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After a few hours cleaning.

Oh well...most jobs have a hitch and they're not plain easy. You need research, time and the right tools. Maybe a fall back plan like calling in a mobile mechanic if you really get stopped. You'll be surprised at what you can do. Its all about practice and experience but you have to work on it to get it. This forum is great with great members so you can get coached through a job or issue step by step. As I did with a cambelt change. Gives you the confidence to keep going... 😀

@Tom24 looking good! Gave mine a wash too, this is how it was supposed to look last Saturday 😶

@Mark G I know, but it could have been! At least it's given us something to talk about other than colour choice! 😁

There is an excellent repair resource website www.lexls.com which covers the above job as well as many others. I purchased both LBJs a few years ago from Lexus for around £120.00 and did the job myself in a couple of hours with a basic toolkit. You will need one special tool a ball joint splitter but these are readily available.

I'd like to do it myself. Doesn't look too bad a job. As usual it's the finding OE at the best price...I'm not sure it's worth going for replacements but...OE batches change over time. theyve done a good job for 17 years and 80k miles, I'd like same again.

The braided strap should be fastened to an engine or transmission bolt. Without that the engine and chassis can be at different voltages. The engine will be slightly positive compared to chassis so feed back from any engine or transmission sensors will be higher than expected. John

@emjay82 you know sometimes you should be careful what you wish for as I did break mine but I'm not bothered because I found this blue one up the road with a lower mileage owned by some block called @Mark G so guess what I did along with a few other bits 😂 Big Spanner man Rat

Yes start a thread 😁. @Big Rat might volunteer to break his engine and we can follow his journey trying to fix it. I'm happy to break my rear floor mats 😁 and you can follow. Great content for Monday!

Wine is a topic which should always be discussed!

Get some black hard foam material and cut it into chunks and push it down between windscreen and dash as far as it will go. Experiment first by having someone drive the car and when it's making the noise stick your fingers into the same gap to work out where you need to stick the foam. Experiment with different sizes to get it right so you can't see them once pushed in. You don't need that much material but it has to be sat above the hooks that the dash sits on. Make sure you have some tweezers to pull them back out whilst working on the size and placement of them. I used fairly dense rigid foam with some give in it and I guess it was about 12mm thick. I had to experiment with different types beforehand before I found the right stuff. Worked a treat in the end

Ahhh that's a much better clip 👍

Nice snow foam @Rusty CrobarI've been frequenting the hand car washes a bit too frequently. Although they're better than the garage roller washes, they still don't do it properly to avoid fine swirl marks. Now nights are drawing out might invest in a snow foam adapter for the pressure washer.

@Rusty Crobar She's gleaming matey, so it's about time I did some pics of mine, here she she is 15 months ago on the day I picked her up :) Big Rat

Is this a joke? Doesn't everyone know pink seats ripple.

Very good news! We have a Jaguar specialist on the site where I work who is always soooo busy. Because of his vast experience he makes it all look so easy but says even the later Jags are beginning to give major problems.

Looks normal to me Bound to get ripples if you sit in it! But generally, looks the same as mine does!

Oh really?! I just stay in the one with all the BMWs and force them to move out of the way

my bonnet had rust marks on the front edge and also paint chips plus several paint chips on both wings . I was expecking them just to repaint the bonnet but no they said I needed a new bonnet . They fitted a new bonnet and painted it and the wings to blend in the paintwork and did a fantastic job well done Lexus Bolton

Don't know if it's the same type of squeak and click that I had, but I found the bolts that held my driver's seat in had worked slightly loose and gave a squeak or a click at every corner. You remove the plastic cover on the front and rear end of the seat rails, and there is a bolt at each end. Mine didn't have any thread lock on them. I tightened these up with some thread lock and the problem went away...

MartinF perhaps you are doing something wrong I find it easy to set up once you have your V5 handy. Try giving it a second go because once set up you will be amazed the at features available through the Connected Services. See below I was able to get Street view, info about local petrol stations and their pump prices and location map. Weather information and many other features. I really think it is a great system once you know how to work it. Good luck.

Very true, shall we all break something this weekend, ready for some fresh topics on Monday 😁

I wouldn't be spending that much on a stone chip! Definitely go for the touch up pen repair. If you feel confident, give it a wet sand and it'll looks virtually non existent unless really up close! My RX has 44k miles on it and has 4 stone chips :). I think it must be something to do with the ride height being higher and spending more time in the fast lane on the motorway so don't get pummelled by rocks from trucks!

It depends on the way it functions. Caravan fridges are silent, can't remember how they work but they run differently from a normal domestic fridge. Worth finding out.

@Rusty Crobar, is your car modified at all?

No more software updates, maybe this will be dealer only from now on or still to be implemented.

Agreed, in my household there are electrical, mechanical and 'ruined by my modification' faults. 99% of brilliant cars i have owned have been ruined by going to far playing with them. Not saying that's what you have done.....😀

@Mark G Funny you should say that, it's a pick of one of the guys on site, when we were riding in wheel barrows down a scaffold board ski ramp, all within health and safety regs of course 😂 Big Rat

It's about as clear as mud what is required. It's the first part of the vehicle code only - not the last part as appears to be indicated. Where it says everything before the * (asterisk) , it actually means before the hyphen.

Spent a couple of hours on this, i cant find a way specifically - that doesn't mean there isn't, sorry Richard

Glad its an easy fix, but strictly speaking Russell its not mechanical, therefore we are still waiting and @Big Rat do you have a catalogue of pictures you just pull from a database, actually don't answer that......................

Well now owner of Is200 sport due to pick up in few days. So no doubt ill have modding questions soon enough.

second side is ready :)

yes how dare you try making general non related Lexus conversation in the correct area for non Lexus related topics....... Good job it's been pointed out.

