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I doubt it very much. That could be a condition of servicing in other countries where it would get more hammer.

Yes, including that horrible monstrosity too

As far as I'm concerned Citroen never had a plot to lose when it comes to looks and aesthetics and have always made ugly things, but this one really has fallen out of the tallest ugly tree in the world and hasn't just hit every branch on the way down but has been actively thrashed by them!

It may be possible with a Grom Vline2 or maybe a Lexion unit

Goodyear Vector 4Seasons. In most tests and reviews they either equal or are just half a point behind Michelin CCs. I had them on my 2013 RX and they were superb but they don't seem to be available in the 20" size for my 4RX.

Absolutely no problem whatsoever on a hybrid car because there's no physical propshaft driving the rear wheels. It only becomes a 4WD when the hybrid system drives the rear wheels by means of the electric motor. A traditional 4WD car with physical propshaft will have problems due to the different rolling diameters between front and rear. No, it doesn't work like that.

It's all very confusing but there's no good/bad, right/wrong, better/worse - it's all just personal preference. Android Auto (AA) is just an 'umbrella' app that allows some other apps to run within it. The interface is optimised for use in the car. Icons and text are bigger than normal so that it's easier for the driver to see/read them. Some apps (such as YouTube and Netflix) can't be run in AA because it's illegal for a driver to see an active screen while the car is in motion, so rather than just disabling these apps when the car is in motion, AA won't let them run at all and takes the decision out of your hands. This is one reason why I don't use AA, preferring instead to download any apps to the Vline and run them natively from there. Regarding phone calls, the Bluetooth on the Vline has always been a bit flakey for that, so I use my phone as a wifi hotspot to give the Vline a gateway to the Internet (which is what your TP-Link unit is doing for you), but I always let Lexus OEM Bluetooth handle calls as the quality is much better. Not sure what's going on there Barry. Any chance you could take a short video and upload it so that we can see exactly what's happening?

You really only have two choices - either keep the car and be prepared to chuck money at it or get your money back and look for a better example. I know what I would do.

The Faraday pouches tend to fail after a few months with no visible reason, which is why I always test mine every few days.

Surely you can tell by the temperature of the air coming out of the vents without needing to look at the lights? If you really can't tell then it could be a sign that the refrigerant has leaked out of the system and it needs to be regassed.

Cheers Barry, hope you get it sorted to your satisfaction. One thing I can't work out is this 'it may not work properly without a battery in it' - why would anyone want to operate it without a battery anyway?

Turn off ACC and just use 'normal' cruise control instead.

I guess money isn't a priority for you, which is fair enough. We're just trying to point out that there's no such thing as a 'Lexus' battery and the one that Lexus supply has only been bought in from the battery manufacturer, had a Lexus label slapped on it and then sold out to people who think they're getting something special when they're not. The battery will have come from somewhere like a Yuasa factory or a Panasonic factory here on Earth just like hundreds of thousands of other batteries, rather than being created in a mystic ritual on the planet Lexi where the battery is filled with the tears of a purple Unicorn at midnight on the Winter Solstice instead of normal battery acid.

It's really lashing down here at the moment so I'm not going out to the car for this, but using Google Maps on the PC, adding waypoints is as simple as clicking on the 'Add Destination' button. I assume it will work the same in the car.

On the very rare occasion it's happened to me I've just pressed the button to shut down the car, wait for the whirring/buzzing sounds to stop (only a few seconds) and then foot on brake and press power button, and it's worked.

It's doing exactly what it's designed to do. By leaving it in accessory mode and making the car turn off to conserve battery, the hybrid system has stopped. I would have thought a full off/full on cycle would then resume normal working again.

Well W3W has never let me down and I think it's brilliant. A party of 7 or 8 of us went away for the weekend and on Saturday afternoon some people wanted to do one thing and the rest wanted to do another, so we split into two groups and said whoever finishes first, just W3W the location of the pub you're in. It worked so well that it took us to their exact table in the beer garden of a pub. In my experience, most problems are caused by the user(s) especially if someone reads out the three words. As for using GPS coordinates, not many people even know what they are, let alone use them.

Just a guess being as no one else has answered, but surely it can only be an air problem? Either compressor not working at all or working but not efficiently; air leak(s) in pipework/joints or the strut airbags?

Most, if not all, of these will come with a mains charger and a USB cable. The mains charger is basically a mobile phone power unit that steps down 230V to 5V. USB is an industry standard 5V so you can be safe in the knowledge that whether you use a mains charger, or plug it into a USB port in the car, or even plug it into a laptop USB port, you'll always find 5V on the end. Mobile phones run on 5V; each of those mi-fi routers will run on 5V and so on. I know that the cigar lighter and 12V power sockets in my 2018 RX are only energised when the ignition is on, so in your case I think you just need to plug the router into a USB port and it'll be fine. Hope that helps my friend.

None at all, but in the words of that odious creature Suella Braverman, I have no problem with admitting my mistakes

I can't see anything on that box that says it acts as a reversing camera. It's simply a dual dash cam with front and rear cameras.

As you know Barry, I use my phone as a hotspot so I haven't got any personal experience of any of these units but I can say that you should be happy with any of them from what I'm reading: https://www.techadvisor.com/article/724006/best-mobile-wifi-routers.html

If your car is a more recent one with Android Auto or Apple CarPlay then you can just install What3Words like any other app. I fitted a Grom Vline 2 into my 2018 RX and go into W3W for the location but then get it to hand over to Waze for the actual navigation.

The start-up sequence is that you press the Start button and the 12V battery pressurises the brakes and boots the computers to get the car into READY mode. At that point you can drive off using battery power alone but you'd only get to the top of the street before the petrol engine kicks into life. When the hybrid system wants to run the petrol engine it energises MG1 and uses that to spin up the engine to 1,000rpm before applying fuel and a spark to fire it. The main thing in the context of this conversation is that once you see the green READY light on the dash, the hybrid system is up and running and it controls everything. As well as not having a traditional starter motor, hybrids don't have an alternator either. The DC/DC converter takes the 288V feed from the traction battery and converts it to about 14.6V to run all the 12V systems and to charge the 12V battery.

As Colin says above, and here's the confirmation from Lexus: Lexus advice re headlights in France - anonymised for distribution (French & English).26-7-2014.pdf