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CAR FOUND, managed to get confirmation from police that it’s in recovery lockup. Big thanks to BillNick🙏🙏🙏 for posting the pics and info. Many thanks

It is simply not right to have to fit physical devices to the wheel that over many hundreds of times using will eventually cause wear and tear to the steering wheel material. My opinion of Lexus UK is very low but they really should install a mitigating measure as appropriate to make this attack more difficult. A software update to support encryption or blanking plate to make it harder seem sensible. I have felt since ordering the ES that Lexus UK do not listen to customers and I expect they will do nothing.

I know this forum is a heavily biased statistical sample 🤔 but something tells me the Lexus marketing people didn't do their homework before they decided not to bring the new IS300 to the UK.... You read around the internet and there are many of us that aren't much into SUVs.

Sorry to read about this. First 'performace' Lexus I've heard of being targeted. Looks like people are starting to work out the rarity of them and their cost in certain parts of the world! I hope you get it back or at least the money it's worth in insurance. I'd like to think they wouldn't have broken into your house for it, but you can never say for sure.

Car is booked in at Westfield Motors (Rayleigh) next Tuesday. If they do a good job I may even get them to take a look at the air-con another day.

Mine took 5 weeks from the ship leaving Japan to arrive at Portbury. Allow another 2-3 weeks to get to the dealer. Lexus may have more detailed tracking than the App but if you ask the dealer for the name of the ship is on, then you can track it's progress using one of the marine tracking apps.

For anyone interested in what may happen in a PDI (pre delivery inspection) I have found (by accident) a US document for PDS (pre delivery service). https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2022/MC-10207955-9999.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwj3uPeGpKT-AhXQFsAKHUnlAJAQFnoECCkQAQ&usg=AOvVaw1M7o6NQhogwm7eEPVO6RBa Also found a dismantling manual for the NX350h ! https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.lexus-tech.eu/HYBRID/HVDM/EN/nx350h_AAZH20,25.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwj3uPeGpKT-AhXQFsAKHUnlAJAQFnoECC4QAQ&usg=AOvVaw2fmDeNXv-YWbwurpizuVm7

I am hoping that the used price for an IS300h remains 'high' as I will be selling my fully loaded IS300h Premier when my new NX350h arrives. Sorry purchasers, just my situation. I have noticed that the guide price on parkers.co.uk for my car is only about 500 pounds less than what it was in February last year, so second-hand value that are holding up very well at present.

Would you believe that the Stoplock I used on my IS300h doesn't fit Betsy? The manufacturer reckons it's a recommended fit but I beg to differ!

I would also purchase the new model IS if it was available in the UK.

Sadly early and late SC’s shocks are different, not by much but the way the spring seats is a difference diameter. It’s possible to cross reference part numbers from the States, that’s what I had to do for the early shock absorbers….or just have a spend up with Lexus 👍🏻

Tonight's charge 51.3/49.3 which is the best with air con indicated range so far this year.

If the new model IS was available in the uk, i would buy one in a heart beat.Im not a fan of SUVs.I have mentioned this to my local dealer and the standard response is " we have the ES if you would like a saloon car . The forcourt was full of used ES models , and i must say the second hand prices were holding up very well. Steve

Excellent news, hope there is little or no damage 👍

My father in law had his Range Rover stolen and recovered within 48hrs like yours. His wasn’t marked as stolen recovered he just had the wheels refurbished owing to some kerbing and complete lockset changed. He was also insured by the manufacturers so hopefully be a smooth process.

Surprised/not surprised they didn’t contact you immediately 🙄 Hope the outcome is as best possible for you matey 🤞🏼

Maybe there is merit in restricting access... Maybe some air ride mods would help secure the vehicle 😉 Image stolen from a @Linas.Ppost June 2019 LoC.

Fair enough... and I disagree with them and call it just "marketing BS". Brembo may indeed say that - not exactly impartial.. are they? That said they are not wrong, but the conditions where it matters are simply not present on normal road going cars and normal conditions... anyway I am not disagreeing with you... I pretty much mentioned all the same things they did, except I don't believe it actually matters on the road going cars. Rally cars - perhaps. IS350 AWD came with bog standard 17" wheels, so all the IS250 wheels fits the larger brake callipers, except of 16"... your 18" are guaranteed to fit them. As far as I know nothing else is different in IS mk2 overall, even IS-F comes with same master cylinder etc. And the reason is - again surface * friction coefficient. Larger brakes provides more braking power because they have larger pads rubbing on larger discs, not because they apply more pressure to the pad. As well like other mentioned IS350 brakes do not actually make car to stop much quicker, perhaps a tiny fraction... what they provide instead is longer service life and more repeatable braking, they fade slower and they dust less (theoretically). In my experience I was not happy with IS250 brakes, but not because they were "not strong enough", rather because they required a lot of maintenance (which to be fair 80% were rear callipers not front)... secondly I slowed down once (literally one time) on autobahn from ~140MPH to 80MPH and I warped my drilled discs and they were noticeably faded for good 15 minutes. Even driving on NC500, where you cannot even exceed 50MPH because of damn caravans I could feel them fading... so what IS350 brakes gives are simply more mass to dissipate heat and they don't get overwhelmed as quickly as standard brakes (allegedly). Now again - I didn't get to fit IS350 brakes, but it was always in my wishlist to do... and now I am planning to do it to my new IS250 (if I get it going again). -------------- Edit... actually I just realised I did have IS350 brakes... just not on IS. My RC was fitted with them standard and I never experienced any issues that I had with IS250. Just felt like more robust system overall, despite RC being heavier and more powerful car.

That is a very interesting figure. Yes as discussed many times on this and other forums, consumption figures vary considerably, time of year, driving conditions, number/amount of charging, and of course how it is driven. But based on all of that AND the car size, comfort, refinement, etc, surely nearly 49mpg average over 10k miles is in my mind very good and pleasing. I am sure that there are many non-Lexus owners out there with similar maybe not so comfortable PHEV SUV,s [and yes there are always exceptions] that do not come close to matching. Currently after 5k miles, mine is showing 65mpg and I am averaging 50/50 % .....thats 50%EV v 50% ICE journeys. So as this is a Lexus forum lets enjoy our wheels and economy !!

This is what I have - silver tin with a tight fitting lid. Bulletproof and definitely blocks the signal. It’ll take two Lexus keys and a card. https://www.amazon.co.uk/LATIT-Blocking-Faraday-Portable-Security-silver/dp/B081Q73X2T

Have you joined the official MB owners club, or mbclub.co.uk? In my opinion, the latter is the better one.

Wow! How interesting. If it is.... get the scratches off the bonnet and she'll be as good as new! If it is, does the car being stolen screw the history and value? Edit: https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=226&t=167843

Hello All, If you have this fault you have my full sympathy The First thing to be said is despite the fault description - I have never ever found the driver unit (ECU) to be at fault ever. When I had this problem with my GS450h I was able with the assistance of Carl911 to repair it myself & I have in the past taken the job on for a few of my customers with the proviso that if the speed sensor magnetic ring inside the pump breaks during strip down it will necessitate renewal of the whole pump at around £1100 ish plus fitting. The job itself can be quite tricky especially if you are not in the mechanical industry & I can fully appreciate anybody's reluctance to tackle it themselves, so I just wanted to let you all know that I can now offer this service generally at less than half the new unit cost with the same proviso as before. So if you are unfortunate enough to require this repair please feel free to PM me. Richard

@Gsf grey solihull could it be?

Great minds think alike, all 4 keys for 2 cars now in foil 🙂 Thanks for the CANbus explanation. I was aware what CANbus was just unsure how it was used for a theft. Is the headlight thing only for Lexus or most cars?

On the positive side it’s insured and no one was hurt… however… Test your faraday pouch regularly - mine didn’t work. I’ve now got a tin from Amazon that DOES work. If keyless can be turned off that helps… or they move to canbus theft instead. Think about basic immobilisers or switches and relays that cut starter motors or fuel pumps - a hidden switch that stops the car starting cannot be beaten. B@stards.

One charger on the island explain why I have only seen 2 or 3 Tesla cars on the roads.

Sorry to read about this....But, and this is not aimed at you personally , but everyone who owns a car It really annoys me when thieves are getting away with other peoples cars, people are quite happy to spend £5 a week on star bucks coffee but not on protecting the second more expensive thing they own. NO keys in a protective pouch, No added immobiliser, No type of added steering lock. we read every day of car's with remote key access being stolen by thieves picking up the signal from your key's as for breaking into a house, i find this very unlikely, and again if you really think this is a possibility you may as well leave the key in the ignition

As others have said so sorry you've had to go through this. Obviously a targeted theft. But why? struggling to see the logic in it as there's so few of them about, it would be easy to trace parts etc. Not a nice experience, and hope you reach a satisfactory outcome to the situation. Must admit - I'm off to buy a faraday cage to keep our keys in now.

Hi Jonny After all that....are you still feeling lucky? Anthony 😁

I have to admit that one of the lower clips went ping, never to be seen again despite a good broddle with an extending magnet! The struts I bought went on with a healthy click too which gave me confidence too. Anthony

My first year of ownership and 10000 miles has resulted in an overall fuel consumption figure of 48.69mpg. This is calculated via petrol consumption and cost of electric recharges converted into the ruling petrol price.

This Sunday morning 00:22, I’ve uploaded CCTV above, gone within 2 mins. Police rang this morning to say car was spotted 15 minutes after theft but sped off!!!!

😲 No way! It seems no Lexus is safe these days! So sorry to hear this Shafiq ☹️ Unlikely as it sounds, I hope they catch the scum that did this 🤬

Juan Thornes the administrator of the Facebook Group Lexus SC430 Club UK posted this last month which seems like a good deal and might be of interest to someone needing this done. “Evening all! Lexus Sheffield after sales director Gary Hudson called me this morning to say that the £499 cambelt and water pump replacement including labour and coolant offer will have to end due to price inflation on parts and sundries. Good news!!! Lexus Sheffield will still offer all Lexus SC430 Club UK members the same excellent offer with a slight increase to £599. This £100 increase is still GREAT bargain. Take advantage of this wonderful offer and also book you SC or any other Lexus vehicle in for a service with Lexus Sheffield. Thank you all. Iooking forward in see you all at this year's workshop and car show in June. Best wishes. Juan.

Just ordered a t bar steering lock, the one that grips the top and sits across the dash. As others say, a visual deterrent makes a difference to opportunistic. My drive shape means that if you can’t steer, you can’t go anywhere.

So sorry to hear this. I am shocked how this can happen on any modern car. You have made me think. In London on a short break checked my cctv 3 times to check car is still on my driveway!

It should show automatically when the order is loaded to the Lexus database, based on a match to your email name. mine did not so I contacted Lexus Custome services they had to pass it onto their technical team to sort out - took them a couple of weeks, but then shown on My Lexus and on the app.

Absolutely ridiculous that in 2023 this is a problem. Like going back to the late 80s and early 90s.

And the mechanic?

I'm now using a steering wheel lock. Lexus are supposed to be looking at a plate to protect the cabling on the RX, but it seems the ES and probably the NX are vulnerable and they won't do anything about those models unless the owners raise hell. The thing about this is that the equipment to carry out the CANBUS attack is not cheap so the thefts are carried out by organised crime not the local crack head. If a pro wants your car he's going to take it. The only thing you can do is put a visible deterrent on the car that makes it a less easy target in the hope that they move on . Ghost could be OK but they won't find out until they've damaged the car and I'm not convinced they won't eventually find a way of circumventing this or any other immobiliser.

I will be digging out my steering wheel lock this evening.

What's funny with these door handles is that Tesla did something even weirder on its Model 3 with a separate switch and it has been branded innovative an not a single reviewer complained really about it (or the external contraption which is used as a door handle). It's not even coupled with a safety feature which is in my opinion a nice thing to have in this age where bicycles / trottinettes are pretty much everywhere (at least in Paris area, you can find them on sideways, going wrong way on the street...).

