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The collection went well. I haven't driven it much yet, only with 4 miles EV mode driven to home. It is superb quiet and easy to drive, yet punchy enough to get pass slower vehicle in highway. - Initial Mileage is at 9mi. - Not aware of rattle. - Remote Climate control takes 8 hours to appear in Lexus Link app. - Car cannot display my profile name though, even profile deletion and relink. - Front passenger glass are double-layer while the rear glass are single-layer. - Front seats are comfortable with euough support/adjustment, I am curious how F-sport feels. I owned VW Touran for past 10 years, luxury car is a new territory to me. So eager to explore the would with NX.

Traded my Boxster and picked up this beauty today; TVD, red leather, sunroof and Quicksilver exhaust. Suspect I will spend much of the weekend just listening to the sound!

As well we tend to look into political scare as not only 2 dimensional, but literally lineal from left to right, with centre being sort of most balanced. Yet it is not the case at all - politics and policies are multidimensional thing. Most importantly party politics hurts us all, because it becomes mandatory to follow the party which one believes represents their political goal (be it socialist, liberalist, democrat or conservator) regardless if those parties are corrupt, efficient or even truly represents the ideology. More efficient way would be to look into the problem and find most suitable solution for, regardless where it sits on political scales. For example I do believe that best place for healthcare is in hands of centralised government, even if that is as amuricans would call it "communist idea", but at the same time I think that health care should be run efficiently, almost like company, negotiating harshly on all the contracts to get best value for it's customers (that is patients) and shareholders (taxpayers). Usually, the people who criticise NHS or social/healthcare are opposed to it not because they don't like the idea, but because they wrongly attribute inefficiency to state ownership. But to be fair it doesn't have to be inefficient - the only reason it is, is due to party politics and corruption. State owned companies can be just as efficient. The issue again is party politics, because if one identify as socialist, then they can't support private capital, even if that is most rational solution. Conservative can't support state ownership and so on. In the end of the day if they would forget their political agendas and just look into what is the best regardless of where it falls on political spectrum we all would be in better place.

You are one of the few in this forum I consider to be better equipped with intelligence and knowledge than, well yes, the vast majority. That some here consider you to be a tinfoil hat is because you do not have the same opinion as them, and that is not something to be sad about. The average IQ should be 100 but is probably closer to 90 (Mensa scale). That is the only explanation I can see that makes so many people believe in all the information that is served to them. Keep writing and tell what you think. That is one of the reasons I'm still reading elsewhere than on the CT200h site.

I'll keep this brief. It only takes one person to feel offended or irritated in some way and before you know it we have "Me Too" on our hands. I may decide to cancel myself tomorrow on my birthday. Ha Ha. I am OCD but I think anyone with an Engineering background will always do "Micro Detail". No real harm after all. I can assure you that when you beat Cancer there are no words on any forum that can bruise an ego. Thank you to members who saw past the OCD and were more supportive of the original idea. Appreciate it.

I am both. When I retired, I became a dedicated bicyclist! Let my wife do the driving of the car. 10K km a year more or less. Then got skin cancer and after I had 3rd lump removed, I stopped cycling in daylight so bike is not getting many km use now. Biking made me stronger than when I was 30, slimmer and hard as a rock, removed the need for using pills for too much cholesterol and high blood pressure, coming from too many hours sitting in an office. Took a lot of my time, about 5 – 8 hours 4 or 5 times a week, almost like working. With a friend who happened to be retired pro cyclist. No mountain was too high on the island or impossible to get to the top of. On-road off-road all the same. Heavy downhill bike. Always was careful when on-paved-road, as not all car drivers are skilled driving in mountains. Motor-cyclists are much more skilled turning on narrow high roads, if not they would not last long. I have been driving rally long time ago when Delta-EVO was a new car. Not really dangerous as roads were cleared for us. Do not remember anybody talking about pollution then. Surely not against any of the 2 ways to get to one point from another. Drive a lot more careful when it comes to seeing cyclists on the road than I did before I started getting into mountain biking. Think we should all be taking care of each other. And that we should try to make the world a safe place for coming generations. About the taxing: You understand more than most.

Totally agree Linas. It should be about right vs wrong, not left vs right.

