Marko89

Cheers for the share, makes perfect sense now with regards to speed.

That word sends shivers down the spine. Admiral also use them, certainly for issues involving Scots law anyway. Had a really bad experience with them for what should have been an open and shut case. Taxi driver remodelled the side of our Mini Clubman during the night, plenty of witnesses and police recovered his dashcam footage. It was a hit and run by someone who lived 5 buildings along, so didn't take long to figure out who had done it as my neighbours saw him and his van had blue paint and heavy damage along the passenger side. I ended up in a stand off with Auxillis as they kept demanding that I went to his door to get his details, to which I refused on safety concerns. It took over a month to start the repairs on ours because of this as they couldn't be bothered doing any investigation to figure out who his insurance company is. They had the police incident report where he admitted liability, his reg, taxi number, firm he drives for and address. Glad I didn't go to his door as he was up in court not long after for a serious assault. In saying that, we are still with Admiral as we've not had anyone come anywhere near them for price and level of cover over the past 5 or 6 years. We're paying £530 a year which also includes our building and contents insurance. So it is probably somewhere around £400 for the vehicle aspect without digging out the paperwork. In the past as a new driver I would typically go with a random company and alternate between admiral or one of their subsidiaries as they seemed to be the cheapest.

Have read somewhere there is 1cm of a difference, unless you frequently give lifts to models there will never be an issue with legroom. Due to the swooping roofline (and probably low ride height) however, I know my dad has a little bit of a struggle getting in and out of the back seats due to his restricted mobility and advanced years. For us though the ES is ideal, we've already chatted about just paying the balloon at the end for the first time ever and running it till we hit the 10 year warranty. We've ran it round the coast of Ireland and down to Southern Germany with only my eyes starting to feel tired. Only issue so far has been a blocked washer hose, which lets face it could happen to any car. Economy is spot on and for being a luxo barge the road holding is excellent and can raise a smile through the twisties (disclaimer: Switched from factory bridgestones to Crossclimate 2s).

I'd say about 90% of the time our adaptive system doesn't give the full field, typically the upper quarters on either side seem to be dipped. Not really sure the exact scenario required for the main beam to be fully engaged as ours will occasionally give everything on adaptive, however more often than not you can see the difference by flicking the stock.

We were asked for feedback by Lexus not long after collection (purchased at Glasgow Lexus - EasternWestern group owned) as well as the normal follow up from the sales team, have also been asked for feedback from Lexus following the first service which included a question around what would I change about the ES.

Absolutely love the main cannons on the ES, I reckon they can light up signs to the guts of a mile ahead. Have been flashed a couple of times, the system gets a little tripped up by the long dusks in Scotland mainly by drivers with halogens. Although once darkness properly sets in they are tremendous.

As Colin says they are always on once active, for the ES they aren't active on initial start up. They do come on once you move out of park.

That is quite the garage you have, absolutely jealous.

I must be lucky, could be a phone + OS type issue. I'm running a Pixel 5 just now, so it is "stock" android 13 which triggered an app update. Mine has sorted itself out since last week. I had a far more depressing 28mpg going to work this morning!

I think there was a gremlin last system after the app updated, noticed a couple of people saying they had some ridiculous readings from it. Seems to have settled now.

What Colin said, if you email Lexus they have a standard "no the headlights are flat beam" response, I think they even sent someone on here a letter a while ago. I used mine on adaptive whilst on the autobahn and they seemed to be fine. Although, I am a little concerned they aren't working correctly as I have had a few people flash me in the past week or so whilst driving locally (out of town in the dark). They certainly struggle to pick up oncoming vehicles with the long summer dusks in Scotland with halogen headlights in particular not being picked up as early as they probably should.

I'm wondering if anyone has ever applied for an International Certificate for Motor Vehicles. It is a requirement for taking a UK registered car into Liechtenstein which we are planning to do in a couple of weeks as we will be holidaying in Southern Bavaria. Our ICMV arrived this morning, it is meant to be kept in the car alongside the V5. However, the DVLA have put our make down as Toyota rather than Lexus. The V5 shows Lexus, so I'm not entirely sure why they have written Toyota. I have emailed the DVLA back to ask if this will be an issue (or if they could re-issue). Although my worry is that it has taken 3 weeks from application stage to receive it and we travel on Tuesday next week. Has anyone every had experience with this? The ICMV seems to only be required for 3 countries worldwide, the other two being Mexico and Somalia. My assumption for Liechtenstein is that they are simply trying to control the volume of traffic entering.

The shine on that is something else, like looking in a mirror! Absolutely stunning colour, saw one sitting in the car park at Lexus Glasgow when in for a service recently. Preferred it the Black on ours and would have went down that route if we didn't opt for the demo rather than wait for delivery.

I think by default it is what I would call "kinda" on. It will try wrestle with you if you cross a white line, which can be annoying in town when moving around poorly parked cars etc. If you press it again and the light turns green it becomes "fully" active to follow the lines. With cruise control active I think it is the same scenario with the default light being to veer away from white lines and green being follow the road. Happy to be shot down in flames if this interpretation is incorrect. I've only played about with it a bit and tend to just deactivate it as soon as the engine comes on. Mainly due to our local sleeping policemen and the way people have to park makes it a work out to drive into town. It can be somewhat disconcerting when driving along the front of the local hospital where one direction of traffic has to drive down the middle of the road and the car is trying to pull you towards the parked cars.

With diesel they go hand in hand, as the DPF, EGRs etc become caked in carbon the exhaust emissions will also rise whilst the fuel economy will drop. Effectively an EGR as the name suggests is already choking the engine with dirty air, the lower the quality and flow rate the harder the engine will need to work. Which is where the need to keep things hot is important, otherwise you drop into regen which will burn alot more fuel. I agree that downsizing isn't always the answer, you just need to look at the real world MPG of a Mazda 3 v a downsized + turbo offering from the competitors. The problem with the smaller engines is they require boost far more often.