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cnsxxx09

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  1. I remember reading somewhere about a motion sensor to prevent the car from easily being hoicked away and stolen ... but maybe I'm mistaken ... I found that, with the engine off, if you press the satellite button you can disable the intrusion sensor ... so I guess that this is all I can do.
  2. Hi, When I took my car on the ferry the alarm went off every minute - the motion of the waves just set it off so I ended up unlocking the car for the duration. On the way back I stopped off at a dealer and they showed me how to lock the car but with the motion sensor disabled - unfortunately I have forgotten how to do it. :-( Can someone remind me? I seem to recall that it's some combination of presses using the Satellite Switches. Thanks!
  3. Thanks all for the replies, I'll drop Tony a PM and see if he can help. Otherwise visiting WIM would take a day out of my short return trip ... and I don't think I could face a 3.5 hr drive down the M6/M1 staying under 70mph ... sigh ... (the pain would get to me. And that is assuming that the traffic will be moving!). For Altenburg I tried Googling it and there are many in Austria (which is too far for a day-trip) and there is one in the east of Germany - but that's already a 4 hr drive. Unless anyone knows anywhere near Hessen, or between Hessen and Europoort/Rotterdam???
  4. Hi, I've given up on my dealer ... they think I'm imagining it and, despite leaving the car with them a few times , they are incapable of reproducing the problem (or unwilling to recognise it maybe ... because it happens 100% of the time and is impossible not to reproduce). Also the replacement car they gave me had the same problem. I've made a video showing the veering (which is here: IS 250 veering video ) ... I'm heading in a straight direction on the autobahn at close to 180 kph (the problem is noticeable even at +100 kph). The recording starts at the moment I lift my hands (slightly!) away from the wheel ... about 8 seconds later and the car has crossed 2 lanes. (I did put my hands back on the wheel as I got near the other car ... and, no, I wasn't the one making the recording!) Am I going mad? Surely this amount of movement cannot be classed as normal?! I've certainly not experienced this before (though generally I don't usually take my hands off the wheel!!! ... I only tried it on my Lexus as I felt the car would occasionally feel quite stiff when trying to straighten the car back to the left). I tried the Contact option on the Lexus Europe web-site but got no reply. I don't want to take it to Toyota/Lexus dealer, instead I want someone specifically knowledgeable about *this* model (rather than having vague knowledge on a fleet of models). Unfortunately, I'm not based in UK and if I do come back it'll only be in the north - so, as much as I'd like to, I don't think WIM is an option. Chris PS - if I take the car up to 240 kph then I really do feel unsafe with the direction the car is trying to go ...
  5. Thanks for all the replies ... I finally left my car with the local Lexus garage for 2 days and took an IS 220d in return to tide me over. I didn't have much confidence in getting a good solution because as soon as I hit the motorway I found that the temporary car had the same problem .. in fact I would say that it was worse!!!! Well the garage said that they had changed something in the suspension and alignment that had made a little change. But they really think I am largely imagining it. When I mentioned that the RX they gave me last time was fine then they said that the suspension on the IS range is unique and designed for a smoother ride and so there will be a difference. They also wanted to charge me for the changes they made as such things aren't covered under warranty but I convinced them that the problem wasn't there before they put my winter tyres on and they reluctantly agreed to swallow the cost. Unfortunately, the problem is still there .. not quite as bad as before, but the car does feel a bit unstable. And if I drive 180-200kph then it feels strange .. the movement in the car is as if I am being buffeted by wind. I can only conclude that either I am psychosomatic about my car (though I have never been before) .... or the Lexus dealer has no idea how to set up the tyres/wheels on an IS and that the IS is difficult to setup correct. Chris
  6. Hi, My Lexus dealer put my winter tyres on my IS 250 in November last year and afterwards I noticed that the car was veering to the right. I have been too busy/lazy (delete as applicable) to get around to checking it out until 2007 ... the car is still driveable. It is more noticeable at +120kph and if I lift my hands of the wheel then the car drives straight for a little while and suddenly, a few seconds seconds later, starts veering and within 5 seconds the whole car has changed lane. I have not had an accident or hit a kerb or anything ... the problem seems (I think) to co-incide with the changing of the tyres. The car is new, the tyres are new .. there is no visable damage on them that could cause the problem. The Lexus dealer told me that this is common problem with winter tyres and switching the 2 front tyres usually solves it (indeed, I experienced the same problem/solution before with my old car). So, they switched the tyres and ... it didn't solve it. The next option was to put the summer tyres back on, because it was fine when I last had them on and (so the dealer said) in rare cases this problem can be caused by bad tyres. So, we put the summer tyres back on and ... the problem is still there. So I left the car with the dealer to test-drive and they couldn't reproduce the problem. I had to go and take the on a test-drive myself to show the problem and, sure enough, they can now see what I am talking about. But the computer system they have reports that all the alignments are okay and so, at the moment, they are loathe to change anything until getting an answer back from Lexus directly to see if they have seen this problem before. In the meantime I guess this problem is slowly degrading my tyres. Does anyone have a clue what could cause such a thing? My dealer doesn't :-( Thanks Chris -=-=-=
  7. Hi, I got my IS 250 at the end of June last year, which runs the 2005/6 version 1 of the SatNav DVD ... already out of date for some roads I use. The dealer told me that there is a new DVD for the sum of EUR 159 (I can also get it myself for the same price from here: http://www.lexus-mapupdates.eu/). I believe that the newer version came out in November 2006 so I'm a bit miffed to have to pay for something that was already out of date after 4-5 months (if it was 12 months I could accept it. But then again, I'd much rather have free DVD updates than a free leather-bound diary and key-fob at Christmas!). Does anyone know if Lexus will ever give free updates within a certain timespan? Thanks Chris -=-=
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