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After a 3am start from a somewhat wet and windy Dorset we found driving Mecca in Germany. Couple of laps completed to make sure Lichelle is up together for the weekends onslaught 🙂 So the RR Racing USRS are staying as they have been immense. Also the Ferodo DS2500 pads are incredible. 🙂

Thanks to BigRat I now have a Quicksilver exhaust on the RCF. First impressions are that it’s a little louder inside the car under normal driving with the windows shut, but obviously a lot louder outside given the looks I got when accelerating up and over the Itchen bridge earlier. And it looks so much better on the car Thanks to Paul for dropping the exhaust off today. Just need an opportunity to clear its throat properly now.

Hi I am sure the 600 is a great car. The one you are looking at will need a spend of circa £3.8k that you know about on it's next service just for the advisories from the last service. Maybe the extra several thousands at the Lexus dealer might be money well spent. When I bought my 430 it was very hard to find a Lexus approved one as they are quite strict about which cars meet their criteria. I bought privately and came in at about half the price. In the back of my mind I had a lot of money in reserve should things go wrong, but it worked out fine. In fact the car has been totally spoilt! However there are a great deal of pattern parts for the 430 and a lot of knowledge on the Internet. Quite a number were built and you can find cars being broken for spares should you need an engine or front bumper for instance. My feeling with the 600 is that it is so rare and complex it may be that should it go wrong it can only be repaired at a Lexus dealer with Lexus part$. So I would did deep and buy the very best one I could find with a warranty. ScottC

Good evening everyone. Just picked up my 2015 RC F today. Driven back to Glasgow from Birmingham today and managed an almost economical 34mpg sitting about 80 ish. Coming from a 2015 WRX STI it's on a totally different level. Fabulous car. I'll post some photos once it's had a good detail. Last owner must have washed it with a wire brush. Cheers James

Back home now from our 750 mile round trip to Northumberland. Thanks for all the posts and will try touching the brake pedal idea. There were lots of times on the journeys there and back for the boom/thudding to show itself and as ever it was whilst coming off the throttle and the engine rpm dropping to around 1,000 rpm. Several really bad sessions when the vibrations really came up through the driver's seat into the cabin. This also happened in Alnwick and it was the worst its ever been. I wondered if we'd be in trouble for getting home. As if by divine intervention there was a phone call from Lexus Bristol the following morning saying that Lexus had agreed to replace the whole exhaust system ( including the large boomer box). This is booked in for next Thursday. I remain convinced that the exhaust system has something to do with the issues I'm facing but will be amazed if it cures everything. I live in hope. Yesterday I had a Mitsubishi PHEV for 24 hours but Jan's back was playing up and she couldn't get comfy in the passenger seat ( no adjustment possible ) and was in pain with her sciatica. The way the PHEV pulled away with no judder was wonderful but there's no comparison the the sheer comfort in the RX. I'll post again when the exhaust has been replaced to say whether that was a waste of time and effort or not. Thanks again, Alan

Welcome to the club @JMAX1888 James, looking forward to seeing your pride and joy.

I'm just coming up to 170K with no major issues, in fact the only repairs outside of servicing / consumables have been a bonnet latch, and an auto wiper sensor

@stringbender I would advise caution here. If you've gone to them and explicitly asked them to replace the exhaust system, and they've agreed to do it in order to resolve your issue then as far as they are concerned that is the deal that makes this problem go away. Because you asked for a specific solution you may have no recourse if the specific resolution you've asked for doesn't fix the problem. You should never do this when taking your car to garages - always make them diagnose the car first so that if whatever they do to fix it doesn't work you have recourse. Really your position to Lexus should be "the car is doing something it shouldn't, i want it fixed". Since they are apparently not able to diagnose it, perhaps you should start by having it diagnosed somewhere else. If the vibration is as noticeable as you said it is today then it should be no trouble for a competent technician to figure out what's causing it. You shouldn't settle with them over a guess, you're giving too much away. It's their responsibility (legally, under consumer law) to fix it or take it back.

