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Had all mine refurbed a year ago. Makes the car look much smarter. £65 per wheel for the full works. One bonus is that the tyres don't lose air anywhere near as much as before. Money well spent.

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Welcome to the club. :)

Worth going through these - noting, however, that I own the Luxury trim (i.e. non-F-sport) with Nav and leather (but not memory). I love the seats, as I say I had a Volvo (famed for its seats) before and did not think it could be beaten. However, the non-F-sport version does not have the "sports" seats referred to above in the F-sport. I agree the boot is quite small - it only loses 30 litres over the non-hybrid but it's noteworthy. Doesn't bother me in the slightest, as it happens. What does bother me slightly is: a) the boot lid is awkward (I'd love an electrically closing one); and b) there are a few hooks and whatever but nothing like Audi's "curry hooks" or Volvo's band holder. There is a setting which stops you having to re-enter your username and password. Nevertheless, it does have to be found and clicked! I find online search brilliant; connected services is a bit trickier because, like you, it often refused to connect via my phone (and I don't like just sitting in the driveway on my home wifi for two minutes!) I'm not sure (and in my case not bothered) by album artwork - there are settings to do with Gracenote or some such which may or may not affect this. I don't know. I haven't experienced the music stopping. Occasionally, usually when trying to download a trip via 3G actually, I've had to "re-boot" the entire system (I'm not the most patient!), which you do my holding the volume button for a few seconds. I don't like voice cues for anything, so have simply turned them off! I agree that Audi's (and actually Volvo's) system of being able to turn them up and down via the knob while they are happened would be preferable, if you have them on. To confirm, you can't change the colours of the night-time map but you can simply leave the day-time map on at all times. As it happens, I love the night-time one and would be likelier to do it the other way around - I personally love the car in the dark, when the clock comes into its own too. The ability to split the main screen is fantastic and something I really miss in my wife's Audi. The navigation system is SD-card based, yes. I don't break the speed limit...! :) You don't get the main dial in non-F-sport versions (I have a suspicion you will in later model years...) but you do get the change in colour. I like that too. I've come to quite like the footbrake - for those unfamiliar with the car, it's where the clutch would be. For the first couple of days with the car I found I would take it off and then inadvertently put it on against as if it were the clutch (I'd been borrowing a manual car for two months previously)! However, I'm used to it now. I don't have the electric seats. I like the DRLs - as noted above, they're not intrusive but they do look highly distinctive (even from other Lexus models). For the navigation zoom-in, I find it baffling that neither Lexus nor Audi have this remotely right! I have to say I find Lexus less fiddly, I can't stand Audi on this point to the extent I find it almost unusable. Here, however, Volvo trumps them both easily - it's joystick behind the wiper stalk is so much easier and more logical, I just can't comprehend why anyone else wouldn't use it! Yes, I can understand the "high-pitched buzz" (although it is temporary and not at all "annoying"!), but reviewers refer to an "annoying drone". This simply does not exist. I will from now on refer to it simply as the "Santa Sound"! :) Ahem, you are not supposed to leave the hybrid in 'D' without the brake applied! You are supposed either to put it in 'P', or apply the brake (I find the latter easier, at least for short stops). There is an override for the auto-turn-off of heated seats (and I'd imagine also for ventilated seats, in cars which have them). To be honest, I haven't used them at all yet! Just a quick thought on modes: - 'eco' is really just for traffic jams (and when in EV mode, I find, to avoid it turning off due to 'excessive acceleration'); - 'normal' is for maximising efficiency in general; - 'sport' is for a completely different car, much quicker acceleration, but comparatively ghastly mpg!

I agree, after all you know these cars without badges have an 'el boggo' engine and spec....likewise I always misunderstand why people stick an M5 badge on a 518/520i. The word that springs to mind is 'berk' (a word that is so underused these days) :)

Well they are not getting mine !

Just PM me your address and I'll cut it in half when it comes and post it to you. I won't be needing 5m. Phil

I should have said " in the very unlikely, highly exceptional circumstances, should they suffer an almost unimaginable breakdown" Better ?

Alloy wheels need to be compatible with your car. Firstly the need to fit your car's hubs. Then they need to have enough room within the arches so that they do not rub at any point. This not only involves the size of the alloys but their OFFSET as well. The offset is vaguely the amount the wheel sticks in or out in relation to the car's hub. So you do need to take a few things into account. Also if you change the diameter of your wheels you will need to compensate the tyre size so that you get a similar rolling radius. I assume your car is new, like mine. I certainly would not stray from Lexus' official technical specs for alloy wheels (you can prob go up or down a few sizes as they themselves have a range of sizes within a model range eg 17" to 19").

A4 over the IS - I don't want to sound rude but the Audi is so boring and common - I even found my A5 hum drum and I can only think that the A4 is worse. Each to their own though and its your opinion that counts. Good luck with it but I bet you will have a tinge of regret each time you see the IS on the road.

I'll come back on the other points when I get a moment, but just a thought: have a think, just a think, about trying a non-F-sport model. That loses you the central guage but the seats are different. They may solve that problem. Re the mouse, you get used to that. I grew familiar with "backspace" in the first few days but rarely if ever miss now (besides, I control most things by voice). If you like the car and you want to try something different, I'd say you've nothing to lose by trying another version. Like I say, I'm an Audi fan too so no quibbles with your choice!

About them springs, you know you wanna sell them to me ;) + Another meet would be awesome!

Hi Brendan Yes you are correct I stand corrected the box will change up or down to maintain the set speed on acceleration but not to gear brake for de-acceleration. If I started to drive with the adaptive cc putting my nerves on the edge of a blade with a system that protected me from running in the back of a vehicle I personally would switch it off.There is a difference between driving for pleasure and being at the behest of a computer.

Nice review Hippogriff - what did you think of the ride quality? I do agree with you on the seats - if they are anything like the CT F sport ones, not terribly comfortable day in day out, but OK for a blast on an A road.

No idea what car that armrest came from, but it's not Lexus. Looks like it's bolted to the trans tunnel behind the standard centre console too, so if you take more than two rear passengers at any time, that could be an issue; there's not a lot of room for three in the back as it is! That's mine! :D Yes, it does ;eave the cubby hole "open", as the standard fitment replaces the existing cubby hole with lid; you remove that compartment, and the armrest fits inside the result hole, with a shroud to make a smaller cubby hole in the remaining space. Very little to see from outside the car, and I wouldn't leave any valuables in the car anyway (if I needed to, it'd be in the glove box, which can be locked, and is more than big enough to take anything you could possibly leave in the centre console cubby hole). Mine just has a lighter, my handsfree headphones, and my house keys live in there when I'm driving.

this is my armrest mod http--,,--//

There's nothing stopping you making up a kind of collar to 'close' the gap below the arm rest, something I've also looked at doing as I sometimes leave stuff in rather than dumping stuff in the cup holders

i want my 200 to be perfect aswell mate,i changed the gearbox oil,new clutch,but the first to second when cold is still tight and sometimes makes a small clunk.when warm is ok.i have to ignore it cause things like that drive me mad