Vlady

What else can I do? Call back the garage?

I always preferred rubber mats and all my previous cars had these, when I bought Lexus I could not find rubber mats for GS. After 2.5 years I got used to have carpet (OEM) mats on drivers side and 3 older rubber mats I removed from Passat I had a few years back for the back and front passenger footwell. Not pretty but my easier to clean!

Passed MOT today with Lexus Glasgow, all green and no advisories. As always, Service Department was great but I sadly agreed for them (Lexus) to wash my car and I think they better didn't touch it, very bad job and I am sure it was not 2 backet wash, why did I agree?! The car looks dirtier then it was when I went in, how is that possible?! I can't wait for a call from Lexus (I usually do receive it) to find out my opinion on todays visit, I have something to tell them! 🙂

In my opinion it is a mistake. Love the way car looks, still not big fun of the interior though, however, them introducing Mark Levinson is a good thing.

£345? Hmm, If without labour, just the parts, it would cost about £250 then I would seriously consider to change them, I mentioned before, it is really easy, saying that, I am lazy too, I need to remove 4 wheels on Lexus (one by one), clear and lubricate the brakes and the alloys before the winter (or at least check the condition of sliding pins etc) and the main thing I need to do is to swap summer to winter wheels on my wife's car, hoping to do that all over weekend! Shorter days, colder days are not helping! 🙂

From what I remember when I was looking at it couple years ago even for Essential service the price Lexus charges you can't be justified but this is only my opinion.

Hi Victor! Welcome to LOC! Usual question though, why Lexus and what did you have before? As all know, I moved from BMW so always curious why people choose Lexus at the end.

@ColinBarber thank you for taking care of it!

Was our LOC hacked? A lot of threads which are not on English, weird! I totally agree, it would be nice to have at least one other option in UK to go to apart from OEM! Thats good to hear @Shahpor, I do not drive mine often nowadays, last couple of weeks were mostly school run and shops. Brake wise, sometimes I do have a little vibration sometimes I don't. I booked an MOT this Friday, will see if Lexus Glasgow has any comments on brakes, I doubt they will though. I am going to ask how much it will be to buy new front discs and pads but don't expect it to be a bargain. The plan this weekend is to remove the wheels, clean them, protect them with PoorBoys and check the brakes (if it needs to be lubricated), last time I disassembled them (rear ones, front were fine) was about 6 months ago so before winter comes I better do it again. I've read about your squealing issue, I would think it is a wee stone got jammed between the rotor and heat plate at the back but it could be another things I guess. Well, I am glad yours is working fine now!

@Shahpor hi, how is it going? What is the latest on your brakes?

£6500 to repair? Ouch! How is the Audi on motorway, should be more stable than GS, this is the only thing that annoys me in me GS - floatiness and how it is affected by the wind on motorway! I think any other car is better than GS.

Hi Jakub, welcome to LOC. Do you want to relocate permanently to UK or temporary? If temporary I think you can use your Polish insurance, did you check with them? It is probably another story if you want to relocate permanently, then you better sell your ES (which seems like a very nice car) and buy something in UK (Lexus GS300) which will be cheaper to insure, service (possibly) and with much less headache while driving it. I think insurance will go up as insurers don't like taking risks like that and you will be a higher risk on the UK road with steering wheel being on another side plus the car is american so if accident does happen (hopefully never) they will most likely write the car off as to get parts to fix it won't be easy and cheap and quick. Garages might have the same excuse regards parts so they can charge you more, unless you can find a friendly garage to help you with your servicing. Not much help here from me, may be someone else has better answers to all your questions.

60mpg is fantastic!

Hi Ian, welcome to LOC! How do you like ES? Must be different to IS to drive as ES a front wheel drive! Tell us your 1st impressions. Photos are a must! 😉

Mark I am so sorry to hear that too, I hope everyone in the car are fine. Did the van stop and admit he is at fault? Hopefully insurance process will be quick and painless! Good Luck!

Welcome to the club Dave! Enjoy your new car! 🙂

Louis welcome! The car looks lovely and very well looked after!

Mark, does Brembo do brake discs for Lexus GS450h Premier which has different/bigger brakes than even an GS F-Sport if I am not mistaken. When I had the same issue with brakes last year I struggled to find anyone to supply non-OEM brakes for my Premier model so it would be great to know if Brembo has them.

I did an oil service yesterday and the diff oil change. My car clocked 50065 miles already!

@Mr Vlad how do you find these tyres? My wife has them on Citroen and I can't fault them, also friend of mine has them on Skoda Superb and likes them too, they are quite and comfy.

Very good results there Mr Vlad but I am sure the photos don't do it justice. I have black colour GS and polished it using DA polisher, even though I am a novice at it the results are amazing, I still got some scratches I need to work on! What I am saying I took couple of photos before and after and unless you enlarge them to see sun reflection on the paint you can't see the swirl marks and after the polish almost all of them gone! After all that work I done I refuse to wash the car! lol! 🙂

That squealing noise would drive me mad! As you say, I would expect Lexus technician to notice something out of normal when they were at it, or, all they did just visually checked all discs and pads without disassembling the callipers and lubricating every sliding part, including anti-squealing plate at the back of the pads. Can you remove the wheel and check if the whole assembly looks clean and lubricated without removing the calliper?

I use Polish Resin just now, still got enough for this season though. Thanks for the link, there is a lot of stuff to consider to buy, all very tempting, waxes, clothes, shampoos!

I agree, that means you need to take the brakes apart, easy enough though. Clean them with metal brush, you can even buy a brake cleaner, some of it is very good stuff, and then apply lubricant on sliding parts, this should help with squealing.

You better keep an eye on them! @Ifty what is code PO660?