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Are run-flat tires compatible with the air pressure sensors in CT200H

Hybrid. October 2016. CT200H Luxury

My downhill bike ride with 18psi on rear wheel and 20 on front wheel 😊 fantastic grip even on loose lava rubble. My AM bike 30 front and 25 rear wheel. I think the CT has 46-47psi (3.2 bar) on all 4 but never had the precise instrument on as it is for Presta valves only.

Continental Mountain King Protection 2.4 for my X-trail all mountain bike and Schwalbe Muddy Mary 2.8 plus Cush-Core for my downhill bike. 😇 😎 😷

When I need new tyres here is what I am going to put on: https://www.continental-reifen.de/autoreifen/reifen/allseasoncontact

I have a CT and when original tyres are to be replaced it will be with Continental (have used the brand at least 30 years on almost all cars I have had) ExtremeContact™ DWS06 for me ExtremeContact™ Sport for more sporty driving.

Could you please send the service personnel here to us? I have nothing good to talk about Lexus service here.

Here we have 95 or 98 and inside the flap it tells me to use unleaded. Price difference is so small that I have until now used 98. Do not believe 95 should make any problems.

Standard 215/45-17. Less noise than 205/55-16 on a Golf V DSG 2.0 tdi. Lexus is a quiet car.

First, I thought it was telling me I was going faster than speed limit informed on the navigation system, then I thought it was warning beeps coming from radar system when other cars were coming too close as the beeps also came when not driving too fast. Radar is activating brakes when using cruise control and cars in front of me slow down so maybe the radar is telling that there is something I should look out for. The Lexus cars have a lot more electronic systems than I thought possible at first. Turning lights on when approaching, unlocking when toughing the door handle and telling me that moon roof is open when pressing parking button. Pretty sure I will find more things in the car that will impress/surprise me. Only car I ever had as long as 10 years was a Golf. Now I hope this one will last at least as long as I can continue to get my drivers license renewed.

Mine has SD-micro too. Shall I just take the card out and put a new in or shall I update the old card?

I have been using Continental on my cars the last maybe 30 years. Long lasting and run good all year. The CT is very quiet for such a small car.

Have a shiny new phone but the nav in the car is good enough for me. Also have a Garmin with lifelong updates bought 2014, just having something atached Only one more reason to not trust the Lexus service centre.

Not if you drive alone in the car. Merry Christmas and happy new year john

Have not had ours a long time, but the worst with it is that it so far is better than the previously owned. Even though some of these were more than twice the price. Wife tell me to turn volume down on the audio, but the sound of it is so great that sometimes I do not hear her. Daughter love the car.

Just bought the nav update from Lexus/Toyota service and it did cost a fortune. Stupid me trusted the service agent telling me the that the micro-SD-card does not only have the navigation system in it but also the services made on the car from authorised workshops. Seems this is not the truth so instead of paying several hundreds for a card coming from Japan (according to the service personnel) I could have bought it on eBay for less than 50. Anybody know if the SD-card contain any other data than navigation maps?

Home audio: Want good treble and mid-range: electrostatic speakers from Quad are the best I have heard; for home use; with Quad valve amps. We used them to listen to vocal tracks in 1974. Since then I have not worked with music so what is used now is something, I have no idea about. Maybe the new Quad loudspeakers are able to reproduce bass as well. The old Quad electrostats needed to stand about 1 meter from corner walls go get reasonably good deep tone reproduction. Not something everybody want in their house. But better treble and mid-range I have never heard. I still have my old B&O 6500 system and that is good enough for me. Hearing does not get better with age. A pair of old Koss headphones is still the best I have heard but listening to music alone is not really funny. Car audio: The ML-audio in our CT200H is sufficient for us. What matters most when installing audio in any room is the correct position of the loudspeakers. In a car the listeners are sitting where they are sitting so installing loudspeakers is not at all easy when all in a car should have good sound quality. I think the people that made the audio system in the CT200H did a terrific job and I am pretty sure (without having heard other than our own) that the rest of the Lexus car range have pretty good audio systems installed. Hybrid cars are rather low noise so they do not need audio systems that can blow out the windows when turned on full volume. To me sound quality and clearness is important and extremely loud music is only good for the companies making hearing aids. Happy with the Lexus? Absolutely.

Forgot Opel GT 1970. Beautiful car. Must be getting old.

