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Does look good!

Congrats! 5 weeks October/November, garaged, 2021 car with no problem at all. My tracker has a voltage display on the app - it got to 12.5 ish volts I think, started no problem at all- it’s a Lexus!

Latest article (I agree it's not the original post-BBC Watchdog statement) is here https://mag.lexus.co.uk/lexus-uk-statement-on-vehicle-theft/ They said 'from April' - and here we are. I might email my dealer again and see if anything has progressed.

As above, the actual numbers are irrelevant. It’s the feel, the experience. 20 mph in traffic in this GT can in some ways be as rewarding as 70 mph on a country road in other supposedly similar cars. It’s mostly down to the engine but the design, quality and so on also play a part.

If the dealer won’t include something to protect against canbus theft I’d walk away. And I don’t mean a twenty quid steering lock - tracker and immobiliser should be included on any used Lexus at this point, until the ‘April solution’ that was stated in their post-Watchdog press release is introduced.

They’re not ceasing production, just ceasing import into the UK/EU so maybe there’s a chance of a grey import? No idea if that’s still allowed, but the cars are still being made in Japan for the foreseeable future.

Anyone missing half an ES? Might repair with duct tape. Note Maersk shipping container in background. From Essex police stolen vehicle unit on twitter… again…

That is a quality issue. It should be covered under the warranty surely. Yours is, what, 5 years old? Yes it's a seal but it's not exactly a moving part that would wear like an oil seal for example. Diagnosis would have taken time but the repair would have been a few minutes.

You can't start most modern cars without the brake light switch working - that's a very easy DIY option. There's also the fuel pump relay if it's not a hybrid. Even the gear selector is electronic - cutting the earth feed to that would stop the car driving.

There's two new cars showing on Autotrader at Cardiff Lexus. Stockport were advertising one recently but that's gone. I agree - the total number of 2024 UK cars will be vanishingly small.

I have a cat S5 tracker that my insurers required and upgraded to include an immobiliser on that for another £100. Well worth doing. Ghost etc also works but all these solutions are invisible - I've also added a sticker off ebay in the hope the peasants will leave my bumper alone.

No 😁

Yep - my dealer emailed me back last week as I thought it worthwhile to try and get near the front of the queue : "Good Afternoon Mr Eight, As per the article you have highlighted, we are awaiting Lexus to advise us which models are affected. I have kept a log of your enquiry and will be in touch as soon as we have an update, Lexus have advised we should have this by the end of April this year."

Yeah, I've fitted the Etsy controller and can't tell the difference. I need to mess around unplugging the valves and see if that does improve it a bit. Sticking a custom made mid pipe on to delete the secondary cat is still legal I think - the GPF is upstream of that somewhere I think - cheaper than a full catback and maybe a bit more subtle than an Armytrix or similar. There are loads of youtube videos on different exhausts but all the american/non-EU stuff is still without the GPF which really doesn't do the engine justice.

Get some pics up here - you never know - selling to someone who 'gets' these cars already would make it easy. Pistonheads could be a possibility too.