Brian R

Watched this earlier in the week. I think Matt was a little surprised by his test drive and obviously had an idea of what to expect but was wrong on just about every account. A very positive review all said and done, but I was a little surprised when he expressed concern that the car might not age well. He seemed to think the styling could be a downer but I'm not so sure. I, for one, think it will age very well, and let's not forget it is now 5 years old. Obviously, my opinion might be a little biased.

Has it been set up accordingly? If this is a feature that is available on your car, then the procedure to set it up would be as detailed in the following post. Mirror set up

I'm afraid, this latest trend to fix tax thresholds is yet another way of maximising the tax take. When the £40k threshold was set a few years ago I can remember many saying it would only affect high value cars ergo wealthy buyers, but here we are, and it's affecting many more with every possibility it will soon become the majority of buyers.

Curiously AJ, the manufacturer i.e. Stabilus is the same make fitted as OEM. I also took a photo of the "numbers" on the strut and as per the attached photo you can probably make out 0235N and this looks suspiciously related to the 235N number shown as the rating for the item shown on the web site. So I would imagine the alternative 375N is indeed a more powerful strut and I should think a viable alternative. I take your point about the closing forces that may be required, but I've never had any problems closing against gas struts, whereas opening is a different matter. Might be worth a try for the original poster, Maura.

Just been looking through various would be suppliers of gas struts and came across this site: Gas struts I see they offer 2 flavours of strut for the LC with differing opening forces. I'm not yet sure what force the OEM product provides, but is it possible one of these two is more powerful than the original? Furthermore, I presume the actual force is printed somewhere on the existing strut?

No big deal for me either, but I could well image the inconvenience it might cause. To be honest, there seems to be very little pressure in these struts and perhaps alternative units could be considered? Curiously I had a similar problem on a previous car, and incredibly it only required a very simple mod that compressed the struts by a further 6 mm or so and thereafter the boot would fly open whereas previously it was just like the LC.

Is this what you are trying to achieve? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iWjqtilllk

Just my two pennies worth but when a run flat is driven with no air you would be hard to notice the difference and hence the tyre warning system raison d être. As I may have previously mentioned, I replaced rf's on my BMW for conventional tyres, the change in ride, noise, handling, grip and most importantly tram lining, was night and day. RF's just have certain characteristics that in my view ruin all aspects of the drive. No doubting their convenience in terms of getting A to B, but they are not as common a tyre as conventional, so that "convenience" may be tempered when you discover it could take many days to source a replacement. When the time comes, mine will be changed out for conventional and a can or two of gloop.

Better still on the LC 😩

Welcome and congratulations Shaun Whilst all LC500's are great, I genuinely believe yours is the best colour of the lot. They just look so stunning in sonic red and especially when the sun is shining. Enjoy the new wheels 👍

This video will provide the answers, and in particular if you watch the "Destination shortcuts" section from 1.04.04. Hope this helps. I've often found the Northside Lexus channel a very useful resource. Northside Lexus UTube

I've seen this warming technique being suggested occasionally, does it really work that well?

I fear you are on a hiding to nothing. The only part way successful solution that works for me is to be very selective in whatever car parking spaces I occupy and parking as far away as possible from any would be threat. Rather fortunately, my LC is not a daily driver, and when the need arises we/I use a Honda Jazz as a sacrificial substitute. Got to also say, the width of the LC only serves to exasperate the problem, it just doesn't suit the ridiculously small UK parking spaces and hence the problem in the first place!

Just a few observations, if I may. I distinctly remember the so called "Luxury tax" was once the same description used for VAT. As sure as night follows day, it will become a regular tax for the vast majority of car buyers. The luxury tax is now based on a list price of the car and unless you are extremely naive do you think that the 40K threshold will increase? Please do remember the UK tax burden is increasing (and was long before covid) with what are now fixed (typically till 2026) personal tax thresholds, inheritance tax, life time allowance, NI increases to name just a few. The return of inflation will force many to pay more as a consequence and whilst many may think they will either remain unaffected, trust me more and more will contribute more and more. Your Ford Focus may currently have a list price of £25K, but it won't in five years time and probably more like £30K and that's without the additional costs to achieve some newly created emissions standard. The point is we all need to budget to ensure we live within our means, but vehicle taxation has to my way of thinking been a monumental ***** up. Even now, there are owners of older cars that pay more than they would or indeed should even if their cars were new and fell into the "Luxury tax" bracket. This is as a result of a poorly calculated budget by those that really should have done better, i.e. our government or if you are being pedantic, the DVLA. I am sure there will be further stumbles along the way especially given the climate change brigade have been stalled whilst we work our way through our current focus. However, that too will provide a god given excuse to increase taxes and especially on the internal combustion engine. Again trust me, "you ain't seen nothing yet" to quote Bachman, Turner, Overdrive!

