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So pray tell why not the Bosch?

I suggest Bosch S4 026, which can be got for about £75 right now!

Well it is the Lexus Owners Club and not BMW!

+1 on not betting your life on the VL2 working exactly as it should 100% of the time!

Ok....so make sure screen is absolutely clean using a damp soft cloth and don’t press too hard onto it. The thing that makes me think it is an ‘Electrical’ problem is if you watch the above video check the fluttering on & off of the leds for the heated mirrors etc! What’s that all about if it was just a sticky display switch?

Is your battery in good health? This car can throw all sorts of seemingly un-connected problems ( electrically) if the battery is not in tip top condition.

Don’t let the caliper problem put you off what is a superb car otherwise, regular, very low cost, maintenance of said callipers and you should not ever have trouble. Alloy corrosion can also be easily sorted ( To be honest I have not addressed mine yet!, if I start getting slow punctures then perhaps) Spark plugs are due at the 6 Year/60k point and can be expensive at the dealers if you can’t spanner yourself, to be honest FSH is not so important to me now as actually getting the service points done having said that OEM plugs can quite easily last upto 100k. Once all points are addressed then the 250 will serve you well and You should have a low cost ( besides reg service items) set of wheels

Maybe you car has had a windscreen replacement in the past and for some reason it is not a heated one or incorrectly fitted. The OEM glass is actually marked LEXUS (bottom right) Note: As mentioned above only the Wiper park area is heated and not the whole screen like on Fords! FYI Interestingly enough, Ford Motor Company was the first company to release this technology and subsequently, they created a patent on it named 'Quickclear'. This meant that other companies couldn't use the heated windscreen technology. More recently Ford has been leasing out the technology to other car companies and it can be seen on Volkswagen, Vauxhall and Range/Land Rovers. Some car manufacturers have created their own version of the heated windscreen technology using a different methodology

Hi, I have a pdf of the Lexus Technical Service Bulletin concerning this problem but cannot link it here as I am having problems posting since the recent update of this website, Do a google search for L-SB-0016-10 And you should get back the pdf 👍 LSB001610.pdf hey....got there in the end👍 And here is the offending grommet!

Strange Question, the wires go into the plug which then In turn plugs into the maf sensor body! Am I right in thinking that ( somehow!) you have now got the plug with (at least 2 ) wires not connected into it! I do not have access to the wiring diagrams but someone will pipe up with it some time soon. If you cannot ‘re-pin’ the plug you may have to get a used one and splice it into you loom further back. Well, 15 minutes of google surfing gets me this! Any good for you? It shows the colours of pins 1-5 on the MAF sensor. So if these colours correspond to yours then home and dry!

Result ( sort of) there then fella👍

I am not a DERV owner or profess to be knowledgeable on them But isn’t there a ‘5th’ injector on the 220 somewhere down the back that can fail and produce copious amounts of exhaust smoke? Therefore if it is a injector then I guess it can leak externally also! Like I said I am not an expert on Diesels but standby for more learned responses. paul m.

There you go Rob (OP) straight from the ‘Horses Mouth’ , why you should consider the IS220 very very carefully!

So could still happen if you didn’t disconnect battery but if battery goes below about 10v it make cause all sorts of other ‘problems’ that will be rectified with a healthy battery,

The car will be in a ‘re-learning’ phase after the battery dis-connect so if the indicated mpg was mostly done by another driver ( previous owner )for instance then the driving ‘style’ will be different, it may take a while to settle down to your style.

If after a battery disconnect the window switches little green led is flashing then Electric windows will need re-learning as they will only work from their respective buttons and not from drivers door panel. you need to open each window about half way down with its own button and then close it but keep button pressed for about 2-3 seconds after it has closed ( you may hear a click) Do this with each window in turn and then you will have control back at drivers door panel, If you have a Moonroof as Lexus cell it then that will need re-learning as it is completely separate to window system even though it works via Global Closure using the key fob. Note. There are No codes required for factory fitted audio equipment

Cheapest I can find at the moment, inc Del, Mega battery store,

Would be nice to find out exactly which components are not compatible on the pre 2008 cars compared with the 2008 onwards.

So in response to the title of this thread ‘ Standard or Premium?’ Then I would say if you have ( like me) a car that is Not going to be compatible with E10 unleaded fuel then you/I should get in the habit of refuelling with premium Unleaded ( extra ££££‘s I know!) but you don’t wanna be putting in that E10 stuff that’s for sure when it gets more commonly available.

Nothing ‘Snide’ over here just previous experience with Grom when I purchased / installed my VL2 last year, see history here.

Have a look in the ‘Engine & Transmission’ section of this forum and check the number of Derv posters compared to the petrol ones! please do plenty of ‘homework’ before buying as I would not have/run a 220d if you Gave it to me! Quite possibly the worst car ever to sport the ‘L’ badge!

Best of luck with that fella!

Just make sure to steer clear ( see what I done there!) of fuel labelled E10 ( 10% Ethanol) at the pumps as it is Not compatible with the IS250 engine!

Quite normal for this engine/exhaust set up.

Think you might struggle to get a MOT if you go down the DPF delete route! Gotta be a fix for this but hell if I know What it is!