Cheers mate. I've been lurking on here for a while and noticed you fitted a quicksilver exhaust. To be honest I thought it would be the first thing I would do as well, but I'm more than happy with the noise and I've just sold a WRX STI which was LOUD. I'll never see those mpg figures again, the wife was with me so I was semi sensible.

I am an Norwegian. I found it now, but it have some scrathes so i loock around, but i thinck the 2009 wil worck out in a 2006.

Yes, Diffusers of Mass Air Disruption

I should add that the original subject of this thread (850 quid '99 9-3 S Convertible) has cost me roughly bugger all since I bought it. It comes out whenever it's dry but also survived an extremely wet Tour Of The Peaks with absolutely no issues when some other more exotic machinery didn't do too well. The kids love it too. I mentioned to the eldest that to get the Soarer I'd have to sell the 9-3 and 9-5 and he was absolutely horrified. I think I'm doing something right.

Unless I buy the Soarer and start this ridiculous cycle from fresh (again) I've decided it's a wheel refurb and rear window tints for the 9-5 next. Biggest bang for buck in terms of appearance as far as I'm concerned. Closely followed by a carbon fibre dash direct from Sverige. Or a nice walnut one if I can find one on the Bay. After that it's a replacement head unit and SID (Saab Information Display). The buttons have gone icky on mine. To give you an idea of the bangernomics involved that's 60 quid for a brand new dash direct from Saab in Sweden, 25 quid for a CD/radio/cassette and about the same for the SID. Over the last month or two I've had the brakes and suspension sorted so it now drives like a car with half the mileage. Add to that a remap courtesy of Karl at noobtune and the car is pretty much sorted. I've also been working on the paintwork and the pearlescent is coming through much more. It changes from bronze to grey to I don't know what depending on the light. Also, totally (nearly, there was a Gripen there) unrelated to Saabs here's a pic of the Red Arrows I took at the RAF Cosford airshow last week. Just posting it because I like it.

Evening friends. LeMans is in full swing and is entering the evocative evening stage. I'm keeping an eye on the in-car feeds from the two Toyota LMP1 cars, and the speed is simply staggering: No.7 here: And No.8 here: Toyota hybrids, boring eh? Meanwhile, looking to the future good news that Toyota are - by the looks of it - seriously planning a car for the newly released ACO regulations. Who knows, it may end-up wearing the Lexus badge, given the exulted company... article here

Best we agree to disagree, I work for a leasing company with 150,000+ vehicles and it’s fair to say diesels after a certain mileage will cause issues on all of the parts I mentioned. I get to see which cars have money left in their maintenance budgets and which don’t. One thing that doesn’t seem to have ever happened though is a blocked EGR on a petrol engine 😜

Diesel, no chance 😫 🙂 EGR, DPF, Turbo, Injectors etc wont last the course. RX450h or a Merc ML, BMW X5 or Audi Q7, there’s really no contest when it comes to long term reliability and running costs IMO. I have an X5 now and it does 33MPG in my hands, mostly motorway usage.

Just received confirmation earlier this week from my dealer that Android Auto and Apple Carplay will be available on all Lexus from now on as the EU licensing has been sorted out. They are currently working to try and make this available to older cars via software update too so hopefully it'll surface

I haven't received any paperwork or assistance cards yet despite having made 2 payments and existing warranty expired last Thursday. I rang them and they said it would automatically continue but they don't send out the paperwork and cards for 10 days! Just so you don't wonder why nothing arrives initially.

I've just extended my warranty on the 2 for one deal. I think it is well worth the investment.

Thanks, I have had the Defender 14 years, it was rebuilt on a galvanised chassis, galvanised bulkhead, I even had the axles galvanised. It gets a bit offroad use. The car under the tarpaulin was a 1971 Saab 96, I just sold it to help pay for the RX. It was originally a 1500 though I rebuilt the engine as a 1700 with a rally cam and Weber twin choke.

