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Hi everyone, has anyone ever had an air noise or whooshing sound coming into the cabin when accelerating. I don’t have any management lights on the dashboards. The car also seems to be using more fuel. 

Hi everyone, I’ve just gone to start my car and it’s completely dead, I’ve noticed the red light flashes on both key fob when I press the buttons on it. Help 

Hi everyone, I’ve recently noticed that my 250 has started to make squeaking noises when I’m going over speed bumps, or drivin on uneven road surfaces. It’s actually quite loud and it’s really annoying. It’s a 2011 f-sport. Has anyone else experienced this, and could tell me what the problem might be.

 Thanks everyone, 

john

Looks great 👍🏻

Are the stories about e10 wearing the fuel lines out really true. If so what’s the best additive to use. Or better to stick to super unleaded.

thanks 

Hi everyone, is it possible to get spare parts for the inside of my key fob. The small plastic housing for the Battery won’t stay clicked on to the circuit board so the connection is then lost between the Battery and the touch pad. 

I reckon if you post up your car specs, condition and service history summary - I'm sure lots of people will help you value it.

I generally use the prices on Auto Trader as a guide, in terms of year, mileage, spec and history.

Hi admin, would it be ok to get a general option from the members on here on how much I would get roughly for my car. I’m not looking to sell on here. Thanks.

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I would just buy two new osrams. Even if I bought OEM, I would personally replace both as a pair because the colour won't match as the other bulb would have aged.

Now it's time for some new bulbs. If upgrading to the Osrams make sure you change both bulbs

No problem, keep us posted on how it goes 

I haven't used the Osram's myself, but by the packaging one is Night Breaker Laser ad the other just says Xenarc which is there brighter technology which the night breaker one has. So could essentially be the same thing. The one on powerbulbs is very good price if you buy a pair you get the discount plus if you are a new customer and subscribe to their newsletter you get a further 20% off.

Original bulbs? probably still too early to tell. Just let it run as long as it can and when bulb starts giving issues then swap it out. I would just buy a pair of new bulbs and have it as backup. If you are changing to osram then swap it as a pair.

I really doubt it's the ballast. I've worked with many Lexus models with D4S bulbs and all these symptoms have always been bulb issues. Ofcourse there is no guarantee that it isn't ballast, but all the experience i've had with it tells me it's the bulb. Furthermore, if it was the ballast then the offending ballast will still continue to do the same thing when you swapped the bulb. The fact that it's working temporarily on both sides means the other ballast is seeing the faulty bulb as not yet faulty but will soon see it as it begins to deteriorate.

I have a 2006 IS250 SE-L which 've owned for 13 years. I have worked on IS, GS, CT and RX models

I really doubt it's the ballast. I've worked with many Lexus models with D4S bulbs and all these symptoms have always been bulb issues. Ofcourse there is no guarantee that it isn't ballast, but all the experience i've had with it tells me it's the bulb. Furthermore, if it was the ballast then the offending ballast will still continue to do the same thing when you swapped the bulb. The fact that it's working temporarily on both sides means the other ballast is seeing the faulty bulb as not yet faulty but will soon see it as it begins to deteriorate.

Had to dig out the invoice: From Powerbulbs.com
 
Looks like they've come down in price and with a multibuy discount a pair is £65.98 inc delivery. I paid £93.98 in Oct 2018 [emoji20] 
https://www.powerbulbs.com/product/osram-xenarc-d4s-mercury-free-single-xenon-hid

I had exactly the same issue about a year ago and di exactly what you did, swapped the bulbs over to check if it was the bulb or the ballast resistor that was fault and I even got the same result. The faulty bulb worked for a short time then died.
After some research I bought Osram bulbs as when they arrive they have a code you can put in on their website to check they are genuine.
I seem to recall I paid about £100 for the pair.

I don’t know if you’ve done the deed yet, but I’ve just replaced the HID main/dips on my IS250 with the new D4S Osram Xenarc Night Breaker Next Generation (!) bulbs.  I think they’re a significant improvement and well worth the investment.
Driving around our narrow, potholed country lanes is now a much more comfortable experience.  Previously I would even put the fog lights on to get a better view of the near side verge.  The new bulbs now provide a much better defined and brighter light just on dip.
Main beam is similarly improved.
If you want to be sure about sourcing them, the Osram site lists their distribution partners.  I used Autobulbsdirect and their service was excellent.  I hope this is useful.
 

No problem, keep us posted on how it goes 

I would just leave it and wait and see just to be sure. 

If that bulb is just on it's way out then it's current draw etc will fluctate in certain ways. The ballast will read this. Each ballast will have a slightly different tolerance of this and what one ballast may see as a faulty bulb the other one may not see straight away. If you leave it like that and the bulb is truely faulty then the bulb will continue to deteriorate and eventually the other ballast will also pick it up as faulty. Usually a bulb on it's way out starts deteriorating quite quickly. Had this issue on a friends 2012 RX450h too, he changed the bulb over and he said it was fine but I could tell there was a slight colour difference on the faulty bulb which is also a sign.

That happened to me a few times with the aftermarket bulbs but then after few days the ballast detected the bulbs issue again and started to turn the bulb off. Once it took over a week before the other ballast saw that bulb as faulty. It's the ballast that turns off the power to the bulb when it thinks something isn't right.
Ofcourse there is also the chance that your original connector to the bulb wasn't on properly but if this was never touched I wouldn't think that was the case.

Keep in mind they coming from Germany so may take a little longer to arrive with everything going on right now.

Swap them plastic clips out for fender bolts, you'll never need to replace and just undo with an Allen key