chris_fletcher

My daily commute is 16 miles Mirfield to Shipley. Each direction is half uphill and stop start traffic with about 5 miles motorway (which can be stationary to 70mph). If I set off from home on 39mpg it will be that when I arrive at work and vice versa. Outside of the commute I can get up to 44mpg on the car computer, which I have found to surprisingly accurate. Whilst I suspect you will find it almost impossible to get 48mpg, I am sure you could get low 40s if my IS300H to RX450H ratio works out similar for you. This is gen 4 RX so I don`t think a gen 3 will not be as economical. Others on here might be able to give a better guide to gen 3 average consumption

I am averaging 39mpg in my gen 4 RX450H FSport vs 42mpg long term average on my IS300H doing exactly the same daily commute. I was initially a little worried that the difference would be significantly worse but I am very happy with what I am getting, esp for such a large heavy car. In fact I hardly notice any difference in the cost of filling up each month.

I am impressed and a little surprised that I havent had less than 39mpg (calculated) yet, mixed driving with a lot of stop start through rush hour traffic which depletes the Battery quite quickly. The last tank was again 39mpg but the car said 38.6.

The cars fuel consumption calculation is the closest to actual that I have had in any car. My previous IS300H was consistently at least 5-6% optimistic

Does anyone else have similar experience

4 hours ago, bluenose1940 said:

Wow! It looks as though I will have to try to sell privately. Wouldn't be happy with £17K.

I don't think that I want to go any older than a 2012 model.  Could get newer by going to something like Honda but I'm not that keen.

I got £18k px for my 64 plate IS300H Premier with 30,000 miles  against a gen 4 RX Fsport  so suspect £17k for a 2013 model is about the best you will do.

So based on my px value the car lost ~£20k in 2 years 9 months and £9.5k over the 2 years I owned it. Actually a very dissapointing drop IMHO

Webuy any Car offeered £18.5k unseen so that would have reduced so I was happy (not really LOL) to take the £18k px but got some extras thrown in too, bumper protector, boot liner and roof bars. Planning to keep the RX rather longer so not worrying about depreciation now

Further to my last. I decided that I wanted the IS300H and would buy it in less than a mile of driving it away from the dealer but that was coming straight from the CT200H so the difference was significant IMHO.

Knew after about the same distance with the NX that it wasnt for me, drove a gen 4 RX round the block after dropping the NX off and was immediately sold. Bought one a week later but travelled to Birmingham to do the deal as Bradford didnt have any in stock and I am impatient when I decide to change

Doesnt look as if Bradford have a Premier in stock anyway but when I bought my Premier from them they did give the 24 hour test drive of the car I was interested in and ended up buying. I had previously bough the service plan for my CT200H from them so they did have a relationship with me. Perhaps thats the difference and Rayaans is also a well know customer of theirs.

I can thoroughly recommend the IS in Premier trim. The Levinson sound system is simply spectacular at higher volumes. Howver you do need to drive a hybrid E-CVT as it is very different to what you have been used to and will probably seem underpowered until you get used to it, although in sport mode they are very quick from a standing start to about 30-35 mph when they appear to run out of grunt a bit due to higher revving and engine note vs actual speed but that is a bit of an illusion that you soon get used to

Lexus Bradford loaned me an IS300H fro 24 hours when my CT200 was in for service. I never returned it as I liked it so much. Got a decent px deal from them too. 2 months ago they loaned me an NX300 when the IS300 went in for service. Ufortunately the NX was not a big enough step up from the IS and I didnt get on with the ride quality. Ended up with a gen 4 RX Fsport from Birmingham as Bradford didnt have any RXs in stock at the time

I am sure you will get used to the E-CVT its plenty quick enough and very economical, I averaged 42mpg over 2 years with a lot of stop start traffic on each leg of my 16 mile commute. Others on here avearge in the 50`s.

sort of but I think you need to be connected to a vehicle to list all of the available options and nothing really works. Help files are availabel that show features and instrctions for use

I have just downloaded the Toyota Techstream 12.00.127 and it seems to work, at least it launches and all options look to be available. I cant try connected to the car as I dont have a usb OBD2 connector but will buy one shortly. I am not sure if it is OK to include the link to the rar file here but will share it if PM`d

Except it reformats to full capacity and has been fine for 3 days now, I will wait and see if it magically deletes the content again.

