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  1. The 10 plate USB one has got the front wheels on the wrong way round! and the white one has the rears on wrong🙄
  2. Well if you can post on a forum, I guess you can use Google and put in ‘Lexus’ ‘IS250’ ‘Manual’ and you will get something like this, https://d24bc9lyrt5en5.cloudfront.net/Customer-Portal-Admin/emanuals/LEXUS/OM53A88E.pdf
  3. Ok, if no one else is then I Gotta ask Why is new foam is required ?
  4. I would go for used also as it is not a known to fail part you will have to be really unlucky to have another defective one. And even if you did 33 is a long way from 750+
  5. So….went back to T5 on Sun night, obs a lot more traffic at 5pm so the figures are different but not so much to cry about. The tank Avg is down a bit but all time Avg actually up a bit😀
  6. Deffo a bit suspect, but I would remove belt and check smoothness of all pulleys in system and then run engine ( for short time only as no water pump or alt will be operational) with the belt removed, this will indicate if the noise is indeed in the aux belt system or not. so, you say ac seized. So do you now have replacement good ac compressor? If yes then when old compressor failed it may have put a lot of force through the tensioner and damaged it to how it is now ( if it is tensioner)
  7. Just curious on how ‘very broken’ this 250 is? I guess they never ran it dry of oil or you would not be thinking of engine mods. Bodywork?
  8. I would , dis-connect battery for a few mins, go fill up and then cross my fingers 🙄in that order😂
  9. That’s how a locomotive train can pull 1,000 tonnes+ with only a couple of square inches of actual wheel contact ( metal on metal!) with the rail because it’s weight is 100 tonnes+, if it were lighter it would just wheel spin even with 1,000+ HP.
  10. Took my daughter to T5 this morning ( admittedly it was 02:30!) round trip of 202 miles and even with J8-J6 closed, so a detour, I managed these numbers, was at a steady 76 for 90% of it.😳 Gotta go pick her up Sun ( Bank Holiday😩) night so let’s see if numbers are the same then, I doubt it🙄
  11. £2,000-2,250 it’s gonna cost more than that in Road Tax after a few years, £615 a year and not even a sporty car!😩
  12. You can see that one external hose goes to the long ‘dip’ tube and the other external hose just goes to cap. After a heat cycle of the engine the coolant in the engine ( whole system actually ) will cool and contract, this contraction will draw some coolant ( via the dip tube) from the ( non pressurised) external reservoir. If the reservoir is empty or in your case the system was trying to draw from the cap hose) then it is going to draw in air and cause your low coolant problem over time. There is no valve but direction of hoses is important part.
  13. Might be worth having all 4 wheels off and doing a through brake ‘service’ ie cleaning all pins and contact points and have a good check of everything else in each corner, it can only be beneficial👍
  14. Pretty rare for a HG to go on a 250, a 220 now you’re talking! ”P.S. Just make sure you actually have blown head gasket, it would be kind of waste otherwise. Head gaskets don't blow on these cars often and this must be 2nd case in over 8 years.” Linas.P so back down to 1 case then😀
  15. So……you don’t like 250 then?😂 but how you getting on with its big brother? 250 is plenty car for me here in UK where you get Hung, Drawn & Quartered for doing more than 10% over speed limit ( well robbed of £££££’s ) where in the world are you ( dking22) to be able to use you car to its full extent?
  16. Oh Ok, my bad🙄, thought it was a new one, only posted up 3 days ago, but obviously others are a bit quicker than me ( no surprise there then!) standing by to see the final outcome but not holding my breath for a easy/cheap fix😳
  17. Have you done a ‘search’ on this forum for key words of your symptoms? Cause you sure ain’t the first ( or will be the last ) to have a defective 220 engine🙄
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