malcolmw

No you are not stupid. It works like this. Annoying, isn't it? I would be interested in what you think of the Sat Nav. I think it is the worst feature of the car.

I would be interested in your comments on typical mpg when you have done a few miles as a comparison to mine. I find the Sport + suspension mode a bit firmer but the real issue with it is the skittishness on tighter corners. The more compliant standard mode is actually better on real roads. The worse feature on mine is the navigation which actually gives incorrect directions at some junctions. See what you think.

...and the stupidity of local authorities in resurfacing roads with tar and chippings. You might as well just leave them alone until you can regrade properly with tarmac.

I have had a few (wide) 2 door coupes and the main problem is the long doors in narrow parking spaces - you can't get in and out! I park mine in the centre of a double garage at home. I have parked neatly in a car park space and come back to find someone (who obviously doesn't observe their surroundings and think about others) parked VERY close to the driver's door. I had to get a young lad to squeeze in and roll the car forward so I could get in. Before you say "get in the passenger side", these coupes generally have a big transmission tunnel which makes it nigh on impossible to do this if you are my age.

Here's my record since I got my new type RX last September. Date Mileage Fuel Gal MPG MPG Car 02/09/16 10 16/09/16 362 10.41 33.83 33.50 09/10/16 732 11.21 33.00 32.90 26/10/16 1108 11.00 34.17 09/11/16 1467 10.91 32.91 32.60 02/12/16 1807 10.99 30.93 30.40 16/12/16 2060 7.94 31.88 31.50 23/12/16 2420 10.40 34.63 34.00 06/01/17 2746 10.26 31.78 32.30 23/01/17 3109 11.33 32.03 30.50 11/02/17 3485 12.78 29.41 29.40 25/02/17 3901 12.12 34.33 33.20 15/03/17 4267 11.27 32.48 31.80 05/04/17 4643 11.24 33.45 32.90 01/05/17 4965 10.24 31.45 31.80 17/05/17 5339 10.97 34.10 34.10 The last 2 columns are the actual calculated MPG from the fuel put in and the readout from the "mpg since last fuel". The on-board metering seems pretty accurate to me also.

Envy tax.

Ah yes, you just reminded me that I glued the ends of mine back with Evostick and this has entirely fixed this issue. It's just the double sided tape used to fit the seals being a bit useless. I didn't consider this a big issue as it is the secondary (outer) seal on mine. The main inner seal (attached to the doorframe) is intact. When the OP asked about problems this wasn't really in my mind.

Mine has been very good thus far. Very smooth and silent with a surprising turn of speed when accelerating from 50mph to overtake. Overall since September 2016 I have got 32.5mpg but currently I am getting about 34mpg on the last tank. I have had one recall advised about the rear hatch closing but I have left this for the first service in late August. Everything works fine. Some features are a bit idiosyncratic but once you know how to operate them this is a minor issue. The worst thing is the Navigation as the maps are a year out of date when you get the car and the operation of the system is a bit old fashioned. The Lexus portal doesn't work very well but this is common to all the cars and not the RX alone.

Given the archaic performance of the satnav, it is obvious that the names mean 13th century and 15th century.

Great. Can I get this update on my RX450h with Premium Nav?. At least the maps would be up to date.

Great username Penfolds. Do you live at the Grange?

Yes, believe it or not the 2015 maps are the latest!

This seems very expensive to me. I don't want you to give any personal information if you don't want but are you in a high risk category of employment or some other high risk situation?

My cars are coated with G3 Glasscoat and, when I wash them, the Glasscoat shampoo seems to restore the water shedding surface. It may be that the Autoglym shampoo (good as it is) does not contain the right chemicals to restore the finish. Were you given special shampoo and detailing spray with the car?

No creaking or thud on my latest generation RX450h. The brakes make the usual regeneration whine when slowing to a halt and sound a bit "grinding" first thing in the morning when cold but nothing like you describe. The grinding noise goes away fast and then all seems normal.

It's about as clear as mud what is required. It's the first part of the vehicle code only - not the last part as appears to be indicated. Where it says everything before the * (asterisk) , it actually means before the hyphen.

One of my colleagues has the Ultra blue NX. It looks stunning. The new Azure is a bit well, insipid, by comparison.

We get a "grinding" noise from the brakes on both our IS300h and RX450h (2016 models) but only when the brakes are cold (first thing in the morning). This seems to be normal judging by other comments on here. We particularly notice it backing out of the drive but it disappears straight away in use.

Elastoplast!

Yes, I have LKA on my 4th Gen RX and I have never switched it on after the initial try out after purchase. I found it intensely annoying as I drive principally on rural A/B roads and country lanes and not motorways. I also tend to drive towards the crown of the road for best visibility (if nobody is coming the other way!) and it vibrates the steering all the time because of the middle line. A lot of these "driver aids" are not very useful but a really useful feature like parked car heating (to de-ice the car in the morning) is not provided as an option. Oh well.

If they really are only allocating 4 cars to the UK then this makes a mockery of the product launch this year. They may as well just delay everything. Dealers are really going to enjoy spending lots of money on marketing and then telling potential customers that there is no chance of getting one. Some cars can bear a very long lead time (e.g. special Ferrari models) but I am not sure that this will be the case for the LC. What about the demonstrators? Will we need to book up months ahead as they go from dealer to dealer?

I don't know either. I generally don't leave the car with Maps on screen so it doesn't pop up every start but it certainly is there when you select Map. I also find the "nanny" message a bit annoying but this disappears after a few seconds.

As an ex-RRS owner, one of the reasons I looked elsewhere last September was the ludicrous price demanded to replace my 3 year old car with a new one of the same specification. Now we can all see that moving the RRS upmarket even further was to make a gap for the Velar (then unannounced). A quick look at the LR configurator shoes a high spec Velar to be £75K vs £85K for a similar RRS. To my eyes the Velar looks better and will sell well thus confirming LR's marketing strategy. Does it compete with the RX450h? Probably not as even a high spec RX comes in at about £60k and you have no chance of a discount on a Range Rover. I expect the depreciation on the Velar will be low for the first 3 years due to the demand and the "cachet" but bear in mind that LR have a bad reputation for releasing new cars half-developed and using customers as "beta testers" to get all the bugs out.

I needed to top up my windscreen washer fluid as the low warning message had just come on. As this was my first top-up required on the new car, I searched all the manuals etc. to try to find the capacity but I couldn't track it down. I called my dealer, who phoned me back and said that they couldn't find it either on any of their systems. So, by experiment, I can tell you that it is about 5L total and the warning comes on with about 1L remaining. I used 1L of concentrate and 3L of water to fill the bottle. Just something for the useful data file.

The 4th generation model also suffers from road muck build up between the inner and outer seals on the doors. Most of the crud is on the black plastic trim area on the bottom of the doors (not the sills so much) and I now ensure that I wash these door bottom areas with a brush when I am cleaning the wheels. My last car was a 2013 RRS which has double door seals and the area between them remained pretty clean with no dirt ingress.