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Sad to hear that, many, many years ago when I was self employed I had a very large tax bill to pay one January and my only path was to sell one of my cars to instantly sort out the tax bill. It happens in life, what was amazing that I sold my beloved Isuzu Vehicle-Cross to a very nice guy who looked after it very well and as fate would have it I bought it back after about 8 years. So as I said to my girlfriend/wife at the time, small sacrifice now for better things in the future

Hi chaps, sorry for not updating sooner! So yes, the service centre confirmed that the service history was correct and that the mileage was 75k+. They couldn't actually confirm the exact mileage from the ECU, however there were some historical data capture points with mileage (such as the 12v battery replacement) which match up with the service history. They suspected it could be a replacement speedo, however they couldn't confirm that without taking the whole dashboard apart. They gave me detailed print outs of the service history and the hybrid health check certificates. I've been in contact with the dealer to understand what my options are. I have more than enough evidence to just get a full refund, however I'm considering just taking a partial refund based on the higher mileage. The car itself is in great condition, which the service centre technician also commented, so I'm reluctant to have to hand it back. That said though, if I do take a partial refund it will need to be a significant one. As of now I'm still waiting to hear back from them, although they have acknowledged and accepted they have farked up on this.

Exactly why I don't like Apple - too locked down. If you want to do something that Apple haven't anticipated, or even do something in a different way to the "Apple way", you typically can't. Having said that, Microsoft Teams is the bane of my life and I would happily consign its designers to the nether regions of hell!

Welcome Tish, Obviously I cannot give an authoritative opinion, but I share your concern. To buy a quality car, and then not bother to have it serviced regularly, suggests that it hasn't been 'loved' or shown the care that a piece of well-engineered machinery deserves. There's probably been some 'penny-pinching' going on, and that doesn't auger well. If you've not yet seen the vehicle, and are easily able to do so - I'd go and have a look just to see the general state of the body and interior - but I can't help thinking that will only confirm your concerns.

That's fine at the moment, where the ratio of chargers to EV's allows it. But the indications are that provision of chargers is not keeping up with sales of EV's so at some point in the future there will be big queues at all the charge points....... As we saw over Xmas with the Tesla charge points.

i met up with Toby last year when I had problems with my muffler delete and saw all the mods he has done to his. Really nice chap and lives very near me. i hope to catch up with him again this year when the weather gets better.

Ah! Cars are becoming more complicated! I can remember if the Mini driver's door didn't open from inside, it was most likely that the string had broken!

If you do decide to go for it, please log project progress with lots of pics on here. Plenty will follow and make up the cheerleading section.

You and Steve (WIL44) seem to be the only ones who have really upped the mods on your cars in the UK. I think the general age demographic of owners and their numbers in the UK determine the extent of mods carried out. That plus the cost compared to the value of the car. I myself have spent about £5500 on mods but £3500 of that was on the wheels and tyres alone.

I would hang on to your SC it is really unique and special plus you have put so much time and effort into it as well as money. You never know if you do sell it you might wish at some point you hadn’t. I am getting on a bit now and in 53 years I have owned nearly 30 cars but my SC is the one I feel most attached to. The RX is a lovely car and I really like it but it is not quick nor particularly economical. I recently changed the tyres on the RX to Michelin Sport EV tyres and they give a lot harder ride so I now wish I had gone for the non EV ones but having spent £800 on them I am stuck with them.

It's especially cheeky knowing that the Lexus navigation is horrible, clunky, outdated and outmoded. To the OP - either use Google Maps, Waze, Sygic or something else on your phone, or if the infotainment system will take Android Auto or Apple Carplay, install that and use Google/Waze/Sygic through that. I'm not sure about Sygic but certainly Google Maps and Waze are freely and frequently updated at no cost. Waze is my personal favourite and not only are the maps updated very frequently, other 'Wazers' can, and do, upload live updates about roadworks, traffic jams, and other problems or hazards. For example, if someone sees a roadworks site just being set up, they can have that information uploaded and live on the map within a couple of minutes.

