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Any Excuse Really To Bump Up Your Insurance Premium..What will it be Next ? OH Yes Additional Question as to find out if you eat A Boiled egg Every Morning for your Breakfast ..If You Do This will also Bump Up Your premium as your Cholesterol will be Elevated Which puts you at a Greater Risk....Just wait for it.. There will be more Health Questions In The future To get us off the Road... Nothing Surprises me Now....!!!!

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Very profound and SO true..!!!

Hi Just wondered if anyone has a tow bar mounted thule bike rake on their RX? If so, is it all OK? Sturdy and quiet/rattle free? Also, I assume the tow bar fitting us not a factory option, but a dealer fitting? Many thanks

About to do another long trip so put fuel in for the first time. Exactly 30 litres after a very slight fill after initial cut out to round it off. 641 miles to date. App says 414.5 miles on EV but unfortunately I don’t know how much of that is pure EV and how much is from normal hybrid mode once EV battery dropped to 30% So I make it 97mpg in petrol terms ignoring cost of electricitY with pure ICE economy just over 34 mpg If I convert cost of electric at 19.5p kw/h (still on an old fixed tariff so can’t change yet) at the current indicated rate of 3m kw/h I make it 65mpg equivalent overall That doesn’t account for some of the miles being electric from normal hybrid generated EV power rather than plug in. So the actual converted mpg should be a little better. I don’t have the Podpoint installed yet due to a loop supply issue so I can’t keep an accurate record of how many kw I’ve charged from the mains.

Nick as far as I can find out from speaking to mechanics and the Lexus guys, when the height is set to normal is when you do any measuring. The H and L are referenced to the N setting. No one could tell me by how much. % or cm who knows. However, there is a resistance change in the sensors. Jagman I don't have any knowledge of the RX450 but I would be very surprised if the rear wasn't supposed to adjust also.

Dragy gps box , about £150 , and just download the app which is free , quite easy to use

Yeah, but he checked the plugs, if that was the case the spark plugs would be wet from fuel.

... but he got it started for few seconds with carb cleaner, so if flooded cylinders would have been an issue that should have long cleared now.

If prior to your issue you started your car for a very short time (e.g. engine ran for around 30s), the engine could be flooded - this happened to me too. Start it over 4-5 times with your accelerator at the floor so it clears the unburnt petrol.

Sounds a bit like your injectors are not firing. If they were you should have gas in the cylinders by now, and at least get a few pops or bangs. Cheers...

Having a bit of a look around the internet it seems that Toyota use the same guibo on a whole range of vehicles and production years. Not being familiar with your vehicle, I have no idea if this is helpful or not. The attached pic shows one item that is on a lot of Toyota cars. I'd suggest if you have a bit of spare time, you hunt down a specialist driveshaft and gearbox workshop and ask if they can help you out. Maybe take some measurements and a couple of good pics of your giubo with you. If you have two giubo's on the driveshaft, check if they are the same or different sizes. Cheers...

Out of interest I measured my rx450h and it’s 47cm all round in Normal when going to low only the front drops down by 2.5 cm the rear doesn’t change. I thoughht it might be more than this.

Vauxhall Cresta and Wyvern I remember. just, my dad drove one ( or other new in the day ) Like you, I’m afeared to put a key in that barrel …….. not been used in 29 and 33 years respectively maybe ….., I’m not that brave ……, just in case it seizes 😅 Mk1V Ls400 ……. are you keeping her now ? Malc

…..sadly, Malcolm, too many nice car’s to post here - probably complete another 8 View Page’s ! 😲 as a qualified ‘old git I want to, briefly, return to my last post ! I, apologise, Gang for reeling off model’s of car’s you may not, necessarily, be familiar with. born in the 60’s ? - your now in your 60’s ! 70’s ? - your 50’s ! what is an Austin 16 - a Cresta ? I show below images of both said vehicle’s: the Austin had a standard fit system that, to my extensive knowledge, no longer exist’s on any car’s in the 21st Century ! (would make an unique option today ! ). the system ? The Jackall System. a factory fitted, hydraulic, jacking system to raise the car up front or rear or all by about 2-3 inche’s ( sorry - 5 to 7.5 cms ) operated by a manual pump in the engine bay ( bigger car’s were electric powered, same as my 1955 4 litre Vanden Plas ( Dutch- prounounced Plass, not Plar - the champagne Moët & Chandon is Moett not Moay 🙄 - true ! ) owner / driver saloon. (famous for their limousine’s ) The Cresta was fitted with an optional factory fit ‘valve’ 😲 medium wave / long waveband radio ( where did they go ? no fm in the 50’s, of course ! ). you will have seen, previously, the detailed Lexus Dealer service history that is recorded for my year 2000 Lexus LS 400. silly-billy, forgot to ask Lexus Edinburgh ( 08.2021 ) for previous Lexus history - they will supply, if asked, but no customer data revealed. off topic 😳 tip, gang, one of my password’s is the registration number of my first, ever, 2 car’s ! who would know them, except me ? 12 for me - 14 for you (!) character’s is a strong password ! how would a hacker work out the correct sequence of number’s and letter’s ? someone will post ‘piece of cake’ - I shall remain blissfully ignorant as I am both computer incompetent and illiterate 😳. 2002, my first Vaio 15” laptop - took me 3 day’s to work out how to open the lid !😳 😲. you have all heard the phrase ‘buyer’s remorse’. you know the feeling, you buy a seriously big ticket item - then feel seriously guilty and get cold feet - have you made the best decision, is it too late to change your mind ? 😲. if I signed up, now, and became welded in to a 40 year mortgage - serious remorse would follow 😲 😲 ? well, gang, I’m now suffering the reverse condition -‘seller’s remorse’ ! - am not sure I want to sell my car, now !😳 yesterday, was social centre day, have to collect 3, elderly ladie’s and run them in to a local community centre - then return them home, after lunch. was sitting in my year 2000 Lexus LS 400, in the driver’s seat, idly surveying the interior. cannot believe the totally unmarked leather interior is nearly 24 year’s old ( let alone 170k+ wear and tear mile’s ). felt I was sitting in a new car in a Lexus showroom ! this really is a sensational car - even in 2024- few people have ever seen one ! (certainly none of my mot engineer’s ! 😲. my W123 just doe’s not come close ! looked down at the key lock between the fuel flap and boot release. you know, in nearly 3 tear’s had never pressed the barrel- terrified it would not release thus no access to fuel or boot 😲 ! soddit, press it it locked up 😲, cautiously, inserted the valet key, the shaft would not even fit in. round to the boot lock - exactly the same effect - so all correct ! entered remote key into internal lock, phew, barrel ejected - key work’s ! ( never use remote key to open boot lock - why? - because I worry about metal fatigue, imagine if the shaft sheered off ! 😲 😲 😲 😲 ! the boot release key on remote work’s ok. …….back soon, gang…. anthony

