Herbie

If you use the search facility in this forum (good luck because it's abysmal) you'll (hopefully) find that a couple on members have successfully done this and done good writeups with photos. EDIT: Colin Barber posted the links to the one I was thinking of (BrightonRX300) and it's the second post above this one.

No personal experience of these but https://www.cartronics.co.uk/case-studies/Lexus-amp-repair have been mentioned in the past. I'm sure Google will come up with others too.

Thanks mate but we're all sorted now, or will be within the next four weeks. We found a brilliant bungalow, we had an equity release mortgage all set up and ready to go - and then because the property was empty at Christmas and we had that really cold snap, one of the pipes burst and wasn't discovered for about three days. The seller's insurance company are dealing with the repairs and the builders have a contractual deadline to complete the works no later than 9th June, so hopefully we'll be able to move in within a couple of weeks of that date.

Some of the increase will be due to your little accident but most of it will be because of recent CAN bus attacks resulting in the RX now appearing in the list of top 10 stolen cars, straight in at No.6

I don't know for sure but I would be surprised if it referred to anything other than tyre pressures. Check pressure in all 4 running tyres and also the spare and if that doesn't do it, I reckon it'll be one or more of the batteries in the sensor(s) that needs changing.

You can't do anything about it so don't worry about it. I'm not sure if it's a coding issue in the programming of the vendor website (Toyota?) or SagePay's website, but either way it is a coding issue on a server so their guys are the only ones who can sort it.

Watch this: https://www.facebook.com/100044556472483/videos/194681890138963/

Just been back on Facebook and saw this, so a happy ending for the owner of this one at least:

Someone called 'Aden Shomefun' on the Facebook group 'Lexus Owners Club UK' has just posted this in the last few minutes: Found this parked up in East London. Obviously stolen. Chassis number ends in 7013. Anyone missing an RX?

Absolutely, good call. Here's the info about the lights, copied from the MOT Inspection Manual:

One other thing to point out is that the car's own wifi modem (the one that sits under the floor of the boot as Paul said) is SIM-locked to just one provider, which is, I believe, Orange and it's quite expensive (high price for low monthly data allowance). Nine times out of ten, using your phone as a wifi hotspot and using your monthly mobile data allowance from your network provider is both cheaper and more reliable (better coverage) than using the OEM system. I'm on Sky Mobile and they let you carry over any unused data allowance from one month to the next and there's no limit on how many times you can roll it over. I've got just over 100GB in my mobile data piggybank at the moment because I've not been using the car as much recently due to a health issue, but it shouldn't be long before I'll be giving Android Auto a good workout

You could have solved the hyperflash problem with a resistor which would have been cheaper but nothing wrong with replacing the flasher relay either. Unfortunately, the headlights are a bigger problem. It's an instant MOT failure (Major) if the bulbs don't match the housing. If the headlamp unit is designed for halogen lamps then it must be a halogen lamp in it. If it's designed for HID Xenons then it must have a HID lamp in it, and if it's designed for LEDs then it must have LEDs in it.

You have a 2022 car so you should have (or be able to get) Android Auto or Apple CarPlay on the infotainment system. These are amazing apps and allow you to do all sorts of things, including watching Netflix, YouTube or even live television on the car's screen.* However, their main use for most people is to be able to use other mapping and navigational systems rather than the OEM offering. The mapping, navigation and in fact, the whole infotainment system has long been the Achilles' Heel of Lexus and it's all rather poor, so using Android Auto or Apple CarPlay allows you to use Google Maps, Waze (my own personal favourite), Sygic or other maps, even in conjunction with What3Words if you wanted to. Lexus map updates are both infrequent and expensive, whereas these other apps are updated regularly and free of charge. There are too many benefits of using Android Auto/Apple CarPlay to list here, so https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=how+to+use+android+auto+in+car will give you a good understanding of how it works and what you can do with it. I use my phone as a portable hotspot to tether it to AA/ACP and give the system Internet access. *These three examples will only run when the car is parked up, so as not to distract the driver.

Presumably your car comes with Android Auto/Apple CarPlay? If so, forget the Lexus navigation and use What3Words combined with either Waze or Google Maps. W3W uses a 3-word reference (such as can.mouse.table or washing.fire.cardboard) to pinpoint a location and is so accurate that the 3-word reference for the front door of your house will be different to the one for your back door. You simply get the 3-word ref for somewhere and then you get the opportunity to choose which mapping app to use for the actual navigation. In your case, of course, when you get to a place that you want to save, you simply open W3W, it gives the ref for where you're stood, and then you just have to save it to your favourites.

The way we do our holidays is not to plan anything and just go wherever the wind takes us. In the past we've stayed in Bratislava, Piestany, Banska Bystrica, Kosice, and others. We love that part of the world (including Czechia and Poland) and we've found some amazing places with such lovely and friendly people.

I know I post this whenever someone mentions getting their car into the garage and I'm just not having it. If this guy can do it, so can you

Just tape it on to the new battery in approximately the same position. However, before going and spending money on a new battery I would first of all charge your existing one overnight at least. Secondly, this message may not have anything at all to do with the 12V battery anyway. You need to have the OBD codes read to see if anything is flagged and you also need to have the 12V battery load tested. I wouldn't spend any money without knowing the results of both these things first. Once you have the results, come back for more advice.

Tell it to 'forget' the car wifi so that it doesn't show in the list of available networks.

Many years ago we used to have to apply for a "Green Card" which extended comprehensive cover for driving in Europe. Then the EU made a ruling and no green card was necessary, you only had to notify your insurers that you were going and that was it - comprehensive cover in the EU. Then the UK left the EU and a Green Card became necessary again. All I have to do is ring my brokers, tell them when and where I'll be going, and they issue said Green Card, which is usually valid for up to 30 days. We often spend time in France, Belgium and Germany as we drive through to our main destinations of Czechia, Poland and Slovakia. We use A-plan Brokers and I think the policy this year is with LV or Ageas; I can't remember which, but I can say that we never have a problem getting comprehensive cover for where we want to go.

Sorry Bill, I honestly don't know as it's a job I've never had to do. I only know what I've picked up in these forums.

No one is talking about replacing the headlight Dess. This is the self-levelling system and sits under the car somewhere around the rear offside wheel if I remember correctly - never had to replace one myself so not exactly sure. The self-levelling motor is on the headlight assembly but the OP specifically said "sensor". Just find a YouTube video about it.

No, I'm only talking of the cost of the parts. I believe it's about £600 or just over for one brand new air strut, but only about £1,000 or slightly more for a brand new set of four coil struts.

Take the opportunity to change from air to coils - you can get a whole brand new set of coils for not much more than one air strut.

If it's the electrical part of the sensor there's plenty here on eBay If it's the mechanical linkage part of the sensor there's plenty here again on eBay.

Superb job Hazel, well done As the saying goes, "Where there's a will...there's a relative"