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Ordered my 450 in December and took delivery in June. I went in a week before delivery to sort the paperwork and they honoured the price and gave me an additional 1k for my car.

I don't to be honest Malcolm, which ever it was they have to leave the cover off to fit the piggy back connector. Made an awesome job of the fitting, looks part of the car. I dare not tackle it to be honest and I think the next base system costs that just to buy. I think they use two fuses, one permanent live and one switched - tells the cameras when you are parked to change mode.

Interesting, my dealer told me that both protection pack and tow bar were fitted at Derby but they would deliver with one or both missing for later fitment at dealership. As it happened the car came with both fitted. Only thing I had fitted at the dealership was front and rear dashcams - both for £375, which I thought was good value. I recall him saying there were supply issues with the mud flaps at the time but they would take the car and fit them later if required.

Progress Ian, when you say 'On it's way' is that 'Left the factory' or 'In Transit'? I think I didn't get anything between it leaving the factory and arriving at Portbury - could be here sooner than you think.

Wouldn't worry about it Rob. My NX was much the same, at least two weeks at that status. I would guess it will change to 'Left the Factory' any day now.

Auto Sun due at Portbury tomorrow evening - 3 weeks at Derby - you never know 22/7 at dealer maybe. Fingers crossed the Bay of Biscay isn't too choppy tonight lol

I seem to recall that mine sat at 'Left the Factory' until about a month later when it changed to 'In Transit - Portbury'

'My Lexus ' was always ahead of the App for me Paul.

Finally managed to get some photos. Had it around 3 weeks now but done very few miles. Absolutely loving the car, brilliant drive, very quiet and comfortable - I came from a SQ5 so was worried I would miss the performance - shouldn't have been, performance is very impressive. Sorry I can't comment on economy, it came with a full tank and still has a full tank. I've charged it twice and as my mileage is mainly local, it never runs the engine. I am keen to get a few miles on the engine before any long motorway trips so have been trying to flatten the battery, proving more difficult than I anticipated. Battery just reached 30% and the engine has just started to kick in, although I only know by looking at the dash. Still waiting to hear back about the wall box charger but to be fair the included charger comfortably charges the car overnight. I was surprised to find that it came with heated rear seats, I thought they had been dropped. Loving the black seats by the way, they are more grey to be fair and I figured they would be a more practical choice with kids in the car. Had hazel in two RX's which did start to look grubby - easily cleaned though. Don't remember what lead me to think that it came with card and digital key, it doesn't (450h+ F Sport Takumi). I did get a speed limiter, which I wasn't anticipating. Works really well as the limiter pretty much adjusts the speed according to the speed limits picked up by either the nav or road signs, just requires a button press to acknowledge the change. Heads up is brilliant as are the steering wheel controls, 14in infotainment system and digital rear view mirror. Lexus Hull made a great job of fitting the front and rear dash cams which came at a very reasonable £375 in fact, the service was first rate from start to finish. I already feel this is going to be one of my favourite cars to date.

I'm guessing the text says In Transit Derby - in my experience, this meant it was at Derby and sat at that status for close on to a month. The journey from Derby to the dealership happened so quickly that I knew the car was there before the app had updated.

My NX was there for close on to a month. Depends a lot on what extras need fitting there I think - some are in short supply.

Yep, my car was showing in the app within a couple of days of ordering. I did nothing other than log in to the app. I already had a My Lexus account from a previous purchase, not sure it that helped. It was the first time of using the Lexus Link app.

As far as I recall the app is linked to your order via your email address. You have to register the app using the same email address that your dealer used when placing the order.

Just shy of a month for mine Ivan. Only extras were protection pack and tow bar. Arrived without tow bar but has since been fitted at dealers. Just arrived back from collecting it.

Most of it from Marinetraffic.com Bill. Google maps suggests that a certain area at Nagoya is the Toyota Quay so I just watched vehicle carriers that berth there. Not much help to be fair as they stop at other ports enroute so the destination of the ships is never set to Portbury. If you click on the anchor at Portbury you can see which vessels are due in the coming days and clicking the ships name in that list tells you what type of vessel it is, just a bit of fun to be honest. Autosun and Grande Napoli at Portbury right now.

TOYOFUJI MARU NO.2, TRANS HARMONY 1 & THEMIS LEADER all alongside what I think may be the Toyota berth right now lol All still got Nagoya set as destination. AUTOSUN due at Portbury tomorrow - good luck lol

This won't help much Bill lol - my car sat at Left the Factory for 3 to 4 weeks and, without any other change, went to In Transit Portbury. The near month at Derby was the most frustrating for me. As you say 'another step closer'.

Hi Bill, I did have extras to be fair, protection pack and tow bar. The car arrived with the protection pack but no tow bar. The dealer tells me this is quite common - rather than hold up delivery, they will release the car and send the parts on to the dealer to fit when they return to stock. He said that optional wheels often cause the biggest delays as they tend not to release the cars till they are fitted. No idea if all cars go through Derby. I was lead to believe they did for final checks and to correct any transit damage. The dealer did tell me that they have no way of knowing the name of the ship and if you see how many car transporters come out of that port, good luck working it out lol It is easy to see which vessels are due at Portbury in the coming days (many of which call at Spain before reaching the UK). Despite some critical opinions of the app, mine has always appeared to be reasonably responsive - I often knew the score before the dealer - I guess they don't check every car avery day. I was really lucky, mine arrived a couple of days early at the dealer - about an hour before I turned up to finish off some paperwork with him, couldn't believe it when he asked me if I wanted to have a sit in my car. Good luck, Kev

My NX sat at Left the factory for about a month and then all of a sudden went to In Transit Portbury - then came the worst bit, In Transit Derby for a month.

Yep, I can believe that - had a similar experience with Hatfields Jaguar. I'm the same as you, do your talking with your feet.

Agree 100% Simon. We have been round most of them JLR, BMW, Audi, Merc etc. and Merc have proved to be the worst experience by some margin. This is my 3rd Lexus and my dealership is head and shoulders above the rest.

Brilliant news, very pleased for you.

They took delivery of 3 today Simon. He seemed to suggest that deliveries were picking up pace. He is away next week and whilst he offered to rush it through, I said I would wait until he was back a week on Tuesday. I'll post some more pics as soon as I get it.

That was a surprise! Dealer called me the other day and suggested we get together to sort some of the paperwork out as my car was down for potential delivery to them on the 5th. Arranged to meet with him 11 am today, first thing he told me was that my car arrived around an hour before I did lol 450h+ F Sport Takumi, ordered 14th Dec 21

I'm hoping for 5 Ken