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You stated over 10s 0-60 is dangerous for road use. So trucks vans buses etc shouldn’t be on the road by your logic. When all classes of vehicles share the roads then how do you specify just cars? If a truck can join a motorway safely limited to 56 and a 0-60 of over 10s, why can’t a car? You interact with the road by using anticipation and judgement not how fast you can hit 60 like a boy racer retard.

I am guessing it is the controlarm bushings that are bad. Those can be had OEM for ca 25$ each from the US +shipping. I am in the process of changing mine. With two seized bolts it is not easy. I will spend a full working day total doing it. You also need tools to press out the old and in the new. I have done this before on another LS and made a tool. Total cost will be 100£ and a lot of work. My opinion is that if you try to run an old LS400 on a budget like I do it helps to have a another old car as backup to keep things less stressful.

superior build quality and materials, good level of space and equipment, attractive looks but these matter to a lot of people more than sporty handling. If I commuted via lap of the Nürburgring then I might be bothered. But I don’t I drive on British roads and appropriate speeds often with my children on board. Even a Ferrari is a dull drive stuck in a traffic jam

All fine guys!!! Problem fixed... probably that was a wire from solenoid which should take the air off from the suspension circuit. I'm so happy! JEM quoted £800 for the sensors and £2500 for new pump... so save some money yeah. :D

A huge thankyou to everyone at Lexus Cardiff for a wonderful handover experience yesterday. I had 18 months of faultless ownership of my previous NX, then got offered a deal i couldnt refuse. Enter NX Luxury with convenience pack and protection pack.

Today I’ve waived good bye to my ISF after 4.5 years of ownership, I’ve really enjoyed the time I’ve had it. And gladly she’s gone to a good home. Will be on the search for a 2017+ GSF in white if anyone is looking to sell please let me know. 0AC5B9D2-1655-4983-9D5B-EA08B6FF3635.MOV

No doubt it would be hundreds of pounds for a new case from Lexus so yes, eBay or breakers yards. No idea about the legalities or rain damage though.

Not really sure you would gain much anyway, remaps work best on engines with turbos

Sorry, why shoud I share my findings, find it yourself ! It seems even if cold hard facts were presented in front of you you'd still deny it and twist the facts, evident from many comments you make on this forum.. you are entitiled to your opinion, but you cannot force it on others. I never said the average car was a Lexus.. did you just twist or did not comprehend the post ? I used the Lexus ES as an example of a car doing 0-60 in 8.5, my pointy being a car that does 0-60 in 8.5 secs is fast enough for an average driver in the UK.. Now even a car doing 0-60 in 10secs can safely join a motorway lessons.. .. if you can't, I seriously hope you stop driving or get some motorway driving lessons Back to hybrids, i'm willing to bet i can get my hybrid is300H from 0-60 consistently quicker that your IS250, on average without wrecking my eCVT, and definitely not my clutch as i don't have one. thank you..

Anyway, a quite positive article here on Car. Unusual to find a journalist who is able park the understeer/oversteer part of his brain for the entire length of a review...

I've still a few months left to run. Currently paying monthly, £259 finance plus £21 service plan. Overall I like knowing exactly what my monthly costs will be including servicing and maintenance, so a new car delivers on that. Plus of course it's nice to own a brand new car. I'd like to stay with Lexus, but I'm not overly blown away by the most recent CT, and a bit disappointed by 3 year warranty, rather than Toyota's 5. That's not a deal breaker, because if I update my car every 3 1/2 to 4 years, it's only a short period with no warranty, but it's still a risk. Also I'm still a bit underwhelmed by the hybrid fuel savings, admittedly that's a lot to do with my low mileage, and it will be no different in a Toyota hybrid. It's a shame you can't use it at least up to 40mph as standard, it would be more useful then. Or even better up to any speed limit. I like the look of the new Toyota Corolla, I will be interested to test drive it when it's available. It's certainly looks a contender, and of course has the longer warranty, and will be a fair bit cheaper than Lexus. I think Lexus would need to offer me something amazing in terms of price reduction and trade in on my car to get me to swap to the new CT. Only time will tell on that one on that one, no doubt they will be in touch in a month or two.

The only solution for him is to build his own car!