Do not know how factory get the super fuel consumption data, but having only had the CT200H very short time I have seen that in normal city driving with knob set to ECO it does not consume much less than my old VW 2.0 TDI DSG Golf, when driving as economic as I can in both cars, so I suppose that it is more up to the drivers to get a superb mileage on gas, than it is to the car. Now, I told you I am not a super skilled driver. No, the diesel engine is not perfect. It is collecting much dirt in exhaust system when driven economically. The faithful TDI needs to have exhaust cleaned before getting the approval for driving another year and cleaning the exhaust system is done by driving the engine with high revolutions and if looking in the rear view mirror and seeing the thick black smoke that come out behind the car for several kilometres you’ll know that the car is not at all environment-friendly. There have been several super polluters among the cars we have had *). We have polluted without thinking about it. 20 years ago, not one, of the people I know, were thinking of pollution from cars. But climate change is happening. Maybe cars are not a major part in that, but if we do not change the way we pollute in everything we do, many countries will lose a lot of land as icebergs are melting, water level is rising, land just above sea level will be expensive to keep dry; so, polluting as little as possible, is one of the good reasons for buying a hybrid. Why not a fully electric car? Power must be made first, and as long as most electricity comes from burning fossil fuel, difference between a hybrid and an electric car may not be very big and if electricity come from burning coal, hybrid may be a far better choice. When (if ever) all electricity come from wind or sun or other non-polluting sources, the ever-changing tides have so much power that if converted to electricity no other source would be needed and though that idea is more than hundred years old nobody has still bothered to find out how to use it. Electric cars would be good if it was not that making the items that make electricity from wind or sun is polluting a lot, and the leftovers from these machines will be impossible to reuse/recircle. Windmills wings made from fibres and plastics and resin are extremely durable materials, and when they can no longer be used for the purpose they were built to; they are impossible to recircle with technology we have today. Burning them will need filter not available due to the cost of the filter; burning without filter will release a lot of toxic smoke. The pile of stored no longer useable windmill wings is growing. Making solar cells and getting rid of the left overs when they no longer work well are polluting more than atomic energy it is said. Atomic waste is not really a great thing either. Storing electricity is another problem that today can only happen with losing so much energy that it is not really useful. Transporting electricity over large distance is another way of losing energy. Hydrogen in fuel cells is talked about, but so far making the cells takes much more energy than will be in the final product to put in a car, and though pure water from the exhaust system sounds nice, it is not really something that is coming in the near future. Maybe hybrid is the best choice today. That is what I told my wife. She surprised me buying a Lexus. *) MB 300SEL-6.9, Peugeot 604, Rover 1982, MB 250S, Ford Capri 2.8, MB 350SE, Datsun 280ZX, Nissan 300ZX, Toyota Supra, Lancia Delta EVO 2, Honda Accord Coupé. These super polluters I remember we have had; some I may have forgotten. We had some not so polluting cars as well: Austin/Morris 1100, Dyane 6, Honda Civic, some of them were fun to drive: Matra Baghera, Toyota MR2 1986, Honda CRX 1987, Toyota MR2 Roadster 2000 plus a Smart Roadster Coupé that is almost a go-kart. Now I think, the Lexus CT200H is not so bad when a car is best option for transportation.

Got the impression from your mentioning of "up-hill battle". Sorry if I misunderstood.

Believe you have high thoughts about built quality when it comes to BMW and MB. I do not. Have had 2 BMW and 3 MB, plus a Smart Roadster Coupé, which was actually better built than both BMW and of MB's a 250S and a 350SE. Do not speak about the 300 6.9, that was faultless. Our Lexus CT 2016 has a far better finish in the interior than both BMW (1800 and 2000) and the 250S MB. With regard to the training mechanics I do agree with you. They leave it to people that know very little about the car here where I live. Service is expensive and low quality. If Lexus wanted, they would have no uphill against BMW and if comparing cars with same price level MB is no better than BMW.

Continental Conti Premium Contact since many years on many cars. Now they are Continental Conti Premium Contact 2. Last a long time, fine in dry and wet, reasonably quiet.

Nothing last forever and tyre sealant probably also has an expire date. Anybody know how many uears the sealant in our cars is supposed to last? In cars without spare wheel. In mountain bikes the best sealant I have used lasted 5 years and then started to change colour and viscosity, but the sealant in our cars is not visible.

Hi Steve, I do not come near such expensive places like Riu Palace. They charge more for a not very good pizza than a good local restaurant charge for a solomillo de ternera con papas. It looks nice from afar. Do you know of a Halogen H9 with white light as that may be what I settle for?

Thank you John, Have the manual but sorry to say that the clock is silly enough not possible to get to 24 hour clock. I knew that in the US they have AM/PM and nobody have been able to enlighten me how to use that. Military in US use 24 hour clock. Airplane traffic is also regulated with 24 hour clock so why Lexus think a 12 hour clock is the best is impossible for me to understand. About high beam lamp it seems I will have to find a Halogen with white light as maybe LED is not permitted, though low beam and fog lamps are LED from factory.