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The new one they sent is on and rock solid, need to make sure it's in the right position though as you only get one chance lol!

No repair work has been done, so I presume it fell off or was taken by someone. Still the nice Lexus salesman is getting me one F.O.C sorted 🙂

Hi Guy's I just wanted to confirm that there should be a Hybrid badge on both rear doors. I only have one on the nearside rear door. I have the forecourt pics pre purchase and there isn't one one the drivers side, so if there should be one I will chase the salesman for a freebie lol!

So cracked on and eventually made progress today albeit probably the long way round, as the nav book was of little help and refreshing DAB just came back with no signal. What I found worked for me was to go into DAB and select Manual, I then pressed the right arrow on the dash (between the Radio & Media buttons). Once it had searched and found a clear channel, I toggled right to the next page with the joy stick, selected preset from the menu and pressed and held down on the joystick and it preset that channel to number 1 I returned to manual, right arrow to next channel and repeated the presets another five times. Once I had my six preset channels showing on the preset screen and had selected one to play, I toggled right again and selected Stations from the menu this brings a drop down list of all the stations on whichever preset channel is selected. So even though it was a long winded effort from an old timer lol! I now have 6 preset channels all of which provide a number of station each and at the moment seem unaffected by the dash camera.🤞 fingers crossed

I think it is probably a set up problem as much as anything else. It only shows a handful of stations on a Hereford & Worcs channel, whereas the DAB on the Jag, lists Multi Channels and loads of stations. Of course the CT Nav book is about as much use as a candle in a storm for information on the unit, which seems quite common for Japanese produced cars. I think the books lose a lot of information when being translated into English, where many other foreign car makers tend to do a stand alone language publication. Too hot to sit out there and mess with it today but will try and get into it when I have a bit more time and patience, it's been a hard day and I need beer lol!

So our DAB radio seems a bit hit and miss, sometimes works great and sometimes no signal. I recently had a Nextbase Duo camera fitted and noticed when no signal and I turned the Cam off it came back on. Not convinced it is purely down to the Cam though as it had happened before I had the Cam fitted on a couple of occassions. FM is fine so happy using that but have noticed when travelling any longer trips in the XF that DAB seems more stable than FM. Any help appreciated, Thanks

In all fairness I wasn't really bothered about the rear cam it was just a bonus. The main objective was to record scammers diving on the bonnet or reversing into the car etc. The car is rarely used with more than 1 or 2 on board as it's the wifes run around. I use it for local use save getting the XF out which is not keen on the very short trips, but we both really like the CT especially it's no tax and low running costs, I think it will be a long term car for us. UTV!😄

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Thanks everyone for all the feedback. I decided to go with the Nextbase Duo and find the one unit up front with the rear Telephoto lense works well and keeps everything nice and tidy. Perhaps taking out the unused middle headrest would improve the view but I am happy with the results for now. The main thing is having the camera in view to deter any cash for crash scammers. Halfords labour for fitting and hard wiring into fuse box cost £10 so that was a done deal.

I have been thinking of fitting a front & rear dash cam system to the CT200h. Looked at the Nextbase Duo which has some good reviews but am a bit concerned that the rear is viewed via the front mounted camera instead of a seperate rear mounted unit and as such may give a restricted rear recording. Any members having fitted cams, I would appreciate any feedback. Thanks

Keep getting the Beep! Beep! warnings when the Sat Nav Is on, it can be a bit annoying when travelling the motorway. I have now discovered, although no mention of it in the Sat Nav Handbook that it is the static speed camera warning. Pity Lexus didn't build in the option to turn the volume down or cancel the warning, or did they??

