Las Palmas

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As all tell you not to waste money on the filter it seems that you are recommended not to buy. The pores in the filter are more open than is good for the engine as while it let more air in it also after a few hundred kilometres let more dirt in unless you put oil on it very often. These filters are for competition. Before each track day you wash it and put fresh oil on it and though it is marketed as being lasting longer than a standard filter it is more expensive when being used as the K&N oil does not come free. I have worked in a company selling the filters.

This filter, right side of rear seat is the one that Lexus does not clean when the car is serviced. We clean it every 4 - 6 months. It is easy and a 10 minutes job.

Pos. 1 and 2 are for us 2 driving the car. Pos 3 is fully retracted, but never used.

The GS certainly have more comfortable adjustment possibilities than the CT. We have 3 positions we can program and only 2 driving the car so we have number 3 in fully retract position.

Looks like the MoonRoof (in most other cars it would be a sun roof) we have in our car.

I believe it will be the same for all Lexus hybrid cars.

If you have the brake pressed down (you should have if waiting for green light) then the car will not move. The little shake you feel would be the engine getting gasoline and ignition. When using 98 octane the car we have is not moving or shaking, but BP 95 octane has had the car shake a bit a couple of times.

Welcome to the forum. I am sure you are going to enjoy the soft and sweet GS. Somebody here in the forum from UK may be able to inform about hopefully better insurance company. Here we are lucky that a hybrid registered in 2016 cost no road tax and insurance company is happy to keep continuing customers so we pay no more than we did for a Golf tdi DSG 2005. We need to have small cars as parking spaces here are made for old Fiat 500 and that size of micro cars. Place in our garage is no bigger.

No

Press brake and then start. That is what we do to start the CT.

Does it work OK now?

Welcome to the friendly Lexus forum. Really nice car with a fantastic colour. Almost same s this (1984):

Do not tell Lexus they have problems with software! Good that the hardware is OK.

When we came here 17 years ago it did rain 0.1mm only 10 - 20 days a year. Lately we need to use the tumble dryer very often. Climate change is not existing. Fools believe that. As long as temperature is OK a bit of rain is OK. Most tourists see only the dry southern parts of the island. Northern side of the mountains where the wind from the sea leave humidity it is much greener, and for me beautiful. The parts I marked a bit green are great for walking and mountain biking. Down where you are Steve all cars are the rented ones and Lexus is too expensive to rent cheap. We see many daily. Most 2005 and newer IS diesels, but many CT and now and then one of these super expensive big cars that are hard to find parking place to. Cruise ships are common again.

The difference between LNG and Hydrogen modifications to an already existing combustion engine is not something that need to be expensive. The expensive part is the tank and fuel line. Interestingly the Lexus engine give more torque with hydrogen and less HP. More HP in an engine makes it need run with higher revolution and more wear to the engine if the extra HP are wanted to be used. More torque mean more power with less revolutions of the engine meaning less wear. More or less difference between diesel and gasoline. Mirai combustion engined cars were not practical as filling stations are few around the world. No sale - no profit making them. If suddenly no gasoline - who would want a car running on gasoline? Hydrogen is the way to go. Just need it to be made environmentally OK. Yes, I care about the world we leave for our children.

I do not know how many with a beautiful 6 or 8 cylinder engine would like to convert their car to a "non-polluting" car, that does not have the power train (a big heavy battery) that in some years will no longer have more than half its power left. It is possible to convert a combustion engine so it can run on liquid natural gas and the companies that do this, will have an advantage learning how to convert a diesel or gasoline engine so it can run on hydrogen. The reason for me to mention non-polluting in "----" is that for the time being hydrogen is not made without pollution, but if the demand is there it is possible to make hydrogen without pollution. It just need the political will no longer to be lobbied by the EV companies.

