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If they won’t service the car then reject it perhaps? I believe approved used cars have to be serviced before delivery if service is due within 3 months or 3k miles. I think. I’m sure they’ll service it. Stay cool, stay polite but be firm in terms of the outcome. I’d certainly want to see proof of all the checks they carried out before collection.

Good information. The NX engine is also the transverse mounted variant of the 2.5 litre engine.

Wise words of course 👍

There is a quote in the latest Car magazine in the letters page from someone who has designed engines all his life. He says that combustion engines are sustainable in production but unsustainable in operation (fossil fuels) but that BEVs are unsustainable in production (rate metals etc) but sustainable in operation. Probably a good analysis of where we are now. The disposal of spent batteries further down the line is also not easy. There will be solutions in time to come I’m sure. Is any other industry quite so advanced in terms of trying to clean up its act though? Cars are not responsible for anywhere near the total amount of pollution and yet cars are always seen as the enemy, the area that needs to be curbed, the area that has to change.

I love owning a Lexus. I love their reliability, comfort, refinement and the ownership experience is second to none. I do however dislike the performance of almost all Lexus cars. Not all, most, because clearly an ISF or GSF or LC500 would be fine. Most of the time it is fine of course. Long open road journeys and especially long motorway journeys bring out the worse in them. Luckily I don’t do much of that type of driving any more so it matters less to me. Ok I could have a GS450h or an RX450h and these would be much better for sure. But I’d prefer smaller cars. I’d be fine if they offered an IS or an NX hybrid with a bigger engine or with a higher state of tune but they don’t in the UK. They will do with the new NX but it will be very expensive. There are just times every now and then when I’ve had to use full throttle with the engine racing away just to merge into the outside lane of a motorway or complete an overtake of a slow moving truck. Every time I’ve wished I had a little more effortless performance under my right foot. This will always be the case for me and it is something I just accept.

I noticed a difference between pre and post facelift IS300H vehicles I owned. Better mid-range response and performance and better economy. Lexus had definitely tweaked the powertrain to deliver better response and torque. Could be more electrical assistance or better mapping for the ICE or both. Doesn’t surprise me that they may have done the same with the NX. I’m guessing that foot to the floor peak power and torque would have been the same but there were definite improvements in part throttle response and performance between my 204 IS300H Executive and my 2019 IS300H Sport. This lead to better economy too. By about 2-4mpg for every tankful I think.

Saw that too!

Certainly very comfortable cars. Am planning to keep mine in the family for a long time. Agree that Relax helps to make this an easier decision.

IS300h and before that a Jaguar XE. I had similar thoughts about the IS300H although with less frontal area and weight and more performance than an NX300H, it was much less noticeable. Every Jaguar I’ve had has been night and day better than every Lexus I’ve owned, for performance and driving enjoyment. But of course worse in terms of quality, reliability and ownership experience.

Hard to know if BEVs are a stepping stone or the destination. Heard a great quote the other day - running a car with an ICE is unsustainable (fossil fuels and pollution) and yet building a BEV is also unsustainable (precious metals and energy required). Synthetic fuels and Hydrogen fuel cells may be a better long term bet.

You must drive on a lot of empty motorways if you manage to maintain 75 without being baulked by slow moving trucks overtaking other slow moving trucks. M5 and M6 are terrible for having two lanes of trucks. I prefer not to drive at 55 behind a line of trucks. When baulked accelerating from 55 back up to 75 is painful on the ears not to mention taking quite a long time.

Long steep inclines require the engine to rev to maintain the same speed. In most cars a flexing of the right foot and no increase in revs is all it takes. In an NX it requires a heftier shove on the accelerator and an increase in revs to maintain the same speed. Different people different expectations and acceptance of what is acceptable. Any move from the middle lane to the outside lane of a busy motorway also requires similar. And before you think I might be racing everywhere I move into the outside lane every time a truck doing 56 pulls out to overtake another truck doing 55.5 😀

The GLS version was quite a car in its day. Faster than an MGB GT. Handling was certainly a bit suspect though and not it’s best point! 😀

So much for my memory! Seems the price of fuel was just over £1 a gallon when I first started driving. Maybe it was before that when my mother was filling her car up.

All fuel is E5 at the moment I think. There are plans to replace it with E10 but can’t remember the exact plans. E5 fuel comes in 95/98/99 octane rating.

Pretty sure I used to put £1 worth of fuel in my first car and get quite a bit more than a gallon of fuel. I should check fuel prices to confirm this. Mind you, my Hillman Hunter GLS didn’t do that many miles to the gallon as I recall 😀

Still a poor motorway car in my opinion. Glad you are happy with yours but both of my NX have been poor (in my opinion of course), as have all of the courtesy NX vehicles I’ve had and experienced, on motorways. Having the engine droning away at high revs on long steep inclines just to maintain an indicated 75 is not great for me. If I had to do loads of motorway miles mine would have to go. Luckily I don’t. I guess this just shows that we are all different and have different perceptions of what is acceptable and what isn’t acceptable.

I’ve brought my service forward by 4 months from November to July so that it takes place just before the extended warranty expires. If anything is wrong and covered under the extended warranty I can get this done so that the Relax warranty can start. I’ve been told that the Relax warranty will not start until the extended warranty expires on July 28th but that it will expire 12 months after the service. Just have to look at breakdown cover now and as has been said I could get this at a good price through a Nationwide account. Will investigate all options closer to the time. The service plus breakdown cover will be less than I was going to pay to extend the warranty for two years and as I would have still had to pay for the service in November it will be much cheaper. Of course the cover is lower but I’ll take that chance. If anything goes wrong and is not covered by Relax it may well be a nail in the coffin of my relationship with Lexus. Time will tell.

We have a 2014 Mini Cooper 1.5t. It’s been a great car. Dealer keeps trying to persuade us to upgrade but we own it, it costs peanuts to run, still feels tight and still goes well. Less than 60k miles. Yours sounds fantastic!

My extended warranty runs out at end July. 60k/6 year service due in November. I think I will book car in for the service in July. Anything wrong can be put right under extended warranty and then I get a 12 month Relax warranty as a result of the service. Sound plan? Am I missing anything? Any other ideas?

Good luck. I’m sure they’ll look after you.

I think you have a case. Take photos and gather the evidence. Then call the dealership and say you are not happy with the condition of the tyres and you would like them replaced. If they won’t then write to the dealership asking for the same and with photos. The cracking is bad and renders those tyres as unsafe in my opinion. I’m not sure Halfords is the place to go to for you re assessment. A specialist tyre place would be best I think.

Get it back to the dealership surely? Don’t mess about with anything just book it in and say the satnav isn’t working. I presume it’s not because no gps signal.

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Go to say nav screen. Select Menu. Scroll to Memory and select. Then edit if you want to edit and existing memory point. Or Register if you want to create a memory point. When creating a memory point it gives you a number of options- recent destinations, current location or address so that you can enter an address.