The ride isnt massively better on the different trim levels to be honest. It's one of the smoother cars in its class so if you're troubled by it you'll need to step up to something like a GS or E class size

I have had two Volvo's previous to my getting IS300h comfort & my wife tells me the IS is quiter & smoother than both. I must say it rides potholes a lot quiter without the clanks. Mine has standard suspension & 17" tyres.

White has more bhp 😉

Methinks this is a bloody cheek for Lexus to charge for this essential facility in any car let alone a super dooper Lexus ...........and for ordinary mortals driving ordinary Lexii ........... I use Google maps for free on my IPhone ........... and as above it's 24/7 updated AND ............. I have RAC cover that includes wife/mistress/partner and me and her driving ANY car ( well either of our 2 anyway ) and I believe even covers if one of us is a passenger in any car that breaks down ......... that car is RAC covered at that time Oh, and my Full Breakdown etc and Overseas cover is FREE ... coz I've been a Member for ever now, well, in excess of 50 years ............not a bad loyalty bonus eh ! BUT you have to be quite ancient to get that bonus Malc

You are very lucky its not blue (or maybe I am) as I would have bought it before you put it up for sale. Hopefully still see you around buddy. Good luck

Update: Called my broker again to discuss possible new policy. Spoke to a different advisor who wanted to check with my underwriter herself that they wont "upgrade" my current policy. They agreed to upgrade and not only that, totally free of charge! (Highway/Liverpool Victoria - Modified Car Policy)

I think its worth seeing the vehicle and seeing how it drives. If the price is good i.e. £3-4k less than an equivalent car with Full lexus service history at a Lexus dealer it might be worth a punt. You won't get any serious long term damage with an oil change at 16k miles and also over 2 years if its only travelled 8k in that time. For piece of mind you could get a Lexus service which would then give it 1 years Relax warranty

Haha ... and there I was thinking it was just me that had nothing better to do 😂 .

The keys with the latest CT, slide apart. Almost broke the key trying to prise it apart following the videos.

Rather than buy another SC part of me wants to swap the RX for a GSF but the price they sell for is above what I want to spend. They may be rare but around £40,000 for a 7 year old car I think is overpriced compared to other Marques. If it was £30,000 I would be tempted. They also seem to hang around for bit before they sell which may mean it is not on many peoples wish list. I bought a four year old BMW X5 M50d from a BMW dealer that was £75.000 new for £29.000 with 60,000ml on the clock. When I sold it to buy the RX it was 9 years old and I struggled to get £17,000 at 84,000ml. The first LC500's which I love also go for around £50,000 now but again there doesn't seem much of a market for them.

My Dad bought a new S-Type 4.2 V8 and kept it for about 10 years (130k Km). The dust covers on the ball joints are a common issue with those. They were replaced at least twice in his ownership. Apparently even the Jag dealer admitted it was a common problem but that Jag remedied it in later models with a different type of rubber. Despite how much money he spent maintaining the S-Type, he then went and bought an XF 3.0 Diesel and that had zero problems until 90k Km when both turbos died (bearings failed). Dad never got those fixed as he didn't live much longer himself. We gave the car to a good friend of his (it's otherwise immaculate), and he spent €5000 getting it back to running order. It should last him at least another 60k Km but neither of these experiences would persuade me to ever buy a Jag. The only reliable Jag I have ever heard of was the X-Type, but then that was a rebodied Ford Mondeo. The corrosion sounds about right for a 24 year old Jag. Since it's only surface, some work with a wire brush and some Kurust will soon deal with that. The rest of it smacks of someone too lazy to do the pre-MOT checks himself, items like the headlight, number plate light and the tyres.

Can't believe I read this message thread up to here, just for the tyre thread...

I would like to be able to change some of the lock settings etc on my car, and techstream seems to be the way to go

My first Lexus would have been V704 TAV had I not put a personalised plate on it!

Hi guys, I have had a response from them, see below.

There is no mention of owner's, if it's just the one, it might worth finding out more information but if it's had 4 or more especially more changes of hands in the last few years I would be concerned.

