RobinGBrown

It might be the bearings at the top of the struts. I had an RX300 with air suspension that made a similar sounding noise

Regarding the headlights, there's some totally wrong answers up above. You only need headlight beam adjusters if your headlights illuminate the left side of the road. From the RX400h onwards the headlights are 'flat' i.e. they do not light up the left side of the road any higher than than the front. Flat headlights do not need beam adjusters. There are more and more low emission zones every year, I've found the best advice on the AA website as they have very clear country specific advice like this and links to all the sites you need to buy lez stickers, vignettes, toll devices, etc: Driving in France and Monaco | AA (theaa.com) My wife is from Slovakia so we've driven there every summer for the school holidays for the last decade or so (barring one pandemic year) so I have to do the research each year Other gotchas - dashcams: Austria doesn't allow them at all. SatNavs: France doesn't allow speed camera data. Vignettes: many are available online nowadays. LEZ stickers: take a long time to arrive and don't always turn up - order early* French tolls can be sped through with a device but getting one in the UK is a bit of a pain and you have to pay an annual fee even if you don't use it at all - you can pay with a contactless card which is as quick as you can get otherwise Simplest advice: always check the regulations for each country before you go *To avoid cluttering your windscreen with stickers buy some 3 inch/7.5cm round acrylic disks and attach the stickers to those then hang them on the window with clips: Disks: XIWENQUKU 10Pcs Clear Acrylic Sheet 0.04 Inch Thick Acrylic Plastic Disc Transparent Round Acrylic Panel Circle Acrylic Sheets Sign for Picture Frame Painting DIY Crafts (3 inch / 7.5 cm) : Amazon.co.uk: Home & Kitchen Clips: Wicked Chili 4x Parking Permit, Ticket and Note Holder for Car Windscreen, Clips with Removable Suction Cup, Avoid parking fine, Set of 4 (Made in Germany) transparent : Amazon.co.uk: Automotive

Just remember that any nutter can make a video and put it on youtube, that doesn't mean that it's at all factual

I'm venting here becasue I'm finding it annoyingly difficult to find some simple parts. All I want is a set of wiper blade refills for my 2008 RX400h. I managed to get them from the Lexus official ebay store last time but it seems not to have the passenger side blade anymore, and every other place on the entire flaming internet is only interested in selling my wiper blades by a variety of manufacturers I'm simply not interested in! and the last thing I want to do is take time off from work to go to the dealer parts desk only to be told that they're not in stock! Aaargh!

I'm curious about legroom, especially rear legroom, and in particular economical rear legroom. I'm assuming a second hand LS with the 'long' version has the most but they're also one of the most expensive, the long RX should alos be good but again, that's only a recent and costly option. So which Lexus model(s) gives you the best rear legroom at the best value?

Local Shell is dry (Sutton) and as the reserve light just came on I'm now officially screwed unless they get a delivery overnight.

There's plenty of places that will respray the alloys for a few hundred quid - have you considered that?

Do you accidentally have the 'easy in/out' button pressed? It's located near the petrol cap release and has some sort of effect on the air suspension. I always had it switched off on mine but I think it's meant to keep the air suspension lower to make it easy to get in and out of the car.

I had the cunning idea of fitting silver rimblades (rim protectors) to the 18" wheels so that they would look like a lower profile!

You can copy the details from here: http://www.toyotec.co.uk/contact_us.html

I can recommend Toyotec in Redhill, Surrey, I've been going there for years and always had good service and advice

I'm adding to this a bit late but are you sure you have your wing mirrors adjusted 'properly'? A lot of people set their wing mirrors to show the body of the car they are driving, but in so doing they create a larger 'blind spot'. Adjusting them so that you can't see the body of the car gives a much improved rear view, more than sufficient to do without the rear-view mirror. See this article for some good illustrations: https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a15131074/how-to-adjust-your-mirrors-to-avoid-blind-spots/ Oh and one word of warning the leather armrests on the rear doors are very easy to tear when putting stuff in so make sure to protect them in some way

I can recommend Russel too, I have been taking my 300 and 400 there for many years

Question re insurance. If you fit a non-oem replacement do you have to report the vehicle as 'modified' when getting insurance? and if you don't claim on the insurance are there any other problems later on?

Insurance question for the crowd mind/any experts out there: If I don't claim on the insurance as the excess is really high and get the exhaust pipe fixed with a 'universal' replacement are there any downsides? i.e. would I have to count the vehicle as 'modified' for any future insurance? Any other drawbacks? p.s. I've started nicknaming Boris 'Fluffer' as all he does is get a few members excited but then fails to follow through