This is like the opening minutes of Casualty. You know something bad is going to happen, you just aren’t sure exactly when and to whom…😇

@ganzoom is also a keen cyclist I believe and works in the NHS to boot and...... cycles to work. Gang let me introduce you to Malc and Maurice

I hope you're making a full recovery Malc. Your average hospital bike sheds looks like downtown Amsterdam, if they're not there they are among the literally thousands of bicycles at every commuter station, then folk walk in. My lads at Uni, medical Uni actually and their bike sheds are rammed. Yet you want to VED these poor sods who like most of us are looking at the cheapest way to get to work, school, Uni, hospitals and everywhere else. I'd wager most cycling is people getting to work and trying to save a few bob. Not just Universities but schools / colleges / polytechnics and you seriously want to VED them ? These threads are interesting, enlightening and eventful however I think some folk seriously underestimate how many people actually commute to their jobs. It's got to be a good thing surely, not just for the environment (less cars, less emissions), peoples pockets and also their health.

I have just heard that the Yorkshire Motorsport Festival 2022 is going ahead on 24, 25 & 26 June, and the link is https://www.ymsf.net/ It is in the fields above my village of Meltham and I will certainly be going all 3 days. Last year it was a great event, loads of things to look at despite Covid affecting the numbers and stopping the live bands performing. If anyone is interested in attending I would be happy to help them with finding local b&b's or anything else, please message me direct. I am hoping that Lexus will have a display, Toyota did last year. Perhaps we could make it a mini SC430 meet.

Had a good ride out in the new ES yesterday up in the Lake District. Spent a few hours up there and made this very short video to send to my son in Australia. https://youtu.be/3LCzn6WrMyQ

Got my 7 year service done at Lexus Teeside yesterday together with discs and pads all round (ouch!) The brakes were absolutely shot after 57k miles and although the pads were renewed before I bought it 5000 miles ago, they really should have done the lot. If I braked from speed they made a terrible noise and pulsed when slowing down right to a standstill. Absolutely fine now, which they should be. Got a UX 300e loan car which I was impressed with. Top spec and very comfortable, although i think range would be an issue for me, and the fact I havent got £50k lying around to buy one.

Norway. They taxed the hell out of ICE and offered EV at bargain prices and it was the panacea of EV - oh look at us. Now they need a hole filling in their budget and its all those EV drivers who will pay for it. Clearly they can't do it on household electricity bills so prepare to bend over and be shafted. Expect the same to happen here. A vehicle with a registration plate is a Government cash cow and always has been no matter how it's powered. The future surely must be on mileage.

You've found a very good comrade with Linas ...he will suit your agenda to the full bless him. This two wheels good four wheels bad and tribalism nonsense is just that. I am a motorists who cycles AND a cyclist who drives. I mean why the hell would I be a member of a Lexus forum for 15 years...yes I love a straight six / V6 and one day it will be a V8 !!. I'm also a pedestrian who drives and a pedestrian who happens to cycle. You however appear to be a stuck record.

Rears should see very little wear under normal driving on a hybrid. You are most likely to get wear because of a sticking calliper or disc corrosion through underuse so you should check and lube the sliding pins regularly (every year after the vehicle is 3 years old).

even if true, it's not a high bar to achieve 🤣

You are politically un-correct. The real name is lobbyism and not corruption.

AGE UK might do you an equity release and then leave your kids the car instead of the house maybe ........... I'm sure they won't mind in the slightest Malc

credit card maybe .. a friendly loan from my Amigo ! come come, just mortgage yourself to the hilt, others do Malc

If you do have a high emission car in the 2001-2017 scheme then you can be hit very hard on UK road tax, I think this will see a number of these cars taken off the road as the cost of tax becomes a significant proportion of the value of the car. Ok you may say that's good for the environment but does not take into account that many of these cars may well do low annual mileages so although they are high emission the environmental impact is much less. The 2017 onwards scheme is much lower for high emission cars once the first year hit has been taken, although you have the additional hit for a few years if the car is £40k+.

