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5 Hours WOW, you better take a spare fuel can with you. lol. I find the Speech Command System works quite well, i mainly use it for the telephone, but recently put in a address that worked better than i expected, i believe it takes a while to learn your voice, and i think i found somewhere, deep in the menu system a voice training section ( or perhaps i was dreaming ). Chris

Yes you get 2 years Breakdown cover, which would be worth £100 per year, but then you get that with all the Lexus warranties. I managed to get full AA breakdown cover for £50 this year as the AA came out as the cheapest car insurance and they were doing a deal.

I have had a big discussion with Lexus about the warranty for the LC, its been taken right to the top but they are not going to move on the £2350 for 2 years. i too cant understand why its so high when the RC-F is £995 for two years, along with the engine a lot of other warranted parts are the same. So i have just put £100 extra in to my car tax/insurance/service pot and keeping my fingers crossed,

Yes looks like you need a update, may be worth waiting until version 19 comes out, i believe it to be around the end of the month. also be prepared for them to have the car for a couple of hours, and a full tank of fuel, as i said my update took 2 hours with the engine running

Hi Kevin Sorry Kevin but i am not very tech savvy, so not 100% sure on that, but my gut tells me, No it doesn't automatically download to your car, the reason i say that is... My update took just over 2 hours and the car had to be left running while this was done, i assume because the ignition needs to be on and if the engine is not running the ignition will automatically turn its self off after a short time I am not sure what downloads i had done, i know they did a software download no 17 ( 19 is due out soon ) i don't know if map updates are free with a service while the car is in warranty, but i was not charged anything for whatever update they did. My map now shows me the name of the road i am traveling on at the bottom of the screen which i am sure is wasn't before, plus i have a new speed camera icon on the bottom right of the screen ( see photo below ) which if you click on it you can add a new or temporary speed camera which defiantly was not there before, now i don't know if this was added with a new map update or a systems update. i asked about a update next service ( car will be out of warranty ) and was told that there would be a cost involved as they need to put in a pin number which would be supplied with the update pack which you have to pay for, now again i don't know if this was for a map update or a system update, i certainly would not be happy to pay for a system update as these are normally done because of some issue with the systems running software. the same as you don't pay for a software update on your iPhone, so we will see when the time comes.

Hi Kevin, its the first time i have caught the wheel in 3 years so not bad going, enjoy the car i am sure you will. give us some feed back in a few weeks

yes i assume so, the wheel was clean when i took it there so its hard to tell but i am happy with the result, haven't had the invoice yet but £55 was mentioned, so if that's the case i will be happier still.

Just had the wheel repaired by my local dealership, it was done in house by there mobile wheel repair guy, not sure how it was done but i am happy with the result. before and after photo's

no not by just looking at it, if you sign into your Lexus link app it will show you all the work / services done on the car

personally i don't think lubricant will help, nothing is sticking, its just the spring which is not strong enough, which has been mentioned is what back in the mechanism, i don't understand why owners of a 90k car are sticking pieces of rubber in the flap to make it work propley when there there is a free fix

As mentioned HUD and ML is a option, although i think most of the initial LC's brought into the country were for the dealership demonstraters so full spect out, sport+ models which is why you don't see many basic models for sale fuel cap has been done, haven't had a problem since. fuel pump does not need doing on a 2017 year, seems odd as you would have thought that the very first models would have needed to be done so what changed from 2018 i don't know. latest software is number 17. i did have a slight problem with the screen freezing but this update has seemed to have solved that. update number 19 will be out by the end if the month,

the company i was looking ay ( Alloy wheel refuiqment NK ) told me they take around 7 working days and costs approx £600 plus vat per wheel. To proces then with our processes takes 2 to 3 days and costs £150 plus vat it would be interesting which process they used on your wheel hopefully mine will be repaired at the dealership soon, i will post before and after photos.

I haven't had any re call letter and according to the Lexus website there is not any re calls for my car. mine is a 2017 year and i have noticed everyone else seems to be 2018 or newer.

I don't no what it is about Lexus Alloy's they have always been very poor quality conspired with the rest of the car, they will however replace or repair is they corrode within the 3 year warranty period as long as any damage to the wheel is immediately repaired, the last 3 cars i have had the alloy's removed from the car and treated front and back and so far i haven't had any problems with them although i do make sure they are cleaned regally with brake dust fallout remover.

Thanks Kevin, for some reason i can't open the link to TRS UK, not from here or even Google. i am going to contact my dealership next week and see if they can sort it out for me, it means them sending the wheel of and having the car but i don't fancy having my car on the drive on a jack or axel stands, in fact i don't even now if there is a jack

Will do Stuart, I have had this reply from a company in Coventry, it’s just getting the wheel to them Hi Chris. Many thanks for your enquiry. Yes we do these all the time but we have our own process. These wheels are ball bearing polished and quite difficult and time consuming to do. We have our own process to repair these wheels and from a metre aways cannot tell the difference. To process them as they are takes around 7 working days and costs approx £600 plus vat per wheel. To proces then with our processes takes 2 to 3 days and costs £150 plus vat. Please let us know how you would like to proceed.. thanks in advance. Regards The AWRUK Team

Thanks Nigel, that will be interesting, have you just left you car with them or did they sort you out a replacement wheel while you is off for repair? have they given you any idea of the cost to fit it.

Yes Milton Keynes is the only place in the country with the correct equipment to do the job 100% ,

I don’t know why it’s so difficult to match wheel colours when the can match bodywork colours pretty well, in the past I have had the two wheel’s on the same side of the car done so if there was to be a slight difference in colour it would not stand out so much although £1100 is a lot of money I am surprised that they are not more you can get the LC wheel’s repaired, the demo car I had for a while had quite bad damage to the front near side, when it was repaired it looked pretty good, the problem is when you scuff the wheel you normally remove metal so it’s not so much the finish more the shape of the wheel that can look worse, fortunately mine is quite minor and unless you look very carefully it shouldn’t stand out. as I said in a previous post it’s just getting hold of the guy to come round, he used to do all the wheel’s at my dealership but a change of management means they now use a different company. So it’s trying to get him to come to me, and when he can be knocking out wheel after wheel at a dealership even offering twice his normal repair fee I am still waiting.

Apparently Lexus Gatwick can't repair them either, they told me there is a place in Milton Keynes that has a machine that can repair them, that's a 200 mile round trip for me, My local dealership has said there have someone who can repair them but he is a nightmare to get hold off, so i will have to just wait and see.

Thanks David i have tried everyone i can think of, as soon as you mention polished alloys they are not interested

Thanks Simon i will give then a call

Lepsons won't touch them AJ,

Thanks for the suggestion Peter, i will make some enquires.

I just caught my wheel ( 21') the other day, only very slightly but all the same i would like to get it repaired, do you think i can find anyone to fix it, nope, i have tried everywhere, i can't find anyone who will touch polished alloy wheels, anyone else had a wheel repaired?