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Back in the ‘90’s I used to deliver cars for Eurodollar rent-a-car and the new Ford Sierra/Shapphire at the time had an inertial switch that was fixed in the spare wheel well that in the event of a severe rear end collision would cut the supply to the fuel relay. This was fine until you had a puncture and used the spare ( full size alloy) wheel and then chucked in the flat tyre/wheel that you have just removed back in the wheel well and knocked the sensor into cutting the fuel supply off!!! Numerous times the AA would be called to a punter who had a crank/no start after sorting a puncture themselves to simply push the reset button in the middle of this solenoid in the wheel well to get the car on its way!

Need to check oil level I guess🙄

Battery temp sensor wires?

If you have always used ACC and then revert to ‘Normal’ CC then have your wits very about you😳 

20 hours ago, BigDingus said:

One thing I haven’t seen anyone point out. 
Your mirrors won’t tilt when reverse is selected if the power switch is in the central position. Left or right mirror must be selected on the door panel.

Really…..

What this problem?

Any components with wires attached should be replaced with OEM only or you could get into a world of pain

Try this eBay item No 254278351048

The 10 plate USB one has got the front wheels on the wrong way round! and the white one has the rears on wrong🙄

So why are they labelled Not for Highway use?

L-SB-0016-10

LSB001610.pdf

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Ok fine I’m out of here!

7 hours ago, Shahpor said:

Not everyone has a manual, especially if the car has changed hands a few times and it has got lost along the way.

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
 

Ok, if no one else is then I Gotta ask Why is new foam is required ?

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+

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😀

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)

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? 

I would , dis-connect Battery for a few mins, go fill up and then cross my fingers 🙄in that order😂

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.

Prob dirt then that may be moving around🙄

If you could find one! 😀

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🙄

£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!😩