Alan Partridges Left Glove

I've got a semi-solution. When I have people in the car, I time a cough or a sneeze when coming to a stop this masking the braking noise. So far I've managed to pull it off and as a bonus, a work colleague bought me a packet of Lockets. (Result)

On my journey home tonight I've managed to stop a few times without the noise happening, the best way so far is getting the car down to around 3 MPH then opening the drivers door and putting my right foot on the road. Please don't try the above with sandals on as it stretches your sock out of shape after a while.

Interesting, I might have to mention this to the service dept at Lexus Chester.

My thoughts exactly. Got my car washed yesterday and for the short journey afterwards the grind,squeak was gone. Alas this didn't last that long. I'm finding it worse when parking in a space where small, slow movements are required. An old friend said for me to put a load of butter on the pads but I don't trust him as he knows I don't like butter and I'm on a diet.

Read somewhere else on the net about running the brakes in by braking hard from 60 down to 5 without allowing the ABS to kick in. Do this 5 or 6 times should speed the bedding in process (and also make you look like you can't drive)

Update: Garage confirmed that this is normal and is emphasised more due to the quietness of the engine. Engineer spoke as if this has been reported by every new owner of the IS300h and confirmed there is no long term fix. Lexus kindly offered me a 30% discount on these as a gesture of good will.

The noise when creeping sounds like what I'm experiencing but this never happened with the one I had for my days test drive which had less miles on the clock that mine does now. Bracing myself for the "that's normal" line now when it goes in this morning. The MPG I can live with, I suppose I was just a tad tittylip that my new car had to visit the garage so soon in its life. I'll update this post with the garages findings just in case other new members have the same noise.

Thanks for the advice.

70 + on a motorway is not good for MPG!!, I'm doing 80k over 3 years with probably 75% of that being motorway mileage.

After having my Volvo S40 D4 R Design for 3 years and 80,000 miles without a visit to the garage apart from servicing my 2 week old Lexus IS300h F Sport has to go in to the garage as the brakes are binding/grinding when coming to a complete stop. It even happens when I take my foot off the brake to move forward. It's getting to the point where I'm trying not to come to a complete stop at lights as to avoid the noise. I love the drive don't get me wrong but with the issue with the brakes and not being able to get above 45mpg without driving like Miss Daisy, I have to admit I'm not that impressed. Maybe after my brakes are sorted the love will return. (It's got to as I've got the Lexus for 3 years now)

Shoes, nobody said anything about having to buy her shoes. [emoji6]

Brilliant and yet quite straight forward when it's pointed out to you. Thanks for your help.

I must admit, the DAB in the Lexus isn't the easiest to navigate. Don't judge me but in my last car I listened to Radio X but my new IS would not find this in the found radio stations. I fumbled around a while and stumbled across it while in the manual search mode. As for signal, so far it's been flawless with no drop outs or loss of quality. (Cheshire area) I've a journey down south in a week so I'll see how it copes with the location changes.

Yeah, found that and had a play with it. I was hoping it would let me have this information where the "Trip" info is on the main dial but pressing the button on the steering wheel and watching the dial slide over isn't a bad thing I suppose. While you're helping, is there a law about putting your 2.5 year old child in the boot while driving as I'm already p'ed off asking her not to get dirty footprints on the back of my nice shiny leather seats. [emoji16]

Thanks for the response but I'll be b***ered if I can find where to set this. Note, I've not got sat nav so maybe that has something to do with it.

My IS300H F Sport was delivered to me on Friday and I have to say I'm over the moon with it. Coming from a gear changing diesel burner to the IS is a breath of fresh air. Although this thing moves when required (sports mode) and stand up for itself in Normal Mode I've all of a sudden lost the will to want to rush everywhere and now just cruise effortlessly from place to place. One thing I've tried to sort out but I'm failing miserably is in all my cars, I like to have my tank mileage range on the screen at all times. Other than selecting this when the dash dial is over to the right I'd like to be able to have this shown while the dash dial is in the central position. Is this possible? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Oh, and the synthetic engine noise which I thought I would just set in the minimum position has grown on me and every now and then I like to crank it up a little.

Great introduction. My Black IS300h F Sport arrives on Friday next week so I'm going through Y fronts like they're going out of fashion. I've the Protection Pack on mine so no doubt I'll have these on mine as well but hoping on the black it shouldn't stand out as much. Happy driving pal.

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If we get a few of us de-badgers together we could be called a "Chavalanche" Enjoy the car pal

What happened to Alan Partridge's right glove? I also love the look of that Peugeot, not often I would say that about a French car! What have they got under the bonnet? 2.0 td Heavy car with not much umph. I like my cars unbadged so I guess for the first time in my life I'm a Chav. Not bad considering it's taken 44 years to get the title. ;)

It was a great car, I was one of the first in my area to have one so it got a lot of attention. It also came with free hair straighteners.

I'll be removing mine from my black 300h F Sport when it arrives, like others I just like the clean look.

If you have an iPhone and can get a picture of the back of your car, download an app called "Retouch" it allows you to remove details on photos. Used correctly you can remove a badge from the car to show you how it will look before taking the plunge. Below is one I did for my RCZ before getting it de-badged. Note: the black logo was done with Plastidip spray which I'm sure all know of.

No, think it's the last of the 2016 models. (Probably put together with the factory leftovers.........:) ) Funny, they did say if I minded having a steering wheel from an Austin Elegro.

Mines pretty standard really. Wasn't a fan of the sat nav on my test drive day and always had Tomtom so happy to stick with that. Standard stereo as this was better than the stereo in my current car and couldn't justify the additional cost. All in all, just happy they've sorted my F Sport out.