Considering the cost of AA home start etc. Less than 250 a year is great value

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Lol! thats what wives do I tried to steer my wife towards a Civic as I liked the fold up/fold down rear seat. I thought it would be nice to be able to stand the golf club bags up, instead of knocking my car interior around. Sadly she saw right through me and bought the one she wanted, but I have no complaints and she loves it. I think it helps with her new saving the planet fad, we are now having our milk delivered in glass bottles and avoiding plastic wrapped food

Agree the Ct200h just voted most reliable car, no road tax for pre 2017, and great economy, completely different market, a reliable low cost second car. By comparison the IS250 is very thirsty, high road tax and only 204bhp. I think it was termed a 6cyl with 4cyl performance. Having said that it is a sweet looking car with the Lexus edge to it and still a lot of upside. I think Hybrid & Electric will be the way forward for Lexus.The Japanese tend to look for better engineering & reliability over performance, just my 2c

Not at all Chris, always thankful for any help offered.

Sorted it, I tried pressing down again on the rotary knob while in map and it enabled movement to the compass icon. Pity they didn't state that in the manual

Hi Chris My problem is getting on the Icon to click it, turning the rotary dial doesn't take me to it nether does moving it side ways and up. I will try again later Thanks

Thanks Colin I had already seen this post but it didn't help without the Vid. Fingers crossed I have now PMd JLexusT in the hope he will send it to me :-)

I suppose it is comparing apples with oranges, the CT is great as a city/short trip car where emissions and fuel cost come into play, easy to park and easier on the eye and a bit different from most of the other hatch backs. I have never been able to quite put my finger on what market the IS was aimed at, like all the Lexus range it has plenty of kerb appeal and the Lexus quality goes without saying. It still didn't tick many other boxes though with high vehicle tax, limited rear passenger space, thirsty petrol engine and at 204bhp a 6 cylinder motor with 4 cylinder performance. I think now it has been dropped and the IS300 hybrid is on board with similar performance and only 30% of the running costs the IS250 will be available at bargain prices for the astute buyer

Just picked this up for my wife for similar mile usage she is loving it, we had to strech to £13,700 but the facelift Advance has a few upgrades and it came with front and rear park assist and sat nav. It had 33k on the clock and came with full Lexus approved 1 year warranty which includes Lexus Assist. I also added another 2 years Lexus warranty with Lexus Assist for the price of 1 year £495, I figured the RAC/AA at home cover with the same benefits would cost me close on £300 for 2 years so the extra £195 for total warranty for 3 years was a no brainer.

Just got the wifes Ct200h and I have spent about 2hrs reading the how to's etc but cannot find a way to get the cursor on the top left hand screen compass to change the orientation from North up screen to Heading up screen. Am I reading this wrong somehow? any help appreciated Thanks Norman

I have a Jag XF R Sport 3.0d as my main driver and as we all know Diesel and petrol only cars are about as popular as square wheels at the moment. My wife has just bought a 2014 CT200h Advance front and rear park assist sat nav etc. I went up to Lexus Liecester on the train to pick it up and was very impressed with the drive home. The upside is great fuel economy, Zero road Tax for life as long as you buy pre 2017, it has just been voted car of the year with reliability of 94% and only very minor faults reported by the other6%. Residual values are very high and Lexus add another year warranty on the hybrid drive system each time you have the yearly health check which shows how confident they are in the system. Great looking hatch back and no problems going into the major cities when next years pollution charges start lol! Still hard to get my head round the silent low speed running when on battery and the sat nav isn't the easiest to sort out. It will not get the adrenalin pumping performance wise but is on a par with most similar sized cars, I think it will be a car that grows on us more with use, and when I look at the overall yearly running costs

Thanks for the quick reply, are the part numbers for the 2014 facelift model or the 2013 pre facelift ? Any idea of cost?

Hi everyone my wifes picking up a 2014 facelift CT200h Advance 34kmls Lexus approved etc. as her daily short trip driver. Having looked around I was contemplating if changing the front grill to the nice honeycombe style thats fitted to the F Sport might be a possible mod? Visually it looks very doable but was wondering if anyone knows if there may be more complicated issues at play? Thanks for any feedback