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  1. Mine went through that phase last year, I rubbed some talcum powder around the boot rubber and it's worked perfectly ever since.
  2. I know this may sound really silly, but switch of your heater fan in the cabin and try a few left turns with it off. I had a similar problem in a BMW 525. I had a number of BMW technicians trying to diagnose the noise which they all said like me ,was coming from the nearside front suspension. After many inspections and road tests it was solved by one from a different garage who had experience of the same fault. When the fan bearing gets worn it allows the vanes of the fan to slide to the end of the bearing shaft and rub against the mounting. I don't know if Lexus fans are similar but at least it costs nothing in tme or money to find out. Good luck. Peter.
  3. A number of years ago I had an identical problem to yours on a brand new Ford.Eventually after many re-balances the problem was completely solved by a tyre expert who had seen this problem before. Each tyre was removed from the wheel and between about half a pint to a pint of water was removed from each wheel.Apparantly tyres are filled with air at the point of manufacture not via the normal valve but via something that fits between the tyre and the rim. This enables a tyre to be inflated in next to no time by high volume air pressure lines. These lines pass vast amounts of air and they have water traps in them to remove the moisture from the air .If the traps are not emptied at the correct intervals ,hey presto, a tyre filled with air and water that produces exactly what your getting. I don't know if this is your problem but your symptons are so similar to the ones I had it may be worth a look. Peter.
  4. I have been fortunate enough to own 10 new cars in my lifetime so far and 5 varying mileage secondhand ones. They have encluded Austin, Humber, Ford, Opel, Renault, Mazda and Honda and now theIS300. But I have never owned one before where any suspension component has had to "bed-in" before it would stop clonking. Have I been lucky or is this just a feature of a Lexus IS?
  5. I have an IS300 with just over 10,000 miles on the clock .It has been in the garage a total of 6 times in the last year with the same problem as your experiencing. It has had upper and lower ball joints ,wishbones,shockabsorbers,front calipers and coil springs all changed under warranty. It still clonks going really gently over road humps. I've now given up but I wish you the best of luck anyway.
  6. Welcome! Are you going to tell us what your first car was ;) It was a 1955 austin A30, 803cc, 28H.P. (not sure how much of it got to the rear wheels) and brakes that would work for at least a couple of applications prior to getting so hot that braking distances might suddenly double. Four speed gearbox,not much synchromesh,so all downchanges had to be double-declutching.
  7. Hi everyone, only just joined, first post and I'm about to mess up your averages. 70, with an IS 300 sat-nav.
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