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I think the Gateway ECU may be faulty but I don't think you can just swap it out with a known good one to confirm that without it being coded to the car first.

Then don't mess about in here, get it booked in 😊

Would Techstream not do it?

The extended warranty is probably the best in the business for cost vs benefits. The way to look at it is that really it's insurance. We all have car insurance and home insurance to name just two, and we all hope that we never need to make claims on them - it's for peace of mind as much as anything. My RX has LED headlights and they are a sealed unit. If one LED goes it can't be replaced individually, the whole unit has to be replaced at over £800. Imagine the cost of, say, an inverter/converter unit - well over a grand I'd imagine, perhaps closer to two. Plus you get full Lexus Breakdown cover (provided by the AA and including European cover and Homestart) for you and your partner, for any car you're travelling in, and MOTs too, all in the cost of the two-for-one extended warranty. The warranty itself is great value in my opinion, it's the requirement to have servicing done at the main dealers that kills me as I'm used to paying mates rates for servicing.

You're very welcome Jon, cheers.

This company are great to deal with and reasonably priced too. They even do a 48-hour remanufacture of your own if they don't have one: https://www.carparts-direct.co.uk/steering-racks

I had the Avon ZX7s all round on my RX300 and they were superb in all conditions. I've never had Michelin Primacy on any car so can't compare but they would have to be very exceptional for me to choose them over the ZX7s.

I doubt that will ever happen. Ironically it's the motor industry that is driving up the price of the precious metals. I read recently that it's the demand for cats in countries such as India and China, where the use of cats is only just taking off, that is causing the leap in prices.

Extended Warranty prices can be found on the Lexus UK website. They are nationwide non-negotiable fixed prices and vary between models Servicing is dealer-group specific and there may be the opportunity to haggle a bit on cost. https://www.lexus.co.uk/owners/warranty/extended-warranty/#extended-warranty-pricing

Block off the air vents and hire a smoke machine. Put it inside the car and see where the smoke emanates from - where smoke comes out, water can get in.

No, nothing you can do about it. However, do remember that ALL cars have cats so ALL cars are targets no matter what make and model, so just go for your RX400h and enjoy it - if it happens, cross that bridge then.

My RX has two buttons, Radio and Media. If I press Media and navigate to the USB screen then it always goes back there whenever I press the Media button, so one button press is all that's needed to change between the two.

If this was an option I'd certainly have one in my RX 😀

That would suggest to me that the button controls front parking sensors and that yours just happen to be faulty. Try cleaning them and see what happens.

Personally I can't believe that, but even if it's true I wouldn't turn the AC off. Our cars don't just have lowly air conditioning, they have climate control. You set the temperature that you want the cabin to be and the car computers mix-and-match hot and cold air as necessary to keep that temperature stable. Plus, of course, "conditioned" air isn't just cold or to cool you down; it's filtered and dried and is actually better for us, so why would anyone want to turn it off?

I think you'll need wiring diagrams and some electrical test gear such as a multimeter and possibly a clamp ammeter. Unless you have these things then there's no point in going any further, although I'd suspect short circuits, bad earths and/or water ingress and the resultant corrosion of terminals/connections.

I've got one of these from http://cdslotmount.com/ It works brilliantly, doesn't scuff or scratch, and doesn't interfere with playing of CDs.

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How long was it left standing and not used? Lexus only fit small capacity batteries in their hybrids and it's not unusual for someone to park up at the airport for a two-week holiday and come back to a flat battery. The starter motor of a normal car will draw more than 300A as it cranks the engine to start it, so the battery has to be big and beefy to supply that current. As you'll see from the photo below, my RX450h only draws 15.32A to boot the computers and get the car into the READY state, so they save a bit of money by only using small capacity 12V batteries in them. The best way to deal with the possibility of a flat 12V battery is to carry one of these battery packs in the glove box or the boot. They are superb, work really well, and eliminate the need for an AA man or a donor car.

This is where a VPN comes in very handy. A VPN or Virtual Private Network lets you get around geolocked content by choosing to use a server in another country and setting up a 'private tunnel' between you and it, so that you appear to be physically located in that country. Say you were on holiday in Spain for example, and wanted to watch something on BBC iPlayer. You wouldn't be allowed to, because the iPlayer is only for UK residents. However, by using a VPN and connecting to a server in London, the system thinks you're actually in London and gives you access to iPlayer, even though you're really in Spain. In Steve's example, he could have been here in Blighty but connected to a VPN server somewhere in the USA and had full access to that .com travel website.

It may be to do with 'brand perception' in a small way but that can't be the whole thing because all motor manufacturers do it 'because they can.' I had a Nissan Maxima QX that needed an oil sump pan. It was probably made of pressed enamelled steel, it had a few fancy lines on it that had no functional purpose, and it had a few holes drilled in it. Nissan wanted just under £200 if I remember correctly. We bought a new roasting tin at around the same time. It was probably made of pressed enamelled steel, it didn't have any fancy lines on it but it did have a couple of holes drilled in it. Asda or Sainsburys or wherever we got it from charged under a fiver - and I defy anyone to tell me that there's about £180-worth of difference between the two items:

Classic rock never goes out of fashion and you can't be too old to listen if the guys playing it are also in advanced years, such as: Rolling Stones Mick Jagger 76 Charlie Watts 78 Keith Richards 76 (although he looks like he died 10 years ago) Ronnie Wood 72 Led Zeppelin Robert Plant 71 Jimmy Page 75 John Paul Jones 73 The Who Roger Daltrey 75 Pete Townsend 74 and so on. Ian Hunter of Mott The Hoople is 80

No, it doesn't, as I said above.

It can't be done on this model, or at least I've never had any success with my November 2013 RX450h Advance.

Why bother? The Lexus nav is clunky, counter-intuitive, slow, and because it's DVD-based you can't add your own POIs. Much better to use Waze or Google Maps on your phone, or even a stand-alone nav like a TomTom or Garmin.