That's a very good point. The average of UK cars 0-60mph is actually more than 10 secs. So I don't know where the crazy theory of cars doing 0-60 greater than 10 sec are dangerous comes from. But back to Lexus es, a car that can do 0-60 in around 8.5 is plenty fast for an average user. Also it's not just about 0-60, especially when joining motorways, 30-60 is more relevant.

II’m skiing in polish mountains in -10C right now, so yes I was driving on snow. still no extra noise from tyres. snow function is quite useful but if you are gentle with the pedal you also will be fine. And how it is - pretty the same as all other RWD cars in normal traffic. Only plus is heavy rear of the car which help with traction.

I have always found Daniel at lexuspartsdirect.co.uk to be quick and efficiant. Prices are ususally pretty good too!

Linas.P , the only solution for you is to buy a diesel BMW.

Only point I am always making - sufficient performance. It does not need to be sleeper or traffic lights GP winner, but it must stay relevant to the times and have acceptable levels of performance. If performance would not matter then we can stick 0.5L engine and do 0-60 in 45s... I am mean on average that that how much it takes to reach 60 in the traffic. You cannot just simply "murder" the car on one aspect and expect other aspects to cover it.

No. I can't find data for a 1.1, but assuming we're talking a 90s or early 00s corsa then you're looking at 12 seconds for the 1.2. Not true. My V70 was pretty poor on 0-62 time (over 8s), but with 470Nm of torque it could go 50-70 pretty devastatingly quickly. The reason that the 0-60 was poor was it was very badly traction-limited - it would spin/traction control/etc off the line, as well as be rather laggardly before it built some boost. None of these things occured on 50-70. In terms of torque, power, weight and gearing it was very closely competitive to the E60 BMW 530d - a car with a 1.6 second faster 0-60 time because it had RWD traction. Physics says their rolling performance will be broadly comparable. It's not about power - it's about Torque. A ~200bhp N/A petrol 4 pot (eg honda accord 2.4, 223Nm torque) will cope just fine while a 200bhp turbo diesel (eg my V70, 470Nm torque) can be a torque-steery mess. Of course, there's more to it than just the power and torque outputs - the honda had a double-wishbone front suspension design that was distinctly grippier than the cheap ford Mac-strut front end on the Volvo I do, however, agree that RWD feels much more "premium" to drive - the very absence of Torque-steer, the much more secure traction out of junctions and onto roundabouts, etc makes for a much nicer driving experience. The reasons for FWD are to do with packaging and cost (not only of components but production). EVs are cheaper to produce in RWD, and suffer significantly from FWD torque effects (because you have INSTANT full torque available), so in the next few years you will see the "default" driven wheels switch back to RWD for all cars, even family hatchbacks. The first notable move on this is VW's MEB electric vehicle platform (the electric replacement for the MQB platform that currently underpins everything from a Seat Leon to the VW Atlas, Passat, Tiguan, etc), where RWD is the basic configuration (with AWD option). This. Overall though, I think that you must judge the ES on its success. It has outsold the GS every year by huge margins. It appeals to the market that Lexus appeals to - a comfortable, cosseting vehicle, rather than trying to compete with BMW (as the GS has tried to do).

Ditto. I zone out.

I had a Passat 2.0tdi with DSG for 5.5 years and I never noticed any issues with it, never had any problems quality wise either. Yes, at the roundabouts at first it was dodgy but soon enough I learned how it works/performs and didn't have problems, I just adapted to gearbox I guess. I agree with some of the comments, DSG is not ideal on a slope (my house is on a slope), not as quick to change down and may be not as smooth in town but honestly I learned the way it works and it never bothered me. I have nothing eCVT but my opinion it is only suits cars with powerful enough engine (like GS450h), and fair enough I have not driven any IS300h or GS300h but I think it will have a lag as well as smaller engines are not torquey enough so you would end up with constant engine drone every time you want to accelerate briskly. Regards Lexus ES, I know I am coming back to what people have discussed 1000 times, so it has like what 220bhp and it takes almsot 9seconds to get to 60-62mph, in my opinion it is not acceptable, even Skoda Superb with 2.0ltr petrol (similar power output) and DSG takes like 2 seconds less to do the same sprint. ES will be great for cruising only, and slowly.

