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You just need a headlight restoration kit. Meguiars or this one from 3M are both popular ones. Plenty of 'how to' videos on YouTube as well. Biggest thing is to finish off with a good quality UV resistant clear coat/top coat or they'll be just as yellow again in a few months.
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You covered this in one of your other gazillion questions somewhere, I'm sure Anyway, I'll say now what I did then - I got 3 years cover from https://www.motoreasy.com/insurance/cosmetic-repair and it was about half the price of what the dealer was asking. I've not needed to claim on it yet so I don't know how good it'll be when it comes down to it but I'm happy up to now.
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Both of you having 2020 cars, you should both be able to go to the dealers and get them to install or activate Android Auto/Apple CarPlay if it hasn't already been done by the previous owners. I believe they do it for about £80 so I would highly recommend that you both do that so that you can have the modern miracle maps of either Waze, Google Maps, Sygic or others. This will have an immediate two-fold benefit for you both: Your lives will be fuller, richer and happier for having a modern intuitive navigation system with both completely free and frequent updates You'll lose less hair in the long run because there'll be nothing to frustrate you into pulling big clumps of it out Win-win
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Map updates
Herbie replied to Sybaris's topic in RX 300 / RX 350h / RX 400h / RX 200t / RX 450h+ / RX 500h Club
Yet another reason (as if we needed it) to just forget the pitiful Lexus offering and go with Waze, Google Maps, Sygic or others. -
RC to RX
Herbie replied to NemesisUK's topic in RX 300 / RX 350h / RX 400h / RX 200t / RX 450h+ / RX 500h Club
Yep, that's the one - I'd forgotten that I'd made a couple of contributions in there Android Auto/Apple CarPlay need Internet access so it's good for that and all it provides (Waze or Google Maps or Sygic and What3Words for navigation) etc. etc. -
RC to RX
Herbie replied to NemesisUK's topic in RX 300 / RX 350h / RX 400h / RX 200t / RX 450h+ / RX 500h Club
It is indeed a wifi hotspot but it's got a non-removable SIM and it's locked to Orange. It's also very expensive at, if I remember correctly, about £10 for 2GB data, although I may be wrong. I haven't got one in my car, I'm only going from past topics I've read on here. If you want the facility, it's better and cheaper to either tether your phone or buy your own mobile wifi modem/hotspot and use a SIM of your choice. -
No walkthrough
Herbie replied to Sybaris's topic in RX 300 / RX 350h / RX 400h / RX 200t / RX 450h+ / RX 500h Club
There's very little that isn't intuitive but it's always easier to learn by watching someone else do it. Sit in the car with your smartphone and play the YouTube videos, pausing them when necessary to allow you time to copy what they're doing before moving on. -
No walkthrough
Herbie replied to Sybaris's topic in RX 300 / RX 350h / RX 400h / RX 200t / RX 450h+ / RX 500h Club
But surely you have a smartphone? Just open the pdf manual on there. YouTube is also a superb source of information. Many people have done walkthroughs on there, these being amongst them: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=walkthrough+of+2020+Lexus+RX -
RC to RX
Herbie replied to NemesisUK's topic in RX 300 / RX 350h / RX 400h / RX 200t / RX 450h+ / RX 500h Club
Excellent, well done my friend -
No walkthrough
Herbie replied to Sybaris's topic in RX 300 / RX 350h / RX 400h / RX 200t / RX 450h+ / RX 500h Club
Just push, pull, press, poke and for anything that you can't figure out that way, there's always the manual from here https://www.lexus.co.uk/owners/about-my-lexus/manuals -
For what it's worth (and I appreciate it may not be worth much having read the comments in this thread) I've just got the email with my PSA results. Previous tests have been 0.75, 0.75, 0.75, 0.52, and today's 0.55ng/ml.
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A mate of mine recently had an elevated PSA result so had to go in for biopsy. They took 47 samples (which he has vowed never to have done again unless he gets a general anaesthetic) from various locations around the prostate and it was declared benign. A couple of weeks ago we went to my brother in law's funeral. Six months ago he had a bit of pain and difficulty urinating and after various tests he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. A cancer nodule broke off and travelled into the top half of his body, where the consultant said it basically 'exploded' and led to heart attack, a couple of other secondary cancers and eventual death six months later. I'm awaiting the results of my home PSA test that I took a couple of days ago.
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You can still use the pressure washer, just put the water in a bucket and then dip the inlet hose of the pressure washer into it. They actually use surprisingly little water but because of the pressure it comes out at, we tend to think they're using gallons. Plenty YouTube videos here.
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Carista V Techstream
Herbie replied to rodlex's topic in Lexus IS 250 / Lexus IS 250C Club / Lexus IS 220D & IS 200D Club
The problem is usually drivers for the adapter. What OS are you running? -
High Fuel Costs - Any Changes In Your Driving Habits?
Herbie replied to Rabbers's topic in Lexus General Discussions
No change in my driving habits whatsoever yet, or at least not due to the price of fuel. There was a time when only the rich could afford to fly anywhere - and then it came to the masses. There was a time when only the rich could afford to own a car - and then it came to the masses. On a global scale we are slowly returning to those times and I truly believe that my generation (I was born in 1958) has had the best of the times when the masses could afford to do things that used to be the preserve of the rich. I don't want to shuffle off my mortal coil for quite a few years yet but, as a mate of mine says, "I'm glad I'm on the last bus." -
Map updates
Herbie replied to Sybaris's topic in RX 300 / RX 350h / RX 400h / RX 200t / RX 450h+ / RX 500h Club
I doubt that there are any automotive systems from any manufacturer that could ever be as good or as convenient as Google Maps, Waze, Sygic or others of that ilk. In the past I had a couple of TomTom units, first one being a GO700 and the last one being a GO LIVE 1005 and they were great, but even they couldn't stand their ground against a modern smartphone and the mapping apps I mentioned above. -
rx400h exhaust
Herbie replied to badger180's topic in RX 300 / RX 350h / RX 400h / RX 200t / RX 450h+ / RX 500h Club
So you bought it 3 years ago and it was "bodged" but it's passed every MOT since then (or at least, not failed on that part), so why not just have the bodge repaired or bodge it again instead of buying a new centre section? NB - I'm not advocating any 'bodginess', just wondering why, if the bodge was acceptable to you when you bought it, are you worried about it now? -
Whenever I hear of small garages I always think of this guy: