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Will shortly be joining this section of the LOC as I am scheduled to take delivery of a RX450h+ Premium Plus with panoramic roof next week. Currently have a 2022 NX450h+ Premium Plus with sunroof which in turn replaced a NX300h Luxury with panoramic roof. Have gone for Sonic Platinum with Ammonite Sand interior. Didn't particularly set out to go for the RX450h as I was actually considering a NX450h+ F-sport for the second half of this year, however I sat in an RX450h + in the showroom, was given a test drive and I was smitten! Look forward to future conversations and will post some pics!

It the press release is to be believed, following the one show on BBC recently… The link relates to a ‘new hardware security component’ to be made available across the range; details at your Lexus dealer from end April 2024. This is in addition to the security plates available for the 4th gen RX. https://mag.lexus.co.uk/lexus-uk-statement-on-vehicle-theft/

All included in the price of the car. £0.00 extra! However, I would expect them to at the very least include a coffee ☕️ 🙃, biscoff and any other freebies that they feel a Lexus owner deserves for having to wait so long. 🤔

I just upsized UX to NX. Collected the car last week and after 1 week, I should say it is a different world. The surrounding sound system is amazing, and how quiet the cabin is in comparison with UX. The car is driving in EV mode more than half of the time in town and over all I am getting 45MPG and on motorway it gave me 49MPG. The 14” screen is very quick and responsive and auto parking feature is fantastic. The tank is taking 65 litres which is giving 650miles. With UX I was going to petrol station more often as the tank was only 40 litres. No wonder WhatCar? rated UX 2 stars. In the show room I also saw 2 LBX which looked nicer than online pictures. Seems well built, inside looks very good and top quality. I think if anyone wants to buy UX consider buying LBX instead.

I was referring to the looks

@eightk here are some pics of mine (not the best pics out there). Took delivery on Friday and loving the car!

There's a blue 65 plate (GV65 HXM) GS F up for sale at Lexus Swindon, no pictures yet as it looks like the advert only went up today. 30,741 miles on the clock and yours for £41,995, they sure seem to hold their value!

I insured mine with Lexus insurance.

Brilliant thanks! It's the homebase version of kallax that my wife wants.

I will do, I had such high hopes and plans for this boat it would be a shame to bin it off. 🤞 Everything remains the same and I'll do a premature trans fluid service this time next year to keep it stable. Still on the cards Wheels Exhaust needs sorting. It's a bit brash for my liking The rest of the sound system And of course timing belt!

Update: the app unknown status now has changed into view status and working alright.

Please do update us in say a month ………. either way ! Thanks Malc

You could ask hybridbatterysolutions and see what Richard think's of the model and mileage.

You could try Summertown Garage, Kidlington, they specialist in EV and Hybrids for a 2nd opinion.

@NEILJ I'm currently looking into an 09 RX450H and came across this thread. I found this youtube video for the same A pillar leak but on a RAV4. Might it be applicable to your situation?

I'd suggest crawling under the car and giving everything a good wipe and then check again after a week or so.

The fact that the warranty is 15 years doesn't necessarily mean it will self destruct the day after it runs out lol! Perhaps you will get many more years out of it. Cheap enough car if it's in decent condition with another year or two of the warranty to run. The repair costs for our Lexus have been zilch since we have owned it, so I wouldn't think twice about putting a new Hybrid battery in after 15years should it be needed. Better the devil you know.

The Ghost immobiliser with stop the theft but not the 4K's worth of damage caused, but then i suppose this would be the same for all cars

I have just booked my MY22 ES in for the Can-bus protection plate to be fit next week. The dealership described the plate as having warning stripes on it. I have seen a picture of the RX plate but this sounds different , does anyone have a picture of the ES one? It is being fit free of charge with a curtesy car provided.

I do like that 'Ultimate Edition' plaque. More pics!

No sign of damage underneath your trim so Don above is spot-on. Tel

If you’re convinced it’s the Ghost, then maybe contact Autowatch directly? They don’t do installations themselves but may be aware of this problem. They’ll also confirm Model compatibility. Taking up Jon’s point about a healthy battery, it may also be worthwhile checking the battery condition. Did it drain easily before you had the Ghost and Tracker installed? If it’s the original battery it may well be approaching the end of its working life, depending on usage and maintenance.

You'd end up with the too small fold out bag hooks like the UX has that are neither use nor ornament.

You wouldn’t purchase a new battery on a vehicle of that age - a second hand one from a scrap vehicle would be around £1500 or you can get a faulty battery repaired. If you get a hybrid health check done just before the vehicle is 15 years old you get a warranty for another 12 months. Age isn’t really the concern though, it’s the number of cycles the battery has done - unfortunately there is no way to know that so mileage is the best thing to go by.

Mine is scheduled to be built April 20th. 2024 & will be in Derbyshire 2 months later. Ruby Red must be in short supply ! Tel

Knew you’d be interested in one 😁 , will try to replicate one soon and hopefully i’ll have a mold ready by the end of next month , all deppends how much time off work i’d be able to get

Same 50/50 My iSF is on 49k miles, does little miles , it doesn't get abused at all and its well looked after, most likely it will see 3-4 track days until end of summer if i’ll have enough time and thats it and i doubt 3-4 track days will do any harm to the engine without the catch can , so no point for me to install one if the car would’ve been used every week on track being pushed to the max all the time , i would definitely get one to keep the engine clean Even if i’ll decide to install one that wouldn't be anytime soon as there are things that i’d like to upgrade way before the catch can 😁

Sorry my mistake. I was only looking at Dec 23 figures from SMMT not the full year. The actual number of EVs sold was quite a lot more than 2022 but the whole market rose as lead-times of vehicles reduced.

I collected a new 450h+ on 15th March, locking bolts in glove compartment, but only one full key (I got a separate blade as well). Other full key to follow but wasn't given a timescale.

That's a pity. The workshop manual has a list of trouble codes and areas to check.

Car is looking great fella. P0420 is the cats, usually there's a leak before the second lambda sensor around the flanges like you've said. I get it here and there, nout to worry about, car will still drive fine 😄

From what I can tell mate the Teyes wouldn't bypass the factory amp but tap into it, this is because whenever we access the new head units we have a factory amp settings type app to adjust the OEM settings, so if youre looking to get any Lexus android head unit youll likely need the factory amp, these can be gotten fairly easy from breakers however

Alternator is dead. Battery probably is simply low, because alternator isn't charging it at all. Did you say it was changed few years ago? Even if you have dead battery (say 11V) when engine is running you should still get close to 14V, it may be slightly lower since the battery is so dead, but it should never be under 11V. In fact if you battery was under 12 by itself and it drops to under 11 when engine is running, I reckon alternator is not running at all and engine is simply running on battery. Math here is relatively simple - so let's say maximum charge in the battery is 12.8-12.9V, running the engine requires minimum of 0.3V, so if your alternator is outputting say 13.2V, it would barely charge the battery. First of all, I suggest you charge the battery again, confirm it is NO LESS than 12.4-12.6V. Start the engine again and if you get less than what you measured before starting the engine - it is 100% alternator. I am already sure it is alternator, but technically you should not even start measuring it unless battery itself is 12+. Second thing, you can measure the voltage between alternator plug and body ground. You will see thick positive cable going to alternator and on the alternator there is rubber boot with hole at the top, basically you can stick your positive probe into that hole and that is your alternator positive. The other probe you can touch to clean engine grounding point, anywhere you can get good ground. When engine is running, this again should measure 14V+. MAKE SURE - your positive prove is vell insulated and you do not touch positive probe to the ground, whilst touching the alternator positive terminal, because shorting that will result in blown combination fuse and many other fuses (basically a direct 150A short). Why do this? To confirm that your alternator is still connected properly. Because if alternator is reading 14.4V at the terminals, but under 11V at the battery then something isn't connected, it may even be blown fuse or something. So it would be good to know this before you start replacing the alternator which may be good.

33.8 was one fill so you have to look at the average which at over 40mpg is perfectly acceptable. Depreciation over 4 years and 32000 miles with the NX300 equated to less than £2600 per year (albeit the covid effect of inflated used car prices helped) and current insurance on the NX450h+ is £348 per annum enhanced fully comp. At over 70mpg for the 450h+ I am quite satisfied thank-you!

It’s an utterly brilliant car. Where else can you buy a naturally aspirated rear wheel drive V8 GT that sounds like this, that is so comfortable and well built, with decent dealers? Plus point - nobody else has one. Love mine to bits. Is can bus theft a genuine concern? Yes. One LC has been stolen and recovered, the ex owner stating that’d be his last Lexus. Also have a look at the RX, ES, UX forums which are busier mainly due to there being more cars and more owners. All those forums are full of theft threads. Cars are disappearing almost on a daily basis. There isn’t a week goes by where someone new joins the LOC to state their car has vanished. They knew nothing of this canbus problem until they lost their Lexus. The common link between most of these threads is the ex-owner is planning on staying an ex-owner ie that is their last Lexus. Also look at insurance threads. Lexus owners can’t get sensibly priced insurance in many cases. It’s not at the Land Rover point yet, where insurance is refused point blank, but if Lexus don’t step up and sort this there will be a tipping point for the insurance industry and we simply won’t to be able to get these cars insured. The RX is in the top ten UK most stolen. France has the NX or UX in their top ten. America has the same problem. This is a global failure. Lexus have so far introduced metal plates to protect the canbus access point in the wheel arches for RX ONLY. Fitment is free. They’re not publicising or actively offering it, so unless you have read about it and actually ask your dealer or Lexus customer services you’d never find out about it until your RX is halfway to Dubai. The rest of us are left to fend for ourselves. Lexus’s current position is ‘tough sh t’. I have a tracker for my insurance, but due to the canbus problem I’ve paid extra for an immobiliser, plus added stickers to warn it’s fitted with a tracker. I used trackerteam - recommended. It is most definitely a concern. You could also add a steering lock but based on a car (RX I think) videoed being stolen last week inside three minutes with a steering lock fitted (quiet leafy Surrey!) I don’t see the point. Anyone carrying canbus theft kit won’t be bothered about a steering lock as they’ll have a cordless ULEZ grinder with them as well. These are wonderful cars. I honestly don’t know what I’d replace it with, but if it were stolen it most certainly wouldn’t be another Lexus. That is down to Lexus themselves. The solution : an official recall for every affected car, to fit canbus plates, an immobiliser or revised software. Only when every single car in the country is likely to be protected and therefore unstealable via canbus will the thieves move onto something else. As a potential buyer I’d ask if you could do us all a favour - go to your local dealer and/or phone Lexus themselves, and question them about canbus theft. Tell them you’re thinking of buying their most expensive product, their halo car, their concept car made real, but that you’re really really concerned Lexus don’t care about you as a customer because if they did, they’d issue a recall like JLR have done, and get this vulnerability fixed. Today’s rant over. Stay tuned for more.

I always intend to total up all repairs but always manage to loose track half way through. The car and repairs is costing around 12k. Slightly higher than first expected but still a great saving, concidering its under 30,000 miles. got a set of rims and tyres at over 1k a spare set of winter wheels and snow tyres and another 1k spent on paintwork as I wanted it pristine. It hasn't as much as a stone chip on the whole car.

Having just replaced a Mercedes E250 AMG Sport Cabriolet with an IS300h F Sport I read this thread with great interest. In August driving at about 20mph in my Mercedes through a local trading estate I encountered half a dozen seagulls feasting on a loaf of bread in the road. As I approached they took off. One of them took off towards my car and hit the front bumper. BANG hood popped up at back. No damage to bodywork at all. With the Mercedes the system is powered by springs. Lift the bonnet hard and it resets. No damage= no cost !

Ah right, I can understand that a deer would trigger the system as the force applied would be similar to that of hitting a pedestrian if not more. I have seen the damage a deer did to a car years ago which was shocking but it was hit at about 40mph!! At least you actually know what did this, sadly I have no idea and even after searching the area straight after the incident, which is the most annoying thing for me!! So much so I have even purchased a dash cam now just in case the worst should happen again! Touch wood!!

Your missing the point, the pop-up hood is to PROTECT people been hit by the car NOT you.But sadly like many VW owners, no one these days seems to care about anyone but themselves. So what if my VW filling the air with NO, it doesn't bother me...Isn't it great how selfish we all can be :) As pointed out by others and most recently the 5k figure below, I think I'll settle for protection for myself until such a time as pop up hoods are more refined and will not cause you to be without a car for that long never mind the costs involved. Whether insurance pays or not is irrelevant, in fact I don't think I would want a car that has that much repair work carried out on it back again. Exactly what my whole point is, just how refined is this system!!

Oh and DanD just to add further details, this is my company car so the cost has no effect on me what so ever and all costs are covered by the insurance which is also paid by the company. Money is not the issue here as stated from the start the pop hood activating nearly caused an accident in a situation that didnt require it.

Just to update everyone, in the words of Lexus something small has made contact with the front offside corner of the car. No external damage to the car at all but enough to flex the bumper in and crush the sensor tube and activating the Pop Up Hood. Also in a representative of Lexus own words, I think you have been very unlucky and the contact was litterally just on the very edge of what was required to activate it!!! No sign of what was hit, checked all over the road and at the sides when this happened but nothing. Repairs needed, New Bonnet, Hinges (plus spraying and colour match over the wing and front bumper - three coat pearl!!!) F Sport Badges, Airbag control unit, pedestrian safety unit, pedestrian safety sensor tube, Pop Up Hood rams, bonnet stays plus all the assesment work to find out what happened. Grand total for all of that just over £5000!!!!!!!! I took one week for the assesment/ insurance approval etc and then will be another 2 weeks for the repair!!! This system is so the car companies dont have to design the car with the EU required 5 or 6 inches between the outer skin of the bonnet and the top of the engine block, they must have just twigged at the same time that we can make a fortune in repairs when these things to go off even if you dont hit a pedestrian!!! Im not questioning the safety feature but surley this could have been designed better so that when contact is made with anything, in my case something that didnt even damage the car!! The car doesnt then do something that causes £5000+ worth of damage!!! I wonder how popular cars with this system will be when they start to get to 6 or 7 years plus as deployment could have you facing an insurance write off!!!! I know people will say that is what your insurance is for but you wont get anywhere near what the car is worth to you and the added problems that then creates!! DanD, RX 450H, well lets hope as all drivers are fallible that you don't hit a pedestrian as I doubt there is a pop up hood on your model (please enlighten us) as this would do very little for a pedstrian due to the height of the front. With all due respect if you are so safety driven for both yourself and other road users and pedestrians is there a specific reason you require the large RX or is this just for the school run? When compared to the IS or CT I wonder which one a pedestrian would rather it be in the event of a accident?? If you say its for offroading then why did you even buy an RX?? So how much consideration did you give to the safety of other road users and pedestrians when purchasing your large 4x4? Only asking as you choose to question other peoples stand on other peoples safety!

I echo all that. I don't skimp on maintenance and I always look at safety and the more air bags the better. But I draw the line at pop up hoods as I don't think they are refined enough, it's been discussed here enough. I don't need hassle of getting pop up hoods replaced or fixed if they inadvertently go off, indeed if they go off doing their job they still would be a pain in the butt with getting the car repaired. It will probably have a record on its file as being in an accident for example and will knock a sizable chunk of its resale value? So, I'm out. I am happy enough with twin chamber air bags, 10 or so others and all the traction control, snow mode and etc. That's safe enough for me.

I'm pretty sure if an airbag deployed by itself due to a kid kicking a football at the bumper, that would be taken very seriously. You know as well as I do the potential injury an air-bag could do if deployed inappropriately. Lexus clearly need to design the pop-up bonnet trigger better, I'm not bothered, because its unlikely to happen, but I hope they still at least look into the underlying cause.

Just to add the Pop Up Hood system is only active between 16 and 34 mph, anything outside of this and the system will not activate, the Lexus handbook also states other situations that could potentially deploy the pop up hood and I will add these later today when home as they are funny at least. In response to ganzooms message I totally agree that safety systems are there for a good reason and many protect both the driver and any pedestrian. As a father myself I would have to say I would prefer the accident to be with a car with a pop up hood. But I also have to consider the occasions when this activates when no contact with a pedestrian the dangers it could create which could then otentially harm a pedestrian as a result. I ask the same question, if a car vears on the road and hits you or your child, would you have preffered it didnt have a pop up hoods that activated due to a minor impact such as a bird which then resulted in the driver taking action and hitting your or you child. I agree the later is much less likely to happen but if and when it does im sure the person on the recieving end wont even care about statistics.

Hello again, Update on my car and Lexus has confirmed there was an impact on the car which has triggered to Pop Up Hood. In their own words the impact has been small and on the lower front offside corner of the bumper. The bumber itself is fine and Lexus have also confirmed there is no damage to the bumber and only removing this has shown the sensor tube has been crushed slightly at that side. So what they are saying is the pedestrian protection system can deploy when something small hits the bumper and causes flex in the plastic. As someone mentions above, a child kicks a football in the road, £3000 bill, a bird strikes the front of the car £3000 bill!!! Or even worse a child kicks a football in the road, you dont see it, it them triggers a extreamly loud explosion/ bang and something appears in your line of site, you brake and try to avoid and run over the child at the side of the road. Or a pigeon flys out infront of your car, makes contact with the bumper and triggers the Pop Up Hood and your natural instinct is to react to a loud bang or something that in a split second appears in your vision. Ok these are just possible senarios but who is going to question just how possible this could actually be? What is everyone elses thoughts?

It doesn't look good in years to come in the second hand market with cars with this feature as the cost in replacing/re-setting the parts could render the car a write off if the insurance thinks its not worth doing the repair due to the cost vs the value of the cars. How many people do you think will ask or know to ask if the feature is installed on a car Good for the pedestrian but a step backward for the driver I think...

Hello and welcome to the LOC. Even though there was no apparent damage noticed at the time I hope you still exchanged details with the other driver or you may be faced with a rather large bill. Take a read below. http://www.lexusownersclub.co.uk/forum/topic/98193-pop-up-hood-warning/

They should have offered a Lexus courtesy car IMO, especially with the amount of work needed. I would take this up with Lexus UK. Which dealer was this btw?

rayaans, I took my car to the Lexus dealer. Same company also has Toyota and Isuzu dealerships. Was offered an Aygo which I flatly refused and then an Auris 1.4 diesel estate, which was effectively offered as the only alternative available. Interestingly, when I took my car back to Lexus today to get the USB ports checked (dealer hadn't reconnected them when they did the work) I had a bit of an issue trying to get either a loan car or someone to pick up my car from work (10 minutes' drive) - if I wanted either I'd be looking at mid-April for them to fix an issue created by them. I ended up setting up office in the Toyota/Lexus reception and sending emails / making phone calls there for about 80 minutes. They were able to sort out the issue and I went back to the office. Received a call a few minutes ago asking whether there was a drill left in my car which I found on the back seat. Interestingly there was no delay in being able to pick up the drill. I was sorely tempted to say that I could return it mid April. We haven't had anyone pick it up yet, I may leave them in reception for 80 minutes...

OK, so now the process is over I can fill you in on the grisly details. Woman at Lexus UK got her knickers in a twist re the damage relating to the "impact". However, in a day or two an expert from Lexus UK talked me through the work which needs to be done when the pop-up hood activates - new bonnet, new hydraulic struts, colour matching with adjacent panels, replace front sensor, replace airbag sensors (they didn't go off), reset system, etc etc. So by Friday that week I was able to give the go-ahead for work to be done. The delay was due to spiralling costs and nobody being able to tell me how we got from initial verbal quote to nearly 3 times the cost. Sorry to say I smelled a rat which could have been avoided with good communication from the body shop. I finally picked my car up 3 weeks after they were able to start the work. Significant waiting time for parts and a final bill of nearly £3,500 plus VAT. Slightly different to while-u-wait reset bonnet and do the work at a later date, which was the original information provided. So the big question remains - what is the point of a safety system like this if you end up with a black mark on your insurance and the car off the road for 3 weeks? Answers on a postcard but unless anyone can confirm it's similar for BMW or Audi this will be the last Lexus I own...