Animal Mother

Both my front calipers had the inboard pads stuck in them, as I found when working on them today. Pistons are ok luckily. Both rear caliper slide pins were seized too. I've never known a car like if for brake issues.

Good result :)

Not sure if this is correct but pretty sure I heard that during a service Lexus don't regrease the caliper pins as part of the brake service.

I can easily believe this. Mine were in a **** state.

Best to relube yourself every couple of years as preventative maintenance.

Giving the dealer the benefit of the doubt, until they remove the calliper they don't know if a clean up is enough so they quoted worst case. In reality I doubt many dealer would actual try and clean up an old calliper and pin, easier to fit a new one.

That's just the thing, it isn't easier to fit a new caliper.

My wife took her GS450h into Lexus for the fuel pipe recall. Nicely, they did a once over of the car and picked up on a NSR seized caliper. They also quoted £325 if we wanted it sorted.

Skip forward a few weeks and I managed to take a look at it today. For the princely sum of £0.25 we now have a caliper that slides sumptuously.

Wheel off.

Pads out.

19mm slide bolt out.

Wiggle the caliper back and forth and knock it off the fixed slide pin.

Clean up.

Emery cloth on the bottom slide pin.

Grease it all up.

Put it all back together.

1 hour later (max) and all is sorted.

So, before you let Lexus fit a new caliper for you, try to sort it yourself.

What a transformation. How much did it cost? Mike.

The Enhancement Detail was £140 and the CQuartz treatment was an additional £90.

An extra £90 is a fair whack, bu the Lexus paint is so soft, I wanted something to avoid the paintwork getting into the state it was in prior to the detailing. Also, maintenance cleaning is very easy, and there's no need to polish or treat the paintwork for 2 years.

Would spraying silicone spray down there help?

What an epic post. Thank you mate.

I was in the GS450h trying to taunt you into a rolling acceleration test. :arrrggg-matey:

Cracking cars chaps.

Hi my earlier GS450 has allways sounded "raw" on cold start, and only once sounded awfull which was the only time it was low on engine oil shortly after a service!

I don't think its any worse now after 162,000 miles so I aint going to worry about it.

Shame about the bonnet paint! just had mine touched in for the 1st time and I am very fussy so the paint is not like it used to be.

Mine is raw sounding for a very brief moment (not even a second) on startup too.

Panic over! The leak is coming from the LPG plumbing...and it's pretty easy to spot.

Not impressed with Lexus & their Visual Safety Report. The job stated the car was loosing coolant & I was assured they would pay special attention to possible causes & that would include the LPG plumbing. Turns out, the leak was staring them in the face & they missed it.

Good news.

You could have a duff radiator pressure cap.

So quick to poo poo it without looking into it properly.

So, if you go to Youtube and watch the video, and read the description, it tells you how to play music from your bluetooth enabled device, via an A2DP Bluetooth bridge (in this case a unit made by RIM/Blackberry), to allow MP3 to be played through the AUX socket, wirelessly.

Yes, sorry didn't really look at it. However you've assumed the 400h has an AUX input

I have, you're right. It's an utter disgrace if Lexus didn't fit one.

This might help your iPod issue.

It doesn't, not in a 400h. It doesn't have Bluetooth audio or iPod awareness.

So quick to poo poo it without looking into it properly.

So, if you go to Youtube and watch the video, and read the description, it tells you how to play music from your Bluetooth enabled device, via an A2DP Bluetooth bridge (in this case a unit made by RIM/Blackberry), to allow MP3 to be played through the AUX socket, wirelessly.

This might help your iPod issue.

Just so everyone is aware, UK Vehicle Lighting Regs requires that:

"A lamp used to illuminate the road to the rear of a vehicle for the purpose of reversing and to warn other road users that the vehicle is reversing or about to reverse."

I'm surprised you have oil left in your car.

http://www.clublexus.com/forums/rx-third-generation/686392-lexus-rx350-stolen-twice.html

:arrrggg-matey:

The chap was probably just trolling but the video of the key booster/cloner is interesting.

Lexus should buy this, run it to 1 million and then display it.

Probably a faulty lock actuator. Look on ebay/scrap dealers.

Nokian or Conti.

http://www.evo.co.uk/features/features/290698/best_winter_tyres.html

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/accessories-tyres/89351/winter-tyres-test-2014-2015-results-by-category

I remember abou 12yrs ago i thought a tail light bulb had gone was going out of my mind, anyway itvwas ok itvwas just abit loose. Same bulb is still in it.

That must have been a Friday afternoon car.How can such shoddy workmanship go unnoticed?

I had a Metro that used to dump petrol when I went round a left hand bend.

We used to drive some ******* din't we? :D

You will always get small coolant losses from any system, regardless of whether it is pressurised or not. Just top it up and keep an eye on it. Get a gas test if you are worried.