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Hi, in 2008 I brought my 450h, not from my local dealership but one 60 miles away because the car was a lot cheaper they offered me a 4 year service plan for £1036, that’s £260 per service, witch I thought was excellent value, before accepting it I visited my local dealership to see what they could offer, the best they could do was £1480, that’s £370 per service, £110 difference per service, so my best advice would be is to shop around, you will be amazed at the difference in cost for services between dealership’s.

Fortunately so far have not got any squeaks or rattles in my car, but its interesting that you mention the noise coming from your dash and windscreen, before owning the GS450h I had a GS300 witch after around 4 month old from new started squeaking from the frond drivers side speaker by the windscreen, if I slid a piece of cardboard in the gap it stopped. I took it back to the dealership were I brought it, they told me this was a common issue and have been allowed by Lexus to strip the front dash out and re sound proof it, after this was done I had no other problems with rattles or squeaks from the front dash.

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Have you looked in daylight or in the owners manual? Try looking just in front of the bootlid on the "roof" of the boot. Its on the right hand side of the boot. Does not seem to be automatic. It has a switch. The switch will either switch the boot light off completely or put it on automatic so it will go on and off when you open the boot, try switching the switch the other way. it may even be the bulb i have had to replace it twice

Hi lee, sorry to here about your problem, it is almost impossible to touch up stone chips to what I would call a satisfactory result, in fact most local repair companies wont even take on the job in the first place, knowing that even if they do the best job they can most customers would not be happy with the result, ( especially Lexus customers ). I am also very surprised that the car was delivered in that condition in the first place and although its not really the salesmans job, he should have had a quick look around the car to make sure the car was in the condition you would expect for a £40k car. I have had Lexus cars for the past 12 years and knowing Lexus customer care, if I was in your position I would let them take the car away and put the problem right, Lexus have a fantastic repetition for treating there customers well, I understand that you may be feeling a bit suspicious about there intentions and if it was any other car manufacture I would probably feel the same,i personally think that the salesman in as unhappy about the situation as you are and wants to put things right. I am confident that you will be happy with the overall result, but let us no either way. Good luck

If you have the Bluetooth facility switched on, on your phone and the cars Bluetooth is set for auto connect it should connect automatically each time you enter the car.

Hi, this is a common issue, metal valve caps welding themselves on, two things that will help 1…put a little bit of grease or Vaseline on the thread before putting them on 2… once a month just undo and re tighten them if its just the outer part of the valve cover rotating, just grip them gently with a pair of pliers, perhaps use a piece of thin cloth or tissue paper so you dont mark them. if they have a tiny hole in the top then you should have a small domed tool that fits over the top of the valve with a pin in it that fits into the hole in the valve cover if you have tyre sensor monitors the you are in trouble as you could quite easily break the stem while trying to get them of, you could try using some WD 40 on them and leaving it overnight. If you have just normal valve stems then I would go to your local tyre place and ask them to try and get them of, then at least if they do snap your in the right place to have them replaced. Best of luck

sounds like you need to replace the 2 struts that hold the boot open

B If only those levels could be achived in the UK. BUut, wait are US miles not shorter than ours?!!! i would have thought being the US they would have been BIGGER

Hi Kev I have a 2008 ( 58 ) 450h se that will be available when the new GS comes out, I think around Febuary / March 2012 time, this may be a bit to far away for you, and if your looking for a 06/07 may be slightly over your budget range. There are some photos in the gallery under “ my baby “ if you want to have a look. This car has been very well looked after, and is in immaculate condition. Will have around 16.000 miles on the clock by March.

Try pulling the nozzle out slightly when filling, if you push the nozzle right in the fuel tends to hit the back part of the filling tube and splashes back up the nozzle stopping the pump, you can also try not squeezing the trigger fully, squeeze it half way, this way the fuel wont come out so fast witch will also stop the splash back, it will just take you a little longer to fill up.

£200 :P

the valvecaps on cars with the tyre pressure monitoring system have the same caps as any other car, what i would advise is that any other metal cap fitted other than a Lexus Original caps is that you apply a small amount of grease or Vaseline to the threads, this will stop them from welding themselves on, if this happens especially if you do have tyre monitors can become very expensive.

