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I have a 1kg bag of silica gel sitting on the parcel shelf. It sits behind one of the headrests and is invisible from the rear view mirror and from the outside unless you're looking for it. No condensation issues. Every now and again I put it in the airing cupboard overnight. The one I bought (Ganvol) seems to be no longer available but there's a similar one here. Happy to take pics.

I have the same issue with my GS, also have Pingi car dehumidifier on the back shelf, not sure if it works but still have it behind head restraints. I also always have my air con on to minimise condensation formation and dry the air in the car.

Don't worry - in just a few years time, you won't be able to remember what happened yesterday - but three years ago will be as clear as crystal

Hi Marlon, I would use this link for alloy wheel information: https://www.wheel-size.com/size/lexus/ just find your car and it will tell you everything there is about the wheels.

That's exactly the same behaviour as my IS300h. During the coronavirus lockdown last year I needed to keep the 12volt battery charged and as recommended by Lexus I put the car in Ready for an hour a week. Having nothing better to do, I logged the hybrid battery state of charge and when the engine started and stopped, (as well as the 12 volt battery charge). I don't have Techstream but I was also using the Hybrid Assistant app which shows a lot of useful data including the percentage charge of the hybrid battery. What I found was that the hybrid battery charge would run down to 40% (equivalent to two bars on the dashboard meter) and then the engine would start. It would keep running until the hybrid battery reached 50% charge, which was displayed as three bars, and then the engine would stop. The state of charge would then gradually go down again (I had the radio on too but I doubt it uses a lot of charge compared with the air conditioning which was also on.) After 10 minutes it was down to 40% again (two bars) and the engine would start again. And so on. This was at outdoor temperatures when little or no heating was needed. In winter weather the engine will keep running a bit longer to keep the cabin warm and the bars on the battery gauge will go higher than three. The instinct of most people when they start using this hybrid system is to want the battery to be full, as you would with the petrol tank. But the point of the battery is to store spare electricity generated from braking. If the battery is already full the car has to throw away the energy as heat. So a good compromise level for the battery is around 50% - that leaves plenty of capacity to store regenerated energy but at the same time has a good store of energy to add to a sudden burst of acceleration. Incidentally, the bars don't represent the battery's actual capacity. The computer will aim to prevent the battery going below 40% by starting the engine, or above 80% by using the electric motor to spin the engine without using petrol, which you might notice happening after going down a long hill and getting up to eight bars on the meter. Keeping the battery within this 40-80% range prolongs its working life.

This is becoming a who's who and when of music, great stuff There are musicians and songs here I had long forgotten Makes me feel old now you say that as when this came out I had children but really it well

If you are willing to travel up to Derbyshire ( once we are out of lock down of course and preferably vaccinated) I am willing to do the work you require. Several members have done this and have been happy with the work carried out. I am not a mechanic by trade but have plenty of DIY Lexus LS400 experience. Send me a PM to discuss further if this is any use to you.

Did anyone already know this? I'd like to bet that nobody knew where all the names came from and I would certainly have liked to have been a fly on the wall in the meetings where they chose them!

standard feature from the Bmw stable ( wasnt ticked on the options list)

I got a flat 12V battery on my 2010 RX450H, (off road for over 2 weeks last March with Covid), so, as you say, a certain amount of squirming in the boot was necessary. Still, at least you can get in there, I have known cars when I was younger that would fail with the boot locked and that's that. I looked at the contacts under the bonnet and couldn't really identify them, (turns out I was still ill) so I went straight to the boot, which wouldn't open, no central unlocking, so then it was over the back seat, at my age! It's not ideal, but sometimes you just have to put up with the silly ideas. I think you and I would have put the emergency boot unlock in the centre console or somewhere where one could reach it, but it's not for that, it's for people stuck in the boot, Hollywood style. And I wouldn't put the USB socket right down in the centre console, I can't see it and can barely reach it and can't get the plug in and there's not enough juice to charge my phone....! I watched a Russian review of the 450H and the only word I understood was "contrabanda" when he was showing how deep the centre console goes. I got the car from its second user, so I inherited their Yokohama tyres, which wouldn't be my first choice, and they put a boot liner in, which preserves the boot floor carpet when I carry stuff to the recycling, but lets everything slide around even more in everyday use, but is too valuable-looking to just throw away, so I shall have the cleanest boot carpets when the car eventually goes to scrap. The first owner was happy with really dark rear windows and no sunroof, I don't like the windows but I'm happy about the sunroof, never used one for more than 5 minutes in my life, apart from once in North Wales, and then we got bombed by a seagull... Hope this reassures you, apart from odd daftness, they're good cars but we're always subject to other people's daft ideas. By far the best car I've ever had, though my old GS was faster, wooh boy, was it faster.