FRONT LIP first layer + second layer

So, update, The ML head unit with DVD player is now installed with the original Nav display unit. It was a straight swap and everything works, on the Radio anyway, the nav unit still works as it did, that's a later project. Anyway the issue I had in the first post... "2. All the 3 plugs and two aerial plugs are the same size, plugged them in and... sound comes out that is playing the iPod integration but no screen working and doesn't do anything else." This turned out to be a bent side plate on the head unit which caused the connector between the front panel and the main box to be dislodged. I removed the front panel and straightened the metal plate and refitted the front panel... voila, all now works. Also found out the Small White plug is the Video out as in the pic Pins 5 and 7 are AV out

was lucky enough to get to sit in a LFA, start it a give it a couple of blips on the throttle, unfortunately was not given the chance to take it for a spin. LC500 looks very nice, will be interesting to see it in the flesh and to see how it drives.

True, Paul. That sort of money could be reserved for a good tidy-up sometime in the future. There will be more I'm sure, it's the nature of things. I'll see what they can do with the touch-up option. It'll be a battle scar

Yes, I'm thinking that way also. I know there'll be more stone chips, may as well make it worthwhile! I looked at protection films for my previous car but discounted it because it always shows and can discolour the paintwork. They do work but in a sacrificial way, so it could still end up looking rough.

Put it on YouTube, not for the public to see, give Lexus the private link to view and wait for the result.

It is just possible you have a leaf (or something) in there which is making the sound apparent. Fans do run after the car is switched off so the fact you have just started noticing it could be a clue. I had this happen on another vehicle some years ago. FWIW

At the end of the day it is a 14 year old car and buying it now, you have no idea how often its been washed or sealed underneath etc so there's bound to be rust somewhere or other! Having said that, if the body is fine thats awesome! Take a 14 year old Merc or BMW and you may find that the arches no longer exist!

Very doubtful you will have any hybrid battery issues till between 145,000 - 190,000 or till 2023 wouldn't worry about that, its got a 10 yr 100,000m warranty on battery anyway. Richard

Finally believe I've cracked this. Noticed it coming in to the passenger side too when sat in car at lunch during heavy rain today. Long story short it was coming down from behind the dash. Stuck some folded paper towels into the internal crease between where the windscreen meets the dashboard. Came came out with a wet edge on the paper towel. Tried it again and again, same, pulled the LH B pillar trim off, carefully examined the internal bond between screen and pillar, used paper towel method again here, came back wet edged. Finally found a small leak in the seal between windscreen and bpillar, the bond was leaking. It was trackign down to the front windscreen edge and tracking down to the footwells from there, dependend on where i parked (work = flat, home = RH decline) dictated which footwell the water tracked to. Getting new screen put in on Monday. I'm 99% sure this is the cause of this mysterious leak. What;s made it unbelievable difficult to trace is there's a lipped plastic trim peice that sits under and surrounding the glove compartment, due to it being lipped (imagine a tea tray) it's had to fill up slightly from the leak before it overspills into the footwell. hence when I hose tested it I could see no obvious signs there and then. OMG huh.

I agree with most of what micheal has said - ive had mine for over 4 years - 136k miles - I service it every 12 months with castrol Edge 0w-30 - everything still works on mine and I havent had any huge failures or repair bills in my time. The body work on mine from a few metres looks shown room but on close inspection it does have its imperfections - I always take it to the car parks and can comfortably reverse park between 2 cars - it does stick out a couple of feet though. I think in the future I will naturally be opting for a 460 or 600h I hear the 460 is even more refined and has a bit more floaty ride than the 430 - try both and see which strikes your fancy hope this helps

The biggest problem was the lack of information anywhere, I found one post in the US forums from a bloke who did it but the only advise he said was "it all fits no problems" and a lot of other people were saying that "in theory" it would work. If your in the USA then you can be a preassembled shock for around £200 so the lazy way would to just order 4 of them and be done with it (quality though is unknown). You also need to contend with different model versions as I think there was a change in parts from 2003 when the Mk2 came out and I don't know how compatible any of it is which is why I went for all new for my year which is also why I have not mentioned KYB part numbers in my post as what works for my car may be different for others. The only headache I had was a knocking noise from the back which was due to the KYB rear suspension mounts having no rubber sleave only a ring of rubber for the spring to sit on it so allowing it to move sideways and hit the mount so I had to strip the back end down and fit new mounts. Then I still had a knocking noise and found out there should be a spacer between the mount and the bolt at the top of the shock that holds it all in place so I had to strip the lot down again and add the spacer. So I can now remove the shock, strip it down, rebuild it and refit the shock in 1 hour :). And just when I thought I was out of the woods, when I took it for its first drive yesterday there was still a small knocking noise, trouble is I can't see anything wrong. Went to get the car MOT'd today and the tester advised me the front anti roll bar bushes were quite worn, didn't I notice a knocking noise??? Didn't know whether to punch or kiss him.

Very true but the LS430 does have a drinks chiller behind the rear armrest so wine related questions are relevant 😀

Thanks for all your great comments. If nothing else hopefully this thread will serve as an aid to someone in the future. I don't want to jinx it so touch wood but so far so good, had some pretty heavy rain earlier and was raining last night and seems okay. There is some very slight residue damp in the front footwell but I am helplessly believing this is just final bits from the second leak I found still tricking down slightly as it's not a patch on how it was before I fixed it. I've left some blue roll under the carpet in that area as that stuff darkens very easy and noticeably when wet so will check that in the morning

i have just removed the anti glare off a laptop screen and boy what a job it was i am going to make sure i only clean the in car screen with a damp microfibre cloth and nothing else.