My GS450h SE is just lovely, on hindsight though, i would probably would have preferred the SEL model as the Radar Cruise on those is superb - technology that was far ahead of its time at the time! Reliability I don't think you can knock it really. All the points raised above are reasonably common but should not put you off, shame you didn't ask a while back as i knew a chap who was downsizing as his wife didn't like driving larger cars - I did the works on his hybrid battery & she was in beautiful shape. I have a nice silver one in at the moment from the Isle of Wight which, at 12 years old, will soon be running & looking like new again. All the best Richard

Ooohhhh I forgot to update. I got the excess back from the third party insurance company within 2 weeks so it's all sorted. Third party is best yes. They sorted out the claiming back of excess as quickly as they could because they knew I didn't have any extortionate hire car fees

I noticed recently that BMW went back to a standard torque converter gearbox on the new M5 Vs the outgoing models twin clutch system.

In CT it is pretty bad, but that is more to do with engine rather then gearbox. I personally really liked eCVT in RC300h... I wouldn't mind either if the choice would be between standard Torque-Converted Auto or eCVT. However, I had Passat CC with DSG and as far as gearbox goes - I liked it as well, the car was dreadful 2.0t turbo FWD, but it was nothing wrong with DSG box. I think it has a lot to do with what @i-s stated, they are great on paddle shifters and I drove it more like manual-sequential rather then auto. But I am kind of special case, always drive on the edge, always race between lights and around roundabouts and generally use all opportunities to be antisocial on the road (just joking). Point I am trying to make - if you drive DSG hard it is quite rewarding. Let's face it - there much bigger issues with ES300h than eCVT gearbox.... and let's be honest to ourselves - nobody except it to do great with car press, because it isn't great car. All the reviews I have seen are really fair and points outs superior build quality and materials, good level of space and equipment, attractive looks, but again fairly points outs that it is bad driving car, just not inspirational and not something one can enjoy.... unless doing 200miles on straight motorway at constant 70MPH... it which case it does not matter - anything would do.

Generally anecdotal with Toyota & Lexus but it always appears that the performance data is played down. Take the GT86 for example. 0-62 in 7.6 seconds. It was actually around very high 6s. Bottom line though is that 0-62 is kind of meaningless to me. I’m more interested in 50-70mph.

These comments are spot on. I was unfortunate enough to be "given" a DSG-equipped Skoda Octavia by a rental company on holiday recently. It was diabolical, to the extent that I found myself wishing I'd rented a cheaper manual car. It was particularly horrible at low speeds in town. And yet the motoring press rarely have anything but praise for them. The Toyota/Lexus hybrid system is vastly superior in real-world driving, in my view.

It was a Passat B6 2.0 TDI DSG that I had the "pleasure" of experiencing it in. I'm so glad that I'm not the only one who had this experience. Utter garbage. Press the throttle to get out of a junction/roundabout and the clutches would engage (perfectly smoothly) right away, less than 1k rpm and no boost. No go. At all. The car would limp forward for 10-15 feet until that truck that was 200 yards away when you started doing this is coming worryingly close.... and then the car would launch forward in only a semi-controlled manner... The next flaw was on the motorway, sudden bunching traffic caused me to decelerate from 70 to 35mph in lane 3. Traffic cleared and pressed throttle to accelerate again - however, the box had kept hold of 6th gear the whole time until I decided that I wanted to accelerate - it's response to the throttle was not to go, but to change down a gear... that's normal for an autobox.... except that the DSG didn't need to change down one, but three gears and each one had to take their turn - you could see the numbers reeling down on the gear display as they ticked by.... 6.... 5..... 4...... 3 aaaannnnnnnd go! I've never experienced that amount of lag with any torque-converter auto I've ever driven (including all manner of dismal rentals in the USA). The NEXT flaw was on the road where I used to live - quite a steep road of terraced houses (can you tell I live in Yorkshire?) - steep enough that each 16ft wide house was 1ft higher or lower than each neighbouring house. Driving up this road to the turning area at the top, 15mph, let the speed come down to 10, down to 5... just by easing off the throttle, no brakes required. However, the DSG decided that 2nd gear was the right gear for this, and the engine lumbered and laboured until eventually as I tried to turn into the ginnel at the top it came grinding to a halt. THEN it decided (finally!) to try 1st gear and attempted to then catapult me full-pelt towards the neighbour's car. Eventually having got it turned around I came back down the road to park in front of my house. Parallel park. On a steep road. If you've ever tried parallel parking a DSG car on a hill you'll understand. DSGs are not capable of gentle easing of power against a slope - the software prevents it because it would burn up clutches in no time. That means that parallel parking on a slope is distinctly kangaroo-like and needs a generous space. My automatic Volvo V70 I could put into a space just long enough that once I was in it both the front and rear parking sensors were going continually - this passat needed a space 50% bigger. By no means do I regard torque converter autos as anything like perfect (very variable performance depending on software, fluid condition and quality, maintenance, etc) but they are far superior to the DSG.

