jamesholden

My Dad went to a Toyota Dealer and asked for some of the proper Graphite Coated refills for his MKIV LS400, they came in a nice Toyota bag with Made in Japan written all over it and cost £4 each.

The rear ones are definitely tacky.

There's rather an easy way of telling where the car is made and that is look at the vin number, if it starts JT that means Japan Toyota, which incidently one in the UK would anyway as Canadian and Kentucky built Toyota/Lexus are all left hand drive.

It would be a little rougher since there is less 'cushion' between the wheel and the road as the tyres would be lower profile, handling might improve a little though if thats important to you.

The odd one does pop up on ebay UK, although I would think that a Denso Toyota key would work. Not sure if the Valeo key's for european manufactured Toyota's would work though. The Denso ones have a gold T logo on the back and Valeo ones tend to just have the logo moulded into the plastic.

I've used a small bodshop called Whitfields in Morley who seem pretty good. There a Honda and Toyota specalist. Ron Brooks Toyota sent mine there for a bit of warranty work and then I used them again when someone ran into the back of Camry a few months ago.

That's pretty rare, most snow mode buttons make the car start off in second.

Mileage is never the problem with a Lexus it's age. Toyota always said when buying a used Lexus to get new with high mileage than old with low mileage. You'll often find that the low mileage town pottered ones need suspension, brake and steering overhalls. The ones that are 5 years old with 125k on them have pounded smooth motorways at fixed speeds all there lives so are generally in better condition.

Yes. Had this happen a Micra my mother had about 8 years ago.

Not really my finest effort but it'll give you an idea

It wouldn't happen to be a Dark Blue one would it? If so, very nice and a decent price!

Are you sure that it didn't have the system fitted but not working like the above poster's as RX's without the SatNav had the dash below.

Not really had a Lexus as such (though my dad's had a MKIV LS400 for several years). 2000 - 1997 Nissan Primera 2.0 GX (My first car when I was 17) 2003 - 1998 Toyota Avensis 2.0 GLS Auto 2005 - 2003 Toyota Camry 3.0 V6 CDX

If it's hurting you around or just beneath your neck it is unlikely to be your seat but the way you are sitting relative to the steering wheel and pedals. It means your sitting slightly twisted or straining slightly when holding the wheel rather than sitting perfectly square, try adjusting the reach on the steering wheel.

You can get a disc from a Dealer, or this website http://www.lexus-mapupdates.eu/ Or if your not too concerned about having the most up to date edition the older ones sometimes pop up on ebay for quite a bit less money.

If it's got a big square screen in the middle of the dash then it has sat-nav. It might have crashed however if its not operating (happened in my Camry, take the fuse out in the engine bay and it'll reset) or you might not have the disc installed.

Someone on here will be able to give you more details but it must be Toyota fluid, you can't put any off the shelf auto box fluid in it.

I would go along with the comment above about it being cheaper to change the car. Whilst I've not been able to find the information for an IS250, Toyota do have a technical document showing the installation on a Camry, and it involves all sorts of things, removing the centre console, top of the dashboard, all the trim down the side of the drivers seat, including the seat itself, lifting the carpet, which in turn means removing the footrest. I would say thats why usually these things are stated as factory fitted options because there a lot easier to put in whilst the car is being assembled. Built in Sat Nav systems usually run at around £2000 so if you add that onto the cost of probably 5+ hours of labour and the risk of everything not going back together quite as it was originally I would say try something else.

98 MKIV 164500.

I've seen many Camry V6's (which are essentially the same car in 2 wheel drive form) with well over 200k on them, it won't be an issue!

Happened to me on Sunday aswell

I've looked into it and my Camry will end up in the new top band of £440 in 2009, I can't really afford to pay the extra, but it would cost me several grand to change to a car thats cheaper to run with decent spec so I might aswell just pay the extra £230 a year instead.

The auto boxes that Toyota use are some of the best in the business, i'm not sure if its still correct but a few years ago Toyota even claimed that they had never had to supply a replacement autobox for a Lexus. My dad's owned auto's for years, his current one is on 163k and is running fine, the only one he has ever had trouble with was an Audi 100 about 15 years ago. Don't worry about it, it'll be fine.

Sound advice, the number of times I have tried to emphasize this point that on big cars you want young with higher mileage, than old with lower mileage. A 10 year old 50k town pottered big bruiser will have more brake, suspension, exhaust and transmission wear compared to a nice looked-after 5 year old 100k motorway cruiser.

Are you sure you need to replace the discs already on a 2004 model? I had mine skimmed at around 50k when the first set of pads were changed on a 2003 Camry, not sure how much if any cheaper it would be though.