Hi Mark and welcome to the club The sidelights do not light up on the boot lid As for the noise coming from the front, a lot more information would be needed before anyone could hazard a guess, and even then it would only be a possibility. Does it happen all the time, straight line driving or more so round corners and bends, under acceleration or braking. What type of noise, knocking, creaking, squeaking, rubbing ect I you don’t want to take it to a Lexus dealership for them to investigate, you could use a local mechanic if you no a reliable one, because I don’t so if I had this noise I would take mine to my local M.O.T place, they only do M.O.T,s so don’t find work that may or may not need doing, they also do what they call a pre M.O.T, which is cheaper than a full M.O.T. that should eliminate the wheel bearings, and other possibility’s. Hope this helps Chris

i dont think they have a siren i think its just the horn that sounds

Ok, why is it called the 2013 GS when it will be available in February 2012?

I dont think this problem is just confined to the ISF, ever since they changed to water baste paint witch is a lot softer than the old oil based paint stone chips on the front bonnet/ bumper seems to be a common thing, having a white base coat doesn’t help either when you have a dark coloured car, why cant they make the base coat the same colour as the car?

i would offer you mine but it won,t be for sale untill June 2012 it could be worth the wait is a beauty

I’am assuming the joy stick is the same as on the RX450h, I thought that worked well when they lent me one as a curtsey car, the only thing that I felt was awkward was the fact I had to use my left hand to work the mouse when I am right handed, which is the hand I would normally use to work a computer mouse, I suppose its something that you would get use to. I like the looks of this car, and as my car is due to be changed in April I will wait until June when it is supposed to be available in the uk, it will be interesting to see the price, with all this new technology it looks expensive to me.

Hi, The only thing I can think of is maybe there is a filter that may be blocked causing the system to shut down because it is over heating, sory but I haven’t a clue were the filter is, hope this may help.

Hi, I have had both cars, the GS 300 & GS450h & the 450h wins hands down, as for fuel consumption I only cover a max of 5k miles a year 95% is town driving & most journeys are short, around 6 miles. Although I really don’t want to admit it I am probably a bit of a granddad driver, I have rarely stick my foot down, and have only a couple of times used the sport & power button, the last time I tried it I ended up in the back seat.lol Because of my short journeys in the winter months I average 26 mpg, and in the spring/summer 30mpg, I have never reset the fuel computer and it is showing 28.9mpg over the last 3 years. My car has 18” wheels and the ride comfort is not bad, I find any car with low profile tyres tends to give you a more bumpy ride over a car that has, what I call balloon tyres There’s not a lot of difference between the SE & SE-L or though this does depend on the year you are intending to buy, in 2009 they de-specked the SE taking of, electric rear sun blind, 18” wheels and rain sensitive wipers, as for adaptive cruise control, this is not standard on either model. Good luck, and if you can wait until next June you can buy mine.

According to this there may be http://www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsArticle/AllCars/258380/

It is possibly to keep the wheels looking in good condition, this photo is the front near side wheel from my sept 2008 GS 450h, I must admit I do clean my car nearly every day, including the wheels, so they don’t get a chance to get brake dust corrosion. I also polish the with rim wax every 3 months http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/8331/lexus4sale007.jpg

Not sure if I'm mad ( :P ) but have to admit I was quite surprised by what the drive in the GS was like - perhaps it was a dodgy car, but it was brand new on an 11 plate and only a few k on the clock. I think I understand a little on what you mean by noisy and harsh . I thought the same thing the first time I put my foot down, when you accelerate hard the engine revs high and the gearbox seams to take a few seconds to catch up, but thats the way the CVT gearbox works. I dont no if you had a go at driving it in manual, but if you get a chance you would have noticed that you dont get that initial engine revving noise as much, it just flys. :P

Yep that would be it. they should be aluminium Looks like someone had problems with one of the sensors and didnt want to spend £100+ replacing it and just put a standard valve in its place. If you brought it from a dealer the I would take it back. why did you buy the car in the first place with the warning light on?