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    Herbs
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    RX450h Luxury
  • Year of Lexus
    2018
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    Lancashire

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  1. A very slight inconvenience but hardly a deal-breaker. I rang my insurance company from the Lexus showroom before driving off in my new pride and joy when we bought this car. All done and dusted in minutes.
  2. I'm almost certain that it's for the USA and not the UK/EU markets. 'Connected Services' does such things as automatically calling the emegrency services if you're involved in a collision and suchlike.
  3. Every time a battery goes into a deep discharge (deep enough to need jump starting) it suffers a bit of damage that lowers its capacity, which means that on its next charge it can't take as much as it did before. If you don't use the car often enough to keep it charged then ideally you need to connect the battery to a trickle charger. A 'standard' charger will quickly squirt about 5A in if needed but a trickle charger does exactly what it says on the tin - it trickles a small charge in all the time, keeping the battery charged and ready to go when you need it.
  4. The only thing I would say is that the seller has zero feedback score. It could be that he's only just opened an eBay account and we all start at zero, but...
  5. Thanks Stephen, much appreciated my friend.
  6. I would happily do it for you Stephen but I'm out of the game (and reality) at the moment due to Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS). They've been successfully treating it with Pramipexole but that drug causes augmentation, which means that it becomes not only ineffective, but also augments the original problem and makes it much worse. Because of this they're changing me to Ropinirole, but I have to taper off the Pramipexole first. I'm not tolerating the withdrawal well and now I've got DAWS (Dopamine Agonist Withdrawal Syndrome). The only way to alleviate the sensations of RLS is to move the legs, so 50 of the last 57 hours have seen me just wandering up and down the house, shuffling from room to room. Lie on the bed; sit in a chair, doesn't matter; less than one minute later I'm off again. It's just taken me about 30 minutes to write this post so I'd probably end up blowing the car up if I tried changing the battery for you
  7. No need to criticise, that's a perfectly good way of keeping all settings etc., and is a method that been in use since I started my apprenticeship back in 1974. No need to use jump leads either as you're not cranking the engine, only a few mA to stuff that needs it. Basically, a bit of bellwire and almost any 12V source would do the job.
  8. What is this sorcery of which you speak?
  9. That should be fine. As you say, an earth strap is an earth strap, nothing special about it.
  10. Welcome to the club Philip. I'm certain that you'll get more responses in the proper UX group so never be afraid to ask as many questions as you like. Above all else, enjoy - and that goes for both club and car
  11. These, along with other units like them, are very easy to install - they're just plug and play. All you do is to unplug a connector from the factory unit, plug it into the new one, and then plug in a harness from new to factory. It's basically a process of 'teeing in' the new unit between the car and the factory unit, so instead of wiring going from car > factory unit it now goes car > new unit > factory unit. The most difficult process is getting the trim off and getting to the connectors in the first place, which is where YouTube comes in. No matter what you're doing, whether that be plumbing, painting, changing a water pump on the car, fitting a new laptop screen or whatever, someone will have done it before and uploaded a 'how-to' video to YouTube that you can follow.
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