Texas

There was a dealer ( purporting to be private when selling!) in the Brum area iirc that went by the name of ‘Lexus man’, ‘Lexus Brum’ or something like that and was a real dodgie geezer and had history with trading standards for his dealings, others may expand hopefully👍

Don’t forget pre ( I think Sep 2007builds) the early 250’s are supposed to run on Super unleaded only! But that’s another whole thread😂

If you consider a manual version ( not recommended if you ask me) then check out the road tax first😳

Most of his woe’s were people crashing into him🙄 but imagine if he had a BMW or any other Germanic with a persistent EML😂 he sure would appreciate ‘reliability’ then.

Is it a bad car, I don’t think so.

oem is gonna be Denso.

Apparently there is no such thing as common sense as you cannot assume someone’s skill set is the same as yours.🙄

Ref the reading of manuals…. I got chastised for recommending owners read the manual when they have got a query/problem but if you look in the ‘F’ section of this forum a RCF owner comes along asking with an ‘Engine oil is Low” warning on dash what does that mean, and this is the second time it came up, just ignored it the first time🙄go figure😩

Page 165 of the Manual, just saying!!

Back in the ‘90’s I used to deliver cars for Eurodollar rent-a-car and the new Ford Sierra/Shapphire at the time had an inertial switch that was fixed in the spare wheel well that in the event of a severe rear end collision would cut the supply to the fuel relay. This was fine until you had a puncture and used the spare ( full size alloy) wheel and then chucked in the flat tyre/wheel that you have just removed back in the wheel well and knocked the sensor into cutting the fuel supply off!!! Numerous times the AA would be called to a punter who had a crank/no start after sorting a puncture themselves to simply push the reset button in the middle of this solenoid in the wheel well to get the car on its way!

Need to check oil level I guess🙄

Battery temp sensor wires?

If you have always used ACC and then revert to ‘Normal’ CC then have your wits very about you😳

Really…..

What this problem?

Any components with wires attached should be replaced with OEM only or you could get into a world of pain

Try this ebay item No 254278351048

The 10 plate USB one has got the front wheels on the wrong way round! and the white one has the rears on wrong🙄

So why are they labelled Not for Highway use?

L-SB-0016-10 LSB001610.pdf

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Ok fine I’m out of here!

Well if you can post on a forum, I guess you can use Google and put in ‘Lexus’ ‘IS250’ ‘Manual’ and you will get something like this, https://d24bc9lyrt5en5.cloudfront.net/Customer-Portal-Admin/emanuals/LEXUS/OM53A88E.pdf

Ok, if no one else is then I Gotta ask Why is new foam is required ?

I would go for used also as it is not a known to fail part you will have to be really unlucky to have another defective one. And even if you did 33 is a long way from 750+