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New IS F-Sport

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My last IS250 did that after the rear window been refitted (to kill an annoying clicking noise). Has any work been done on the rear window on your car?

Hi all, I have noticed that sometimes when I turn the steering wheel on my 08 220d it makes a slight knocking noise, has anyone else experienced this issue? If so any ideas what it is (my warranty runs out next month !!!)

Many thanks

Paul

I had this noise when my car was brand new. Everytime I turn the wheel, it knocks. Specially at low speed turning, sometimes on high speed too. It was very noticeble both in sound and feel though the steering wheel (sound comes from lower part of steering column. I hear the same noise when I push that part). This happens always in summer when its hot outside. My dealer has tried few times to fix this (they reassembled the steering column and lubricated the shaft). it usually goes away after they fixed it but comes back few days later. The weird thing is its gone after 2 years by itself and It never happened again.

The Service Manager at my local dealership showed me the new GS250 to me today. Apparently has the V6 with a few performance mods to make it a little quicker than the IS250. Completely new IS will be introduced soon following similar looks to the GS range and he reckons it it will include an IS-F version.

The GS250 is available in model types SE (£33,605.00), 250 Luxury (£36,605.00) and F Sport (£40,605.00).

I had a good look at the GS450h too.

The GS250 is not quicker than the IS (0-100km/h 8.6 sec). But the new GS250 has a new intake that sounds better than IS with stock intake.

I think the new IS will have same styling as the new GS which I think looks quite blend. My dealer has confirmed that it will be a 4 cylinder hybrid and will be released next year. Together with a non-hybrid 350 version. I like the the styling on the current IS, specially in F-sport. I think it will look good many years to come.

I guess it comes to down where someone's height is. If it's in the legs then the headroom might be sufficient even if they're 190cm+.

Obviously, a sunroof also eats into the headroom a little which could make all the difference for some people.

Must be the sunroof then. But I still think I sit high in the IS. I prefer the seat position in CT, nice and low.

Yes the "awkward driving position" was a ridiculous comment. I'm 6' 4" and it's fine and very comfortable. Perhaps the short reviewer wanted a seat that raised up even higher? ;-)

So you are about 193cm? And you don't have problem with the seat? Can you post a pic of you sitting in the driver seat?

I'm 190cm and I do think the seat position is a bit high. I wish the seat could go a bit lower. My seat goes almost allway back and if I straight my back my head is touching the roof. By the way, I have sunroof. Also, the bottom of the seat is too short to offer any good support of the legs and the lumbar support is too high too. So on long joury I'm moving the seat position alltime and my back hurts. I think it could be great if IS has the seat from the CT200h or the new GS. I've tried both and they are so much better than the seat in IS.

Ps, I do think its strange that the girl in the review think the seat is high. She looks short. :D

Same problem here. Really annoying when they reflect from the sun light. :megaangry:

I have this annoying robotic noise from behind the dash when I start up the car (even with fan off and all vents closed!). See the recorded video below. The noise appears at 00:12, 00:16, 00:24, 00.32. You might have to turn the volume all way up to hear it (It sounds quite louder than in the video).

At its worst, it gives a series of high noises (every one as loud as in 00:32). Its annoying as hell! What is it???

Ps. The noise only appears at the start up, not under driving.

Looks great!

I have exact same wheels on my winter setup with studded tire. B)

It is Glacier frost mica. Also called Blueish pearl. Can't say I like it that much. It looks like when my car (Tungsten pearl) is dirty in a sunny day. Its not white not silver, something between white and silver. Quite odd.

It's a problem with the design. The discs may be too small for the weight of the car and they've used high friction pads to compensate (The other annoyance is the excessive dust from the front pads). Since I put a set of IS350 calipers and discs on my 250 SE-L with the OEM low dust ceramic pads (Lexus supplied to the US due to so many complaints of the dust), I haven't had a problem. Minimal wear of the discs over 25K miles and 75% of the pads still left. Unfortunately it isn't an option for anyone with 16" or 17" rims though as there insufficient clearance for the larger calipers (probably why the discs were small in the first place, it's a vicious circle)

Many of the 350s sold in US has 17" wheels as standard. So I don't think it should be a problem...

She makes the CT200 looks HUGE.

Ahh Sweden, that makes sense! Yes it does sound like it had to be a faulty camera, as there are so many parts of the world that suffer these temps (like Canada, etc) so I'd be surprised if they hadn't tested it at those temps.

Well, I'll be surprised if they did test the car in cold winter.

Few examples here:

1, My rear view camera doesn't like cold temp and doesn't want to work in below -10C.