Correct Graham but Chris I believe have a tesla and those owners have a charging network 2nd to none but they even fail. Charging a car at work I'd say only works at office type buildings. You won't find a charger at a factory making biscuits or a logistics yard or a fruit n veg delivery firm. As for supermarkets there few and far between from what I've seen.

The reason I don't like Apple products is the fact that they "lock down" the entire operating system so that you can't make even small and trivial changes to how they function. Android products on the other hand are much more customisable (via the Settings or third party apps). I realise that this can potentially make them more vulnerable to malicious software and malware if you don't know what you're doing but you just need to be vigilant and use approved apps on the Google Play Store. For example, we bought an expensive iPad for my 4 year old grandson who likes to watch YouTube Kids. This app has an inbuilt volume slider that you can't disable through the app's settings (don't get me started on that! 😡). So guess what? The little blighter is always moving the slider to full volume, so it's a constant battle with him to get the volume down to more tolerable levels. There's also no way (as far as I could see) to set a maximum speaker volume through the iPad settings. So I thought I'd check the Apple app store to see if a third party app exists to do this but couldn't find a single one. So when it came to buying a second tablet for him to use at home, we went down the Android route (a Samsung) where there are numerous apps in the Play Store that allow you to restrict the volume - so no more "turn it down Adam!" 😄 I think Apple products are primarily for people who aren't necessarily techy and just want the device to work "straight out of the box" without any tinkering. I don't have an issue with that but for me I like the ability to make some tweaks to improve the user experience a bit more. I have to admit though that Apple products are on the whole more aesthetically pleasing.

I missed a bit in my first sentence. The Apple products work very well together, as long as you are willing to live in the Apple walled garden. Try anything outside their "box" and yes I agree it's very frustrating. Where I work we have a mix of Apple and Lenovo (WIN) products, for us they are a much of a muchness in comparison.

Sorry to hear that Kieran. Hope it works out for you.

I’m similar numbers, tonight’s full charge is estimating 47.5/40.4 in the app my charge point says it added 12.66 kWh with an estimated 27miles, given the 2.1 m/kWh which the car is reporting. Therefore actual estimated range (given the 3 miles left when put on charge) should be 30 miles. I’ll see what my actual mileage is but I feel that 30 is far more accurate than 40 so I don’t know what algorithm is being used by the car for the estimate. We’ll see tomorrow 😁

I think the icon in the very top right of the screen let's you configure the layout of the individual frames on the screen. I can see it matches your current layout. Paul

Tonight's charge indicating 48.5/43.1. Car is 11 months old with 8800 miles on the clock.

hello and welcome my name is vate dome i am new here from india

Lots of owners change the wheels, tyres, exhaust and shocks through choice or necessity + a few minor cosmetics but after that it gets a bit tricky. Looking back through the threads there are few more to be found on here. Toby and Graham weren't at the Coventry meet but they've done a fair few mods. There are a few others but as you say, not many. Aquanuke was prolific in the early days, I think the car is still around the Cotswolds area but I've never seen it in the flesh.

Good news ,took it on a track abd the isf doesn't have a limiter.It went past 180km. Well chuffed.

My approach has always been to try and help now, and you never know in the future who else might benefit.

Total 100% charge today; showing 46.9 and 43.2 Again would also be interested to know from people the average calculated mpg in ICE mode only and wether any marked difference in warmer weather.

Just an update on this. So I got hold of the workshop manual and its very clear that toyota dont use any special blend of chemicals or magic portion from the factory that must not be tampered with. The workshop manual clearly details the procedure to drain and refill the hybrid transaxle and specifies using ATF WS. So i have booked it in with Lexus Hayes for tomorrow to get it done. They've quoted £130. Will update once ive got it done if I notice any improvement in smoothness etc. I guess it probably wont make any difference but at least I'll know theres good fluid in there.

I was tempted, just I’m north west and getting to the start point involves a drive through Wales 😂 plus a while back during a previous trip through wales….

