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Are you sure the phone has mirrorlink? I have a Huawei P10 and I thought it was the only Huawei with it. Believe me though it's not worth getting it working, it's dreadful. Rockscout is a poor way to run spotify (bluetooth is infinitely better) and the Sygic Satnav was hard to control without a touch screen. Here is my post from 2017 showing it working but I've tried rockscout several times since and it still drops out constantly https://www.lexusownersclub.co.uk/forum/topic/112603-new-sport-mirrorlink-works/?tab=comments#comment-1007276

They haven't said no forever, HR just need to think about the rules. What happens if you miss a meeting because you didn't have enough charge? Should you be able to claim the 3p a mile Government rate but get to charge your car at work etc etc? Full electric does open up HR headaches which I can see. So at the moment PHEV is the only plug in electric allowed for now.

I was aware but again it's full electric, company said no. I really wanted a Model 3 Tesla, PHEV is a compromise.

Our modern thinking company have said a blanket no to full electric cars for now. Haven't even quoted for a Lexus this time, I'm leaving for the new Volvo XC40 T5 Twin Engine Inspiration (PHEV). Quoted 22 weeks by Lex Autolease. I've loved the drive of the IS, hated the infotainment and it will be a shame to move on, but quite looking forward to the XC40 PHEV and Android Auto finally 😝

Been quoted 12 weeks lead time on a Model 3 Tesla from Lex Autolease. If I can swing it as it's pretty expensive I will but I will most likely be moving to a PHEV this time (I swap in July) this is my 2nd IS300h but I won't be back again. Infotainment aside (it's shocking) the Self Charging Hybrid is no longer a viable company car option as the CO2 BIK rates are through the roof now. My first 300h was 12% we are approaching the mid 20%s now.

Ditto on my second IS300H and have had both premium and standard nav and both as dreadful as each other. I certainly would not pay to update them. I use TomTom on my Android phone just because I prefer the full map on the device rather than google and waze that download as your go (yes I know you can offline the route).

It really isn't obvious, but yes start with BBC and save a couple of favourites you should then be able to find all on the BBC Multiplex, then once you do finally pick another nationwide station on something like the D1 national multiplex again bookmark it. You can then usually manually search all the other stations on that multiplex with your Media Dial. Lovely car absolutely dreadful infotainment experience.

I have them and they are more a gimmick than a safety feature. They are too late switching off so you are going to annoy a lot of oncoming cars. So I tend to leave them off and use them manually.

Pre Facelift models were Mirrorlink 1.0 and it only came when you didn't have Navigation of any sort. With the Facelift models everything with Standard Nav has mirrorlink and it is now version 1.1 This is important because Mirrorlink 1.1 locks your phone out when in use. Checkout my post when I got my current Sport, I have it working fine, but its an absolute bag of nails. https://www.lexusownersclub.co.uk/forum/topic/112603-new-sport-mirrorlink-works/?tab=comments#comment-1007276 Sygic for Satnav is awful, even the standard Nav is better, and Rockscout for Spotify should be a winner but I have yet to get it to play a song all the way through without it cutting out for a few seconds. So I just gave up and use Tom Tom on the phone and Spotify over Bluetooth. I tried 3 mirrorlink phones too, my current Huawei P10, a HTC M9 and by far the best of the bunch was an old Samsung S6 but it's just all far too buggy.

GDPR should stop that now, and what's that I can see? is it those pigs flying by 😡

The only bug that really annoys me with the USB is if you stop the car while playing USB and forget to restart the track when you next start the car it reverts to track 1 folder 1 on the USB Stick. I swear every-time I forget. The only work around I've found is just start the playing track as soon as you start the car (sometimes a couple of times) and then it can normally sort itself out, you know when it will work when the mini dash screen shows the track info again.

The USB media is OK but I think it struggles a little with the ID3 tags embedded into the files. In the end I pretty much stripped all my files of theirs and rebuilt with very basic info Artist ; Album ; Track ; Track Number ; Genre and I also changed all embedded album art to 120 x 120 size. With each artist name as the First folder on the USB stick and then just a single folder for each album under this. After doing this the wheel navigation on my standard infotainment works fine. Can View happily via Artist ; Track ; Album ; Genre etc and you always get the correct album art and not those awful gracenote pictures.

