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When you start the car, the loud noise from the open exhaust pipes where the cat used to be is a bit of a giveaway. :-)

HI MANY thanks for the input , i bit the bullet and ordered a new shock, when the guys took the adjuster off the top it was leaking from the top .. it now drives superb ... would still like the car a little lower so if another one goes ill be going that route .. on a foot note WOW I LOVE THIS CAR ........talk about wolf in sheeps , more like a t rex in a baby chick lol the wife get 33.9 mpg when she uses it and i get a HOOT when i drive it ... best of both as they say .

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Hello Malc my friend - nice to hear from you. Yes I can't and won't get rid of the LS400...probs you won't remember...one of my first posts was a comment of mine saying I'd use the 400 until I bought something more flash having just dusted off and sold my useless 2003 Jag XKR...now look...my LS400 my pride and joy 🤣 A lot of Bentleys are 5 owner cars...does that mean a lot of dreamers? 5 crops up a lot...enough to be a pattern. They certainly have gremlins although the drive train and more are fab. I was only dreaming...other half is expecting a kitchen to the same value. Guess who will win... If I did get another carriage - Lexus...has to be. But the 400 stays.

my next door neighbour has a 04 plate Bentley ( DJI 2020 ....... does about 2k miles a year, ) and a Audi Q6 ? and a classic Jensen Interceptor and I just know he cannot find a buyer for it He's so disinterested in the thing that he missed it's MOT this year by many many months even tho' it often sits out on the road ! My indy mechanic tells me if I had one he would be trailering it down to him for tlc and repairs more than I would be using it ..... he thinks the Lsa400 is a brilliant car for me and 15k miles a year Malc

I also looked at a Bentley as there are so many available for silly money and low mileage, plus have been very well cared for. Problem is if you read the reviews, you need a good warranty. They have an awful reliability reputation, plus a friend who had one, a new rear wheel bearing was £4K. Agree nothing like a Lexus LS

My rear discs need replacing soon. Defo interested in the Twellsie specials 😎

Hi, just information for owners. Last Saturday night my car was parked in a car park in Retford and an attempt was made to steal the catalytic converter from my car. An angle grinder was used to cut through the clips and then the front exhaust but they also cut through the pipe containing the engine cooling system. Quote from Lexus for new exhaust and catalytic converter was £3800, luckily my Lexus Independent garage managed to weld the exhaust and the coolant pipe at a cost of £336.

Thanks David, will do. ''Interestingly the day before my diagnosis I bought the LS 400 - thought about selling it the next day! Glad I didn't!'' I bought my 500 on the Thursday for pick up Tuesday, Between I had the attack on the Sunday. Like you, I nearly called Gatwick on the Monday to pull out of the deal, and, like you, I'm glad I didn't.

That's the best plan if you have another car to use during the bad weather, I've found the Pirelli Sotozero winter tyres to be superb on high performance vehicles. I remember one year when I had my nice shiny new car I got completely covered with that grit s**t they put on the roads then to add insult to injury it got me going again the other way later in the evening.

Hi Ken. I used Lexus Woodford when purchasing my current NX and my previous 2 IS250s. I also use them for after-sale items such as servicing, parts, etc. I have had no problems with them at all and find them to be reliable, professional and courteous. I plan to continue using them going forward. I can't comment on their prices in comparison with other dealers though. Hope this helps.

Might be nice if you could spare the time and do a write up on here on how to solve that problem you had ( as I'm sure you will not be the only one to have suffered from it) and help any future owners if they do a search for the problem. also not really advisable to put your personal phone number ( if it is, as opposed to business no) on an open forum! paul m

Ha ha, like it!! But now you've got me confused as to who I am (looks in mirror). Did have an 8 track in a 1966 300SE M Benz many many years ago, the only other car I've had with one or air suspension. Had a look at a mobility scooters considering what might follow the Lexus!

I must admit I was very surprised by this when we purchased our RX450 but in the end I was just happy that it came with LED lights for the low beam.

well done they are a fab car and for a large unassuming car quite quick...... ask the guy in the focus st turbo at the lights see ya

Your welcome, no rubbing, had no problems with anything since the day I installed them!

OK - so I sorted this. I installed an app called MacroDroid on my phone - which is a brilliant automation app. I created two rules - one "If Bluetooth connects to Lexus", then "Enable Hotspot" and another "If Bluetooth disconnects from Lexus", then "Disable Hotspot" - so simple and works perfectly. 😄 😄 Happy bunny.

