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I know, that really grates on me too. Here we are with our literal gas guzzlers which is so much better for the environment and we get a paltry £5 off our annual road tax (or was it £9? Can't remember now). Our savings should be commensurate with the reduction in emissions that running on LPG brings.

That's a bit dodgy Denis - LPG systems need servicing just like anything else. Sometimes it becomes obvious when a service is needed, filters may clog up and the car may start to run a bit rough. However, even if there's no apparent problem, things like the bolts securing the tank need to be checked for tightness; pipe joints need 'soaping' to check that they are still gas-tight and not leaking; injector timings, fuel trims and lots of other parameters need to be checked to make sure nothing has drifted out of tolerance etc., etc. Preventative maintenance and servicing of anything from lawn mowers to cars to gas systems to whatever just makes sense, helps to keep bills down in the long run, and hopefully keeps people safe too. By the way - did you ever sort that flasher unit out?

No problem, glad to help - and thanks for the info about the recall, I'll definitely look into that. My MPG figures are based on LPG. You don't get as many miles per gallon on LPG so you fill up more and use more of it, but because it's cheaper you win in the end. Best example I can give is that we drove to Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia for our holidays in our old car. Petrol would have cost us something over £900 but doing it on LPG cost us less than £450. Have a look at this topic for a bit more info: Regarding the water ingress, thankfully we haven't experienced it yet so I can't really say. I would imagine that if the cause is either blocked sunroof drains or roof bar mounting points, then I'd guess that water would probably drip down from something overhead. If it gets in through the rear lights then there may well be a puddle and sound of sloshing water somewhere. Have a search on the forum - there should be more info around because I know a couple of people have suffered from it in the past.

Do you mean like this: I don't mean like that. I mean that your reply is the second posting in this topic, so it would have a number 2. This reply I'm writing now should be number 3 and so on, so that when we refer people to past threads we can say "Look at post No. 5 in xyz topic" Numbered posts were there before the update but not now.

As subject line really. I had a problem at first in that I normally never log out of the forum but last week I had to log in every time I visited. Now that seems to have been fixed but topic posts are no longer numbered. Can we get that facility back ASAP please?

We bought our RX300 (an '05 plate) last year with 79k on the clock and one of the first jobs was to get my trusted mechanic to change the timing belt, idlers/tensioners and water pump. I think the whole job came in somewhere around £420 - £450 if I remember right, including replacement coolant (one of the other things I do when buying a secondhand car is to have all the fluids changed). Not sure how much Lexus would charge but as you say, if they're working in that area anyway, hopefully, it'll be a bit cheaper than normal. I have to confess to knowing nothing about this recall, can you give any more details and how do I find out if mine needs doing? 2. Don't know for sure but would guess that the whole washer unit would have to be replaced. When I had to replace a headlamp washer on my Nissan Maxima QX it was £130. I'd be inclined to get one from a breakers yard, either local to you or one of the breakers on Ebay. 3. The only thing that seems to be a problem on these cars is possible water ingress, either from blocked sunroof drains, roof bar mounting points or rear lights. Thankfully (and fervently hoping I'm not tempting fate here), ours seems to be alright in this respect. We've now done about 16k in the 15 months we've had the car and had no trouble whatsoever. It's brilliant and we love it. 4. Unless some part is needed that can only be supplied by a main dealer, then any good motor factors will be able to supply almost anything you need. The car is 12 years old and has lost most of its value so there's no need to use 'genuine'* Lexus parts or to keep up with Lexus stamps in the book. Remember that Lexus doesn't manufacture things like tyres, exhausts, batteries, brakes etc., etc., and they just buy in from whoever does make them, so places like Euro Car Parts or BBC etc., will supply good quality stuff at reasonable prices. For anything they can't supply you've got breakers yards (I got a pair of tailgate gas struts from a breakers on Ebay for £40 and they work brilliantly) and/or Ebay. *The only time I use 'genuine' Lexus is the fluids (coolant, transmission fluid, transfer fluid etc). There's lots of knowedgeable folks on here who are more than willing to help with things so good luck on your purchase and keep us informed, with pictures, if you get it

I'm not sure that's correct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_per_hour http://www.zmescience.com/other/map-of-countries-officially-not-using-the-metric-system/

Ah right, I didn't know that, cheers.

No doubt it will but the idea is preventative maintenance will catch it before the pads get to the wear indicators.

