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That was for the rear - fronts for the last gen IS 250 are listed at £325 per side - as I said it may well be different for the current gen IS 300h though

Unfortunately the Lexus website doesn't have the IS 300h prices for common repairs yet, but on the last gen IS 250 the Essential Care price for a rear shock absorber fitted is: £295 per side

Or (on a PC) on the keyboard press CTRL and F together and then you can enter a search term and step through all occurrences in the manual.

The Lexus Extended Warranty is valid at any authorised Lexus dealer. I believe this is the one year warranty all used Lexus cars sold through an official dealer are provided with. However, this wouldn't cover normal wear and tear (say for example if the brake just needs adjustment or new pads were required etc.) The fault however does seem to be one that the original selling dealer should have rectified before sale regardless of warranty and so I guess you will have to see how it goes with the local dealer and see what the problem is first - hopefully they will be able to draw on the Extended Warranty.

Some so-called sales people do make you wonder...

If the car was bought from a Lexus dealer I think they all come with a 1 year extended warranty and so I would have thought you have a good case that this should be fixed under that warranty of the fault has been there all along.

Ask for a quote that is for private payment and not for insurance purposes too - when I had some repairs done (to my daughter's car) the price a bodyshop will charge to an insurance company is at least 50% more (maybe nearer double) than to a private person paying them directly...! They say that it's to do with the constraints insurers put on them but I think we know better...! If you are at all serious about paying privately make sure you are very specific with the bodyshop and they should give you a quote for paying privately but will make it very clear that quote can't be used if you then decide to go through insurance.

My front parking sensors very occasionally go off with a few beeps in pouring rain whilst sat at e.g. traffic lights with nothing in front of me - I assume the rain running down over a sensor causes it to false alarm - a 1st world problem I think....!

Mine was quite dirty on the drivers side with a brown sandy dust but not rusty but there is obviously dirt getting trapped there - had a good look at the other side but that was clear of dirt - mirror image of the chassis leg but with the other components around it maybe there is better air flow to keep the area free of dirt. I have a 64 reg with 71K miles.

One should not rely on the P engagement when on a hill as this will put a lot of strain on the pawl and is certainly not a safe way to leave the car. It may even prove difficult to re-engage D as you have to overcome the force against the pawl. The parking brake should definitely hold the car on any incline that will be encountered. On my car I do notice a very slight movement when releasing the footbrake after applying the parking brake but we are talking mm and not the extensive distance the car moved in the video. There is definitely something amiss there. I would get it checked asap as it is a) dangerous and b) liable to damage the gearbox if that is used to hold the car on an incline

Not to mention the lethargic speed many of the baristas work in the motorway services areas and the length of the queues for coffee...!

I finally managed to match it up - it is the drivers side (UK car) at the very front of the engine bay - in the original image the front of the car is the right hand side of the image - so the left side is the air filter housing and the right side is the plastic cover over the headlight. It's a narrow gap (a few inches) looking down to the chassis frame.

Interesting looking at the Essential Care service prices - seems to be about £90 cheaper than the intermediate service costs but then for the majors varies quite a bit so that probably accounts for chargeable items not included in Essential Care (like spark plugs and various filters that say chargeable on Essential Care but included on normal servicing) - if those are added back in my guess is that Essential Care is again about £100 cheaper than full service costs. With an Extended Warranty I don't think you can take Essential Care though.

I would check what was done at the last major service - I would assume it was a 60K mile one and if so then spark plugs would have been changed - you can sign up to My Lexus and then see all Lexus services etc. that have been carried out and what was replaced etc.https://www.lexus.co.uk/my-lexus/registration/ My understanding was that Essential services did not include spark plugs, but could be wrong.

Lexus (in theory) operate a fixed price service across all dealers and so assuming you want a Lexus dealer stamp - see https://www.lexus.co.uk/owners/servicing-and-maintenance/# scroll down the page and you can enter the car to see the schedule - here is a screen grab for IS 300h: Not sure if others have managed to negotiate anything off these prices though There is also Lexus Essential Care for cars over 5 years old - see further on down the same page - the IS 300h prices aren't on the website yet for that but earliest IS 300h cars should now be in this category - some debate over whether this gives a stamp or not in the book - some say dealers stamp the book and others that they don't

Could also try posting on any US forums as such a problem would affect all IS cars not just hybrids and there are many more IS sold over there than here.

Pity about the part "Plus as usual with a Lexus Synergy Drive powertrain, you must have it mated to a belt-driven CVT auto gearbox... " - Lexus really should do something to educate the media about the e-cvt - to call it belt driven just shows how little it is understood - the e-cvt is a marvel of engineering - yes perhaps a matter of subjectivity on whether people like it - but nevertheless a marvel!

