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Like you I had the Dunlops and thought they were dire especially in the wet. I have had Bridgestone Turanzas a couple of times which were certainly a vast improvement on the Dunlops. Recently put on Avon ZV7 and I think they are better (ride, roadholding and wet) than the Turanza. Had Avons on previous car (Merc E) and found them to be better than others - often cheaper too and last about the same.

Indeed I am in a 2019 ES... Your device: Lexus Premium System MM17 The manual has no mention of stick size. FWIW It does say FAT16/32, 3000 folders and 9999 files.

I have been using sandisk ultra fit both 256G and 128G...... https://www.westerndigital.com/products/usb-flash-drives/sandisk-ultra-fit-usb-3-1?sku=SDCZ430-016G-G46 Though on one occasion I took out the 256G to add some more music to it and when I put it back in the car music was not visible. Put it back in the computer and all music visible and playable. Plugged it into my hifi system all good! Worked fine too in the wife's car. Reformatted, copied music again ....ES system would not see the music. Bought a new 256G one which worked fine and has continued to do so..... The original one is in the hifi system and working fine too...... Go figure!

We are looking to go to one car as both are retired. Decided the ES is the one to go as my wife wont drive it - too big! Quite shocked at how low the offers are compared to an initial look a couple of months ago..... It's a 19 plate premium with 40k miles....£15k is all anyone seems to want to offer. Contacted couple of Lexus dealers who were advertising they wanted cars - not interested - fully stocked - not buying till the new year - had an influx of new vehicles. May be too old for them? They didn't say that. I get it that this time of year many folk are focused on Christmas rather buying cars and obviously current economic climate and interest rates are affecting the situation. Anyone else seen or experienced this sort of thing at the moment?

ok so it appears to be normal! yes I had noticed significant improvement with the shade cosed.

I am noticing that there seems to be an annoying amount wind noise coming from the sunroof when closed but the shade pushed back. Seems to be worst at 70mph. I have wiped around the seals with a damp cloth. The seal appears to be fine with no damage or obvious marks. Anyone else noticed this?

Yes this bugged me too from the start! I have renamed all my tracks on an album as 01 - trackname1, 02 - trackname2 etc. and they are in folders of /artist/album. If you use browse folders on the system and select the folder (album) they seem to play in the right order. I did this using a program called fre:ac (freac.org) - which works on windows, linux and mac and well for all sorts of music conversions and sorting. Another bugbear is that the system is not really a surround system (pioneer system on premium MY19). If you try moving the sound toward the rear it just disappears and there is virtually no sound in the rear at the best of times. You really only get sound from the front. With my previous car(mercedes) you could move the focal point of the sound back and forth . I chased this up at the start and was told "by design" - even on the upgraded sound system I am told. I note that the pioneer system is not described as a surround system but as a 10 speaker system you would expect it to be so. Having said all that I think the sound quality is good.

Thats the way it is ! Its bugged me big time since day 1 on mine. No way to change it for the default/home screen. When you go to the full nav display you can set it heads up fortunately.

Interested to hear any other views on my perceived fragility of the ES windscreen. I have just just got second cracked windscreen in 18 months and probably only 5/6K miles since the last one. In all my far too many years of car ownership and high mileage in the past I can only ever recall having one cracked windscreen. Or is it just bad luck?

Anybody else experience issues with satnav where it seems to have your location out by several hundred metres (in a field rather than on the road!)? It some times corrects itself after a few minutes other times not. I had one case where it was routing and all of sudden put me in a field but then corrected itself to continue the route but was very confused taking me through a residential area when clearly not necessary. Its been into to the dealer for them to check and is fully up to date according to to the dealer but still does it once in a while.

Ok finally replaced the Dunlops (not done much mileage recently!)! The fronts were well down (16k miles) and the backs fine but I replaced all 4 with Bridgestone Turanza T005. First impressions are very good (even taking into account these are new vs. old and worn). Even with the recent wet weather I have not seen the traction control come on! There are a couple of places near me where whenever I pulled out on the Dunlops (even from new) the traction control kicked in without even trying. Not noticed it kicking in so far. As always time will tell but so far overall - feel, braking, cornering is good. .

Is it just me but does the clock in an es300 not automatically change after the end of BST? I had the system set to set the clock via GPS and location set as Greenwich. My previous (merc) would automatically reset the clock as soon as you started up after a clock change.

Fixed! Much to my surprise got a call from Autoglass yesterday to say they had the trim and they fitted it today. Result at last. Better still they have used Lexus glass.

Update Not fixed and looks like it will be some time. Earlier this week I had convinced the insurance company that they should pay for Lexus dealer to do it. Went back to Lexus dealer to confirm the quote. Dealer is closed and I was also told by email that they are not able to order any parts either. Spoke to an area manager at Autoglass. They are not ordering any parts. Could not even advise when the trim would arrive (this should have been ordered on 17 March). When I suggested that they could have got the glass and parts from Lexus ages ago Autoglass said that the insurance company would not let them do that! Hmmmmm that's probably the agreement they have to keep the cost down for both. Crack is now right across the drivers line of sight so technically should not be driven. Fortunately we have second car and obviously not going very far at the moment.

A £100 excess applies to claims for replacement, and £25 for glass repair. If the work is carried out by our approved repairer, the excess is reduced to £75 for glass replacement and £15 for glass repair. If our approved repairer is not used the maximum payable under this section is £150 after deducting excesses.