I can't offer anything on 1 or 2 of your list. 3. I wonder if they are too bad on tyres? I've just replaced the rears on mine, I suspect they were the original Japanese-made Bridgestones - they were badly cracked due to age (so much so I'm surprised the main dealer selling it let them go through like it) but still had quite a bit of tread depth and had worn evenly. Mine is coming up to five years old and has now done 26k miles. I've gone for the Michelin CrossClimates following good reports on here and due to this being my car of choice when the weather's bad. 4.I'm still fairly new to RX and hybrid ownership, I have the screens set-up like this so I can see how my driving style affects the economy: Yes, this photo was taken on a private road! I find the trip info screen at full-size an easy way of seeing how much difference it makes when lifting the throttle just slightly, and it's satisfying to see those bars as high as possible. That MPG is what I get running around locally, with lots of cold starts and short-ish journeys, with no use of the A/C. I try and reset the trip meter each time I refill and then see how it's doing against the cruising range figure. There are the graphics on both screens which show the energy going backwards and forwards, but I prefer to work with numbers. When I bought mine at 24k it was showing an overall average of 30.6mpg, after a couple of thousand miles that's risen to 30.8. I did use Eco mode for a tankful or two, but the difference it made wasn't enough to persevere with.

I've just extended my warranty on the 2 for one deal. I think it is well worth the investment.

I’ve seen the 2yrs for the price of one, but can you buy a 3 year warranty? Or do they expect you to buy another year every year, unless it’s 2 for 1, then it’s every 2 years 🤔

As far as I know, but may be wrong, it's 10 years or 100k miles. However, I think I've seen people say that if you go in at 9yrs 11months you can take out another warranty? Probably completely wrong but I'm sure someone will correct me. One thing I do know for sure is that the hybrid battery is now covered up to 15 years as long as it's had an annual hybrid health check done.

Ooo, lover-ley! Any chance you could buy an orange Saab 99 like the mum-of-my-best-friend-at-primary-school had? Just for old time's sake? It seemed very exotic (in a Scandinavian way) in the late 70's, what with everyone I knew driving an Austin or a Morris (apart from someone posh we knew, who had a Wolseley).

I wonder how many people who make these sweeping statements about the suspension being night and day have actually driven the earlier model cars. I had the choice of 2 cars, a 11 plate 60k mileage car or a 59 plate 34k mileage car. I really could not tell a great degree of difference driving them back to back, not to the point where I thought I could only live with one, so I went with the lower mileage and best condition car and have zero regrets. My wife is quite fussy and never complains about the suspension. I drove 6 hours in it last weekend without complaint. My father has a 11 plate 911 with PASM and I wouldnt say that rides much better. I once owned a fn2 type R, now there was a car with suspension I regretted buying 3 months later!

Hi and welcome to the club Jeegnesh. Let's see some photos of your new motor when you can! 1. I've never needed a towbar but from what I've read in this forum, I think it's a dealer-only supply and fit but I may be wrong so hopefully someone else will be able to clarify. 2. Yes, they can quickly go flat because they aren't very big and don't have a huge capacity. It's perfectly alright to accept a jump start from someone but don't ever use your hybrid to give a jump start. Some people use solar panels as a trickle charger if the car is parked outside for a while. I may even invest in one myself one day but for now, I always carry around a small jump start battery pack. It may be useful for you to have a read of a topic I started a while ago, about just this very thing: 3. Tyres. I have Goodyear Vector 4Seasons Gen 2 all round on mine and they're absolutely excellent in every way. Other people will recommend the Michelin Cross Climates. Technically, point for point and item for item, they are equally as good as each other but you may be able to get a better deal on the Michelins price-wise. For me it's Goodyear, Michelin, and a third choice would be Avon ZX7. 4. They aren't designed to be an electric car. If you try to run on batteries only, you'll only manage a couple of miles and then they'd be flat. Even if you manually select EV mode and do a standing start when, say, moving off from traffic lights, you'll only have to breathe on the accelerator pedal and you'll get a message that "EV mode is cancelled due to excessive acceleration" and you'll be thinking 'but I haven't even reached 5mph yet!' The trick is to accelerate briskly up to speed and then just ever so lightly lift your foot off a bit so that you're just maintaining that momentum - that's when you can get the electric motors driving the car at 30 or 40mph. Anticipate stops so that you can do long, slow, braking which will help to keep the traction battery charged up because when you press the brake pedal the motors turn in the opposite direction to become generators. As you come to a stop at traffic lights or junctions you're probably used to putting the handbrake on and the car in Neutral, but don't do that anymore. Leave the car in 'D' and keep your foot on the brake. The hybrid system gets a signal from the brake pedal and won't charge the battery if the car is in Neutral. If you park up somewhere for any length of time but you like to listen to the radio, always keep the car in the READY state, which is the equivalent of having the ignition on. This is because the 12V battery is only small and hasn't got much capacity and, believe it or not, just having the radio on for 30 minutes without being in READY (the equivalent of having the key in the ACC position instead of IGN) can flatten the battery to such a degree that the car won't start. However, as long as the car is in READY, the petrol engine will fire up as and when necessary to keep the 12V battery charged. And finally, the most important bit - enjoy!