Yeah thats true, I've been to breakers and they had some propshaft assemblys but they all those cracks there, but they seem to be on a part of the guibo that has really thin rubber , not part of the thick rubber itself. I kinda doubt now those cracks are the reason for vibrations, maybe the center bearing that connects the propshaft in the middle but that can't be seem unless you take it down.

Just had my renewal and it has gone up substantially. What I'm finding odd is on the comparisons they are all more or less same as renewal but one comparison is substantially lower substantially.

Hi, I have been doing a bit more research and if that rubber giubo fails Lexus only sells the total Propshat and not just the bushing alone 😒 as far as i have been able to determine.

Spark plugs are just maintenance thing and to be fair they never really fail, but past 60k miles (or it may be 90k, need to remind myself) they just don't work as efficiently as they should. Real life consequences perhaps few extra % of emissions and negligible amount of fuel. Fuel pump is more of lottery thing, they sometimes just give-up after 10 or so years, it is not massively common, but it results in "crank no-start" scenario which can be tricky to diagnose and could happen out of the blue with no warning, also if the car gets towed to dealership the repair bill could be £600-800 (mostly diagnostics and labour, part itself ~£300, I also heard you can get just the pump and take it apart and put it back together for ~£80, but further research is required to get exact pump needed). On the callipers the pins needs cleaning and greasing, mostly as preventative maintenance (so that they don't get rusty), there is also pin at the bottom which likes to rust, so all around cleaning is required. Also IS250 in general like to chew trough brakes (expect to replace front disks together with second set of pads), they are kind of undersized, so popular upgrade is the set of front callipers from GS300/IS350. So the fronts just wear our and the rears likes to seize and rust. All in all, this is not sort of issue that will leave you stranded, but more maintenance intense than would be ideal. I think key issue is that workshop manual does not require any of that to be cleaned or greased during the service, so they get neglected. That said Lexus are happy to replace whole calliper for ~£280, so the way they see it - "no need to grease, just replace whole thing every 3 years or so". Which in grand scheme of things not horrible as far as car ownership cost goes. But doing a little bit of your own maintenance in principle can save you ~£1000 every 3 years/30,000 miles. The cars currently on sale are likely to have rusted out exhaust, but that is just reality of getting 10+ years car with 100k+ miles, hopefully it has failed and was replaced before you get it, but if not then that is probably one area I would check... apart of service history. Electrical problems can be tricky on these cars, but usually they don't just happen, usually it is result of some d-head messing something-up. Also, this is small one, but make sure it has both keys, key replacement £500, so that is not something you can get easily.

My repaired run flat is still going strong 18 months later so I wouldn't be concerned, and it definitely shouldn't be the reason for you to change them soon.

Same here...largest quotes I've ever received. There is always the choice for me to hold onto my RX3 and avoid them but from what I've read, Lexus have got some sort of software fix in the pipeline. We don't know anything about it yet but I expect their world wide reputation might suffer if they don't do anything other than offer sticking plaster steel plates. It's a risk but it's the same for every ES, NX and Rav4 owner affected out there too as well as for other manufacturers.

Thanks for chipping in. I can't seem to find anything within my £3.500 budget, especially within a 80-90k miles but by the time I have all the money ready I'm hoping something else will pop up. I'm really praying I'll be able to find a 2008+ SE-L model, I fell in love with those. I've only had black or dark grey cars and besides the normal dust which can be easily rinsed off, I find it easier to keep clean. Now I have a white Insignia and my god everything sticks to it and it shows, as dirt and filth aren't white lol.

Only commenting on the car itself.. the MOT History looks okay, a couple of failures for headlight alignment and a blown tyre. Nothing standout warning signs. Mileage looks okay, it;s clearly been a daily driver with reasonable jumps between MOTs. The garage though, thats a different matter. Unlikely you would get any kind of warranty worth the paper it is written on, even small claims and the law on your side won't help get your money back if it turs out to be a lemon. Personally, I'd keep looking (and black cars are a swine to keep looking good, worse colour ever, mines black!).