Thought this would of interest to all RX owners fitted with 20 inch alloys. Had Yokohama Blue earth winter tyres 235/55/r20 fitted in November..............bought on line at £107 each via Roundtrip Tyres.........had the tyres fitted by Lexus Derby coinciding with the MOT...........they charged £5 per tyre fully fitted and balanced. The car rides superbly with these tyres particularly in the wet. Living in the Peak District we have had plenty of snow and icy conditions recently.........the car behaved surefooted and stable albeit on short local covid allowed shopping trips etc. The car rides very well indeed, much better than the normal Bridgestones Summer tyres.

Hello members. I am Allan Stewart and have just acquired a 2015 NX300 Premier with 15.5k miles on the clock. I am looking for any recommendations for servicing or support in the Stratford/Warwick/Leamington or possibly Coventry area. Many thanks.

Why did Lexus allow school kids to design the battery charging contacts/layout on 2012 Lexus RX450H? In fact, come to think of it, given the complete mess they made of the old RX450 12v battery set up, you would think that they would have done a far far better job with the 450H. Have you ever looked at the positive and negative terminals for charging a flat 12v battery under the hood? You could not fit a child’s hand into the terminal location in fuse box and certainly no crocodile clips of any use would fit. An absolutely useless design and a disgrace. Your only real option is to go direct to the battery by lifting the boot floor. Naturally if you do get a flat 12v battery (and you will) the boot door will not open, especially in the case of automatic door, but I suspect all of them too. Boot door Can’t be opened because erm, the battery is flat!. You have to put down the seats and get inside and muck about with a screwdriver to manually flip a lever to get the boot door to open. When you look at the overall sophistication of today’s Lexus’s with their HUD’s and everything else, you really do wonder why Lexus can’t get the basics right. In fact (in my humble opinion) all well made cars today, should have a 12v battery diagnosis system built in, output right on your dash, so you know when one of the most vital components of your machine requires attention. Give me something useful like that and you can take away 10 of the other electronics heavy features that are unnecessary or typically totally useless. This is my first Lexus from new. Only 76k done and it’s been reliable, except the radar sensor system died at 68k and since I don’t need it, I couldn’t be bothered wasting the money on what I’m sure would be an expensive fix. I expect 100k minimum from any system a manufacturer sells me as part of their driving experience. I, like most of you, quietly chalk everything up from the ownership experience overall and it carries great weight on my next buying decision. This is not our main vehicle, but I have to say that Lexus hasn’t been quite the luxury experience I had hoped for. vent over, but experience deeply ingrained in the old grey matter. 🙂

Err a few scratches 🤭😷😂 By the way the flickering dash lights....battery was flat. No probs before working on the car and I know disconnect before...depends upon what you are doing. If you disconnect earth leads/open door and boot etc the battery drains very fast. Charged over night and so far all good.

Knuckles all intact?

Lovely car Denis. I strongly suggest find a car body shop to de swirl and polish your car. Doing it yourself unless you have a DA will be so time consuming and you could do more damage than good. I took my is250 to a body shop I know as my car had thousands of scratches and swirls. £80 later over 90% gone and gleaming. Look in the 2nd gen is250 section and look for a thread titled 13yr old paint. That's my car.

Here's a video about turning off the screen. In the comments after the video, some people are asking how you turn it back on. The answer in this case seems to be press and hold the Menu button (or the Home button, though my car doesn't have a Home button). I'm sure you've tried everything already but if you haven't tried pressing and holding Menu, maybe it's worth a try.

If it's been fitted correctly then yes, it will have stopped the drain - but it will also stop everything else too. Every time you switch it back on you'll have to reset the windows, sunroof, radio, clock etc., and, of course, while it's off the alarm and immobiliser will be off too. These things are really meant for situations where you may be putting the car into storage for months on end.