As an aside, I for one really miss those threads where the endless debate was whether the 300h power train is powerful enough…

In The Netherlands the road tax is calculated by weight of the car, so I've a Lexus SC430 - 2007 weight 1824 KG per year €1100,00 and p/month €91,00 also depends in what province you live ! And we already complain about our government that they are stealing! Because from the € 4,3 billion they collect our roads should be like a red carpet but unfortunately our road contractors and stakeholders are corrupt!

**update Just got back from LEXUS and I can confirm that they disabled the sound for me. Now when I put items in reverse I only hear 1 beep then it's silent till the rear parking is sensors comet on. Because I went in for the somethimg else they did not it for free but dont know if there's a charge if you just wanted it disabled. Hopefully this helps other people in here who are looking to get rid of the sound too!

I don't think suggestion to VED bicycles was ever said or taken seriously by anyone. However, I think it just works as example - if roads are "privilege" which I don't believe they are, then all the users should be paying for that privilege, why only the car drivers should be contributing? Or at least I thought that was a gist of it. However, there is an issue in this statement, to begin with VED is just triple, quadruple, nonsensical tax out of nowhere and for nothing. It is completely made-up for no other reason except that goverment could do it, so they did. VED has nothing to do with cars and as of recently even pollution, and VED will definitely be introduced (is introduced for EVs). Why... just because... goverment had this cash cow and they don't want to stop milking it. When everyone realised that road maintenance excuse does not work, then they changed it to pollution, when pollution doesn't work it will be something else. It is not fair tax or something we inherently need to could justify, it exist for the sake of it. Could the same money be taken from somewhere else... yes, could the money be spent somewhere else... obviously. It is just general taxation, but in different name and it isn't very fair simply because it targets particular group and therefore there is no point to campaign to "ringfence" this tax for the roads - goverment knows very well this has nothing to do with the roads and they want it to be that way. With "less cars, less emissions" point you just support the statement of taxing the cyclist... because you see... eventually "less cars" turns into "no cars" and this means new victim and new revenue stream needs to be found. And this is why this tax isn't about pollution or road use - because if it would be then it would be designed to discourage such use, but it isn't - it is designed to make money out of such use. Goverment just realised that people are attached to their cars, or simply are dependant on them because they don't have other means. Maybe existing infrastructure maybe no suitable for cycling, or person can't cycle or simply don't want to cycle... and there is no public transport either, or it is too expensive, or too slow, or too disgusting... Point is - 85% of passenger miles and 75% of passenger journeys are made in car and this presents massive revenue stream, yet motorists are not organised or monolithic group, so they can stand-up to this. Taxing cyclist is just funny example, but it could be any other group of society which can be divided and can't defend itself. Maybe it is going to be elderly in large houses with inheritance tax, or bedroom tax, or excess rooms charge, or maybe they going to add tax on student loans and call-it "study excise tax"... use you imagination, it could be anything as long as they can find an excuse and form public opinion that it is somewhat justifiable.

Extensive waiting times in D with the Hold function activated will ultimately bring up a warning on the dash about putting the transmission into Park. I think it was around 10 mins or less, not sure before it appeared when I pulled into a layby to take a phone call. I'm not sure why the car's software thought it prudent to suggest this but there must have been a reason. However as NemesisUK said never shift into N with the engine running. This from the manual If the shift lever is in N, the hybrid battery (traction battery) will not be charged even when the engine is running. Therefore, if the vehicle is left with the shift lever in N for a certain period of time, the hybrid battery (traction battery) will discharge, and this may result in the vehicle not being able to start

Absolutely correct, however, public opinion can and does change; and by starting the conversation about such issues (i.e. should the current levels of tax avoidance remain acceptable and legal), changes may occur. Just a thought.

450h+ Premium Plus Pack & Sunroof Ordered 24/10/21 Emails From My Lexus: Processing Order 4/12/21 Build In Progress 5/12/21 Left factory 17/12/21 In Transit 17/1/22 (from memory map showed Portbury) The last few days/to a week the map has shown Toyota Derby as current location Can't give you any other details as the My Lexus app has changed today from the above and my garage shows I own an NX and is waiting for me to link to the car!! Lexus Leeds were expecting it 7/2/22 and didn't have it yesterday as I was in contact, so maybe it's arrived today. I've already arranged to have it registered 1/3/2022 for new reg. So they will keep it until then.

