Hi everybody, I am new here..... Two weeks ago i bought mine used IS200 from the official Toyota dealer. The car is ~3 years old and ~60,000 km. When i parked it in my garage the other day i noticed, i guess, this noise, you are all writing about - the car sounds like a sewing machine at idle only. Strange is that the noise disappears when i press the clutch and comes back again when i de-press the clutch. Sounded weird, so today i opened the engine to see, as if i could do anything at all:), but still, i saw that there were some bits of fibers hanging from one of the belts (i guess i saw 3 belts there). One of these belts had a strange kind of stitching every 20 centimeters along its diameter and one of these stitches was torn and fibers, though very small were hanging from the belt, i guess even the rubber was torn and i could see metal below. As i got very worried i will call tomorrow Toyota-Lexus and see what they will advise, first on the noise and second on this belt. I have no idea whether the two are connected.
