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I don't know...I can not see any noticable difference in the dimensions/sizes

blocked with what?

I am afraid those rims are not OK, as they are 6.5Jx16 ET38 while reccomended are 7JJx16 ET45 knitware> luckyly we (EU diesel IS) do not have tire pressure monitoring.

it should not be a problem. Prepare 1000 pounds for each light :)

first reset the avg gauge and then monitor the consumption and its changes according driving locations. it shows 27.7mpg but if you have 480 range, it means your consumption is around 36mpg, which is for town driving reasonable.

fuel filter is located in the left side of the car, in the back, over the suspension. I wrote how to remove it in other post...search through my posts. clutch - don't know. What is the mileage?

http://www.lexusownersclub.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=70298

do you mean CAN BUS, or something newer? well even after short drive on motorway the engine quickly goes to operating temperature and car will idle on 750-800rpm. Anyway, in any case, you switch off the fan for minute-two and turbo will cool down ;-)

I agree, it is normal. no, it has nothing with lack of power. For example, when it is -2°Celsius, the AC on AUTO doesn't work (unless you force it) and the idle is still high. no, try it. The only way to put idle to normal is to switch of the fan (blower), not AC. the revs go to normal with AC and fan on when coolant temperature level reaches about 90% of standard temperature. During warm days it sometimes went down also at about 70% of standard temperature, so may be this is also one of conditions to correct the idle, but in my car it is usually when 90%.

it is called OZ Michelangelo. I bought it in Slovakia, so I don't think I will help you with the shop. the size for 16" is 7JJx16 ET45, but double check with the seller, he should have the list with models and sizes.

I bought these, because it is for me closest design to the originals tires I have are pirelli sottozero, but this model is already 5y old, so there should be better tire now. When choosing, I recommend not to look on overall characteristics (position in the test) but take the best tire with traction on snow. This tire will be for sure worse on water or on dry road, or will be more noisy, but what we need is the traction on the snow.

difficult situation. How much of oil you had to add? What surprises me, that you did not mention the oil light. It did not turn on? I don't think that any engine would be capable to work 150 miles with no oil. I think there was some amount of oil, however low level of oil may mean low pressure in oil system and then it may happen that in some places oil will not get, or there will be lower amount of oil - specially I think of the cams. For me this is the place where it is more likely to have additional wear caused by low oil level and you can not diagnose/prove other than physically measure (open the top of engine) Ticking noise may be the cams, it may be also hydraulic tensioner (if it is in the 250 engine - I don't know this engine), or it may be also anything else. It is indeed difficult situation. I see two possibilities: 1. the oil light works fine, dipstick was dry but it was still enough for the engine, just the tensioner had not enough pressure (ticking), but if the engine sound is now fine, everything is OK and don't worry 2. the oil light/oil level sensor/oil pressure sensor is damaged and car was running 150 miles with lower level of oil than recommended by manufacturer and this may mean problems. Why electronic oil measurement did not work? Is the car still in the warranty? How is it possible that the seal cracked (did you mean the seal in the screw under the car for draining the oil?) - for me it looks like the garage did not follow the general instructions, which means always new seal when changing oil and following the tightening torques. I briefly went through the instruction manual and I could not find the rule to check the oil before every drive. Doublecheck this and if it is not there, I would take further action with the garage.

unfortunately no noise testing in summer tires. :-(

the initial investment is quite large, but it is not that bad after all. Driving on winter tires means saving the summer tires and since the 205/55/16 is much less expensive than 245/45/17 or even 18", it means that driving on winter tires is actually cheaper. The alloys you will later resale any day...

such an oil consumption is certainly not pleasant, however normally the car manufacturers claim that only consumption of more than 1 litre of oil per 600 miles can be the reason for further warranty action. No comment, for me this number is unbelievable. Check manual page 267. If we had "normal" car I wouldn't care but I guess that higher oil consumptiom may affect the DCAT and it may also be the reason of poor economy, or other problems in the future. Can you reject the car?

what would you expect from 245 summer rubber + rwd? http://www.lexusownersclub.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=70192

I had also problem with the turbo - no problem with the drive, but I did check visually week before warranty expiration and found oil leak on it. They changed it. Anyway, I found new turbos on german ebay for 400-600 euros. So try there. I wish you good luck.

it is made by pewag - called spike spiders quick. http://www.spikes-spiders.com/ the point is very easy mounting and demounting on pre-installed adapter. (manipulation with chains is pain in the *****). I like the idea with socks, though. How it is with mounting and demounting?

well, I don't have experience with socks. Chains - you have to drive slowly and on the road without snow/ice it is illegal (at least here) and unconfortable and high risk of damaging the chain => heavy damage to the car. we have also snow here in winter, I went for another set of alloys with the base size - 205/55/16 and took the best tires for snow. If there is lot of problems, I take 100kgs load to the boot. I have had problems, but always got out without help of somebody else. So I'd say: 1. go for narrower tires and buy set of chains for emergency or 2. I don't have personal experience, but I heard it works. I think that 1 is better solution.

it's everywhere and I am afraid it will be worse. Today Ireland, tommorrow Portugal, what will be next week? Spain? :shutit:

After 4 years I have 37k miles. I think (hope) it should not need major investment till 100k miles, so math says another 7 years :)

search for Philips D4S XenEco

well, you must be more handy than me! :) fortunately next change will be in 4 years (I hope!)

yes, the cover was the problem! how did you handle it?

I bought this one http://www.autovega.sk/varta-blue-dynamic-95ah-830a-polovanie1-azia.html it is the same as indicated in previous post, just a bit more ah, which is better. But it was really pain to change it! I thought it will be piece of cake and it was not. It took me about 40 minutes. I was so surprised, because so far everything I was doing it this car was very easy to demount and mount and this was very complicated...