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  1. Stever750
    Re: fuel eco; have seen a significant jump in recent week, last two long trips (>400 miles over 2 days) have seen 43, 46 and 48mpg average based on brim to brim. Am happy with that.
  2. Stever750
    That's an interesting concept, I can see that removing them is really simple too, unlike conventional roof bars. The price is a bit steep though, more than the roof bars from lexus....
  3. Stever750
    Yes, those were the ones I had. I'm not the only one that had a poor experience.
  4. Stever750
    The Cruz bars are noisy though, so would prefer not to use them; I've owned them before for a different car.... Already have a search setup on ebay, nothing there suitable at the moment.
  5. Stever750
    This looks somewhat more substantial, but overkill as i only need to carry 1 bike. https://www.rameder.eu/bike-carrier-f-lli-menabo-stand-up-3-110968-11227-1.html#description I've read two review of the Bones where the top tube mounts have just sheared off, and the bikes fallen off the back of the car onto live motorway lanes; that's enough to put me right off.
  6. Stever750
    a year or so later and how has it gone? I'm having difficulty in finding a roof rack system, so might have to resort to this solution. In truth, neither the roof or the boot are great if I'm commuting from West wales to London, as I often do. This looks OK though for carting my MTB around locally.
  7. Stever750
    I've realised that the only practical way to carry a bike short distances is on the roof. The Yakima bars are out of stock at roofbox, and it seems Thule don't make a kit that fits! Lexus has their own rebranded version of presumably Thule at £300 a set which is silly. Are the bars common to any other current Lexus models, or are they unique? I've been searching for roof bars IS300 phase 3 (18 plate) any other suggestions or recommendations welcome.
  8. Stever750
    I feel your pain. I'm 6ft1 and a seized seat clamp bolt meant it wasn't going in. That's a real drawback for me as I used to take my bike everywhere when I travelled with work. I really don't want a roof rack, if I do I'll find the thule version hopefully. Used their aero bars on last two skodas and they worked superbly, literally. The only other option is to buy a new bike just for travelling and dry days and keep the seat post functioning!
  9. Stever750
    I've found sport mode plus full throttle works as good as you'll get for overtaking. It's a massive improvement over my wife's Auris in that respect, thank goodness.
  10. Stever750
    As I thought they're pretty much pointless! It sounds as though my car is wherr it should be mpg wise given how I drive it. Anything over 40 is a financial bonus for business use, at fast motorway cruising speeds, and so far that's been the case. I'll give the battery air filter a clean later in the year when it's not constantly raining. I might have to wait a while for that day.....
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    I think I posted earlier that 40mpg was my target business mileage eco, do far it's doing that. Bizarrely it's more eco at 75-80 on the M4 than it is pooling at 40 ish around here locally. I guess no car is better on undulating B lanes than flat M-ways, but I would have thought that the regen and battery energy would come into its own on such roads compared to conventional ice power. That said, really enjoying the ownership experience. It's a 1970s cocktail cabinet and humidor kind of car, but can slightly kick ***** when you need it to. Happy Easter to you all!
  12. Stever750
    Another refuel, trip said 42.3, app calculated 39.5 What's slightly bizarre is that the average dropped by around 3mpg after a 220 mile on the M4, followed by pootling around the lanes of Pembrokeshire for the last couple of weeks. Could that be a symptom of impaired battery cooling? using E5 petrol makes no difference either. Other things I've tried an wondered just how/why is the manual sport mode with the paddles. Briefly tried it, and thought it might just be an engine revs thing; but how is it supposed to work? And just why on a vehicle with a CVT
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    CC always off be default for that reason. Car is a used Lexus "Select" and has just been serviced, so I am making an assumption that the fan and filter are working as they should be.
  14. Stever750
    I've been experimenting with eE5 vs E10 on the basis the facebook UK owners group thought is almost unanimously a noticeable improvement in eco. I did with my Super 2.0TSI, not so sure with a normally aspirated engine. Two tanks in on E5 and I can't see any significant improvement in eco, but i did change the rear tyres after the first tank to supposedly A rated eco ones, but yet to see any real benefits. I guess cruising at a GPS speed of around 80 doesn't help.
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    Filled up again yesterday, similar value on the trip at 46.0mpg, actual was 43.3 this time, so not so far away. Thus far I can deduce there is a measurement bias with a large degree of uncertainty.
  16. Stever750
    It fitted, just!
  17. Stever750
    Brilliant thanks! It's the homebase version of kallax that my wife wants.
  18. Stever750
    Sorry, one more question and one unlikely answered in another thread without huge amounts of searching. What the max length of flat pack you can fit in with the rear seats down? The item I need to collect is 1.5m in length.
  19. Stever750
    Thing is, it was within 0.2 the previous fill up. Guess time will tell.
  20. Stever750
    Just filled up for the 3rd time and this is concerning. The trip comp showed 45.5mpg. I double checked the data and couldn't spot an error, either the trip is way out or I didn't actually brim it properly the time before. The fuel gauge looked full though so I don't think that was the problem.
  21. Stever750
    I can't understand that either, but didn't want to argue the toss with them at the time. Tbh I was taken aback, it's not usual for an indie garage workshop to decline to do some work, usually the other way round Update: this might explain why the garage declined: https://caradas.com/wheel-alignment-adas-best-practice/ but still, returning it back to factory settings should mean that ADAS works better, the implication is that hitting potholes etc and kncoking it out means your ADAS becomes unuseable / unsafe??
  22. Stever750
    Apologies more thread resurrection. Took my car to have 2 new rear tyres fitted and a 4 wheel alignment. Techie told me they can't do the alignment checks if the car has ADAS as latter needs to be recalibrated. Note sure if my car has it, and whether that's the case or not...?
  23. Stever750
    First problem of the day, garage can't check alignment as that needs the ADAS to be recalibrated which they cannot do. I guess that's a task for the dealer unless I can find a certified service centre more local. That's a pita!
  24. Stever750
    Although there is a perfectly usable Yokohama E51A on the rear (not the GT as you pointed out) the other side is a name i don't even recognise, so tomorrow it will be fitted with Falken Azenis FK520 and get a 4 wheel alignment check using the Absolute Alignment system.
  25. Stever750
    I also have had good experience with Goodyear Eagle F1 Assymetrics
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