Matt Middleton

Now that sounds like an awful lot of work. Good job on getting it done though. - I had the local Lexus dealership fit mine for the grand total of £1300!!! (Just a witter removable one for a couple of hundred if I had purchased myself) Looked at it when I got the car but could not figure it out. Sent from my iPhone using Lexus OC

Will have a look first thing tomorrow and let you if I can find it! Cheers Matt. Sent from my iPhone using Lexus OC

Hi Reg. Not sure if I can be of any help but when I purchased my RX (2013/450h) I had the Lexus dealer fit a tow bar for me. Happy to look for the loom and take photos etc if that might help - if you can tell me where to look as I've no idea where it is!! Thanks Matt. Sent from my iPhone using Lexus OC

Hi JB - can be changed from setup - vehicle customisation (or there abouts) - select option to unlock when in P and should solve the problem, mines a 2013RX - although u hear that options gone on 14/15 ones? Sent from my iPhone using Lexus OC

Thanks Steve - think this may need an expert to replace... I've booked in it a Lexus Cheltenham next Friday and hopefully they can do the swap out.

Morning all. Does anyone know where to locate the flasher relay socket on a 2013 rx450h please. Trying the hazards and following the tick tick noise sounds like it's around the pedals but I'm a bit lost from there!! Sent from my iPhone using Lexus OC

Good luck Sent from my iPhone using Lexus OC

Link to Lexus press release http://ow.ly/GSF4t Sent from my iPhone using Lexus OC

First Drive: Lexus RC F Giles Smith THE NEW Lexus RC F is expensive, cumbersome, blazingly immodest, fundamentally impractical, comes fitted with an unnecessarily large and uneconomical engine and is altogether, in a naggingly high number of ways, boilingly inappropriate. I can’t think of many cars this year that I’ve enjoyed driving quite as much. Let us begin with the engine, which comes alive at a press of the start button with an urgent burble and builds under acceleration to a bass-intensive roar. It is a 5-litre V8 producing 471bhp and 391 lb ft of torque, a package so flagrantly old-school that you expect to throw open the bonnet and find it looking up at you flickeringly in black and white. As for impracticality — well, yes, there are two seats in the back of this 6ft wide, 15ft-plus-long, wind tunnel-sculpted coupé. But if even two standard-issue 10-year-old girls complain over a journey of less than three miles of acute cramping and of the overall sensation of being closed in a cupboard, then I think we are obliged to dispense with the notion that the RC F can be passed off even glancingly as a sensible family wagon. Then again the boot (opened by a remote control that causes it to pop and, rather pleasingly, pause in thought for a couple of seconds before rising slowly) is only marginally smaller than Northampton. Purists will tell you that the boot is where the engine ought to be, and they may have a point. At the same time, last-minute Christmas shopping? Done. What I like about Lexus is that it cares about sound — and not just about the sound of the engine, which in the RC F is boosted into the cabin via a dedicated speaker, an add-on that I can take or leave. More importantly, it cares about the sound of the hi-fi, in this case offering 10 speakers’ worth of tonally rich gloriousness, which most supercar manufacturers would surely dismiss as excess weight. I also noted with a pang of jealously that the upscale £67,995 Carbon-spec version of the RC F features a 17-speaker Mark Levinson setup and includes a device that high-mindedly restores the frequencies compressed by digital MP3 formatting. Roll on the day when Lexus takes this hi-fi snobbery all the way and plugs in a high-end, belt-driven, diamond-stylus turntable. Then there’s the indicator, which ticks with the woody “chock” of a grandfather clock. Meanwhile the seats, though ostensibly sports-style kidney-grippers, are also pieces of leather-draped luxury furniture, entirely cossetting. But then it has always been the function of a Lexus to be part-car, part-spa treatment, and the RC F is simply the brand’s patent blend of hardcore driving and soft-core pampering in its most extreme form. This won’t be to everyone’s taste, but has always been to Alan Partridge’s and is now apparently to mine. For £3,500 above the basic £59,995, you can add the torque-vectoring differential, or TVD, which represents a hot upgrade over the RC F’s standard limited-slip differential. This offers you — beyond the four basic drive modes of Manual, Eco, Sport and Sport+ — push-button access to three settings that vary the torque sent to the individual wheels. Move from Normal into Slalom and the already sharp steering further tightens while the dashboard helpfully lights up with a small Alpine scene. I found this label worrying, tending to associate slalom with Ski Sunday and plucky Lycra-clad Austrians unhappily spatchcocking themselves on sheets of orange plastic fencing amid a din of cowbells. Clearly, though, if you’re up for a bit of drifting and sliding, with the possibility of a hot chocolate and a crêpe afterwards, this is your mode. Lexus RC F And then there’s Track setting (cue image of tarmac and grandstand), which removes most of the electronic nannying, leaving your destiny in your own capable hands, though if the car senses you’re about to go into a spin those systems snap back on again. From experience I can’t entirely recommend the Track option on the streets of Balham, south London, where, while a spin was never on the cards, it seemed to awaken in the car an intense desire to plough into parked vehicles at every opportunity. Fun elsewhere, though, no doubt. How exactly does TVD work? Search me. I read the literature until a steady ache developed behind my eyeballs and I’m still none the wiser. “The feedback control suite comprises a yaw-rate, differential-rotation suppression control and VDIM (vehicle dynamic integrated management) co-operative control . . . Each electric motor controls the pressure on the corresponding multi-plate clutch via a ball-cam actuator.” At this point, I’m afraid, the ache behind my eyes began to spread to my ball-cam actuator. In essence the system aids cornering by varying the torque sent to the individual wheels and effectively aiming the car into the corner. Anyway, the important point is a) it clearly does work and b) that Lexus can excitedly hymn this system as a world first for a front-engine, rear-wheel-drive sports coupé so you in turn will never be short of a conversation opener in mixed company. There’s an argument that supercars such as this are best enjoyed on private ground, away from other traffic and particularly policemen. And that’s no doubt the case if we’re talking about pushing all this exquisite engineering to the point where the stability systems switch themselves on again. But I feel eager to report that the RC F can play host to legal pleasures too, and that for this driver Christmas came early in a moment of yowling and perfectly law-abiding (as well as utterly comfortable) acceleration on the A3 near Cobham, in Surrey. And it doesn’t get much more Lexus than that. Go to driving.co.uk to search for used Lexuses The rivals BMW M4 coupé £56,650 For Barnstorming acceleration and handling Against Slightly cramped in the back Mercedes-Benz C 63 AMG, £58,500 For Monstrous power; great engine noise Against Not a car for everyday use Sent from my iPhone using Lexus OC