My air-con is always on too Vlad. It is not sensible to turn it off.

I bought an emergency jump starter recently (a little bigger than that one), and it works pretty well. Basically a rechargeable usb power pack, but with 12v clamps for car starting, too. Would link to it, but can't find where I bought it from. My car's getting left for days or weeks at a time, and it drains the battery regularly (I suspect that the battery has now had it). So I've bought this battery isolator switch: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B019XQRHBG?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share FItting went smooth enough. I'm going to try the car tomorrow, and then at increasing intervals after that to see if it's stopped the drain. Updates to follow. Yes, I could get into trouble for driving around for the sake of it (not that any one else seems worried about that!), but I'm buggered if I'm going to miss my vaccine spot because of a non starting car.

Rewind to the 90s with this one...

I don't know whether this might apply to any Lexus models but on at least some BMW models there is a membrane behind the door cards. This comes unsealed in time and allows ingress of water which is absorbed in the sponge like insulation in the footwells. (I had this on 2 cars. Either a new gasket is required or the seal can sometimes be reactivated by using a heat gun). Must say that nobody has mentioned this in the time I have been on this Lexus forum but it does not meant it doesn't happen.

I have seen a picture of the fuse box and there is an ecu acc fuse, could that be an ‘accessories’ fuse. Might be worth a check.

They don't. What I did on my 04 plate RX300 was to install a low output LED just in the ledge above them. Worked a treat. I tapped into the switched 12v supply just behind the panel so was super easy.

From what I've seen, the naming conventions of CY17 and MM17 appear to be interchangeable.

I'm guessing the audio subwoofer is hiding under that grill. You should be able to place the silica gel pretty much anywhere within the cabin to draw away the moisture. I think I'd be double checking for damp carpets etc first I don't think the a/c will be able to pull the moisture from the silica gel pouches. These need to be regenerated by heating to 110-120c for a couple of hours.

I have no idea who 'Never_shoots_blanks' is but he's only ever made that one post from almost 11 weeks ago and never been back. I missed his post at the time or I would have told him how to do it. I don't know what he's on about, saying that you can't "get a child's hand into the terminal location in the fusebox and no croc clips would fit it". It sounds like he was trying to get the croc clip 'on' the terminal, which admittedly would be difficult because it has a sort of 'plastic box' around it, like in this photo: That bolt terminal you can see there isn't actually the one we want. It doesn't really matter as such because it is connected directly to the battery and does indeed have 12V on it so it should work. However, the proper jump start terminal is under that red cover and is usually a flat piece of metal that you clamp the croc clip against, as in the other two photos: So he shouldn't have had any problems because the terminal is designed to take a normal 'jump-start-sized' croc clip. However, if you're like me and don't like getting wet or messing about, you could install a jump start point in the cabin like I did:

Thanks for your help Rob,one learns something new everyday 😀

See the extensive discussion “water ingress” on lakes forming in the trunk area from poor rear light cluster seals and body seams. This lake fills under the rearmost tool recess and washes forward under motion.

Check any drains in front of the windscreen in the scuttle panel.

Or the blinker fluid is low or has run out:

The wheels are 17inch x 8j wide 45offset and 60.1 centre bore on the original wheels... but you don't want to use offset 45 the fitment of the original wheels on Lexus's IS horrific... For reference the size of my wheels is is front 19 x 8.5j and 45 offset and the rear is 19x9.5j and 35offset ***** you will agree Fits the car much better

Have you had them refurbed and, if you have, what was the cost per wheel?

Hi Alan and welcome to the best Lexus forum. Go on the Lexus website and look there for a dealer near you. I'll take it you didn't get your car from a Lexus dealer? Whilst your on the Lexus website register your car. Look up My Lexus. What kind of service history does your car have? Did your car come with a Hybrid Health Check? This is part of a dealer service and gives a year warranty for the batteries. Did you do any research on the NX before you got it? Any questions you have about your car look within the NX section of this forum. You'll learn lots.

