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Just booked the LC in for a service and was rather disappointed to be offered an "engine oil flush" and fuel injector clean as add-ons.

The LC is a pinnacle of Lexus engineering and if those things were needed surely they would already be part of the service schedule??

I'm not sure the LC is the sort of car (nor we the sort of owners) that these potentially questionable add-ons should be marketed to...

Any opinions?

And 7bhp less too I believe 🙂

OK so - finally managed to get round to looking at this.

First thing I checked was whether or not the balance weights were fouling - that doesn't appear to be the case.

Next I checked the nearside front wheel's free rotation and I was quite surprised to find that - save for about 90 degrees of rotation - there's quite a lot of friction and the wheel takes a reasonable amount of force to turn it. It sounds like it's the brake pad dragging but I'd have thought that the wheel should rotate freely, no? Even it I get it spinning, the drag is enough to stop the wheel before it can complete a rotation.

So I thought I'd check the offside front wheel and it's the same - spins freely for maybe 90 degrees but then the friction stops it dead.

Doesn't sound right to me?? I did notice that there were a couple of vertical lines on the discs that are about a brake pad's width apart - I'm wondering if that's a clue - perhaps the pads have stuck to the discs at some point, but even if this were the case I can't see that should be enough to warp the discs or to produce enough drag to stop them from rotating easily. And like I said there is friction most of the way round, not just when those marks are lined up with the pads.

Any thoughts anyone?

(PS driving the car yesterday really brought home what an amazing vehicle it really is. How are these cars so un-appreciated???)

Thanks!

[EDIT: thinking about this further, it doesn't seem right because each wheel does have about 90 degrees of proper, frictionless rotation with no dragging or rubbing sound at all. The rubbing / scraping / dragging is only happening at certain wheel positions - which also means it isn't a stuck caliper because that would scrape all the time, and not just at certain points?]  

Thanks for the replies everyone. It's been a crazy busy week. I'll try and take a look this weekend!

Morning everyone.

I've been noticing a faint ticking sound coming from the left hand side of the car when driving. I can only hear it with the passenger window down, and it is linked directly to the rotation of the wheels - one tick per revolution. I'm not sure if it's the front or rear wheel. If I gently press the brake pedal then it stops, although that could be for any number of reasons I guess. It doesn't sound like gravel that's trapped somewhere either.

Any ideas what it might be? Just wondering if there's a known thing to do with, say, the design of the brakes / discs on these cars...

[Oh - and it took a while but I FINALLY found something wrong with the design of the LC500 😄. If you press the fuel filler flap release whilst driving (say if you're aiming for the HUD button but you miss), the flap pops open. Making you look like an idiot until you pull over somewhere and push it shut again. OK it's a TINY thing but seems a bit silly to me (especially given how much nannying the car does in other areas) - why would you ever need to be able to pop the flap open whilst driving?]

Thanks!

Well I've been out enjoying the car, and....

What a masterpiece. Seriously.

🥰

I also have a couple of old motorbikes in the garage (nothing interesting) and yesterday after having squeezed the LC into the garage I was [extremely carefully] trying to move the bikes around so I could actually open the door properly. Somehow I made a mistake and one of the bikes toppled straight into the side of the car and it's super-difficult-to-match paintwork..... except I managed to lunge between the bike and the car and somehow hold it up before it made contact. I reckon it was less than a centimetre from the door when I caught it. Cost me a split knuckle, torn fingernails and a bruised knee but that's a price happily paid to save the door!!!! 😂

Moral of the story - remove car from garage PRIOR to moving other stuff round.

I'm going to have to find somewhere else for the bikes, or maybe sell them - they get so little use.

Thanks everyone. Sounds like a compromise is going to be the answer. Yes those long doors are not easy to get in and out of... and the risk of a careless ding... and then there's the wheels which - from what I can make out - are almost impossible to repair... Will need to pick my journeys carefully 😄

Hi everyone.

As of today I am the proud owner of a 2018 LC500 (Infrared, black interior) purchased - strangely - from BMW Mini in Sunningdale. I've spent several months obsessing over the car "on paper" before finally pulling the trigger a couple of weeks ago. Past cars include the E63 M6 (V10), Audi C7 S6 (V8 TT) and a couple of Alpinas (E39 B10V8 and E34 B10 BiTurbo) - and the LC seems to be the ultimate "if you get it, you get it" car. It ticks so many boxes for me.

[Admittedly it doesn't feel like a fantastic time to be buying a V8 but if you look at it another way, perhaps it's now or never 🙂 ]

The biggest issue I have right now is deciding between using it as a frequent driver and keeping it pristine, tucked away in the garage except for occasional use. These are so special and rare that part of me really wants to use it sparingly, but all the cars I've really bonded with and enjoyed (like those listed above) were used as my main car. I don't think I'm great at having significant amounts of money tied up as automotive art / toys no matter how lovely they are, and besides - if you like being in the car and driving it, then wouldn't you want to do that as often as you can? 🙂    

Interested to hear how others have addressed this - I'm sure I'm not the only one to be torn between the two options!

Anyway look forward to getting to know the rest of the community that "get it" 😉