Yes, almost a total disintegration of my tyre on a dual carriageway. Couldn't even use the gunk not that I even attempted to do this. It probably is the luck of the draw as mine is a company car so the AA came to recover me and took me to Kwik-Fit in Grimsby. Probably took 90 mins from the first call. Different story I guess if that was at night rather than in the day, but I still won't buy a spare or space saver. I also once drove from Stoke to High Wycombe with a puncture, didn't travel over 60mph and stopped at every service area to pump up. Now that one was at night, but luckily I was stopping on a service area hotel so managed to limp around to the petrol station there to pump up for the final 10 miles of journey direct to Kwik-Fit where I left the car and went to work. Forgot to say, I also have a 12v inflator in my boot at all times. Just a Halfords special.

Android Auto / Apple Carplay And who knows we may even eventually get it https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/15/16892804/toyota-lexus-apple-carplay-2019-models-avalon-naims-detroit-2018

Mirrorlink update 6 months on. I now have a Huawei P10 which has mirrorlink, but I only use it for spotify integration. Unfortunately Mirrorlink 1.1 locks the phone out so I only use the mirrorlink when I am happy to use the in built navigation, usually when not bothered about traffic and then the phone ends up in the glove box just doing spotify. Otherwise it's tomtom on the phone on a vent magnet and I just use bluetooth to stream spotify but can't really change the music without looking over your shoulder. It is still buggy, with pops and crackles and pauses but it is better than 6 points touching the phone to change songs. Still feel it's a massive compromise for this level of car. I had a Fiesta from the body shop not long ago and even that had Ford Sync which was Spotify on the Head Unit. Never bothered with the sygic subscription, was £60 for car connectivity and even the Lexus Standard Nav is better

One of mine disappeared too, but I found fake aluminium ones on fleabay for a few £ too, I think £1.99 for 4 delivered, I just ordered these, nowt a man on a galloping horse will notice

My 14 plate SE went back with about 110K on the clock and no issues whatsoever, changed to the Sport now and almost wish I was back in the SE. These Sport Alloys are like putty and I miss the 55mpg I got from the SE. Plus I had premium Nav in the SE, the current standard infotainment setup is pretty basic.

I really notice the difference in downgrading from the 8 speaker Premium Nav in my old SE to the Standard 6 speakers in the new Sport. I'm far too much of a chicken to attempt that though, I just turn up the volume to hide the inadequacies

Thanks, yes I got it up to 48/49 on Eco this week without even trying hard so it will make the difference, but I put it back to normal it's just too lethargic, you might as well call is SLUG rather then ECO , will take the hit on normal.

Tell me about it It's like driving the wife's 1.1 Hyundai , just want to see what it does for consumption to satisfy my curiosity.

I'm going to try a week on ECO and see if its any better, but boy does it knock back the performance. It's going to have to be a massive improvement to make me stay on it.

Cheers, sums it up perfectly thanks. I was just curious, only done 2000 miles so it should improve after the first service. Sent from my SM-T810 using Tapatalk

Calling all boffins! I'm probably after a bit of a physics lesson? Since moving from my SE to the new Sport and 16" to 18" wheels I've lost 7mpg. I got metronome 52mpg in the SE but now barely 45mpg in the Sport. Identical driving styles, nothing flash and steady 75 on the motorway, but a lot of motorway. I know this doesn't seem a lot, but its 100 miles less from a tank of petrol. Tight northerner and all that? This is summer too, will loose another couple of mpg in the winter. Anybody care to explain the physics?

Only having the camera now, I'm amazed how much I miss the beepers on my sport. Wasn't paying £600 just for rear ones, no idea why Lexus dropped front beepers altogether? Camera quality is ok though, always a pain in the rain, but just then have to old school reverse. I know 1st world problems.

Alas I'm android so don't get the cable music experience, bluetooth only for us but that is good enough. I have a 64gb USB stick with a lot of music on, but when I just want a random shuffle I will use Spotify over bluetooth. I am really disappointed with the phone bluetooth in the new car though, that was one thing that worked perfectly in the old car. Now no matter where I am the first 10 seconds we have un-audible dalek speak which settles down and then happens again at various intervals if a long call.