I’ve never understood the press love for DSG gearboxes. Putting aside the questionable reliability, the lag and hunting for the right gear all the time drives me mad. Having owned the VAG verson - and it having gone bang after 40k miles - I’d never want to own one again. CVT is superior for most normal driving imho.

Just an update on tyre skip. Before trip to Poland I’ve put winter tyres on. Summer ones were skipping in lower temps on winter ones it didn’t happen even once and temperatures during night dropped to -8 so far. So there you have the solution for skipping - buy winter tyres.

Just put my winters on the ISF and Jeep this week.. as it's been very mild here in Kent so far this year. My summer tyres are absolutely shot to bits and barely legal tread wise. I did however have a lot of fun knowing they were end of life... I've just ticked off 90,000 miles in my ISF, so nearly 50,000 since I picked it up 5 1/2 years ago! Dave

you should get some quotes methinks and to make sure they are doing what really needs doing too coz there's lots of stuff under there I'm assuming it's the front ? My car has done 217k miles on the offside one and 173k on the nearside one replaced with a Blueprint one 3.5 years ago which has now failed The original o/side one was still ok but very very tired the drive is now amazingly different too I bought my parts from Amayama in Japan which after carriage and UK Customs Duty and vat etc work out about 50% of Lexus UK prices. BUT took about a month to get even though it was the rapid delivery, but over Xmas My indy is brilliant with my Lexus and about a quarter of Lexus main dealer labour prices I would think Malc

Although i don't do much pure town driving I would say that i'd get 30mpg and over 2 years I've averaged 35mpg mixed driving (tank to tank based). The mk3 GS450h benefits from just a little stop start and if you can keep rolling then all for the better. The battery isn't capable of pure EV mode for long and works best assisting you. Recently i've been experimenting with steady cruise speeds and find 65-70 yields a fairly constant combustion cycle around 37mpg (ish). Whereas driving slightly faster means lifting off more and overall gives a better mpg. I've tried this over numerous trips rather than just noticing it once. I really need to get the Hydrid Assistant app running again and get a few more hrs experience with it to see if that helps to show how the systems work best together.

Thanks Dave, red is a standard sporty looking colour, may change colour later.... White with Google logo 😄.

I think, the one and only LS460 in flame-blue or ultrasonic-blue 2.0 (8X1):

Thanks! one suggestion to all users... before buying sensors... take old ones out and simple test them using similar tool (my was from screwfix, cost £7) you need to touch middle and right connector on the sensor. number on the screen should change if you will move the arm up and down... that's the sign your sensor responding for moves and is working properly! also you can clean the tracks inside using wd40 and sand a bit springs inside... sorry I now I new hire and uploading lots of pictures ect... if I'm doing something wrong please let me know. :D

Update... Here is what was explained to me as a possible - but not definitive - cause of my problems. I am saying possible, as diagnostics did not pick up any fault. I hope I will do the technician justice in my explanation below! . The sensors are made of three main parts. An outer ring, a small disc (the sensor), and in between a rubber ring. The sensor works in a way that similar to a sonar, sending and receiving sound waves. The rubber ring around it allows the sensor to register the tiny vibrations from incoming sound waves. When the 3G glass coat (clear coat protection) was applied to my car, it was also applied over the sensors and surrounding rubber ring. Over time, the 3G glass coat hardened to such an extent that the rubber ring became completely rigid, thus preventing any kind of movement., hence confusing the system. The sensors were removed, dismantled and thoroughly cleaned so as to remove all trace of the clear coat, and then re-installed. No problem since.