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i have blackberry but firmware is 4.1.0.284 and keeps losing the connection and transfer won't work on my GS300. works on my wife's motorola, so sure it is the blackberry.

replacement of fuel line at end of April but that's it. The Mobile phone issue may be USA particular as they use a different band to us. Not heard about the seat belts, but as i bought it in Oct 2006 i'd expect if there was a recall they would have fixed before delivery anyway.

is it in an area affected by bright sunlight. Not seen it affect the lock, but often the light reflection causes the mouse not to work properly. Depending on if you are using an optical based or mechancial based the light can impact the working. Unusual for it to affect click lock, but you never know. Also change batteries if there are any.

I had same problem on GS, only when hot. After 5 visits the dealer has finally solved it with a new rear glass. Apparently it was a trim problem on the glass fitting or something. Any way, complete new rear window and no more creaking.

The 250 is really under powered. wanted to palm it off on the wife and take her 300 whilst mine was in the garage

it's a big flasing yellow light on top of a orange van that parks in front after you don't maintain the oil

44mpg in a 220d, that's optimistic if my experience with the 220d i have had today as a loan car is anything to go by. It's a 57 model with 3,000 miles and couldn't get more than 33 mpg over the 70 miles. My GS 300 averages around 35mpg and even up to 40, so petrol definately way to go (or at least a GS). PS Thought the IS250 i got the week before did better mileage than the diesel, but lacks power.

about £250 with protected no claims for IS300 from Churchill, £360 for GS300 from Priviliged- £400 excess on both. My 19 year old son was sent an unsolicited "competitive" quote from AA for his Fiesta TPFT £1020 compared to the £600 he already has for fully comp from Churchill. Makes you wonder where they get their prices from I used gocompare.com

Thorntons in Syston. Always take my car there for tyres, very good and never had a problem. Should be only about 10 mile from you.

i'm happy at renewing the IS300 today at £255 inc protected no claims and legal.

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I bought from black circles and when i went to get them fitted the garage said he could have sold them to me cheaper than the price black circles were selling at. Check around, just becuase they are online, online companies are not always the cheapest. As a footnote, i went back 3 months later for another tyre and yes he was cheaper, it wasn't just talk.

the re-route function is still available even when moving and the phone has one touch keys that still work. also there is a fix to remove the lock by disconnecting some wires behind head unit. In USA and Oz people advertise the service, but not seen anyone in UK doing it but there has been posts before which explain how to do it.

As Dave said. Gap insurance is to top up your insurance in case of a write off to the amount you paid for the car. If it is on finance they will take that into account. My point was that the GAP insurance i've had don't actually pay you a penny they take your insurance payment and put it towards a replacement same brand car and make up the difference to what you paid originally. In effect the manufacturer is no doubt just doing some sort of discount to get another sale on the road. So what i was pointing out was whether one of the differences in price between independent GAP and their pricing and what say Lexus dealers offer is whether you get cash or a discount off another same brand car. Not having had an independent version of the GAP or even looked at one I can't say. I just know how the others work.

not sure about the other market GAP insurance but the Lexus and most other manufacturer based ones are tied to a replacement not the cash. For example the Lexus and BMW one I had before gave you the invoice price off a replacement car of same make, not the invoice price back in your hand to buy what you wish. I'm happy with that, but may be a difference between open market GAP which may offer cash, don't know myself but thought worth offering up to anyone who is considering wich one to buy. Read the small print.

really annoying when this happens. i've still got a dent in door of GS I got a week after buying it where someone had opened their door against it. will need a whole door skin, but fortunately you can only spot it in good light and when clean, hence why it is dirty a lot. sorry to hear of your woe though.

well she got a satisfaction survey in the post as a follow up to having service done, so she rang the guy and he said to call if unhappy today and he agreed to fit new ones free of charge. Ok with the petrol down there we probably saved about £10 on buying from Halfords or similar and doing myself but she's just got back and was further annoyed that at no time on phone or during visit was there ever any apology. anyway she can see now, so over and out.

yes Lexus Leicester and my wife already spoke to service manager and he wasn't much use, denied that was the case depsite the guy who dropped it off saying it, and being written down on the advisement. i agree with Kev Dood, if they are going to replace it all then what's the big deal.

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Anyone can explain this? My wife had the IS300 collected 2 weeks ago for a service and advised the guy who took the car away that the wiper blades need changed. (why she asked them and didn't get me to do it cheaper i'll never know). When delivered she was told they hadn't changed the blades because they were not original Lexus wipers blades. They cleaned the surface and left them on, producing a service check list showing the wipers as an advisement. Now why on earth would a dealer not fit new wiper blades irrespective of whether the old ones were Lexus or not. Not to mention the fact that we bought the car from them and the wipers on there are the ones supplied with the car by them. Then the service manager had the cheek to try and argue that as it was a 50,000 mile service and the car was sold with 27,000 miles then they couldn't possibly be the same blades. However he obviously didn't look at the facts, it may be a 50,000 mile service but it has less than 33,000 miles and only being serviced due to age not mileage. They called to ask permission to fit new brake pads on the rear so if there was any uncertainty about them being approved you'd have thought they would have brought it up then. Can't understand the reasoning here at all. Anyone care to comment what they may be thinking?

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