DanD above is correct. There is no need to apply any stickers or alter the beam pattern because the beams are flat and there is a thread somewhere on the forum that contains the contents of a letter from Lexus confirming that. However, that was in the context of an English tourist only travelling abroad for a short period of time. Because you wished to export your car permanently then you would have to abide by Spanish traffic law and pass a Spanish MOT, which UK headlamps would fail. EDIT: Found it, Post No. 3 in this topic (and, in fact, post No. 15 shows an actual letter from Lexus):

Having spent all my working life in maintenance, first as a fully-qualified, time-served electrician, then as a telephone engineer on BT and now as a self-employed computer repair technician, I can say with some authority that no, you never pull it to pieces again (unless that one screw is mission-critical of course). How do you think we accumulate that jar of random screws that any good fettler goes to when in need of a spare?

I don't know of any car tailgate that can't be operated manually - after all, arms and hands were invented before electric motors

In more than 40 years of driving, I've only ever had a couple of punctures so when we had our first LPG conversion done about 10 years ago I wasn't worried about losing the spare wheel in favour of the LPG tank living in the spare wheel well. I always carry a can of Holts Tyreweld in the boot for small punctures and will call out the breakdown guys if it happens to be a bigger one, should I ever need to.

That's generally how they fail. They can be alright at, say, 10.00am and fail completely at 10.05am for no discernible reason.

Could be a faulty batch of flash drives, especially if SanDisk. Flash drives tend to be quite volatile and almost always fail completely without warning (which is why they aren't supposed to be used for long-term, mission-critical stuff) but you may be lucky and yours may be trying to tell you something.

I've not got an RX400h but I'm assuming that the touch display is the same as in my RX300, ie, it shows navigation, it controls heating and ventilation, it does the Bluetooth phone stuff, onboard computer and a host of other things. If so, now that you've lost your original screen, how does the Grom unit interface with all that? I was looking at this video for ideas when money allows

We always give Chorley a miss Denis

Interesting points Robert and thanks for the detailed explanation. I can indeed see the logic in your reasoning and I agree that your 1.6 Primera will show up things that my car wouldn't. Cheers my friend

I'm not sure I agree about the differences in LPG quality Robert. Every car I've had on LPG has been a 3.0 V6, the last one being a Nissan Maxima QX and my current one being my Lexus RX300, and I think I've done about 200,000 LPG miles in total between them. The vast majority of miles covered have been here in the UK but for the last twenty-odd years we've been driving around Europe for our holidays. We've driven from Preston, Lancashire to the far reaches of Poland (spending time in the Tri-City of Gdansk, Sopot and Gdynia, Torun, Szczecin, Poznan, Krakow, Zakopane, Bialystok and Lublin amongst lots of other places), Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Latvia and Lithuania, as well as Germany, Belgium and France, and I can honestly and truthfully say that we've never noticed any difference in performance whatsoever, no matter where we have filled up. Of course, these journeys have always been during the summer and with a fully-loaded car - maybe winter temperatures and different loads would make a difference, I don't know. The Nissan had an OMVL Dream XXIn and the Lexus has a KME Nevo Pro (or may be a Nevo Plus, I can't remember - and as it's after midnight I'm not going out to look ) and both systems have always run as smooth as silk, with no differences between LPG brands/places or between LPG/petrol.

I've had LPG cars for the last 10 years and only ever put in whatever oil the manufacturer recommends (viscosity-wise, not necessarily brand-wise) and I've had no problems whatsoever. LPG runs cleaner than petrol so on intervals of about 9k miles between changes, the oil usually comes out almost as clean as it went in; not quite, but almost. Almost all Jap engines and a lot of others besides will, or could, suffer from this so you fit a Flashlube kit to prevent it. Some people may say you don't need to but it's much better to err on the side of caution and spend a few quid on the Flashlube, rather than hundreds putting preventable damage right.

Just a thought but, could there be someone hiding in the back playing a Saxophone? (vibrating reed ) I'll get me coat......

That's absolute rubbish Paul @VrmmVrmm. Insurance IS a rip-off because it's the law of the land that you must have it so they can charge whatever they want for it. THEN, when you need to make a claim, they do all in their power to avoid paying out. Even if the accident is in no way your fault, they still increase your premiums anyway. Not only that but everything is extra now. I remember the days when 'fully comprehensive' was just that - it covered everything. Nowadays, if you want this, it's extra; Oh, you want that as well sir? Courtesy car while yours is being repaired? I'm afraid that's extra, etc., etc.

You may find something to help here: https://www.souz-96.com/bio/Lexus/

This topic from a few days ago may or may not help, I don't know:

They aren't daft are they eh? Denis - I'm a bit busy at the moment (getting the house ready for guests staying this weekend) but Youtube is always my first port of call for diagnostics 'how to' information if I don't exactly know what I'm doing. It may just be worth your while having a look at one or two if you've got the time and the inclination: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=diagnosing+flasher+problems