fluid was flushed and changed, including the contents of the torque converter - just can't remember if it was done all in one go or over three goes.

Yep, that does mean litres per 100km and I really hope you're right, but I think you're more likely to win the lottery jackpot than to be getting 36mpg. The onboard computers tend to be very optimistic, the best way is probably to fill the tank, drive a couple of hundred miles and fill again then manually calculate it.

I had mine done within the first week or two of ownership which is almost two years ago now so I may not be absolutely right with these prices, but I think a new transmission fluid filter, gasket and O-ring came to just short of £100, plus 10 litres of Toyota Type IV transmission fluid (seem to remember it takes about 9 litres) was just over £100, plus labour if you aren't doing it yourself. I'm afraid I can't even look at the receipts because I left all paperwork with the car when we traded it in about four weeks ago, but I don't think I'm too far out there.

As water turns to ice it expands so maybe it's pushed itself out/up? It would also explain why pushing the button does nothing, if the water has frozen in the pipes and/or internals of the washer. Maybe wait for warmer temperatures and hope that sorts it out?

Ouch! That's not going to be cheap to sort out - think it was about £120 for one for my old Nissan Maxima QX so you can guarantee Lexus will be more.