It is a Lexar and was plugged into my IS300H for 2 years with never a problem and the CT200 for 3 years before that. It could just be that it is now 5 years old but its strange that it was OK in the RX for a month before the first mystery wipe and then a week later it happened again. Fine one day then 6 days later empty and as such not recognized by the sound system

Hi

Gen4 RX

I have a strange issue, twice over the space of 2 weeks the usb stick has been wiped of all content whilst being left plugged in to the socket. Worked last Monday and was not recognized on Saturday, 2 weekends in a row. Has anyone else experienced a similar problem

re the usb stick, they have to be FAT32 formatted I think so if NTFS they wont read so the media player doesnt recognize its fitted. My RX450H magically erased all content from my stick sometime during a week of only using the radio. Couldnt work out what was going on until I plugged it into a PC. The net result was the display selector behaved just like your NX

Pics before fitting for those who wanted them

eBay one http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/For-Lexus-RX-RX200t-RX350-RX400h-RX450h-Armrest-Storage-Organizer-Tray-2016-2017/182408839935?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649

aliexpress one  https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Car-Armrest-Box-Glove-Storage-Organizer-For-LEXUS-RX-RX200t-RX350-RX400h-RX450h/32811258730.html?spm=2114.search0104.3.2.Aaic4s&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_4_10152_10065_10151_10130_10068_10209_10192_10190_5430020_5410020_10307_10301_10137_10303_10060_10155_10154_10333_10334_10056_5370011_10335_10055_10054_10059_10332_100031_10099_5400020_10103_10102_10052_10053_10107_10050_10142_10051_10324_10325_10326_5390020_10084_10083_10080_10082_10081_10110_10111_5420020_10112_10113_10114_10179_10312_10313_10314_10184_10315_10078_10079_10210_10073-10333,searchweb201603_15,ppcSwitch_5&btsid=1db73b87-18c4-4d3d-bf75-f68b1960a669&algo_expid=53bbc296-2f8e-46f9-846d-56dddad3faac-0&algo_pvid=53bbc296-2f8e-46f9-846d-56dddad3faac&transAbTest=ae803_1

Hope that helps. I will post the other pictures requested later

I agree with Rayans, Definitely better in eco as it doesnt hold on to the engine at stops as much as normal or sport. I rarely ever used anything else in my is300h and on a 16 mile commute, motorway and A road but through stop start traffic through Bradford and up and down hills both ways so that evened out the fuel consumption. Averaged 42mpg on the computer over 2 years with minus 4mpg difference in winter. As I am rather a tight Scot/Yorkshire man in winter I turn aircon off until the engine temp has risen to prevent it running constantly at traffic lights and standstill. Gives me around 2 mpg better consumption. My wife says I am an idiot LOL

After 1 month in my gen 4 RX for the same journey using eco I have averaged 39 mpg calculated, not car computer, although strangely that is only about 0.8 mpg high which is the closet real vs car consumption I have ever had.

OK will do that tomorrow, size is 25.5cm x 16.5cm. I have looked on eBay and aliexpress and cant find one for a gen 3 RX (AL10)

A couple of pics of the tray removed from the centre console

 its not "fitted" per se its just a tray that sits in the top of the bin, will take a couple of pictures of it tomorrow

Got this off eBay, £16. Arrived in about 10 days from China. Can be found cheaper on Aliexpress too. It is a perfect fit and I think quite nice to keep small items easily to hand without having to delve in to the depths of the stoarge bin

I would go to the Lexus uk website and check the equipment list of the different models. IMHO I the Premier is worth the extra money and the ML sound system is amazing

I left a work colleague in a Subaru Impreza standing in my Gen 1 GS300........for about 50 yards but it certainly gave him a suprise to be chasing an old man in a large saloon ha ha

15 hours ago, malcolmw said:

In reply to the OP, I have found that if you press the map button twice in quick succession the screen goes straight to the map display and bypasses the nav menu screen.

 Brilliant tip, thanks.

My next issue is that I can only select Map or Compass on the map configuration screen, options 3, 4 & 5 are greyed out. The manual says "Depending on the conditions, certain configuration screen buttons cannot be selected". Can anyone tell me what those conditions are and how I can activate the disabled options.

Many thanks in advance.

Or take the cheap way out, buy Euro beam converters and leave a GB sticker on the car

I got around 20mpg average out of my gen2 RX300 doing a 16 mile each way commute through 50% stop start traffic plus motorway 50-70mph. On a motorway 200 mile each way trip at 70-80mph I would get about 24mpg. Swapped it for a CT200 to save money, big mistake and I still miss the RX300. Now driving a gen4 RX450h for the last month an averaging 39mpg calculated on the same commute which is only around 3mpg less than my previous is300h so actually really happy