kiltyboy

Thanks for the comments. If I'd known this car wash was going to behave as it did, I would certainly have chosen to tuck the mirrors in (it's a manual decision on my IS250 - you have to press a button to do it). As it is, I'm wondering if it's water ingress into the mirror housing that caused the temporary non-functioning of the proximity unlocking. I was just concerned that the forcing forward of the mirrors might have damaged some cogs or gears - I just don't know the detail of the motors/mechanism. Thankfully everything seems to work now ( mirror adjustment , mirror folding....) the only thing I haven't tested is any defrosting capability - though the weather now may give a chance to test that too !

I took my 2007 IS250 through a car wash yesterday, and, unlike any other car wash I have known, when the rollers started heading forward, they did not reverse the direction of rotation when they got to the drivers door , but continued to effectively drag the brush strands from the back of the car to the front, which pushed both wing mirrors forward....When I went to complain about this, the guy in the filling station said "...oh...yeah....it sometimes does that..." and immediately laid his hands on the form to register a complaint about it !!!!! I had to go to a funeral, so had to just wrench them back into the right position, though they felt very wobbly at that point. When I next restarted the car, there was a click sound from the wing mirrors, and they then seemed to "jump" back into position. In what may, or may not be related, the sensor that detects the proximity of the key, and allows the doors to open by just putting your hand in the door handle, seemed to stop working, so I had to use the fob buttons. However, later the same day, that seemed to start working again. Has anyone experienced something similar ? Are these self healing ??? regards Kiltyboy

I work in audio, and there is astonishing variation in the technical quality of music available online, so the good news is that it's probably not a fault with your car's music system, but more likely to be poor production and mastering, or over-zealous data compression (how they make lots of detailed audio data fit into relatively tiny files...). So don't panic ! I am taking delivery of my first Lexus this weekend (2007 IS250), and part of my test drive procedure was an extensive test of the audio system (it's a Mark Levinson upgraded system). Tried it with 2 or 3 different types of music, and have to say it was rather impressive....