I had continuous problems with the Engine warning lights telling me that fuel/emissions/timing/CAT's, you name it were faulty. After about a year of these issues, I heard a blow in the exhaust and on inspection found three pin holes right next top the sensors in the exhaust pipe. We have a tyre and exhaust depot near us and they made up a complete system from the down pipes to rear including silencers and CAT's for under £800. all in S/S and it sounds great, nice and quiet. All done no more issues with warning lights and a long life exhaust - job sorted. Might be worth asking the question and one of your local exhaust chaps.

My 2014 300h has now covered 107000 miles, 50k of that in the last 13 months. At 80k I would say you shouldn’t be encountering any issues, the drive should be nice and smooth, no bangs or clonks and the interior should still be looking very fresh. Generally the bodywork should be in very good condition, however expect the front bumper to have taken a battering, mine looks pebble dashed and has done from about 60k. As far as longevity is concerned I would say don’t worry. I have seen Toyota hybrids with over 300k on them and they are still running all their original major components, my oldest Prius is now 15 years old with 330000 miles on it and is still on its original hybrid battery. Given that the technology for the 300h has come from the Prius I think that’s a pretty good benchmark. By this time next year I expect mine to be at about 160,000/170,000 miles and by then I would have replaced the shock absorbers and changed the transmission fluid and all the antifreezes as well as a couple of diff oil changes as well, however my expectations are that it will still be giving me late 40’s to the gallon and still pull like a train. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I couldn't run mine through winter, all the salt they put down and the fact that you might have winter tyres but the car behind you probably doesn't, too much of a risk for me, I have a cheap Honda Civic, cost me £900 and its just gone through it 3rd MOT with me for the cost of a wiper blade. Keep the miles off the F and the corrosive salt away from it, it will feel amazing come April!!!!

Me. Only two cars I would consider moving to from the IS F, this (lifetime member, used to support three that raced in Time Attack, owned 5/6 in various spec’s), and the R34 GTR. Both are rapidly climbing well above the £30K bracket, and show no signs of coming down anytime soon. The MK4 was and still is a great car in so many ways. The tunability and strength of that 2JZ-GTE engine is unreal. Don’t know of any other engine that can support close to triple it’s original horsepower without needing to be ripped apart and forged.......?? Problem is they are getting old, so restoration costs need to be factored in. Bushings will likely be shot, rust on the rare U.K. models will be an issue, subframes and diffs could need rebuilding.... biggest issue is parts availability, especially with the Getrag 6-speed manual gearbox. You simply can’t find new parts off the shelf anymore. I’m loving the move away from lairy bodykits, for me the Supra needs very little cosmetic enhancements, it’s a great looking car in stock form. Giving the heart a bypass with a nice build and single turbo kit on the other hand is all good in my opinion. 😉😎

Hi the car was bought private on autotrader not sure if they knew about it,I also didn’t pay much attention to the coolent as the car drives fine no loss of power and no smoke just a little on start up,can I use a sealer would that work. thanks