Thanks for offering to organise this & would have loved to join, but unfortunately busy that weekend.

Hi Glyn, I think all kits need a bit of fettling, even the really expensive, well known brands from Japan. It's fun to do but you would probably need some dry space/rent a garage/lock up. I modified the kit, filled in the marker lights, had a challenge with rear lights and headlamp washers but it wasn't too bad. When I bought the SC as a project I knew it was going to be an expensive journey, I just didn't realise how long I was going to keep it or how far I was prepared to go with it. I doubt any other SC in the UK could match it for 'entertainment' but if I reveal that it has cost around £22k in mods so far then I think that confirms Perry's take on it.🤣 For examples of owners with class, subtle mods, see Lex legends Texsexlex in the US and WIL44 in the UK.

Thank you to all of you. Called in the dealership this morning 7/2/23 all is ok with the car. He said when we get a vehicle in for recall we fix the recall then set a fault check and fix the fault we have made as a requirement by Lexus . the problem is the lex link app picked up on the fault we just made but Lexus link app is hours behind if not days. He showed me how to check for any faults . This may help someone else. Car settings/ vehicle/ alerts

This looks like good value for money. If I didn’t need to keep mine from being taken back to stock to retain it’s value easily I would be tempted. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/403922825980?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=0c2XQ1bCR3S&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=fgLYK3NFS2u&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

It does point to the disc or the drive unit in the boot. Is it trying to read a genuine disc or an aftermarket updated disc? Also make sure the disc and player are the correct 'Gen' for the car.

You're nearly there. I've reeled you in so now it's time to let you off the hook. Perhaps I was expecting too much but it was a bit of fun to see if anyone has a honed eye for tyre treads. It's being overly meticulous but the left n/s tyre is the 'oddity' as it's a 4-Season, the other three are summer tyres! I know I know ... "how on earth am I supposed to spot that?", especially as the o/s front tread is hardly noticeable in the pic. But hey, if like me you've been watching Silent Witness then maybe now is the time to be a bit more forensically inclined! Thank you all for your interest, I shall be looking at tyre prices over the weeks ahead and must decide what to do to even things up. 😉

This Lexus-tech.eu doc gives some detailed info on how the system works. It's for the RX but I imagine it's very similar across the model ranges. Some of the different modes are not available on UK models (I have asked...) LIGHTING SYSTEM CONTROL ADAPTIVE HIGH-BEAM SYSTEM (AHS).pdf

This is the link, but note there is no ‘h’ in haigs… http://www.haigshotel.co.uk/

well I've fixed mine and returning here to post how! I've tested the resistance on the fuel pressure sensor ( on the fuel rail ) and it was fine and within spec, the problem I had was the pressure discharge valve/ suction control valve - the thing that lives on the back of high pressure pump attached by allen keys- the values that I had for resistance didn't match what I was told is the correct readings, however, even the replacement valve had the same 'incorrect' readings, so maybe that changes based of the part code and pump used. removing the valve can be done easily with engine in, however, the replacement part that I sourced through a local diesel specialist was actually longer than the original, so re installation required undoing the engine mounts from below the car and jacking the engine up and giving it a wiggle to be able to reinstall the new one- fiddly but much easier than removing the whole engine to replace the pump! the reason it's now longer is that the original lexus part and pumps are actually discontinued from denso and to make things complicated, those valves are paired by part code to the fuelpump part codes, so you can't just take a valve out of a breaker car if the pump part code doesn't match. knowing the part codes (black sticker ontop of pump and an etched code on back of sensor) I was able to get a valve for use on the newer revised high pressure pump- even the specialist who sourced this suggested the pump would be required aswell... after a prime for 2 mins it fired straight up, so despite what lexus and specialists will tell you, you do not need to replace the pump at a cost of £1200. you need a £120 part. if you happen to have this problem remember that the pumps and valves must match, so people breaking them sell the whole pump assembly, which given this is a common problem I wouldn't suggest saving money there, especially when you think that it will require the engine to be removed to even get the damn pump off!