Herbie

I agree, but surely even a blind man on the No.87 bus can see that we just cannot possibly do away with fossil fuels until we have a viable alternative in place beforehand. We are woefully short of doing that yet so we need new oil and gas fields, and maybe even start digging for coal again, to avoid being held to ransom by the foreign powers who supply our energy needs.

I agree with Matt - 12V battery failing. This can cause all sorts or weird gremlins to appear. Go to a garage or even car accessory shop like (urgh) Halfords and ask them to load test it. If you put a multimeter across it you may well see 12V but if any load is put on it, that voltage may drop like a stone.

I know from the Facebook group that it's not available in the USA or Canada but don't know if it's UK-specific.

Love it when a good DIY job comes to fruition, well done mate.

Cheers Mark, very kind of you sir. We'll be sorry to see you go but all the best for the future and good luck with your new car, whatever it may be.

Beautiful colour Gary, a great choice of both car and colour. Enjoy!

That doesn't seem to make sense to me. Their adverts are keen to say that even if you've had it serviced elsewhere, if you take it to them for a service you automatically get the 'free' Relax warranty for 12 months. So, say you're a month late, that means that you've been running around for a month without any warranty cover, but the moment it completes a service at a Lexus dealership, surely the clock starts ticking again on a new 12 months of cover?

Just goes to prove what I said earlier - no rhyme or reason to it at all. I was caught doing 44 in a 30, given £100 fine and 3 points, and that put my insurance up by £120 per year until the points drop off!!

My mate has a 2016 RX F-Sport with white outside, red inside. It really doesn't work for me. Only my personal taste but I think the red interior is tacky. Azure Blue with white interior all day long would be my choice.

The OP has an RX350, which isn't a hybrid. By the use of the word "rotor" I'd reckon USA or Canada.

Not just quite difficult but darn near impossible. I'm 64, full NCB, one SP30 speeding ticket, driveway parking, driving for 47 years, 10k miles/year, black & white chequered underpants, yellow & black striped socks, green eyes and this year's premium, paid in full last month, was £485 or thereabouts, which was about £30 less than last year for my 2018 RX450h Luxury.

It can get a bit noisy I suppose, but only when the car is under hard acceleration, not all the time. On any given journey it may be a bit noisy for 5% of the time, which means it's not noisy for 95% of the time. Are you really saying that you can't live with that?

I just want to say two more things. Back in 1973 my dad got a brand new car. OK, it was 'only' a Morris Marina Estate but in our street/neighbourhood/circle of friends it was almost unheard of to own a brand new car and it cost him a lot of money at the time. Thing is, we lived in a street of terraced houses with no driveway or garage and he just had to park it outside the house. I know traffic wasn't as bad back then but we still had double-decker buses, trucks and all manner of vehicular traffic passing by. When I asked if he was worried about it getting damaged he just laughed and said no - he couldn't do anything about it and there were plenty of other things in life to worry about. I am absolutely not making light of the war but, four weeks ago someone in Ukraine may have had an LC500 (or some other car that they loved equally as much) locked away in a garage because they were paranoid of someone dinging a door panel or whatever. My point is, you never know what's round the corner so get it out and enjoy it now, for tomorrow may never come.

It's a car. Designed to be driven. Outside, on the roads. This life is not a rehersal where you make the choices here and get to carry them out in the next. You could be run over by a bus next week so use it and enjoy it the way it was meant to be.

You haven't got an RX petrol, you've got a hybrid. Given the size and weight of the car, a petrol only RX would do well to return 20mpg but my 450h regularly gets 35+ I can live with that.

It would never make me buy one of the cars but the Fiat Strada 'Built By Robots' advert was excellent, especially the way they drive onto the transporter at the end.

I believe that if you leave the Grom system onscreen when you turn the car off, it will boot back up to the same place when you start the car again. I haven't tried it so far because I've only been doing short runs recently and not needed any of the facilities that the Vline provides, but I'll try it tomorrow. I can say that I usually have the OEM Lexus interface set to Planet Rock on DAB radio, so once that's up and running two or three presses of the Media button takes me into the Vline, which opens up to the Agama Launcher that I use.

74ppl where I live so still viable here. I can highly recommend http://lpgc.co.uk/ who have done two conversions for me in the past. Based in South Elmsall, West Yorkshire, he doesn't just fit a kit of parts like a Meccano set, but he really understands both the practicalities and the science behind how it all works. Consequently, he has the skill to 'mix and match' components to make a bespoke system that will really get the best out of the installation and the car itself.

Do they come on properly, i.e. full brightness, or are they dimmer than usual? I'm thinking there could be a backfeed from some other circuit due to the water ingress/dampness, or current tracking across the passenger side fuse box. How did you dry it out and are you sure it's completely dry? Did you use anything like switch and contact cleaner to clean up where it got wet and have you checked any earthing points for cleanliness and tightness around the area?

That would suggest to me that the original card was giving problems so he bought a new one to solve it and it didn't - which may suggest that the card(s) are not the culprit.

Taken directly from that article is this paragraph: In the main, it remains older cars that are targeted because advances in efficiency and technology mean the latest generations of Lexus catalytic converters contain vastly lower amounts of precious metals, whilst still doing their job just as well or even better; this means their value for recycling is very low and they are not attractive to thieves.

Amazingly, I read the exact opposite! The article I read said that because the ICE doesn't run all the time there are fewer precious metals in a hybrid's cat. Strangely, the ruffians and ne'r do well's don't seem to have cottoned on to the fact that all cars have cats and all cats contain precious metals, ergo all cars are a target, not just hybrids.

This may give you problems in selling the car later on but why not do as I said above, i.e. get a cheap cat and someone to weld the pipes if necessary and continue to run it until it dies? You could even just get a straight pipe welded in because, as we all know, hybrids are not emissions-tested on the MOT and many people have gone through an MOT with a straight pipe and it's passed without problem. It's absolutely criminal to write off a good car because of nothing other than a cat theft.

I don't think they use a float these days, but rather 'calculate' the fuel level and consumption by measuring various parameters such as fuel flow rate, road speed and so on. I used to have a 2005 RX300 and had it converted to run on LPG, but the fuel gauge would still go down as though it was using petrol when it wasn't. Just what this means for your particular problem though, I don't know.

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