Correct, I don't have an EV at the moment. I appreciate Teslas can charge using pretty much any charging station (subject to the problem of needing an account for many of providers though) but hadn't appreciated that they had made the patents available freely - a lost opportunity to create a worldwide standard went missing there I guess, but I suppose that was bound to happen unfortunately with a startup challenging the establishment. I'm doing about 16K miles a year these days. As I don't have any regular commute most of the journeys I do undertake are longer, though most within the reach of today's EVs one way but I would need some form of charging at the other end for the return journey. At the moment only one client I visit has put in charging points (the two directors have PHEVs). I usually stay in travel inn sort of places overnight (to keep costs down) and very, very few of those have a charging point. If the government is serious about EV use then they need to apply some pressure to have charging available at overnight hotels etc. Certainly if/once the infrastructure improves (number of available chargers, one plug standard with rapid charging and simple payment by bank card) then I would not have any concerns going EV. Our second car is a petrol Ford Fiesta that does perhaps 6K miles a year, if that, and so that might be the first to change however as the vast majority of charging would be at home. Mind you whether my wife (who uses that car mostly) would remember to plug it in each night and not be left without charge for work would be a concern. The concept of wireless (induction) charging would negate that worry and is another technology that would remove a real barrier for many.

The whole issue with EV (IMHO) is not the cars - I would gladly drive one - but the infrastructure. The cars must have around 300 miles of range - which many now do - after that for most people it is not an issue as they would have need to have stopped around that range anyway - on long journeys in older cars I used to only stop when refuelling (about every 350 miles) but with my IS 300h which will do nigh on 600 miles on a tankful I now have to stop before I need to refuel. So if I can do 300 miles in an EV before charging I could live with that. I would then need to take on a sensible, say 80%, charge in let's say in under 45 minutes - so the coffee/loo break time. Now - the question is a) would I get a charging point when I arrive or would I have to first wait half an hour or more for one to become free before even starting to charge (Tesla seems the best bet for available charging points at the moment); b) would the charging points be working and/or would I have the right plug and/or account/card - there are a lot of road tests being reported now where the whole sorry state of broken charges and plugs/accounts is a huge issue; c) will any overnight stop have charging available to have the car ready for another 300 miles the next day...? It's not range anxiety per-se it's the worry of no charges available and/or the chargers not working and/or if the car can actually connect to them. I appreciate it's chicken and egg but until the infrastructure can rival petrol - so the possibility of "filling" up reliably and quickly and paying using a debit/credit card with no other hassle - I think the Lexus hybrid approach is currently one of the best compromises. When the industry/government finally actually get their fingers out and actually walk-the-talk and put in the infrastructure (someone has to do this upfront - at least Tesla have made a decent fist of it but now of course it's all proprietary) I will gladly move to full EV.

Having read this thread managed to have a look at my car in that area today. I have a 64 reg with 71K miles on it. When I looked I initially thought it was rusty too but on closer examination I wiped it with a wet finger (access it very tight just there) and like Ganzoom found that it was brown sandy dust that was stuck there. The black painted bracket that is bolted on there did have a bit of rust on it (the paint had peeled a bit) but the actual chassis leg was not rusty but just sandy/dirty.

I think attached was the original IS 300h brochure if that helps. The Executive trim was added to the range after this - I have a 64 reg Executive which appears to be the same spec as the Luxury but with the addition of full leather seats (heated but manual adjustment, not electric) and the basic European Sat Nav (the one with the rotary knob and not the premium with the mouse) - also there doesn't appear to be any other options that were available for the Executive (so nothing to look out for if it was spec'd or not) whereas the Luxury had some options that could be added such as full leather electric seats (it came with cloth as standard) and the option of premium navigation (it came with no sat nav as standard). 1368722193Lexus_IS_Long_EN.pdf

I have the extended warranty and read the same - it all comes down to what is a reasonable life for something - someone earlier gave the example of an LED headlight - there are quoted hours for how long these sort of components should last and if it one failed significantly quicker than that I would expect it to be covered under the warranty given the cost of replacement but if a normal 5v bulb failed after say a year then I wouldn't expect that as an extended warranty. I seem to remember something a while back about someone getting a HID bulb replaced under warranty - I think it was the extended warranty - that may have been as one of the MOT protected parts.

Ah ok - that must have been it then and I thought you were considering a BMW... Although I use my IS 300h for business use I have the luxury of also owning the company so have a completely free choice of cars.

We are in general agreement on the mpg/cost side of things regards motorway driving - although we might have to agree to disagree on some of the more subjective points but if we didn't all have different needs at different times of our lives then the world would be rather boring! You were looking at getting a BMW as a company car at one time weren't you - did you decide to stay with your Lexus in the end then?

I took 2 years extended warranty on my IS 300h when the original warranty expired. Although I hope not to have any major problems with a Lexus, any car can go wrong and so it's peace of mind - that is what insurance is - for the unexpected. If you have the cash reserves to pay a large bill should it ever be needed then over a long period you are probably better off financially not taking insurance - but would you have what might be a few thousand pounds available for a repair should it be needed? I have made one claim since taking the extended warranty - the washer fluid sensor failed in the washer fluid bottle - it was replaced under extended warranty - the bill had I done it outside of that was around £400. So, given that I also get the full euro breakdown cover included (provided through AA) and some other small benefits from the extended warranty then by the end of the two years I will be about evens with whether I had taken the warranty or not but will have had peace of mind on top for the same period. I will most probably extend the warranty for two more years when this one expires - the car will have done nearly 80K miles if I take the next two years warranty and so an additional two years would take me through to over 100K miles at which time I would probably be looking to change to another car. One other thing - it is a condition of the extended warranty that the car has to be serviced at the prescribed intervals by a Lexus dealer - that was my plan anyway but if you are thinking of servicing elsewhere the Lexus extended warranty cannot be used.