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Wow, that seems excessive. Do Lexus have a set price list for the Retro Fit options or does it depend on the dealer? Does anybody know?

I was going to get it retro fitted to my SE with MM but Lexus wanted £350 for the back and an extra £150 for the front. I have seen the system on an SE-L and it is pretty funky with the screen showing where on the car the obstacle is. i.e. Front left. There are a number of yellow bars and they turn red the closer you get aong with the audio. I would say it's well worth having as it can somtimes be difficult just using the MM screen. Oopps just double checked from the prices I was given and I was quoted £470 for the rear and an extra £150 for the front.

Ouch, that is harsh. Especially as the IS didn't show it's face until November and a similar 325 (that I sold to get the IS250) would be for a September car. Admitedly they do have the same mileage. I wonder if it has anything to do with a November car being considered a high mileage example with 10k on the clock??

If you can not live with these rattles and insist to have it fix then contact Lexus GB but you must be prepared to accept the possibility of getting back a car with loosely interior and minor damage exterior. If you go back to same dealer for the fix then the same hoof hands person will have to clear up the mess and you don't know what he will do to your Lex when he's not happy, so insist to go to a different dealer. I have to admit that I've almost screwed up my Lex since I bought it brand new last September. I went back to the dealer almost every week for the fix of some rattles, woffle noise and some other minor issues. Until the end I've decided to fix some of the rattles myself and leave the rest to fix after a year or two. So just enjoy the car when it's still new as we've paid that much for the joy and prize. The car is now booked in again for next Monday. Fingers crossed. Thank you to Arkanoid for the email addresses. They certainly helped. :D Aparently the receptionist was not passing on the messages I was leaving for the service department. Hence they didn't know I was calling and the person I was dealing with on the service desk had taken a few days off. The engineer that came out with me did say that there was a rumour within Lexus that some of the first cars off the production line that were meant to be test mules to iron out early problems escaped through to customers. He said I may have one of those cars. He also told me that there are 4 clips holding the dashboard to the car and two of these clips were missing on the drivers side of my car which is why the dashboard had come loose. Makes you wonder what else is missing.... On top of that he said he had never heard a Lexus car make so much noise from the interior squeaking, rattling and tapping. He said that he wanted to show the Lexus area manager when the car is booked in. Something else that is weird is that the car is like a bag of nails on the way to work, but on the way home it is quiet and very rarely makes the noises. I wonder if it has something to do with the expansion of the materials in the car with the hot weather we've been having so when I drive home everything has expanded and fits?. I wonder if it could also be as simple as the material that they have taped the wires up with. It could be brittle when the material is cold and therefore makes a tapping noise against the air vent, but then when the material is warm it is soft and so does not make a tapping noise. Just a thought. One of the noises I have pinpointed. The seat makes a noise when it is in it's lowest position, which is where I ususally have it. If I move it up 1/2 an inch, the noise stops. That's on the new seat that they fitted. So I can at least stop the annoying creaking noise in my ear. I'm sure they will just amend how low I can move the seat to stop it from creaking. But hey as long as it stops the noise, who cares? I still love the car whatever noise it makes. Still, it's a lot less hassle than I had from the BMW. :winky:

Steve and NetOne you are both so right. I picked the car up last night and even though it had been valeted and looked like new again, (Lexus gave me a bottle of Champagne to say sorry for all the trouble which I thought was a nice touch) , when I drove the car away (on the really smooth road from the Lexus Garage) it sounded great. This morning when I got up to go to work and I drove to work (along a normal uneven English road) it sounded like a bag of spanners. The car is actually worse than when it went in. Driving to work this morning was so frustrating I don't know what to do next. It's like Lexus has had my car for 2 weeks. Cleaned it, and gave it me back. I still have rattles from the drivers side seat belt, there is an awful rattle from the door/air vent area like the door trim is loose on drivers side, there is a tapping from the airvent on drivers side, there is a banging like the dash is hitting the windscreen too now which is new on top of the tapping from the centre speaker on the dash and free of charge they have even given it me back with a new noise coming from the back of the car. Bargain...... Where do I go from here? Arrgghhhhhh

I've had a bit of a nightmare with my IS250SE with MM. It was 1st Registered on the 30th Nov 2005 and I have had one or two problems with it. Firstly after about 3000 miles the seat started to squeak. It got worse and worse. Then Lexus agreed to change the seat (which took about a month for them to get authorisation from Lexus uk). Had the car back after the new seat was installed and some more rattles started to appear and the dash became slightly loose on the drivers side. The rattles came from right next to my ear (drivers side) which I guessed was the seat belt and from various places on the dash. There was also a rattle coming from around the air vent which was really bad when going over uneven surfaces. The sounds seemed to be the same on the passenger side but not as loud. There was also a very bad rattle when the car revved over 5000 rpm. This was annoying when using the engine for breaking when going down steep hills. Lexus took the car in to inspect it and said that some dashboard clips had snapped and needed replacing and they would need the car for 2 days to do it. When they took my car in (Tuesday) they fixed the dashboard and said that the rattle from high revs was coming up the steering column and they needed to order some parts which should be in the next day. The next day Lexus phoned me to say that the parts had not arrived and they should arrive the next day. The next day Lexus phoned me to say that they parts had arrived but they had not cured the rattle and it was in fact the steering lock which was now on order but would not be in until the following week. So I went to pick my car up and when I started to drive away the airbag light would not switch off. I stopped the car after about 10 feet and asked them what was wrong with it. They said I couldn't take it and I had to leave it with them. They then phoned me the next day to say that it was the airbag CPU that was causing the problem and that one was on order. The next day Lexus phoned me to say that they had fitted the new CPU and it had cured it but when they took it on a test drive the light came on again and they would have to order another CPU for the airbag system. At the same time, the steering lock had not arrived when it was supposed to and would be in the following week. At this point Lexus have had my car for nearly 2 weeks and it is still not fixed. Fingers crossed it will be ready soon. I just hope that all the rattles and squeaks have been fixed when I get it back, that's IF the parts come in. Lexus do seem to be having a really bad problem getting hold of parts for the IS250. In the meantime Lexus have given me a loan car. A nice GS300. But to be honest, I think my IS is a better car and I'm missing it. Fingers crossed I will get it back Monday or Tuesday but is just seems like the car keep breaking.......... To be continued......

I picked up a my IS250SE and about 2 weeks later the drivers seat started to squeak. The squeak got really bad and so I took it back. Lexus said it was the seat frame but to disassemble the seat and rebuild it would come close to the cost of a new seat so they would order me a new seat. However, as the cost of the seat was over the £1000 a dealer can automatically fit, it had to go to Lexus UK for them to authorise. Lexus UK authorised the seat and I have had a complete new drivers seat fitted. I asked how much the seats were out of curiosity and they cost a cool £4500!!!!

Hi all, I'm new to the site and I'm sorry if this has already been asked. I have just bought an IS250SE with the multimedia package. Sat Nav, DVD etc. Is there any mods (cables, tuner etc) that anyone knows of that I can get so that I can get normal TV on the screen? Thanks in advance