Sorry I know this response is late BUT here is the fix for this. I too had this happen twice. The first time my car sat for a couple of weeks and again yesterday after I had a new battery put in. Everyone at the dealership could not fix it. Even Lexus said they had never heard of this happening (though you see it on several threads). The first time this happened another dealership ended up unplugging my radio and plugging it back in. They thought it was a loose connection. Yesterday they didn't have time to do the same fix so I went home with a black navigation screen (though my radio, climate and etc. worked). I was told I probably needed a new radio to be installed which didn't make sense to me. I actually think it's a software bug or safety thing that is keeping the screen from turning on. I was told I'd have to go to the dealership to get them to reboot the radio but I found an easier way that I hope can help someone in the future if this happens to them. Here is how to reboot the navigation/display screen: 1. Remove the battery terminals for positive and negative 2. Leave the battery unplugged for 30 minutes to an hour (may actually require less time but this is how long we waited) 3. Press the Start button once to turn on the accessory/battery mode (DO NOT HAVE YOUR FOOT ON THE BRAKE AND START THE CAR). *If you start the car the screen will still remain black and you will have to start over 4. Press the PWR/VOL button to turn on the Radio 5. The display screen will light up and show a progress bar showing it is loading the information from the SIM card. Once this completes the system will reboot and the display will light up as normal. Found the above rayaans, so leaving it for a long time like are going to do may work. Nothing to lose by this method anyway. Hope it works

The service plans are good as the prices tend to go up every year and you beat inflation with the plan I havent bought an extended warranty for any Lexus yet and Ive had a few - no issues to date.

An update after using the leds for several long night journeys. Basically, any led emitter which only shines to the left and right (i.e. not up and down - most of them as far as I can see) will not give a good pattern on an RX400H. If you look at the reflector on the car, there is a wide flat "band" running centrally vertically from top to bottom. This gives you the long distance beam straight down the road. Leds as described above do not shine much, if any, light on this part of the reflector, so you won't get much of a long range beam. I've abandoned my leds and have fitted an HID kit from ABD. This shines light 360 degrees, just like a normal bulb so gives a much better and more controlled beam. The downside is that as in all HIDs it takes a few seconds to get to full brightness, but it's bright enough even on startup to get by.

I would ask again, maybe your GP this time ....... for a definitive statement ........ he is your GP after all coz if you don't and drive and have an accident, well, your insurers may void you☠️ Malc

I`ve a 10 year Service Plan on my GS (not available now) at £34 per month fixed and interest free. A No- Brainer. And I`ve had the Lexus Extended Warranty too ( for 6 years)with many benefits like 2 free M.O.T`s and AA Membership covering you in any vehicle, and interest free. Again A No -brainer. Do a search on the Forum for both these items.

The FIPG black 1282b is meant to be suitable for the pink long life coolant. The more standard black FIPG is more suited to oil and may break down after a number of years being exposed to the coolant although I suspect many dealers wouldn't use the correct one. If you ask a Toyota dealer for 08826-00100, are they saying they cannot supply it in this country?

A good read Terry, thanks. And I note you have a sensible 55 profile.

Thanks. Wil sheck this solutions out.

The heater in the GS450H is capable of cooking you, and your passengers when working correctly. If the engine thermostat is stuck open this could cause the problem, but the temperature gauge would also show the coolant temp as low. There is also an electrically driven heater circulation pump that if not running would give the problem. This is fitted because the engine in a hybrid is not always running so the engine driven coolant pump cannot be relied upon to pump the coolant to the heater.. John.

Are you symptoms same as this post? Gs450H Heating Goes Cool When Engine Shuts Off (Driving/slowing Down) - Lexus GS 300 / Lexus GS 250 / Lexus GS 430 / Lexus 450h / Lexus GS 460 Club - Lexus Owners Club

I have a 2017 RX450h that I have had since end of August and have no problems with mine (same as the 2011 I had before it). You have to let the engine warm up in order to get heat out of it but that is the same as any car and within 2 miles it is getting up to temperature inside the car. On cols days when icy I start the car while clearing the ice off the car and put the heat directed to the windscreen so it is clear once I get in to drive it. The heated seats are also set to automatic so linked into the Climate Control of the car so comes on full when it is cold then turns themselves down as the inside temp goes up.

Not checked the signage, I assume it will say "...at owners risk...." Phil, You could be right, but one never knows! And do read the signage re the cctv as the statements on both signs could be contradictory.

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Seems appropriate or did a few days back

As previously stated attached is my order. Hope this helps. Gary