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Excellent, well done Nicky. The car looks great and will hopefully give you many years of superb, luxury motoring

I got this one for my RX300 so maybe the same company do one for the 450h? EDIT: Here you go

Insurance due at the end of this month. Have used Swintons brokers for the last four years and always been happy. Last year I paid £385, renewal quote for this year is £756 Cheapest quote so far is with Ageas through a company called A-Plan based in Wilmslow at £411.92 That's for fully comp, 59 years old, full NCD etc.

Is the CD going into the slot alright once it opens or is the slot not opening at all? If you do have to go the replacement route then this Youtube video here has detailed instructions starting at 8min 35sec.

You're very welcome Keith, glad it worked out for you

I suppose it could be if it's coming from Lexus. I'd be inclined to give these people a call and see what they can do for you.

I find the specs of models very confusing. I purposely did not want air suspension so I made sure to avoid the SE-L models. I see air suspension as overly-complicated and overly-expensive for very little return over and above traditional coils, so I deliberately went for an SE model and as such my car has the following: Intelligent Adaptive front lights Lexus Navigator satellite navigation with colour touch screen display Reversing camera (which I'm assuming is what you mean by "Lexus parking assist monitor") Extra controls on the steering wheel for Bluetooth hands-free phone and SatNav voice control Not sure what a "wood pack" is but I think it may just be a heated wooden steering wheel?

I have no idea what 'Car Genie' is - but it sounds very much like 'Octo U', a free app available for both Android and Apple from their respective stores. More details here http://www.octou.com/

First off, stick to your guns and don't go for an X3, the Lexus RX300 is a far better car. It's a difficult one this. I don't think I'd take Rayann's advice this time - it's ok asking for a discount to put it right yourself but without knowing exactly what the fault is, it could cost you far more than any discount you negotiate. However, unless the dealer is going to scrap the car and write off whatever they paid for it, they will have to get it repaired sooner or later in order to sell it. I know it's disappointing and I would feel exactly the same as you do, but if the car is good in all other respects and you like it and you really want it, might it not be worth waiting a bit longer until they get the problem fixed?

And I'll stick my 2p worth in too Avons are very good - here's the text from a previous posting I made in these forums back in November: I've just put 4 Avon ZX7s (235/55 R18 100V) on my RX300 and ordered them from http://www.tyreshopper.co.uk for £386 then used a Tyreshopper discount code to get 5% off, making it £366 and also got 3.15% cashback by going through http://www.topcashback.co.uk making the final, fully-fitted price £354. They were fitted at a local branch of National Tyres who, if I had bought the tyres directly from them, would have charged £421. I'm VERY impressed with the tyres. They're 'A' rated for wet conditions and they certainly deserve it as the car is so sure-footed now, in both wet and dry conditions - I can highly recommend them.

Good luck for tomorrow then Nicky

Seems to have gone quiet Nicky. Hope you got it alright and nothing's wrong with it - I thought we'd have had an excited post from you by now

Excellent, well done What does it look like from outside the car? I'm just wondering if it's a permanent fixing and will be left in all the time or will it be removed when parked up for the night - don't want some scrote seeing it and breaking in to rob it.

Hope you'll be putting a claim in to Lancs County Council Pawel. I would never take the mick by claiming for small problems but what you've suffered is a major expense that is completely avoidable if councils carried out the maintenance that they should. I'll hazard a guess that with a name like Pawel, you come from either Poland or the Czech Republic? Every year since 1991 my wife and I have been driving from Preston to both those countries (and Slovakia too) for our main holidays. We've toured north, south, east and west and all points in between and we've seen a major reversal in road conditions. When we first went, their roads were terrible and ours were much better, but now it's completely reversed - their roads are far better than ours. EDIT - just dawned on me that your screen name of wildPOLISH sort of gives it away! Well, today can only get better for me

Like you say, it doesn't matter. As long as it's a supply that's only live when the ignition is on then just pull any fuse, put in the piggy-back, replace the fuse and Bob's you'r mother's brother

Excellent, well done sir!

You may well have trouble getting a local guy to cut a blank that you've got from Ebay because a lot of them are harder than normal and can cause expensive cutter damage. This guy on Ebay will provide a blank and also cut it from a photo of your existing key.

Yes, I don't see any problem with any of that Rayann - if anyone else knows better though, I'm sure they'll let us know

Yes, that hard-wire kit will be fine. Ideally I'd say the cigarette lighter fuse would be the one to go for, but according to the drawings it's supposed to be Fuse 42 and there isn't a fuse in there You need something that is energised when the ignition is turned on and that goes off when the ignition is turned off - in every car that I've ever had, the cigarette lighter fits the bill, which is why I suggested it. Looks like you may have to do some testing with a 12V bulb or a multimeter.

Maybe I'm paranoid but I've never believed the "lifetime" claim for Toyota's (or anyone's) transmission fluid and would always replace it at some point.

Sorry, I missed this earlier on. No - they are the same base as w5w but the LEDs I linked to are w16w and are indeed just a straight swap but you'll have to take that shroud off first. I don't know about the other exterior lights as I haven't replaced any of them (yet). Remember that LEDs are polarity-conscious, so if they don't work first time just turn them round and they will.

Yes it probably does. This guy on Ebay will supply a new blank key and cut the blade to a photograph of your existing key. You then need to find a secondhand key complete with transponder (you may have to open your existing key to read any markings on the transponder to make sure it's compatable). You may also need to buy a Mini-VCI cable from Ebay too, so that you can run the software to program the immobiliser side of things - only about £20 and very handy to have for future needs.

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This is the one I've got and I've found it to be excellent. The hybrid system has nothing to do with the OBD system anyway so basically any scanner will do - suppose it just depends on how much you want to spend on it.

With the greatest of respect to Neil, I'm not sure if those instructions are for the RX300 - ours involves a lot of opening and closing the driver's door but no pressing of any pedals and using the lock button if I remember correctly (although it was about a year ago that I did this, so sincere apologies Neil if I have got it wrong). Have a look at this previous topic I started a while ago: