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I didn't believe when I heard it so it tried it. The other good what is that if you walk away from your car and you think "did I lock it" and you press the lock button but your too far away , hold the key to your head and it will lock it, obviously this has its limitations but it will extend the original range.Probably bad for you mind

Didn't JC demostrate this on Top Gear?

It may well have been Top Gear, it may even have been a post on here ? but you can't help but try it.

I didn't believe when I heard it so it tried it. The other good what is that if you walk away from your car and you think "did I lock it" and you press the lock button but your too far away , hold the key to your head and it will lock it, obviously this has its limitations but it will extend the original range.Probably bad for you mind

Did the same in my old IS200, miles from home in a motorway service area, when I shut the boot, with the keys inside, having already locked the doors. RAC man eventually turned up, got a small airbag in between the top of the driver door and body, inflated it enough to be able to get a wire down to flick the bootlid lever: voila, keys recovered.

Never did it again, fortunately....

Hi All, its been a while since I posted. This key locking is a good one and I have done it in my IS200 probably quite common it comes with being able to eject the boot without opening the car putting coat in and thinking doh.

I had a new 250sr demo at the weekend and heard a strange bleep as I tried to lock the car and voila coat on back seat. Very clever.

But this will help you if you do manage to lock keys in a car thats not as intelligent as the new IS

Call your wife, partner whoever on their mobile phone, at home(assuming thats where the spare is) on your mobile phone stand next to the car and get whoever has the spare key to point it at their phone while you point your phone at the car, and it will unlock the car, try it its fantastic.

Is 1 b4 & 1 afta

Was one taken inside the house and the other outside ?

Could be warped disc or seized caliper (or both) or even the balance on the wheels

Try this link Parkers

Hi, can anybody please tell me if there is a way of locking my Spotrcross without setting the alarm ie leave the dog in it after a walk while I go for a coffee without setting the alarm off. Previous cars(non Lexus) all had a button to dis able the internal movement sensors. If inserted into the door lock the key seems to do nothing, is this correct or have I got a problem?

Thanks in advance Tony

You could try unlocking the car not openning it and letting it re-lock itself.

Worth a go.

The wife has these blades fitted to her C-Max and they do seem pretty good. IF you went to Halfords it would probably cost similar money for so callled "normal" blades

click me.

Not many people I know who would pay the buy-it-now price for that item...can you still buy the grills from Lexus for £35?

If he sells that using the buy it now, mine will be off the Lex within the hour

Maybe it's an april fool :duh:

A few possibilities : a) seized caliper

B) a warped disc

c) incorrect wheel balance.

Shahz, I found it happened for a couple of days then nothing (touch wood).

Atleast its not a jiggered receiver, although I guess you'll have to pay for a valet

Not sure about the screw, but as for the unlocking, I have experienced this before (more than once) it is a strange phenomena.

I think you'll find that if you open the car with the key, the alarm will sound, start the engine straight away, the alarm will continue to sound for another 10 secs or so then it will stop.

Move your car down the road or into the next street, get out and try locking and unlocking and it should be fine.

The only "explination" is interference ?? The car thinks its being tampered with and shuts itself off.

Hope this helps.

caught my eye as I was having another pointless browse, and I think this car is very very nice indeed, but whats the colour shade?

It looks like the Limited Edition and the colour Kodiak Sky.

I was looking a one in Lexus Teesside, and it looks similar

I thought as much.

Thanks guys

Any truth in the salesmens :tsktsk: about only producing 200 ?????

20K service is a main service so not a bad price.

I had mine MOT'd yesterday by Lexus and it was £50.00, although £5 or £10 more than other garages it was in for is 90K service and it was more conveniant for me to get them both done on the same day.

The other plus is that if you ask for a courtesy car they might give you a 250 B)

Morning All

It's been a long time since I posted, in the main due to trouble free motoring.

I currently have a 2000W se with SatNav with 92000 miles on

The warrenty runs out next month and to the best of my knowledge Lexus wont allow and extension due to the car being over 7 yrs old.

The dealer does have a 53 plate 200 Limited Edition, which apart from Coulour, HID & full leather looks the same as mine.

My question is what was the "LE" based on sport / SE and are there any other differences, apart from it doesn't have SATNAV

Thanks in Advance

Chris

I had vibration at speeds above 60.

Had new tyres fitted and it's gone :)

I've just had my best tank ever.

It was 75% motorway driving and I tried a different approach, I usually set the cruise at 75 when on a Motorway.

But on this occasion I wasn't in a rush, so set the cruise in the usual manner but then when on a flat (no gradiant) piece of motorway I adjusted it down until the fuel metre was showing in the region of 40mpg. This meant I was doing closer to 70MPH

That was on the way from Middlesbrough to Birmingham Airport.

On the way back I just wanted to get home so revereted back to the old 75 set.

The following 3 days, was my usual around town commuting to work getting to the road speed limit ASAP.

I filled up this morning and got 34.4 MPG which I think is really good.

It's just a pity that most of the time is 25-27.

Regards Chris

p.s. It's an auto.

hi there guys radio has err code 1 in display

1.is unit worth repairing

2.does anyone know anywhere in yorkshire who can do this

cheers for any help

daz

I probably won't be cheap to repair, but then again nor will it be cheap to replace.

I think Autosounds in Bradford would be a good starting point, I am pretty sure they are the UK repair agents for Lexus, but please dont quote me

I would be intrested in the results.

Thanks

Chris

with the filter and an ECU reset I get 50 miles more per tank, thats only the results after one tank of fuel, but it does seem to make a difference to the fuel economy. Worth £40 imo.

Pirate Pete, just out of curisity what MPG are you getting ? and are you Manual or Auto please ?

Welcome

Reading this post I feel like an old man ..... @ 34

It might be a long shot but as far as I am aware Lexus send all stereos which are to be repaired to Autosounds in Bradford (I think) , it may be worth contacting them direct, espectially as you know the part.

You might want to have a look in the "Group Buys" section ChrisS was trying to get a group buy off the ground (although it was quite a while ago)

But worth a try.