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Hope I am not too late to add to this thread. Definitely an emphatic YES to the extended warranty, however it really is worth shopping around all the Lexus main dealers asking for a discount or seeing what offers they may have. Dealerships earn commission/ have targets on warranty/service packages so they may be keen for your business? You will certainly be more likely to get a favourable discount if extending your warranty by 2 or 3 years depending on how long you were planning in keeping the car? In the past I have always managed to get discount on the extended warranty whether it be negotiating on its own or extending it by a couple of further years or as part of a service package. Trust me its well worth several phone calls! Incidentally a couple of years ago I obtained a good discount (20%) by extending the warranty to 3 years rather than for one, I paid monthly so there was nothing upfront. Then when I changed my RX for a younger model about 10 months later, all I had to do was cancel the direct debit for the warranty with no penalty! (As with anything though- do read the small print first-agreements are changing all the time!) Do your homework and save yourself some money!

If you type in to ebay "lexus suction control valve" You will find Toyota ones for £99 or Denso for £199. They all say fits Lexus !S220d. What the difference between them is, I don't know. But £333 fitted at Lexus, omg. Apparently Lexus say one hour labour. I will keep you posted on progress.

Don't consider removing either front seats out of a LS460 unless you have had a good breakfast, they weigh a ton !!. Although only 4 floor bolts and 4 wiring block connectors, incl the seat air bag connector, the front seat takes a lot of strength and manoeuvring to get it out of the car, more so if it's the driver's seat in my case as the steering wheel gets in the way. The battery needs the negative terminal disconnecting to allow the air bag circuit to discharge in about 10 mins before the air bag connector is disconnected. If you do this you won't get a warning light coming on to detect an air bag circuit has been activated. I decided to tackle the slack in the leather of my seat base cushion. the previous owner used to slide in to the seat thus pushing the leather sideways and after 8 years created some excess folds of the semi analine leather cover. What a job to get the leather cover off the seat foam, nothing complicated but lots to do before the leather cover came away and the trimmer could un pick the stitching and remove the stretched leather folds. The seat heating element lies between various layers of foam and fabric which are all stitched together as part of the leather cover, it's not separate so if your element fails it's a new leather seat cover at £1350. So you have to tread carefully when pulling down a front seat cushion so the element doesn't get snagged or the fine interlaced heating element doesn't get accidently cut. Anyway all done and at £45 for the trimmer a very cheap fix although it took me 3 hours to strip and rebuild the cushion incl getting the seat in and out. NB: 19.3.2016 - Re read my own thread and realised I hadn't included the after shot of my driver's repaired seat cover after a local trimmer got to work on taking out the excess folds of leather after nearly 9 years.

there is not a lot of savings to be made between a car returning 26mpg compared to one returning 30mpg. based on your driving i worked it out as roughly 1000 miles a month. the saving is around £25 betwwen a 26mpg car against one returning 30mpg at 1000 miles. powerful cars are never fuel efficient when driven like they are supposed to be driven. I think the word 'decent mpg' could be interpretated differently by different people. e.g i think any car which returns 30mpg is decent mpg but someone else might think thats not fuel efficient so it all depends. i do about 250-260 miles a week which is just over 1000 miles a month so not that different from you and at the current fuel prices costs about £210 - £225 a month in fuel it might sound high to someone else but considering it still works out cheaper than me paying on monthly finance on say a CT200h/IS300h starts making sense. if you dont want to spend any more for commuting than its worth then have you considered an 06 onwards Honda civic in 1.4/1.8 they return between 40-50 mpg and cheap to tax it Japanese, they look futuristic and being non hybrid means less to go wrong even on high mileage ones

I agree with Cracksta, maybe the bulbs are degrading. They dont last indefinetly, and i would think twice about 55watt. They may melt the headlight.

You can get the 450h hybrid battery reconditioned for £800 by a company in Northampton, so I don't worry too much about it. I recently shopped for a GS and drove / considered both, the 300 is a fine car and easily fast enough. I my experience go newer with higher miles than older with less miles. You are on the right track with 08/09 i would say. Buy on condition and only with a full lexus history (its not the actual history that is so important, but that the owner cared enough to keep taking it to lexus). P.S. I had an IS250 before, its also a great car.

I remember the last few ISF's going for £39995 to get rid of them. Retail was £59995 then. We should of all bought a Porsche Macan....prices gone up 20% !!!

Well done Steve, I think I would have lived with it.

I was looking at the 335 and 535 too, but the refinement and smoothness of the Lexus is amazing. I'm in Aberdeen if you're ever up here an want a look at one? Mine is a 2009 450. Cheers Calum

Nice one, thanks normski2 Wish my lovely neighbours and wonderful drivers had left my bodywork looking as good as yours! Don't think I have a single panel without some kind of scratch or little dent from small childrens bycicles etc.

Hellooo, Well, I have news! As they can't find anything wrong, they decided to go through the Lexus bulletins to see if they could find a solution. And I think they might have done. In 2010 a bulletin was released about a "Suction control valve" in the fuel pump going faulty causing loss of power and, you guessed it, the P0093 fault code! It apparently may also be the cause of the over fuelling and therefore poor mpg issue. Lets wait and see on that front. Luckily it's available as a kit. I almost expected to have to buy a new pump. The bad news is it's going to cost me £333 fitted. But if it cures the fault, then worth every penny. The part should be fitted tomorrow and they will keep the car and continue testing to see if it's cured. Should have a definitive yes or no on Wednesday. In the mean time I have a nice new NX300h lux to potter around in! And I'm loving it!!!! Keep yer fingers crossed folks

Lol, I know what you mean. But if it's faulty, replace it anyway. Hope it doesn't cost as much as my air fuel sensor did! Which didn't fix the fault. Well mine is in to Lexus tomorrow for as long as it takes to fix. Lets see what they come up with. Out of interest, I just read this.. The Fuel Rail Pressure (FRP) sensor is a diaphragm strain gauge device in which resistance changes with pressure. The electrical resistance of a strain gauge increases as pressure increases, and the resistance decreases as the pressure decreases. The varying resistance affects the voltage drop across the sensor terminals and provides electrical signal to the Powertrain Control Module (PCM) corresponding to pressure. Strain gauge type sensors are consider passive sensors. A passive sensor is connected to a voltage divider network so that varying the resistance of the passive sensor causes a variation in total current flow. Voltage that is dropped across a fixed resistor in series with the sensor resistor determines the voltage signal at the PCM. This voltage signal is equal to the reference voltage minus the voltage drop across the fixed resistor. The FRP sensor measures the pressure of the fuel near the fuel injectors. This signal is used by the PCM to adjust the fuel injector pulse width and meter fuel to each combustion cylinder. This could be the fault, if the highlighted bit above is correct, maybe this could explain the low fuel consumption. Too much fuel being injected?

Reading Lexus were expensive for cambelt change. It was 350 and when I asked them to change the water pump as well the said that would be another 350. I did tell them that they are next to each other and couldn't be the same cost again but they didn't budge...so I ended up at powerhouse Camberley for 520. I think it was a central call centre that was quoting me the cost and not the dealership itself. I went to them for wipers and they also fitted them for free.. When I spoke to them face to face while fitting the wipers they said I should have gone straight to the service desk and agreed that the call centre had got the cambelt and water price combined wrong !! A lesson to us all...speak to the people that know and not the the call centres monkeys that know nothing ! [emoji1] Sent from my XT1092 using Tapatalk