Herbie

A quick Google came up with an online converter https://document.online-convert.com/convert/pages-to-word I've never used it so I don't know if it works (but there are others to try if this one doesn't), but I suppose the other thing to consider is how many pages you have to convert. Some online converters are completely free, others only let you do, say, five pages before you have to pay. This page https://trendblog.net/convert-apple-pages-microsoft-word/ shows (about half-way down) how to create an iCloud account and then use a proper Mac converter there to convert them. I'm sure there'll be plenty of converters out there, but choosing a good one could be the problem. This is one reason why Adobe created the Portable Document Format, or PDF file - it's machine and operating system agnostic so can be used on any machine and any operating system.

Any car warranty is like insurance. You pay for car insurance, house insurance and others, but yet you hope to never have to use them, and this is no different. Great reliability, but also very complex and expensive to repair if needed, so I'd say yes.

This is the only thing I could find:

Do you mean the ball? Can you take a photo of where it should be or perhaps find a photo online, because I'm not sure exactly what you mean?

32-bit, yes, but 64-bit is quite tricky and takes a fair bit of fiddling. It took me over two hours of perseverence but I eventually got it working so yes, it can be done as I said above, but not exactly "without problems".

Yes, but if the car did 'stall' for want of a better word, with his 12V battery being down to 3.6V he's right, it wouldn't reboot the hybrid system and he'd be stuck. @Hadrian at 3.6V I would be thinking it's gone to battery heaven. You could try getting the car into READY (with radio off, aircon off etc., etc.,) and just leave it for 60 minutes in READY and Park. It may r may not help but at least it would still be on your driveway instead of anywhere else.

The RX is classed as an estate on the V5. Although I've had an RX300 and now have an RX450h, I think the luggage space is fairly disappointing for what is 'a big car'. OK, you can put the rear seats down and take out the luggage cover, which does indeed open up a lot of space, but that just isn't practical from a security (or safety) point of view, in respect of what's on view to prying eyes and scrotes breaking in to steal what they see. If you want the contents of the 'boot' to be covered, the actual space available isn't much at all.

Who told you that? There's nothing wrong with jump starting a hybrid as all you're doing is supplementing a dodgy 12V source by piggybacking a good 12V source on to it. 12V is 12V, it doesn't matter to the car where it comes from (although I wouldn't try to use a battery charger as a jump source).

It's not Techstream that's the problem, it's the cable drivers. I've got it working on Windows 10 64-bit but I admit it was a battle and took about two hours of messing about before the car would talk to the laptop, so it can be done. However, the quickest and perhaps easiest way is to install Oracle's VirtualBox (https://www.virtualbox.org/) on your laptop and then install a copy of either Windows 7 32-bit or even Windows XP in that and run Techstream from in there, in which case it doesn't matter which version of the drivers you have.

Yes it was, but possibly incorrectly now as I think about it. I'll run the test again and post the results. By the way, a 12V 2.1Ah battery should (if I remember correctly) provide a maximum of 21A for one minute, depending on type and age - but it's a very long time since I had to think of things like this so don't hold me to that

That's a good point actually. I can't remember now. I would have had the tailgate open but did I turn off the interior lights? Tell you what, I'll do the experiment again and make sure everything IS off this time

My RX450h takes 15.32A to get it to the READY state, so I would assume that an IS300h would be the same.

This is a bit of fun during these strange times but I'm not sure how accurate the voting will be. In fact, it'll probably be completely inaccurate because most people like more than the one choice the voting system gives them. Classic rock (Led Zeppelin, The Who, Deep Purple, Free, Bad Company, AC/DC etc., etc) is my favourite genre, but I also love the Blues (Joe Bonamassa, BB King, Janis Joplin, Stevie Ray Vaughn etc., etc), Folk Rock, Celtic, even Mediaeval music and Gregorian Chant, all of which I have in the car.

Hmm.... you could be right but as long as you use trusted garages or specialists then it should be alright, or at least you minimise the risk of something going wrong. For instance, I wouldn't even trust Halfords to change a wiper blade or a bulb, let alone do something with the aircon, and for a hybrid I would never go anywhere except a proper aircon specialist. By the same token I would probably use a proper auto electrician for electrical troubles, rather than a mechanical garage.

Exactly what Colin says, but just to add that you can basically use almost any 12V source just to keep the settings while you change the battery. When you park the car up for the night it may take a couple of hours for it to 'go to sleep' as it were, but when it does there will be a quiescent current drain of somewhere in the region of 36mA to 50mA being supplied by the battery to power the alarm, the radio presets and maybe other stuff too. Given that you want to change the battery you'll have the tailgate open at the very least, which would switch the interior lights on. As long as you manually switch them off (because they would probably be the biggest current drain), you could even use a battery pack with 8 AA alkaline batteries like the one pictured below and that would happily keep all settings alive while you change the car battery, with plenty of current to spare (typical AA Alkaline batteries rated at 2800mA) - but better to do it quickly 'just in case'

A few months ago one of the members on here took their RX400h to Halfords for a re-gas of the AC and they just used one of the small cans they stock on the shelves rather than a proper machine. It caused all sorts of problems and the topic ran to about 6 or 7 pages if I remember correctly - I've had too much beer since then so things are a bit hazy and you should look it up for yourselves if anyone's interested in the whole sorry saga.

If you have a laptop then your best bet is to get a miniVCI cable from eBay or Amazon. These almost invariably come with a pirated copy of Techstream, which is the official diagnostic software that Toyota/Lexus technicians use in main dealer workshops. Alternatively, you can legitimately download a free copy of the software from here https://www.toyota-tech.eu/GTS/Wizard/Step5-Software.aspx and pay for a block of time to use it here. Of course, I'm not condoning the use of pirated software, that's a matter for your own conscience, but either way you'll need that miniVCI cable anyway so that the car and the laptop can talk to each other.

Thanks for the clarification John.

On a normal car the battery is only used to crank the engine. Once it fires and the alternator is spinning it's the alternator that supplies all of the car's electrical demands, so is it not the same for hybrids, ie, once the hybrid system is READY does our equivalent of the alternator, the DC/DC converter, not power the cabin fan?

These have been used by a member on here This is the actual topic:

This one has an OBD2 connector but is currently unavailable at Amazon You may find one on eBay though. Not sure about the IS but on the RX the 12V power socket/cig lighter is only active when the ignition s on, so no good for this.

Ah right, cheers for that. So the first 12V battery is under the bonnet I presume? What does this second one control and which one would you connect jump leads to if they were needed? EDIT - Sorry, just re-read your post and I see that this one is dedicated to the active stabiliser system. I'm intrigued by this - wonder why it needs its own battery?

There's a second 12V battery? I didn't know that, cheers. If that's the case then I suppose it will as all batteries self-discharge over time.

I see what you're saying Mark but the difference is that her car doesn't have an alarm. If it left the factory without an alarm then that's one thing, but to make a concious decision to turn off a factory fitted alarm may well be a big thing to an insurer.

Not setting the alarm will save a bit of power but your insurance company could get a bit uppity about that. As we know, the unscrupulous scrotes will look for any way to weedle out of paying up in the event of a claim. And the radio presets and other stuff will still be drawing power anyway, so is it worth it? I don't know, I'm on the fence about this one. Regarding turning off keyless entry, I know there's a sequence of button presses that you can do on the Series 4 RXs, but as far as I'm aware I think it only affects the key side of the equation; the car side is still actively looking for a signal from the key and so still drawing power. I'm not sure if your 2017 IS300hs will be the same or not but worth looking into it before you do it.