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Edited to add, how cold should the AC be ? Having not long had the car, I do wonder if the AC could benefit from a recharge.

Bingo ! Just sat in the car with the AC on coldest setting and yes I can feel cool air coming from the back although as has been said, it is more noticeable when not actually pressing your back against them. Still, at least I now know there working. Thanks.

I take it by your answers that there should be air blown out of the backrest as well as the seat. Strange that I don't feel it on either front seat and I would not have thought both seat backrest pores would be blocked when the seat bases are not. Further investigation called for methinks.

I have ventilated seats on my IS250 SEL and although I can feel cool air through the base of the seat, I don't seem to feel anything through the backrest. Is this normal ? I would have thought it would be obvious to cool seat base and backrest.

Tried this with the spare fob for my IS250. Walked up to the car and touched the door handle and got in and the car started. I assume if it did work, then I wouldn't be able to do either.

I bought two front Pagid coated discs and a set of pads for my IS250 from ECP when they had a flash offer of 50% off, total cost £78.

The F sport grill looks so much better to my eyes than the standard IS250 grill.

Do the led puddle lights fade on and off like the ordinary bulbs ?

I don't know if this helps but I had the same problem with my other car which is a VW Bora TDI. I bled the braking system a couple of times, always ensuring that the fluid exiting the calipers was clear of air but I could not get a hard pedal without pumping. That is until I discovered that the master cylinder had a bleed nipple as well. Fitted the bleed tube and opened it up and out gushed a load of bubbly fluid. Brakes have been fine ever since. Maybe your Lexus has a similar bleed nipple or maybe not but worth checking.

If you buy an extended warranty, I presume that you are then locked into having it serviced (expensively) at a Lexus dealer? If extended for two years, then 2 services which could add a good few hundred to the equation..

I think it's a high price given that it does not have the Multimedia system or the Mark Levinson installed.

Re the sparkplug change. People forget that the schedule I think is 60k miles or 6 years which ever comes first. I bought my car from a Lexus dealer with just under 58000 miles and was sort thinking I would have to do them soon. Checking the service printouts that came with the car showed that the previous fastidious owner had had them changed at the 6 year mark so a bonus for me.

Check the basics first, spark and fuel. I would pull one on the spark plug coils and put in a spare plug resting on the engine to earth it and see if you have a spark. If yes suspect the fuel system and check the fuel pump relay etc. Call out your recovery company if you are a member of one.

Have you tried one of the various vinyl repair people? Examples. http://www.trimtechnique.co.uk/index.php/services/dash-plastic-repair/ https://www.leathercareandrepair.co.uk/leather_repair_examples.php

Those pictures are obviously taken from a monitor screen. I think this dealer gets offered cars from other dealers and eulogises them in adverts while slapping on a healthy profit. Personally, I think the price is way too high, you would just be paying extra for his next exotic holiday !

Tell him to stuff it ! There will always be another one that turns up eventually.

Mine was a pre facelift.

I forgot to add that the car had 9 service stamps, all from the supplying dealer and the car had had the plugs changed at the 6 year service so it does not need them changing at 60k. They also serviced it before the sale to me !

Just for comparison, my car bought two weeks ago from a Lexus dealer was £7495. It's a 2009 SE-L Multimedia Auto but one of the last pre facelift models.57000 miles, Argento Ice with beautiful virtually unmarked grey leather interior. They put 2 new rear calipers on, the last and only owner had had the wheels refurbished and had replaced the rear silencers and y pipe. !2 months MOT and a year of Lexus + warranty which includes breakdown and Lexus assist. They also paid for a new battery when I pointed out that it was pushing 10 years old and a bit weak. So the moral I suppose is, don't automatically assume that a car from the Lexus network is going to be overpriced and a bad deal.

With regard to bluetoothing contacts, I think it may depend on your phone. I tried to send the whole of my contact list with my Cubot Manito which runs Android 6 and I couldn't do it except one at a time. However, trying it with my old Moto G which still had my contact list on it, I could transfer the whole phonebook in one go. Moto G is running Android 5. On the Galaxy, if you go to your contacts list then import/export from menu, can you not share namecards via bluetooth and the select all ? I know I can on my very old Samsung Galaxy S2.

I had approached the Lexus dealer who sold me the car and after another experiment last night playing around with the MM system for 20 minutes or so which led to the car not starting and chattering on the solenoid, they have agreed to reimburse the cost of a new battery. I was under the impression that the car was an approved used car and the warranty for that states that wear and tear items had a 3 month warranty, however my car has the lesser 5 year + extended warranty which is not the same. Lesson learnt ! So, new battery to be fitted by a different Lexus dealer on Friday but another bonus is that having a look underneath at the exhaust system reveals that the back section with the two silencers is almost new. Going back to the MM system causing the battery to go flat, you would think that with all the clever electronics on the car, when the battery is discharged to a certain level, either the car would switch it off or warn the user that to continue would mean the car would not start.

Sill light fixed! I thought I would pull the non working sill plate off to have a look underneath and voila! the connector, for whatever reason was not connected. Just pushed it back together and it now works fine. Just the battery to sort out now. The approved used Lexus warranty does state that wear and tear items including the battery are covered for the first 3 months of the 12 so I can't see why they would not replace it.

Just had a look at the number which is 200708 so presumably a July 2008 battery. Guess its end is near.

Yes, just like that one but because it's in the holder I couldn't see the Panasonic logo. If I read the approved used warranty right, it should be guaranteed for the first 3 months.

Not sure if it's a Panasonic but it a clearish/white case with a black top with a yellow sticker and a Lexus care sticker with a phone number to ring for my nearest dealer if i'm feeling a little flat LOL!