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I’m thinking to go with BH with their rust converter and Dynax waxes. Might then spray on some lanolin on the bits that might get a lot of stone chips etc to be safe. Failing that it turns out you can still find brand new subframes online for the 4th gen LS for around £400 so that’s always an option I guess though labour will probably be triple that.

Buy parts from Rock Auto, they’re in the US but are VAT registered so everything you get shipped to the UK will be including VAT and duty. They have a very good selection of third party parts, they have Denso so technically they also have OEM parts.

Is fluid film a US lanolin based wax coating?

Pete Hamber recommends Dynax UB, and Hydrate 80 if I can get rid of the surface rust.

That really rusted pipe is actually the fuel filler pipe, it’s very rusty and I’m thinking eventually I’ll need to get it replaced. I’ve had the rear brake pipes rust treated and taken care of by my mechanic because they started to get pretty rusty.

No mention of rust, asked tester if I have a rust issue and he said no it’s fine. Though I don’t think that’s very accurate looking at the photos my mechanic sent me.

Hi all, I’m in possession of a fairly rusty LS600h from 2012 that unfortunately spent most of its life in Scotland so the underside has quite a bit of surface rust due to salt. I’m planning on getting a bunch of Bilt Hamber anti-corrosion products and scraping as much of the rust off as possible. Does the below sound about right? 1: Degrease with Surfex HD and rinse off and leave to dry. 2: Wire brush off as much rust as possible. 3: Apply hydrate 80 to reachable areas. 4: Coat with Dynax UB using brush and Dynax spray. 5: Repeat step 4 multiple times to build up 3-4 coatings. Attached photos to show how the current state of the car. Does it look like surface rust or do I need to find a welder soon?

I have a LS600h, it’s a 2012 so is the 2nd facelift of the 4th gen LS. Reliability wise has been great and haven’t caused me problems excluding age related issues. Suspension bushings needed replacement due to wear and I had the catalytic converters stolen but that’s not a fault of the car. You just have to remember while it is more reliable, servicing and maintenance isn’t cheap because the car has 8 front control arms, needs 10 litres of engine oil etc etc and Lexus OEM parts are not cheap at all. Oh and the suspension is very floaty, mine weighs 2475kg and it feels like it, same era A8L with the 6.3L W12 weighed ‘only’ 2165kg so definitely not something you can throw around.

I’m getting the parking brake looked at today. Hopefully just needs an adjustment and I can be on my merry way. I did read in the manual if you use the parking brake frequently in a short period of time it will lock you out to prevent overheating the motor. So maybe the tester turned was a bit too enthusiastic? Edit: Mechanic has adjusted the parking brake, said the driver side needed 12 clicks vs the passenger side needing 4 and was probably because when the rear discs were changed previously they never adjusted the parking brake. Manual says 2 clicks but mechanic advised as the car ages the parking brake tends to have more friction so advised 4. Makes me question what kind of brake job the dealer did as the car had full Lexus history until I bought it 2 years ago and I haven’t changed the rear brakes.

Maybe they’ve changed it but from the MOT certificate: Parking brake efficiency less than 50% of the required value (1.4.2 (a) (ii))

Funny thing because I just failed my MOT because of parking brake below 50% efficiency. Going to get it looked at but hoping it just needs adjustment.

Hi all, My 600h’s front upper control arm bushing are starting to perish and I’ve been advised to get new ones. Lexus wants £400 per arm of which there’s 4 total front upper arms so £1600 just for parts. Amayama and LPD does it for ~£300 per arm so a bit cheaper but still very expensive. I’ve bought a 4 Mevotech supreme arms for £250 total shipped but made a mistake and bought only upper forwards and no upper rears. Looking around it seems like non OEM arms go for around £50-90 and I don’t think it’s worth getting them OEM since I want to go EV in the next 2-3 years. LS600h and LS460 AWD have the same control arm setup but manufacturers only make front upper rearward for the LS460 RWD which isn’t very common over here. Does anyone have experience with third party control arms especially upper rearward arms? P.S if anyone wants front upper forward control arms for the LS600/460 let me know 🙂

The white one you saw on AT is the LS600h right? They have a tiny boot so you’ll be need to be looking at LS460’s. Rather than waiting for one to appear on the UK market it’d be far quicker to tell the specs you want to an importer and get them to find one for you to buy. Your requirements are too specific to find in the UK without waiting months/years. I think Mat Watson recently did a video where he went to Japan to buy a car and gave the name of the company he used.

@oztomcat Do you really need a face lifted LS600h? I have a 12 plate and you can find non imported ones around £10-12k for a decent example.

I’ve heard torque GT is the go to for quite a few people, they do all Japanese cars not just Lexus and are quite well known for importing Honda’s and Nissan’s. https://www.torque-gt.co.uk/