Mr Vlad

Yeah I know what you mean. I went online and 2 different dealer chains charge very different rates for essential cate plans. £100 difference on a 2 year deal.

That's good to know. I'll price that up for my RX. Cheers m8.

For a start you won't need a low profile jack as the car sits high. Because the car is about 2 1/4 ton then a jack rated at 3 ton or more would be best. Don't forget heavy duty axle stands. Very important. 2 ton capacity should be more than good enough.

Blimey Rayaans you have suprised me. Personally I would just get the dealer to do a bog standard service. Not at lexus either but at Toyota. But unless you've a Lexus warranty on the car then you're stuck with taking it to a Lexus dealer. So the essential service scheme is for cars 5 years and older?

Cheers Carl. Mind you Meguires ultimate compunction is great on maringetting marks.

Hi Rich. I don't use either the sensors or camera to park up. I'm struggling suss in out where the front near side wheel is. Reverse parking is a total doddle. Easiest car yet.

The Meguires stuff I have is Scratch X 2.0 and the superb Ultimate Compound. Also got various T cut squeezies. One of the T cuts is black so I may just start with that on a compound sponge and see how that goes. Then the scratch X then finish with ultimate compound then a polish.

True Rayaans but for us heavy handed sods it's easy lol. Ruddy excellent polishing Colin. I'd welcome your advice. Behind the door handle of my Celestial Black RX are a miriad of scratches from probably rings. Overall that area looks dull and the scratches make it duller. I was going to use T cut and a Polish but I do have Meguires stuff to. What do you suggest?

Well more smiles in that yesterday I drove up to leeds for a nice bbq at the wife's youngest daughters (she's called me dad for over a decade). I thought I'd stick to the speed limits which I did. Came off a junction earlier as the M62 became a car park. Got to my daughter's and looked at my trip meter. Wow I thought. 38.8mpg. Now to me that's impressive for such a car. Well chuffed. Spoke with a main man at Lexus Leeds and stated I was disappointed in how the car wasn't given a 40k service at 36k miles whilst the dealer chain had it in the midlands. I said that Leeds should do the 40k service and at a heavily discounted price. It was agreed. So in a few weeks when my car hits 40k it'll have a proper 40k service. I will pay upto half for it. Loving my car but this is my worst car for parking next to the kerb. Blimey I drive a truck for a living and can park that perfectly but my RX? Sheesh I'm ruddy rubbish lol.

Ooooops. I loved mine too. It was strata silver I think (the dark metallic grey) with superb tan leather interior. It was the 1st car I did a hifi installation. It was also the 1st of 3 800 series Rovers. The other 2 were vitesses 2.7 V6 and then the 2.0 turbo. Loved all 3 of them. Oh very happy years.

Wow a fellow lexus owner whose owned a Rover 800 Sterling too. What''s the chances of that?

Brake pad wear indicators have been out for decades.

How is the general sound of the music system in your car? Which system is it? The only problem I had with my IS was paring my android phone to the car. Streaming Spotify premium via Bluetooth there were no problems what so ever. OK my had ML and it sounded aweome. Does the radio sound good or great? How do CD's sound? Maybe there is a fault with one or more of the cars speakers.

Yes fuel pumps are in the petrol tank but they are at the top of the tank with pipes going to very near the bottom so as far as running a pump dry/cold is nonsense. Every car I expect had I've run the fuel to beyond the warning light with no issues what so ever. However nowt wrong with being cautious so borrow a tenner.

Hi Rayaans. Just looked on the tube and it seems easy to change the battery. Yes I know they change them on Full services but I think the last full service was done either a year or so ago or God knows. Watching a couple of tube vids I'd say my battery was running low coz it's come to me that I've noticed 'key not present ' come up a few times. I'll start using the spare key for now but both will get new batteries this week.

That's something I thought about since the car is 5 years old and no idea how old fob batteries are. I didn't know they're rechargeable. How do I do that or just put a new battery in?

I had a strange happening with my car yesterday and today. I could get into my car no problem but when I tried to start it it didn't want to know until 3rd or 4th attempt. I even had to get my seat into position myself. Today tho I found my keyfob quite hot to the touch which kind of freaked me out a bit. I thought about it and concluded that my car keyfob doesn't like the keyfob I have for my wife's place. So I kept both fobs in separate pockets and hey ho back to normal. So something new learnt today and hopefully help to others is to keep the car keyfob separate to other keyfobs such as building entry systems. I was going to take some photos of my car today when at Squires Gate cafe near Leeds but it got too packed. But next time I'm out in it I'll take and post some pics.

Thanks guys. Something I forgot to add. My car is a 62 plate but registered Feb 13. I was pleasantly suprised that text messages and emails came thru. Also track listings follow as they change. They didn't do that in my premier premium 64 plate IS's. Weird technology eh? Post photos Rayaans? Mines a Celestial Black F Sport. Do I really need to post photos? Mind you I do have rear privacy glass so maybe I will. 😊

Today whlist travel the M62 to leeds as I do fortnightly my car put one helluva smile on my face. I floored it from a steady 70 and by feck it shot forward. I've learned that the RX doesn't handle as well as my previous IS but that's to be expected. Thanks to Rayaans and Rich I've finally got my car registration on the My Lexus app. V5 came yesterday. The service record shows that my car had a Lexus service are 3k miles in 2013 then it''s next Lexus service was Four Years later at some 34k. So I suppose that begs the question about the cars service history. Personally I'm not bothered. Why? Because of how my car looks and drives and it was given a Lexus going over a few months ago and its Hybrid Health Check done the week before I picked it up. I dipped the oil and was pleasantly suprised how clean the oil was. I've put a bottle of ZX1 in the oil which I've done to my last 15 or more cars. So my smiles have come to how my car accelerates from speed. And the Service side I put in just to say that it's not so important that a car has a full dealer service bur a part one is important. Because I walk to work my mileage yearly will only be 3k miles. I will have it serviced at Lexus but they'll be intermediate ones only unless the 40 50 60 etc K mile service time arrives then the full service will take place. Sorry if I've bored you but I wanted to air my views experiences etc.

No probs Robin. Happy to help no go enjoy your car.

If you can hear a clicking get then gears are slipping. I don't know about having to have mirrors coded to the car. As lexus.

Many thanks Rayaans and Rich. I'll hang fire till I get my V5 which should be very soon.

The app I download was the my lexus Europe. I Registered my car and email and validated my email from their email I got. I can get on it but all I get is reminders for services mot''s insurance etc etc but nothing else. What's the online lexus portal? Where do I find that? Pardon my thickness on this type of stuff.

Thanks Rayaans but what portal? What info is on the V5 that's needed?

OK Rich. Do I have to wait for the V5 to turn up before I can see what dealer visits my car has had? I've registered my car on the app.