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Free health care sound good. Believe me the health care for those able to pay is several times better.

Welcome to the forum and sorry to say no. Do not know how, but warning blink stay on a few seconds when locking and unlocking our car. How it is enabled I do not know. Pretty sure one of the guys here know how to do that, but it ain't me.

Had family visiting. Where they come from, they use small electric cars to health personnel driving round servicing people that need help because of illness or limited mobility or other reasons. The EV cars are hated. There is limited time to take care of patients and the cars constantly needs charging; charging places are few and far between. When the cars are 3 years old batteries are no longer having power enough to function a shift (7 hours). They need to be charged for so long that they have a lot of cars constantly charging and when it is cold personnel is told not to use heating system, but wear warm clothes. 3 years battery gone. Car still in good shape, only battery is not. No problem. Tax payers have unlimited funds and as long as the tax payers do not know how much is wasted and how, who will complain? Politicians are never going to admit they make mistakes, they want to be re-elected.

Absolutely correct, the navigation system in Lexus sucks. But all I need is to have my phone laying somewhere and having navigation sound on the loudspeakers in the car via Bluetooth and the navigation on to see the map on screen and I listen to music until the navigation voice in the smartphone tell me to do something while having the picture of the roads on the monitor in the car and no loose wires or anything. No extra cost for additional machines or work building them into the car. Google (no matter how much I do not like Google) have excellent map- and navigation-system, much better than the one in Lexus, even though it is upgraded to latest year. About looking at TV and other things on the tiny monitor in our cars: Not for me. I do not need to have picture of the musicians playing as that is just distracting and does not make the music sound any better. I have more than 250Gb music on the phone so need no streaming. So maybe I am not missing anything in not having Apple- or Android-car-play system built-in.

Some think that audio systems in cars are not needed. The most beautiful music come from the engine. Not all cars have beautiful sounding engines. Engine in a F40 and a Porsche with hand-built exhaust system and tuned engine from Stig Johansson in Vara in Sweden sure sound beautiful, but these are for the few ultra-rich people. Not us poor Lexus owners. Since modern cars are making less noise than cars normally did many years ago a good audio equipment makes sense. I think. I do not know what android- or apple-car-play is and therefore do not know why it is interesting to pay much money for that as Lexus cars have good audio installed from factory and if pictures of what is playing in the car is shown on screen it would be distracting and not really good for the driver. Even the navigation system tells us when it is starting that we shall pay attention to driving. If I am missing something, please enlighten me.

Skin Cancer increased because ozone layer is not blocking or protecting against UV-rays.

If 50 mph (80km/h) will be speed limit on highways (motorways), 30 on country roads and 10 - 15 in towns riding bicycle can be a lot faster. Electric bikes will then need a limiter so they cannot go faster and we can get fit on ordinary (not electric) bikes and drive faster than the rest. Government will then have an issue Iputting a limiter on us so we do not ride hazardous 20 mph (or faster) on our bikes. If we ride too fast we will have to stop at next red signal anyway and use much power to get started again (no matter if on bike or in car) than if we follow the green wave. Here many roads are made narrower to make place for bicycle lanes and some like it more than others.

Same screen on CT with premium navigation and clumsy joy-stick? The one we have is not bad, but would look better if new. Sorry for not vacuuming before taking the picture

Maybe worth trying: https://www.tlsautorecycling.com/search/2002/lexus/sc430/428308.html https://www.twiga-used-parts.com/products/Lexus-Mark-Levinson-Radio-Stereo-Audio-Amp-Amplifier-86280-0W100-A/1154108939 https://www.1factoryradio.com/2010-2012-lexus-ls460-amplifier-w-premium-audio-system-part-number-86280-0w710/ https://picclick.ca/2010-Lexus-Ls460-Mark-Levinson-Amplifier-Amp-86280-0W710-323582907416.html and here is one that claim they fix what others cannot: https://uk.electronic.partners/services/hifi-repair/recent-hifi-repairs/mark-levinson-from-lexus600h-86280-ow710-amplifier-repair-in-ammanford-carmarthenshire/ Good luck David

The AuroTwins were the ones that I could hear inside the car, where the Lexus ones are completely silent. The LS430 probably are better sound proofed than the CT.

The original are more quiet than the Bosch I tried once, but the Lexus also last only a year.

Lexus for service and hybrid battery warranty. MOT does not exist here it is called Inspección Técnica de Vehículos (ITV = same standard as TÜV) and can only be made by government ITV places. In 2006 Toyota could do it, but no longer. If still allowed I do not trust Lexus for anything but the hybrid battery warranty. Service there is only to keep the warranty.

55€ without installation. Wonder if cheaper if buying for a Toyota.

Or they will get a new horse to mount on. Ehhh. New ideas will be proposed to them. They cannot think themselves.

Not forced. More lured.

Democrazy is more correct than what we mindless voters believe we have. Same kind of stupid and lunatics are still ruling. Not all with different ideas are trolls.

Too bad voters are not among those with brain. 😴 Hope Mr. Toyoda 💖 get hydrogen fuelled cars to succeed.

Can - Yes! Want to - ?

When enough find out that charging is a problem and getting expensive and batteries start to fail, politicians will reconsider as they fear losing votes.

Electricity started going up 2 months ago. Gasoline 1 month ago. It is tragic that countries are in the hands of fools and lunatics.

If paint has not been damaged and raw metal has been exposed it is because Lexus has not done their work correct. Lexus should be responsible. Who to contact??? Lexus?

They play a big part, but our own stupid politicians help a lot.

EV's will not be popular that long.

Perhaps the Pied Piper of Hamelin mistook frogs for rats.

It will continue going up. In a week here from 1.25 to 1.34. But so does electricity, liquid gas etc. etc. We have to use less, or accept to pay more and more.