OK. Were Making Some Progress... So. Now; for the painfully obvious but trivially technical and somewhat predictable legal parts. Sans any Olympic bits etc. Here's how I worked it out from first principles. This after watching various random attempts from the first few sets of local Lexus franchise's sales guys showing me how they thought it worked by basically floundering around without much of a clue and failing time after time:- Given other product feature decisions and public announcements already made by Lexus it would seem sensible to assume that this particular safety interlock sytem. As with much else similar from this class of modern vehicle is motivated by a corporate desire to avoid any legal pursuit from a user having suffered harm or worse either by their own or by their appointed representatives errors or omissions i.e. always follow the money first... Thus for entirely pragmatic reasons. The immediate foregoing suggests that the the step back part is likely the most crucial aspect, primarily because (all) the rear (ultrasonic) sensor(s) is(are) likely resolving, at the very least, one pair of entirely separate phenomena, i.e. pair part one: an Event, E1 and part two: an Elementary user position mapping, E2. These, and probably some others, seemingly evaluated strictly in one order:- Simplified Input Condition List:- E1 - Has there been a tailgate lift open request from the rear underbody sensor i.e. an air kick? E2 - Is the users elementary position safe? i.e. located clear beyond the horizontal extent of the vertically swept arc from the tailgate's lower edge? Compacted Truth Table:- Minimalised Output Action List:- If E1 = YES AND E2 = YES; then actuate the tailgate opening. If E1 = YES AND E2 = NO; then ignore the E1 request and bleat? If E1 = YES AND E2 = NOT SURE; then do nothing to aviod user injury. If E1 = NO AND E2 = NO OR YES; then do nothing until E1 changes. As the above generally holds true in practice, then the step back part is far more necessary to successful operation than the kick part i.e. kick at it all day but for reasons now made plain. Until you step away then nothing much should or will happen. Save perhaps for very occasionally causing random, temporary and unrepeatable confusion of the sensor and software suite with potenialy hazardous results. No surprises then that, for even more obviously apparent reasons, when returning the tailgate to its closed position. Similar fundamentals, but with a critically enhanced input event set and management matrix providing a well matched expansion of the closed loop output control functions likely applies even moreso i.e. closing the tailgate is, at a deeper level of analysis, even more fraught than opening. But if this extra complexity for closing has to be in place then why not make good use of it on the opening cycle? Any useful recountings from other owners, i.e. what works best on your UX? All relevant experience welcome...

I'm with you there Tel - not managed to see the fuse box which this cover actually came off yet and to be honest, if it is that difficult to see, there is no way that I am crawling about trying to replace any blown fuses in there!. The 'What 3 Words' app mentioned by Herbie sounds very interesting and something I will look into but I suspect I will use my iPhone in the majority of cases like Tel. Must say, I was VERY surprised about the lack of connectivity with this car given its place in the market. We also have a Nissan Leaf in the family which knows where it is and can tell us, allows us to remotely sound the horn and switch on the lights as well as a host of other features. It seems a shame that I have to use a third party phone app to locate the car when it is parked in an unfamiliar area and am now looking to buy and fit a separate WiFi dongle to plug into the LEXUS so that the SatNav can determine traffic conditions and warn me of safety cameras without me having to have my phone set up to provide a "Personal Hotspot" every time we go out. (Please let me know if I have that wrong and I have failed to understand how the SatNav works). On the fuse box cover matter - consensus of opinion, (apart from the sales executive who I bought the car from) agrees with me. Thank you.

Thanks, really happy with the result and close up of the colour.

Wheels have been powder coated, just need to finish things off with chrome delete. I previously had Korean ditch finders on and straight away noticed then difference after switching to PS4S, especially in the wet 👍

In my experience Lexus is not a vehicle in which one needs to "floor the car."

Apologies for keeping you all waiting! 😜 Haven't bothered with any ride height pics for now as they just look like it did before the install but here's a few aired out shots for you. Rides like a magic carpet. Unreal. Go out and buy this product right now 😎😎 She...... Low!!

I have a friend in the motor trade who has been through just about every car imaginable, he currently runs a beautiful fully restored E type. He had a Bentley for a couple of years and complained that it was one of the most unreliable cars he's had, mostly due to electrical issues with the same duff components being shared with Audi. Stick with the LS, there's literally nothing like it!

It is quite possible to get a knocking or banging noise from the shock it's self. In the bottom of the shock tube is a free floating piston with nitrogen under pressure at about 500 psi beneath it pushing it upwards. Above it is a second piston attached to the top rod. The piston has adjustable restriction valves in it to allow oil to pass through under control. This piston is in the oil above the floating piston putting the oil under pressure, and moves up, and down as the suspension moves.The oil is under pressure to stop bubbles forming affecting the oil flow through the piston valves and to allow for the different volume in the rod piston chamber as the rod move in and out of it. Normally the rod piston works in an area well above the floating piston being held down by the oil above it. Over time oil is lost through the top seal, and this space is taken up by the floating piston rising keeping the oil under pressure. When enough oil has escaped the floating piston rises to the point where when the suspension is under compression after hitting a bump the piston connected to the rod can move down and hit the floating piston giving rise to the knock or bang. John.

That's only silly Lexus dealership price. You can get a whole exhaust system custom made in stainless steel, including cats, for less than that.