Jayw13702

Well it’s not the head gasket, tests have proved that’s still good. the water pump was replaced about 50k ago and is still dry do it’s a bit of a mystery as to why there was coolant loss. we’ve put the lower fuel consumption down to the colder weather and E10 as well as changing the wheel size to 17’s. Now that’s it’s warmed up a bit the mpg has gone back to mid 40’s

No mayo, just water loss and no apparent leaks either. going to do a sniff test today to see if it is the case and take it from there it is a pain when something like this happens, I’ve had 4 trouble free, high mileage years so can’t complain

So my intergalactic IS300h looks to be faltering a bit. we appear to be losing about 500ml of coolant over about 250/300 miles, fuel consumption is down to late 30’s (fill up to fill up) and performance is a bit lacking. going to do a sniff test on the engine this week but wondered if anyone had any experience of doing a head gasket on one of these engines? Are there any pitfalls/quirks? if it is the HG then I can’t complain, this will be the first time this engine has ever been opened up since it was built, and it’s now done 245,000 miles

Not within a close enough range to confuse the system

I use Falkens, always given good economy at a reasonable price whilst still being reasonably quiet

I have a 2013 IS300h that has just had a replacement set of wheels, at the same time I replaced the TPMS sensors. Plugged the tech stream in and went through the TPMS registration wizard. Programmed all the TMPS codes and finished the wizard, at that point I get the following error message. "ID registration failed due to communication error with the ECU whilst in initialisation mode" Ive been into the live data and it tells me initialisation was complete but yet it still gives the same message. The TPMS are the correct frequency, and are the right ones for the car but no matter what I do I cannot get the sensors to register. any ideas?

OMG!!! I first received help from John when I was on the PriusChat forums, like here John was a great help and a massive wealth of knowledge. He has helped me with some Lexus issues as well and I for one will miss his knowledge and input. i've only just seen this hence the somewhat late comment. May he rest in piece

Now just completed 230,000 miles and still going well. Over the Christmas period it will need a new rear wheel bearing, some rear pads and a chance to get the car up on ramps and give it a good underbody clean. I treated the car to some IS220 wheels, always liked the look of them, picked them up for an absolute steal, had them powder coated and stuck some 225/45x17 tyres on them and am pleased with the result....

I change mine every 60k, I generally use a good quality branded oil and always use a new set of washers for the drain plug and filler plug

I love the silence of the IS, when pulling away all I can here is the whine of the transmission. I find the silence quite relaxing, in comparison to my wife's BMW diesel which I feel is a rattly noisy tank. I love the sound of a nice exhaust note, my weekend toy is (in imho) the best sounding V6 engine in the world and is a total contrast to the IS

It’s a set of flaps that sit behind the lower grille, it opens and closes to regulate the engine temperature, aids the A/C and also help aerodynamics

for the last week I have been getting this message repeatedly. a reset on techstream will ensure the error goes away for the day but the following morning its back. Today was the first chance I have had to have a look, I knew that the bumper would have to come off and my suspicion was the shutter motor had water ingress, however techstream was still able to talk to the actuator so this left me puzzled. a couple of hours later and the bumper is off, the grille shutter system is held on with 4x10mm bolts. All the electrical connections had power when required so the next stage was to strip the motor off the shutter frame and have a look inside it. Not the easiest thing to do as the motor is heat sealed together, most likely to stop water getting in, once I had is all apart I could tell the PCB was good, the motor worked freely and all the gears moved but really needed re-greasing. The gears connected to a metal shaft that went through two seals and connected to the grille shutters, these were seized on one side so whilst the motor was trying to move the shutters it just couldn't. 30 minutes later the shaft is free from the actuator case, its covered in rust and has expanded and because of this won't rotate, having cleaned up the shaft, greased all the gears and put it back together there is no error message on the dash and when connected to techstream the actuator moves the flaps as it should. I know that with 225,000 miles on it things like this are going to start giving issues, Lexus wanted 325+vat for the actuator so with that in mind I figured that I had nothing to lose in stripping it and trying it make it work again.

I am really struggling with this..... I am not a great fan of the ES. Up until recently I was thinking of a GS, however their price has stalled and there doesn't seem to be many of them out there so seeing as I only have a few years unit I retire from the taxi trade there's a good chance that we will see 300,000 plus miles

a lot of manufacturers state that transmission oil should never be changed. Yes you will always get residual mixture of old and new, the fluid in the external lines and cooler being the majority that's left behind. By replacing most of it I would guess/hope that the overall quality of the new oil is better than the oil that's just been removed.

I do it every 60k now, it was last done at 160,000, which was only about 15 months ago 😂