Hello Simon Ah, not good, especially given the claim on the advert! I did wonder at the time whether the car uses a floor pan that is common to other Lexus models, and whether that was why they were certain they could manufacture as required. So will you do the necessary or not bother?

Try this, it might work: 家に電話します pronounced Ie ni denwa shimasu But seriously, it does seem an odd one. Curiously, I never had to train my voice, but the car recognises every word. I can only think you must have a recycled voice command out of my Insignia from 2009, now that was unbelievably hopeless. Hope you get it resolved, but out of interest have any others tried speaking into it, and what were their outcomes?

Hello Simon Try this link: Carpet and rubber mats for LC500 Make sure you scroll down once you enter/select your number plate. It's suggesting they can supply "4mm industrial" rubber mats "GUARANTEED to fit your LEXUS LC". Hope this helps.

Just been on the Lexus site, and it reports as follows: Sorry, we are currently updating our LC car configurator to make it an even better experience. If you would like more information about the model you’ve chosen, please see the pricelist or contact your local centre using the finder below. The same also applies to the convertible configurator. Hope that helps.

I think as Colin says and as I understand it a few of the American would be buyers have experienced the same thing. Give it a week or so and I think you find the configurator back up and running.

Thanks for the reply, Ahmed. I think I will remove my existing and see what I might be able to achieve, albeit I can already see the first hurdle, i.e. printing in glass!

I'm intrigued given I have similar puddle lights in my car which show up a Lexus logo. Correct me if I am wrong, but I presume you created your own logo (using Corel if I'm not mistaken) and then inserted that into your lights. If that is the case, then I presume there is a film one can remove from the light and then set in any alternative you might create. Is that the case? BTW looks brilliant!

Interesting views and coming from the LC stable, I was surprised to read very strong suggestions within the user manual that diy servicing could be contemplated. In reality and entirely as Herbs says, why not? Yes I am sure there are area's where one might need to tread carefully but when I recall some of the jobs I did in my youth a standard service would have held no fear whatsoever.

I wonder how much of the £37 billion "wasted" on test and trace will "flow back to us". Can I just repeat that figure £37 billion, just imagine what that could have been used for! As for capital projects such as HS2, oh, if only you really knew. Additionally, I like millions of others have no need whatsoever to arrive at Birmingham 9 minutes sooner than would ordinarily be the case and yet every man woman and child will currently pay circa £2k for the privilege. As for road repairs - what repairs? I see absolutely no evidence of this, and in practice there are many roads in Surrey where you literally have to navigate a route rather than pay attention to one's driving. I'm afraid all I see is a colossal waste of money with precious little to no accountability. Curiously however our beloved council can waste thousands of pounds painting zebra crossings in rainbow colours to show how concerned they are about inclusivity! Saw my first one yesterday just outside Reigate and cannot say I am at all happy about paying that bill through my council tax! I, for one, am not at all in favour of further raising taxes, but I am in favour of of seeing those that I do pay yielding a positive benefit rather than being squandered as is patently the case with this current government. I'm also not sure why you think the car buying public can "quite easily pay a tad more in tax". Do you know something about this group's specific budgeting that others don't?

I don't think it being meany minded at all. The government created a vehicular tax regime that makes no sense whatsoever and they now realise they have shot themselves in the foot and need to bring some semblance of order to the whole system. Barring the additional tax which all new car buyers will eventually pay, they are effectively reverting to the original system where everyone pays an identical annual tax burden. You can indeed pay additional pension contributions, but your 20% and 40% relief is being devalued each year for the next five, and you are also compounding the loss you originally suffered because allowances didn't increase. So you stash a little extra into your pension only to find they get you at the other end because the Life Time Allowance is fixed till 2026! Again, more people will get hit by a 55% tax once they exceed that maximum. Might seem like a dim and distant dream to some to have a tax burden at £1.073 million fund(s) but the tax take does seem to be increasing at an alarming rate. BTW, don't get me wrong on pension contributions, which are (for the moment) one of the best ways of playing the system up and until (as they surely will) start to reduce the relief.

The thing is, even if you buy seconhand car with an original list price of £40K plus and assuming it is under 5 years old, you will pay the additional tax. The "good news" is after this is paid 5 times in total, the tax reverts (if I remember correctly) to £155. This I am afraid is yet another ploy to increase the overall tax burden, and before you know it everyone that buys new will be paying this additional levy as car prices naturally increase in cost. Exactly the same is happening with many tax points being frozen for 5 years with a net consequence you end up paying more personal tax, something an awful lot of people fail to see.