A cricket teacher at school once described my friend's batting as "erotic". To this day, we are not sure whether he really meant "erratic"....

The car would run on ICE initially to get the engine warmed up (you can do a few hundred yards without it starting but then it will kick in if the engine is cold). In summer it will switch back to EV in about a mile so long as you are very gentle though and will then probably be on and off for your full journey. The battery as it's used will also need to be recharged from the ICE at some point so even if you make it one way largely in EV coming home the ICE will be on more. In winter the ICE provides cabin heat and so will be on for most of that journey. The choice of a NX350h for continuous use on such short journeys will not give many advantages over just ICE. You really need a PHEV (NX 450h) and charge at home to make those sort short journeys regular on EV only (or a full BEV like UX 300e).

I have no idea how they came up with those fuel consumption figures

Hey everyone, First post here of 2022, I hope you all are keeping well? I have a question, my SC 430 has a code 'P0125' coming up, "insufficient coolant temperature". I have noticed over the last few weeks that the car starts to blows cold air if I am in the car for over 30 mins or so. (which is not ideal when it is 2oC outside). Am I correct in thinking this could be the thermostat that needs to be replaced? I have checked coolant levels and I have had the 02 sensors replaced. Thanks in advance, Thomas 🙂

The autotrader ad has been updated with ***SOLD*** now heading the description Lets see if they pop up here 👀

I think we all are - "cyclists", pedestrians and "motorists". However, when it comes to tribalism not every person who has a bicycle is ideological cyclist and not every person who drivers is ideological motorist. Few guys here are quite clearly ideological cyclists and some others (including me) probably ideological motorists. Yet even objectively motorists pays ~£1500 more tax every year than other people, so it is not unjustified to have some expectations. Further, I have never complained about VED being too much or looking for other to pay, however that is on condition that roads are in acceptable shape... and they are simply NOT. UK roads are disgusting and objectively worst in Europe. Not only that drivers are still viewed as enemies of the society and attacked on every occasion as some sort of criminal, despite contributing billions towards well being of said society. And I don't care if somebody benefits from it either, nor I said money can't be spent on anything else but roads - as long as those roads are maintained and improved to support the growing need... and again they are not, they continuously getting worse. And how this all relates to KWH costing £4? Well that is simply reminder that having EV is not guaranteed escape from this extortion. Some early EV adopters are surprised, because they paid premium and have to live with inconvenience of EV, but they thought they did so to make it better for the society. Yet few years later they are thrown back together with "scum of society" (that is motorists according to vegetables) and treated just as poorly as any other motorists. Then they are surprised and enraged - don't be... all the taxes and discrimination was never about pollution, it has always been just rhetoric to justify taxing some more than others.

He just does not see what he is doing and how he sounds, Completely locked into Tribalism, Two wheels good four wheels bad. 😇

Goes back to tribalism post - cyclists see everyone who even dares to questions cyclist rights and responsibilities as anti-cyclist. As for VED - it is inherently unsustainable and unfair tax which was pushed with various excuses. Those excuses if applied more generally (be it playing devil's advocate) leads to suggestions that maybe cyclists should pay VED as well. Obviously they shouldn't, but if justification for VED would be true, then they should. And if we say they shouldn't, then at the same time we should agree that VED shouldn't exist either. I would not support taxing cyclist, although I would support making in mandatory for them to have at least TP insurance, have at least basic formal training and for bicycle technical requirement to be specified and maybe even inspected. This is not anti-cyclist, rather I just feel that using the roads (although not a privilege in my opinion) comes with some form of responsibility. And I would go even beyond that - I think kids ins schools should be taught of how to use roads safely. This is actually more important than math, chemistry or physics... although understanding them probably helps to understand why car can't stop on the dime and why it is pedestrian who probably should wait.

Wasn't a Saturday rant Phil. Just my honest opinion and a Fact about hospital cleanliness. 🍻

Seriously, shot after only 57K miles? I had my IS 300h front discs and pads changed at 80K miles (and they weren't gone but I had front wheel bearings done so made sense to do them at the same time but probably had another 10K - 20K+ miles left in them) . My rears are still original and have now done 112K miles and still plenty of life left in them. I always have my car serviced at Lexus and so I am sure they would suggest changing them as soon as it's needed. Very surprised that you needed the rears in particular doing.

