Herbie

Your owners manual will show you how to do it. If you haven't got one you can download one here: https://www.lexus.co.uk/forms/manuals/owners-manual

I'm just encountering this very thing and no, service plans are not national but dealer-specific. Although we bought our car from Lexus Teeside we live in Preston, Lancashire, about 110 miles away but due to the route, a journey of over two hours. My nearest Lexus dealership was Bolton (about 30 minutes away) but for various reasons we decided to take out extended warranty and a service plan with Teeside because they're absolutely brilliant to deal with. I also love driving the car so a four-hour round trip wasn't exactly a hardship or a journey that I dreaded 😁 Anyway, a few days ago, a brand new Lexus dealership opened up here in Preston and going to Teeside does seem a little bit silly now, so I rang Teeside to see if the warranty and service plan could be transferred. I found out that the warranty indeed can be, because it's a national thing, but the service plan couldn't be transferred because they are individual to the specific dealership and I would have to cancel the Teeside one and take out a new one with Preston. I was also told to "see what they could do price-wise" because, due to the individuality of dealers and the various deals they could arrange, it may prove to make economic sense to stay with Teeside if Preston couldn't match prices, even taking the fuel and time into account.

You should never allow yourself to be "in a pinch" as you say, for all the very good reasons already stated above. It could prove to be a very costly experiment. When the needle gets to about 1/4 (never less) I fill up. Simples.

That was my thought too, the release bearing. The rattle could be a loose exhaust heat shield maybe?

First hit on a Google search:

It's your money Mark and your choice, and I respect that, I really do. However, I don't really see that there's much difference between the eBay ones and this one, except that this one is £70 more expensive. There are no reviews so we don't know if it's good, bad or indifferent compared to the eBay ones and to just pick up on one of your earlier points, you said: which is exactly the way my cable works too - but who's to say that's 'wrong'? In the description for the one you link to, one of the features listed is: which means that if there's an LED in it it'll light up either way, so it's exactly the same. You obviously won't be happy with an eBay cable and that's fair enough because as I said earlier, your money, your choice. All I'm saying is that from personal experience of using my own eBay cable many dozens of times I've had no problems whatsoever, and given the quantity of these things out there being used without apparent problems, I'm more than happy to continue using mine. We'll never definitively know either way unless we could get the circuit diagrams and schematics of each device to compare the inner workings anyway.

I doubt such an animal exists. Any scanner from about £20 will be able to read/clear engine and emissions codes but for all the modules you'll either need a very expensive one or Techstream. You can freely and legitimately download Techstream from Toyota/Lexus and buy a block of time to use it and you can even buy a cable from them too if you're not happy with the one you've got. You can buy a different cable from eBay and try that if you think the one you've got is dodgy. Your auto electrician may have just meant 'don't go poking around with something as powerful as Techstream unless you know what you're doing because you can brick the car'. After all, dozens and dozens of people up and down the country are using eBay-sourced cable and software on a daily basis without problems, albeit against copyright law with regard to the software.

Here's a link to just one trader selling them on the Bay of Fleas and they're UK stock too And here's a different design with the 'LEXUS' in red but these are from China and will take two or three weeks delivery

It's nothing more than a light unit which replaces a light unit. Yes, they're safe and no, no issues over the 12 months I've had them fitted.

Yes, very easy. Lever original out, pull off the connector, place connector on replacement and push replacement into place - three minutes at the outside.

Absolutely would help Steve, along with make, model, how much and where from please.

Completely agree Geoff, utterly stupid.

Might be worth a look here http://www.ebaystores.co.uk/LexusOfficialStore EDIT: Doh, just realised you've already been there! Personally I'd go for the rubber one anyway as stainless steel can still be scratched.

Nothing wrong with that I got these from eBay for £8.99 a pair and as you say, about 3 minutes to fit:

Do you mean something like this? If so, that's an internal DAB aerial. Your FM aerial will be integrated with part of the heated rear window wires as can be seen in this page from the workshop manual:

What else can they say? It does exactly what it says on the tin - they do know that it's there and that it's not yet active so how else could they put it? It may even be one of those things that's active in other countries but not the UK and perhaps never will be.

Such first world problems to have! @cadman2k For goodness sake, it's showing to the outside so you won't see it when you're inside, ergo a non-problem.

I've never seen anything about an upgraded camera or infrared lights but you don't really need to go to that expense, even if such things are available. Just take the shades off the light units and replace the halogen bulbs with the LEDs mentioned earlier in this topic and you'll be amazed at just how much of a difference it makes.

Take apart the key you've got now to find out and make sure you get the same one.

Sorry about the car but from your photos it seems that the lamp posts have iron railing 'guards' around them - is this area prone to this sort of thing?

Surely you'll have a street-corner-type car accessory shop somewhere near you that you can go in and ask advice? There's about ten of 'em within a two mile radius of me. Alternatively, have a look here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuse_(automotive) or just Google the phrase "automotive blade fuse dimensions" (without the quotes) because you really need to make sure which type you ask for.

Good luck with this one Nigel, I'm sure you'll love it.

First of all, regarding the belt change. If it's going into a Lexus dealership they will ONLY do the belt - unless you specifically ask for (and pay extra for) they will NOT change the idlers/tensioners or water pump. It's considered 'best practice' to have everything done together which is why you can buy cambelt kits that contain all the necessary components and it's also cheaper to do everything at once. Because the water pump lives in almost the same place as the belt, to change it at the same time may add £40 or £50 to the job, but if you do it later then you'll end up with another £300+ bill because 90% of the work done to get at the belt will have to be done again to get to the pump. I had belt, idlers/tensioners, water pump and 10 litres of Toyota Super Long Life Pink coolant changed, including labour and VAT, for about £460 on my 2005 RX300 when we had it. The power is used to supplement the petrol engine and so give you more mpg than just straight petrol would. The secret of driving a hybrid is to not baby the car (which I did at first). Accelerate briskly to the desired speed then just ease back ever so slightly on the throttle so that you're just maintaining that momentum. Unless there's impatient traffic behind you, let it coast downhill and you'll see the power meter drop into the 'charge' zone and the petrol engine cuts out, so no fuel being used at all - and if you're lucky you may even get away with it just using electricity to climb the hill at the other side 😉

I doubt that very much to be honest. These things sell in their hundreds, even thousands, and I've never heard of one destroying a car ECU before. Of course, all electronic equipment, be it a TV, a cell phone, computer or whatever can go faulty at any time but I wouldn't necessarily jump straight to it being the fault of the miniVCI cable.

Must be driver's side then 😁