Where is the battery buffer? Hybrid like battery. https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterlyon/2021/05/28/toyota-races-worlds-first-hydrogen-race-car-to-promote-alternative-to-electric-cars/ https://global.toyota/en/newsroom/corporate/36074055.html https://www.racecar-engineering.com/articles/toyota-debuts-hydrogen-fuelled-internal-combustion-race-engine/

A hydrogen combustion car is similar to a diesel, gasoline, liquid gas car with an engine and a 12V battery. Where would the hybrid battery be in such a car? Lexus here say that 6L/100km and a bit more is normal here for the CT. Quite a lot CT cars here.

What does it matter if a computer nerd has influence? He is no worse than the idiots ruling the countries. The strong steal from the weak. Nothing new. A rich can be elected president in the US. The rich will be richer and from the poor even the little they have will be taken away from them. We have limited time and if we do our best to take care of our families and thereby ourselves the time can be a bit better than just bearable. Some are born with more brain than others and I just hope they are not using it only for themselves. Even though mankind is greedy, some may be able to see that if we do not take care of each other - disasters happen. Right now.

Absolutely. Bought a bottle of Schweppes. Absolutely bubbling.

A bigger and heavier battery, will cost more fuel going uphill and when not having a place home to charge the plug-in it is a complete waste of a battery. The pollution making a big battery of completely different and more dangerous materials as the ones in a hybrid will make a plug-in as bad a choice as a car running only on battery power. The better choice is a hydrogen fuelled car, but that will have to wait as it is not yet possible here. No fuelling stations. I know it is stupid to have a combustion hydrogen car as the hydrogen is not yet made "fully green" and the tank will either have to be gigantic or the range will be very limited, but so is the range of EV cars. And a hydrogen combustion car will not have shorter range because it is winter like the EV cars. A hydrogen car will also not need to get a probably extremely expensive new battery long before any other parts of the car needs service. Probably also will not have as many software problems as the EV cars.

That is the reason mountains are no good for hybrids. Going uphill 60 minutes mean 60 minutes of gasoline use. Going downhill 5 minutes and the hybrid battery show 8 bars = full and the next 55 minutes to get back home at sea level there is no place for all the braking generated power. But the hybrid battery is full when down in the underground garage. Next morning when going up to street level again even though 7 or 8 bars are shown in hybrid level when pressing the pedal to get up engine start.

A rear spoiler (especially if made of carbon fibre) can be expensive so they want more money and maybe having a little reason to that. But bulbs in a rear- or side-lamp cannot make a possible repair more expensive, so their reason for that is absolutely just a way to screw customers. I would look for a different insurance company if they would do something like that here.

According to ITV (Spain) TÜV (Germany) Side and rear lamps are not considered major change and cannot therefore be a fault when car needs to go through the examination to be allowed to drive another year or 2. This is what we are told here when asking the ITV control: "Vehicle lighting not only serves to see the road, but also to be seen by other road users. The number of lights varies depending on the type of vehicle, but it is essential (and mandatory) to have all the lighting in perfect condition. Modifying any characteristic of the lighting devices is considered a reform of the vehicle, so the owner of the vehicle or the person authorized by him must request its legalization at an ITV station. Documentation to modify the lighting of your vehicle The documents that you must present at the ITV station to modify the lighting of your vehicle are: – Conformity report: it is issued by the vehicle manufacturer or by a technical repair service. – Workshop certificate: it is the document that contains the data of the workshop where the reform has been carried out. – Technical inspection card: certifies that the vehicle has passed the technical approvals to circulate on the roads of Spain. – Driving license: it is the document that identifies the ownership of the vehicle. It should be noted that the change from incandescence to LED in the side and rear optical groups is not considered a reform. In these cases, they can be changed without the need for any management. You can carry out this procedure at any Applus+ ITV station. To do this, request the day and time directly at the station. Remember that, for routine inspection, you can make an appointment online ITV." Yes I have heard that UK is no longer in EU, but that changes for such minor things should have been made since Brexit certainly sounds surprising.