2, Auto-folding wing mirrors often freeze in closed position when I unlock the car. Had to push them out manually.

3, It takes AGES to heat up the car. Both the engine and the cabin. It takes approx. 20km motorway drive to get the engine warmed up and at least 15 minutes to get the cabin somewhat warm (I set the temp at 30C on full blow). Well, it's like sitting in a freezer every morning.

Also, NO AWD models available for a country that really need it. WTF?!?! All othe makers Lexus compete with offer AWD.

Ok, dealer confirmed that the camera is bad. They will replace it with a new one.

Where are you based? Part of the lack of responses could be down to the fact I'm not sure how many on here have experienced -20C!

I'm from Sweden. It's pretty cold here this time of year

It was -13c this morning and the camera didn't work at the first start-up. The screen stays at NAV and just wont switch to the camera view. Everything works fine though. I drove the car to the dealer (3 minutes from my home) and the camera worked when I left the dealer 10 minutes after. It doesn't like cold weather...

My dealer has already check it once last winter and found nothing. I just want to check if anyone else experience the same problem so I know if this is another surprising "feature" of the car..

Did your reversing lights come on as they should even when the camera didn't? If not, I would suspect the reverse lamp switch.

I never checked that as I was sitting in the car and too lazy to get out again... Will check it tomorrow morning.

Well, I got this problem last winter when temperature dropped to -20c for few days.

When I start the car in the morning and put in reverse the screen doesn't switch to rear view camera. Everything else works but the camera. This happened like 3 - 4 times last winter. It will work again after a hours warm up in a garage. My dealer couldn't find anything wrong.

Has this happened to anyone else?

Nobody has this problem???

In agrrrrreement with all earlier posts. IS 250 Auto in the snow. A TOTAL disaster. Might have electronic everthing, none of which is any good if you cannot get any grip. The 245 summer rubber is useless.

I understand from the forums best action is a set of IS200 16" wheels with 205 winter tyres. Bit of an expense.

Wrap it up in the garage to keep it warm until the sun comes out again. A bit like having a motor cycle. !!!

yamavira.

I have 18" 225/40 studded winter tires. Works great actually. I drive about 60km everyday and it's plenty of snow here.

temperature this morning: -20C :duh:

has to be said the is250 is total baws in the snow, snow mode is just a button that does nowt and you cant tickle the accelerator without the traction control kicking in. I had a dabble with the snow tried my best to see best way to drive the car in the snow but it was all over the place. If you accelerate on a bit of slush the wheels will spin. My citreon dispatch van kicks its *****.

Why don't get a set of good studded winter tire. I even drive with ECT PWR switched on in heavy snow without any problem. Well I did get stuck once on my parking lot. But that was the only time.

Yes there is a TSIB on this and the dealerships do fix it free of charge if you are under warranty. The problem however is that in order to fix this problem, the dealerships pull out the entire dash and insulate the retainer clips with sound deadening felt. But in the process of doing this, they cause rattles to occur in other places. I had mines done by the dealerships and about 8 months later the sound returned with a few extra ones coming from all over the dash because of the dash removal. I did however manage to trace all the creaks and rattles and sorted them myself, without removing the dash or anything.

I had the same concern when I asked my dealer to fix it. The tech did a good job though. Now a year later I have no more noise from the center dash area. BTW, before the fix it sounds like I'm getting multiple stone chips on the windscreen. It was pretty bad. I also had a super annoying click-click-click noise from behind. A new technician at my dealership finally found what cause this noise and the solution was to remove the entire rear glass and re-glue it back. Now I have almost no more weird noise! The only thing is that all these problems took a year to get addressed with multiple visit at my dealer. Every time I'm there I get this "Nooo, not him again!!!" look from the service advisor. Quite entertaining actually.

Same on my car when it was new and my dealer fixed it.

Just take your car to the dealer and let them fix it for you. There is a service note for this problem.

I just simply repositioned the mirrors and saved the settings

Did you repositioned it in Drive or Reverse position? I seem to remember if I adjust the mirror position when its tilted in reverse it comes back lower when I switch to Drive...

How do you "save" the settings?

Same as seat memory. You press and hold any of the 1 2 3 button on the door and press set.

Well, I got this problem last winter when temperature dropped to -20c for few days.

When I start the car in the morning and put in reverse the screen doesn't switch to rear view camera. Everything else works but the camera. This happened like 3 - 4 times last winter. It will work again after a hours warm up in a garage. My dealer couldn't find anything wrong.

Has this happened to anyone else?