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On the IS250/220 is it possible to turn on/off the "acc" mode of the ignition without the car thinking your next step is going to be to start the car. If I forget to fold in the mirrors or something then I press the engine start button without pressing the clutch and I get power to fold them in. If I press it again without the clutch it lights up the dashboard ready for starting the car. If I press it again it seems to go back to "acc" mode but starts chiming at me. I can't seem to get it to just switch off except by locking the door at that point. Any ideas?

If you look at page 105 of the manual, it is clear that pressing the Start/Stop switch without depressing the clutch pedal should cause cycling through:

"OFF" - "ACC" - "IG-ON" - "OFF"

The engine will start from any of these states if you depress the clutch and press the Start/Stop switch. My car does exactly that.

The table on page 12 showing the circumstances in which alarms sound seems to suggest that you might have the driver's door open when switching to "OFF", but other than that I'm afraid I have nothing helpful to suggest.

It sounds like a fault to me, but I claim no great expertise. My IS 250 SE-L is just over a month old and doesn't do any of those things.

It holds the temperature settings even when it is unused for several days and I have never seen the front screen heater switch flash.

Brian

Fanfare

spelunkers

Like it....makes a point without being too much "in your face"

It's VERY Japanese.

Plate

tectonics

What is the basis for the mileage/consumption figures that individuals quote from time to time.

I have been in the habit (for years, starting when I had to present information in relation to business expenses) of keeping accurate records of mileage and petrol purchases. Having done a few miles in my IS250 now, one of the things that this record keeping seems to show is that the dashboard display of overall consumption is definitely optimistic.

This morning, the display is showing an overall average of 30.5 mpg - the reality, based upon measured mileage and petrol purchases, is 28.34 mpg.

I asked Lexus MK for advice about minor repairs to alloy wheels etc and they recommended:

http://www.smarttouch.info/index.htm

Does anyone have direct experience of this company?

Bitter

Aloes

hmm strange.. there has been no drop in web traffic at all.

Only thing it might be is the carrier from your dialup may be having problems.

let me know if this continues

Thanks Steve - it all seems to be OK now.

I make regular access to four sites and the other three gave no sign of problems.

I wasn't able to access the site all day yesterday. I have had the same problem this morning, but managed to get in a few minutes ago - hence this message.

I use Firefox and keep getting a message to say that it is unable to find the site.

Has the site been off-line or do I have a problem at my end?

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When I remarked on the absence of valve caps on the car that I test drove I was told the kids had stolen them.

I fitted a set of "spinners" from new - have had the car about five weeks and haven't lost one yet, but it's a bit of a pain having to use a key when doing a tyre pressure check.

Touch wood . . . . .

Ribbon

development

It's a capybara, not a hippo.

Yeh - much more likely.

The Anaconda lives in tropical south america and the hippo in west africa.

As to the regurgitation - could it just be a swallowing sequence run backwards?

You are not alone, I have never seen a fast food POI displayed, despite the fact that are probably 30 within 20 miles of my house.

I think all we get is "posh" restaurants.

Mine doesn't even display the Lexus dealer from which I bought the car. It is soooooo inadequate compared with my TomTom 910.

Things have been busy with me recently.

The company I work for, Artemis was bought by a US company, Triology and is being merged into their Versata business. Triology/Versata has handled the whole thing very badly.

Just one aspect is they're making the UK development, support and product management teams plus a few others redundant. I'm one of 6 Java programmers that produce the company's software. The team has loads of experience in the IT industry (I'm the youngest at 38) and have about 100 years combined service in the company, and hence that much experience of our products. So far we're being replaced by 3 developers in India who are in their early twenties.

We've spent the last year working hard to produce a radically improved version of our software. When we learned our jobs were targetted for redundancy we were asked to spend 70% of our time working on the new version to hand it over to the offshore team. We will get no reward or recognition. The other 30% of our time was to be spent training them in our jobs. We were originally told we would not get gardening leave and would be required to work our notice periods. For me that was likely to mean a leaving date of mid november or december depending on when I received the formal notice. The company policy includes a generous redundany payment which the new owners have decided not to pay so we would just get the statutory minimum. For me it equated to two weeks pay to pay the bills while I found work just before Christmas when the job market is quiet. Not much reward or incentive to stay on and train my replacements in my job.

Over the last few weeks/months I've been studying every evening to update my skills. I left as soon as I could and have become a contractor. I've forfeited my paltry redundancy but it was worth it to get just the right contract and cut short my time at Artemis. My last day is today and I start my first contract on Monday. I'll be getting more money and gaining commercial experience of JSP. I'm a happy bunny.

Did you seek any professional advice about this? Applying those kind of condistions sounds awfully close to constructive dismissal. The TUPE provisions are intended to stop an employer to whom an undertaking is transferred from reneging on the conditions of employment of the employees in the undertaking transferred. I think it might still be worth your while to have a look here for a start

http://www.direct.gov.uk/Employment/Employ...ngYourJob/fs/en

Lexus have simply said its no worse than any other is250 manual and thats about as good as it gets. Its at the stage now where Im seriously thinking of changing the car and fed up with the attitude of Lexus. They even said 'most' people go for the automatic as the manual gearboxes on the Lexus cars are notoriously bad. (no good for me though as i chose the Sport version that doesn't come in Auto).

That sounds bad enough to consider returning the car under warranty as "unfit for purpose". Have you talked to anybody at Trading Standards?

As requested by Jasonco here is a list entitled Compatible Mobile Phones For All Lexus Vehicles obtained from Lexus Bradford in March 06:

Nokia: N-Gage; 3230; 3600/3650/3660; 6021; 6230/6230i; 6310i; 6600; 6630; 6650; 6670; 6680; 6810/6820; 6822a; 7600; 7610; 7280; 7710; 8800; 8910; 9300; 9500

Motorola: A780; E398; V3; V80; V500/525/620; MPX220

Panasonic: X70; X700

Samsung: SGH-D500; SGH-E720; SGH-E730

Sharp: GX30; GX15

Siemens: S55; S65/SK65; SX1

Sony Ericsson: P910; T68i; T610/T630; Z600; K700; K750i; S700; Z1010; W800i

Please feel free to amend or comment!

Bladgb

My PalmOne Treo650 works fine in my IS250

I riught clicked the link and saw the referal id :( Let us know if you get yours and we'll all join in.

Yeh right - for the sixth man down to get his laptop, every man, woman and child in the UK would have had to have been referred . . . . . . . . . four times each

84.9p now ................... :P

Same as Tescos Beckton

Apologies if this has been mentioned before.

There is a website http://www.petrolprices.com/ that will keep you updated on the lowest prices in your area.

You have to register (boo), but it's free (hurray).

While we are on the subject.... has any one got their tyres filled with nitrogen?

One well known garage over here do this as an option and say it is more consistent as its not as easily affected by differences in meteorological conditions....

I'm abit skeptical about it.... but open to suggestions

Nitrogen will be the assassin to compressed air, a progressive step forward for the Motorist.

It's a scam. Air is 78% nitrogen anyway. The coefficient of expansion of nitrogen is about 80% of that of air so the difference in the change in pressure for a fixed rise in atmospheric temperature will be tiny.

The use (and extra cost) of compressed nitrogen instead of compressed air is justified in high pressure systems where it gives significantly reduced risk of fire, but for the pressure and volume of air in a car tyre I can see no point other than to relieve the credulous of their cash.

Can i remind you we are talking 'dry nitrogen' so not susceptible to the reaction of moisture in compressed air! or maybe i'm wrong? Nitrogen inflation is mandatory in the muti-billion pound aircraft industry and used for absolute inflation in the muti-million pound F1 industry.. all wim centres would use nitrogen at £0 additional cost to the customer, many other companies already follow that example.

The thing that the two examples given have in common is high cost. I worked in the aircraft industry as a designer for a long time and nitrogen is used for the safety reasons that I have already quoted. Typical aircraft pressure systems may operate at around 1500 psi and it makes all kinds of sense to ensure that any gases within them are inert.

I have yet to hear a single good reason for putting nitrogen, as opposed to compressed air, into a normal car tyre. The idea that the use of nitrogen is cost free is at least questionable. All the costs of running a business are passed on to the customer in some way, otherwise the business goes broke. Offering a fancy but uneccesary service may of course attract custom and generate business, but it doesn't make that service essential.

The moisture content of compressed air is important in applications that pass significant volumes of air through the system e.g. in the "windy" tools used in industry. But the air inside a tyre is to all intents and purposes a small fixed volume in which the water vapour remains suspended and is a tiny proportion of the total volume of gas. I can see no reason why it should give me any concern as a motorist.

Ok.. can i ask this then? why is there a differential pressure guide for motorway driving, have a look in the book or on the door you will see specific alterations, i ask you this 'why!'

Because the performance of the tyre structure is affected by the temperature at which it is run. Running at high speed causes an increased rate of instantaneous flexure which raises the temperature of the tyre. Increasing the initial cold inflation pressure stiffens the structure and reduces flexing. Running at constant speed below the maximum operating speed of the tyre results eventually in a tyre temperature equilibrium and that equilibrium is achieved at a lower temperature if the initial cold inflation pressure is higher.

The actual operating pressure inside the tyre results from the initial cold inflation pressure together with the partial pressures that result from heating the constituent elements of the inflating fluid. Elementary thermodynamics will tell you that any ideal gas in a measured volume with the same pressure and temperature will will have exactly the same number of mols of the gas. If you increase the temperature of each of the gases by the same amount the pressure will increase by exactly the same ammount. The equation is pv=nRT.

The guidance on my car calls for no increase in pressure until a speed in excess of 100 m.p.h. so it's pretty academic for most of us.

There is no advice that I can find in my handbook about the benefits of using nitrogen instead of air. I can find nothing on it from Lexus.

The one technical tip that I could find (from GM) concludes (and I quote) "the realized benefits to our customer of inflating their tyres with purified nitrogen are expected to be minimal"

They printed the last four words in red, but I don't know how to do that.

This topic has become boring - I'm done.