Hi GTB - got the same occasionally on my RX with iOS 8.0 - solved by updating phone to 8.1+ Sent from my iPhone using Lexus OC

Old car was a 08 xkr, brought when 1 year old and lots of fun but doing 20k miles a year now so wanted something a little more comfortable and taller!! We purchased a Q3 last year for the "other half" and I really liked it's driving position. Sent from my iPhone using Lexus OC

Hi all. Coming out of London last night and looking at my mpg - it was around 18 until I hit the motorway.... Such a difference to the previous car. I've read a few threads saying the 450h is not great on the economy front but I for one am pretty happy with it. This time two months ago was getting the below on the town section. Sent from my iPhone using Lexus OC

Evening all, Had one fitted to my RX this week and have been monitoring the difference between using the inbuilt antenna on the phone and using the hotspot. I do a pretty regular journey from home (Gloucestershire) to London and a fair few places on the journey the phone only gets a gprs connection - with the Wi-Fi a better connection is possible - assuming the antennas attached to improvise better coverage. Not massively important for the phone but we do use an iPad for connection to NetFlix with our daughter I the car - as a test I ran a movie in hd through the bad and good bits, all looked ok. So all said I'm happy with the purchase but definitely not on the essentials list!! Cheers Matt. Sent from my iPhone using Lexus OC

Hi Andy - very different beasts. My jag was the x150 XKR - super quick and very pretty to look at - had it for 4 years. The Lexus Is just better built (almost everything in the jag had little issues) and after 88k miles it was reaching the point where future repairs was going to get very expensive. I think the RX's look great and still pretty nippy for 2.5 tonnes of metal - it's got more toys and more comfort. Although it's not 4x4 in the Land Rover sense I'm still comforted by the fact that size and occasional AWD (I believe that's the correct term) are going to make this winter much less scary!! We also have an Audi Q3 and the difference in the two is night and day / our Q3 is not top spec to be fair. Enjoy your RX, the members here (all pretty much except me) are very knowledgeable. Cheers Matt. Sent from my iPhone using Lexus OC

Welcome Andy. Enjoy the car, has taken me a couple of weeks to get used to the hybrid and cvt. I'm sure you'll love the higher driving position - I came from a jag to the lex too!! Cheers Matt Sent from my iPhone using Lexus OC

Hi all, Any ideas for getting the below stain out? I've no idea why it is!! I've tried my supaguard stain remover but it's designed for leather so no surprise it was not much help. Thanks Matt. Sent from my iPhone using Lexus OC

Found it in oddest of places - the voice menu (slightly embarrassing) ;) Sent from my iPhone using Lexus OC

Ps: if you are anywhere near Cheltenham you can pop over and use my adaptor/tablet. Sent from my iPhone using Lexus OC

Absolutely no idea if this might help - if you have and android device and an OBDII Bluetooth adaptor you could try a few apps to see if you can change any settings. I've used Carista app to change some of the settings (did not see one for select model) but at least might give you a better clue. Carista is free to view (£13 to enable change settings) and the Bluetooth OBDII cost £7 from Amazon. Again I've no specific knowledge of this will help but may at least provide some clues!! All the best and good luck, hope you get but all sorted. Cheers Matt. Sent from my iPhone using Lexus OC

Oops - wrong forum - apologies. Will repost. Sent from my iPhone using Lexus OC

Hi all. Does anyone know how to adjust the sat nav volume (inc mute) on a 2013 rx please. Thanks Matt. Sent from my iPhone using Lexus OC

Perhaps the Design Pack? Some of the bits look like my luxury with design but possibly standard on a premier...not sure. Love the wheels though. Sent from my iPhone using Lexus OC

Thanks Colin - had not noticed the reply function but have now seen the response menu and the fact you can't from my phone!! Cheers Matt. Sent from my iPhone using Lexus OC

And to add...it's rather funny as the sat nav voice reads it out.... It's the small things that make me chuckle!! Cheers Matt. Sent from my iPhone using Lexus OC

Hi all - possibly already covered. According to the Lexus website iPhones don't support text/iMessage support - however by clicking show notifications on the Bluetooth settings for the connected nav device it started working today!! Downside - the car asked me to get shopping on the way home this evening thanks to the wife!!! Cheers Matt Sent from my iPhone using Lexus OC