Careful, I once wrote that your PM was a jerk and was rebuked by a member of the forum and lectured that he was the best mayor of London and the best and most honest politician in the world.

Often but not always. Politicians are so untouchable (parliament literally sovereign) that they don't shy away from literal corruption. As well different rules for them as it is for us. When they do it it is "lobbyism", but if we do it - then it would be "bribery, fraud and corruption". Partygate anyone?

The BEST backside, with child bearing hips, is of course the LS 400!

Of course we do. We are the commodity that companies are selling, not whatever product they make. Without all the data mining and info about us that they already have and continue to get, the true cost of Internet access would be hundreds of pounds per month, but we willingly trade our data for £20-£30 per month instead.

Do not believe you will live long enough to see that as it probably will never happen.

There aren't any true conservatives Phil, at least not in a real world sense, don't think there ever have been. Take the US for example, who are further to the right than us. They largely don't get involved in the lives of the poor, they think single payer healthcare is borderline communism, and believe people should sink or swim based on their own effort and abilties. That may sound like conservatism, but it's only practised in one direction. For the average American, the biggest cause (65%) of personal bankrupcy is healthcare costs. So they, along with other individuals who fail, get to sink. After all, it's not the fault of the wealthy that they got sick or failed, and governments shouldn't interfere in free markets. On the other hand, how many CEO's of banks or large corporations who fail say ""Hey, we got it wrong, guess it's off to the poor house for us." Suddenly the love of small government conservatism disappears, as ordinary people's tax dollars are demanded to bail them out. They fail, and yet continue to pay themselves huge bonuses, with other people's money. So, there are no true conservatives. At best there are those who want conservatism whilstever it works for them, and socialism if and when they fail, and those with enough money and power get it. That said, I'm not especially opposed to the priciples of conservatism and free markets, as long as it's even handed, and I've yet to see that.

Your point was spot-on in this context, because most of the tax is arbitrary in some way or another. Especially, those taxes which only applies to certain part of society - say smokers, motorists etc. So if we can arbitrarily say that drivers somehow are "detriment to the society" (which is crazy but goverment has pushed this narrative quite successfully probably since 60's), then clearly taxing the corporates would be far easier to justify, than say taxing the old or cyclists. The only problem - goverment owns the narrative and corporations owns the goverment (perhaps not directly, but via lobbies etc)... so don't expect much change there. If there is ever suggestion corporates have to pay even their fair share (10-19% corporate tax) there is always massive campaign to explain how they "employ the people" and how they "invest" and how basically we are prosperous just because they take 90%+ of their profits without paying any tax.

In Hybrids don't use N if not necessary. Use HOLD with D or P.

This took me back several decades to when I was a young writer at a large American advertising agency. I was invited to attend meetings, but rarely to venture an opinion. So on those occasions on which I was, I amused myself by making use of a Buss Word Generator. This consisted of three columns of words. Any word from the first column could be followed by any word from the second and the phrase completed with any word from the last column. Thus it might create such as: Socially Integrated Dynamic Multiple Rated Approach Organically Targeted Format I would then introduce the phrase a few times into my comment. Naturally my elders and betters were not inclined to admit that they had no idea what I was talking about. On more occasions than I could have reasonable hoped for, my invented phrase would later turn up in other documents or meetings, giving me the glorious opportunity to admit my ignorance and enquire as to what it actually meant. But the true Advertising Account Executive is never lost for words and I was always impressed at how what had left me as a meaningless phrase had now acquired a meaning which they could now patiently explain to me. Oh, such fun!

3M VHB - there are multiple different products depending on whether you are sticking against plastic or the metal painted bodywork etc. but the general purpose ones will be fine. 3M don't recommend you use first apply them below 12 deg and ideally 20+ deg to get the best bond.

Why would that be Phillip? It is just as much a valid opinion and view, as "When I am on my bike my car is on the drive so if I am to be charged for riding a bike I might as well use the car thereby creating more congestion which no doubt will give people like you something else to complain about😂".

Pics or it didn't happen!