Any motoring journalist that over-dramatizes the functionality of the NX's door handles as Clarkson has done (to the Nth degree by the way - "stuck in the car until 4am; blah; blah; blah") loses all credibility in my opinion. Anyone that can't use them (or understand the logic behind the technology) shouldn't be allowed behind the wheel of a car, let alone review one. He also makes reference to the "beeps" when using the infotainment system. Is he not clever enough to work out that you can turn that off in seconds via the settings? Has he not driven a modern car before? I'm sure he makes things up for shock value - he's just walking clickbait. I'm not trying to be defensive on my choice of car and I'm not saying the new NX is perfect (I know that others on here have had some not inconsiderable issues with aspects of it) but at least review it in a reasoned, rational, way and not use it as the latest attempt to "get noticed".

That's the thing.... for me the ES isn't an alternative because it's too large to handle it through the narrow streets of where we live, plus my driveway and garage are a bit tight. I like the interior of the ES but the wheels Lexus sells it with are way oversized for the engine and he type or car it is (most cars do nowadays).

Its every 100000 miles or 10 years, which ever comes first.

It's a bit of a journey for me, so I won't be there in person, though will be in spirit. John still 'reminds' me to check the manual first, as I was doing yesterday... ( Having lost my own mother recently, I know the pain and huge jumble of emotions, that last longer than I thought and probably for ever.) My sincere prayers for John, his life celebration tomorrow, and his friends, family and forum colleagues.

Brembo might disagree with you on some point there Linas.. https://www.brembo.com/en/company/news/brembo-perforated-disc-5-reasons-for-purchasing Even on my CLS55 the braking system would intermittently, gently apply the pads to clear water from the discs if the windscreen wipers were in operation.. But that all said sticking bigger brakes on a car rarely improves the braking efficiency (on road going cars at least). If one can lock the wheels with the standard brakes, you'll not do better with bigger discs and pads alone. Plus there is a danger of creating an imbalance between the front and rear brake effect, also if larger pads are installed the increased effort required will not be met by the standard vacuum assistance. Oh and one's insurer might take a dim view on the modification...

Because they don't help stopping. Actually the plain discs have best stopping power, because they have most surface - friction x surface area = most braking power. The drilling is coming from ancient times, like 1960s Le Man's racing when the pad compounds were very bad (organic compounds) and when heated-up they used to "gas-out". Gassing out brakes then would have created like a little barrier between pad and disc, reducing friction and thus resulting in less effective braking. So drilling the discs were obvious answer to let those gasses escape. Modern pads don't have such issue, so drilled discs exists for nostalgic and kind of ignorant reasons i.e. people seen them on race cars growing-up and think that somehow that is related to better performance, without understanding why that was done in the first place. All other designs, including "modern" drilled discs, perhaps has some application off-road, like rallying. Basically if brakes get covered in mud and water, when braking that could generate steam and it results in less effective braking - slots, dimples, c-hooks etc. allows dirt and water to escape from braking surface and makes braking more effective. But that doesn't apply to road cars, not even in the heaviest rain. The only circumstances that I can think of would be deep puddle or ford, where you are basically wading the water and getting brakes fully submerged, then upon your first braking the brakes may not work as efficient as they should, but that is why it is advisable to drag brakes a little bit and maybe brake few times after exiting the ford (that is actually the question in drivers test). Modern racing cars still sometimes uses some "fancy" design, some say slotted or c-hooks allows to "dress-up" brake pads, but that is not normal car use case, this is only for race cars where they replace brake-pads for every race and replace brake disks probably for every second one. For the normal car - "dressing-up" just means excessive wear and brake dust, so not desirable.

I think it's only the old Nissan leaf that doesn't have active battery temperature management. The battery should outlive the life of a BEV according to the experts (eg national grid https://www.nationalgrid.com/stories/journey-to-net-zero-stories/what-happens-old-electric-car-batteries). Lexus for example warranty the battery of the UX300e for 8 years or 100k miles and with regular checks will extend this to 10 years or 600k miles (https://www.lexus.co.uk/electric-cars/how-all-electric-works). They're not gonna do that if they expect to have to pay out on most cars within a few years. Most ICE cars will have needed a new engine by 600k miles and the owner will have spent an awful lot of money on servicing and repairs to the engine and ancilliaries. In 2.5years my BEV has needed brake check and cabin filters costing about £70.