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Going forward I will be servicing at Lexus to keep up with my full dealers history but I will always get the advisories checked by my local garage and never do the work from them.

This is a wierd end result. The mechanic put my car on the ramp to check the leak and was left confused 😕 . He said there isnt any leak on the rear diff! I couldn't believe that so he called me under and I seen it for myself. He wiped all around the pinion seal and it is dry as a bone. I asked about the oil all over the top of the under chassis and he told me that looks like someone has sprayed grease up there and that it didnt smell like diff oil. Another thing I found odd is that I received a reminder email from Lexus telling me I have outstanding repairs on my car, funny thing is there was no mention on the "urgent repair needed" which was the diff oil leak and instead told me to bring it in as the tpms sensor was missing 🤣 even though I had a aftermarket sensor installed a year ago and there is no warning light lit up. I have now lost all trust in the Lexus garage I have been using for 3 years and wanted to ask if anyone else has experienced imaginary work from Lexus.

The cost of pinion seal is £36. Total price with 2 litres diff oil and washers is just under £80 so dealers labour charges are ridiculous

I asked a mechanic I know up who works exclusively on hybrid cars and he said hes done afew of these and told me to get the diff pinion seal from Lexus as the copy parts tend to leak again so ill give Lexus a call tomorrow and see what the seal cost. He told me it should cost under £50 so we will see. I will keep this thread updated for anyone else that runs into the same problem

Thanks. I will give them a call

Thanks for your suggestions. I think I will get another mechanic to have a look before getting anything done.

Hi guys I took my is300h in for a routine minor service to Lexus and one of the issues discovered according to them was that the the rear differential pinion seal is leaking and requires a change at a cost of £540. I wanted to ask if anyone on here has heard of the diff leaking oil. It has been 2 months now since my service and the car is in daily use with 80 mile daily commutes and parked up over the weekends and have not noticed any oil on my drive. What I find wierd is that in the video that was supplied to me from Lexus, it looks like the oil has sprayed upwards. Last year I had the major service which includes the rear diff oil change so I am wondering if it could just be as simpe as being overfilled and spraying out of the filler cap? Like I said I have kept an eye out for leaks but nothing at all on my drive so wondering if it really is a leak or are Lexus just after some £££

Thanks. I will give that a go

I have an annoying issue with my 2015 is300h and wondered if anyone else experienced something similar. My left headlight occasionally flickers when switched on but it never stops working. It just flickers and keeps on working. It's been doing this now for over a month. Recently it got to a stage where it would happen more often so I decided to put in my old genuine osram bulbs (I am currently using genuine Osram CBB bulbs for over a year now) to see if the bulb was faulty. Weirdly the right bulb started flickering with the original bulbs. So I swapped the ballast from left to right to see if that is causing the issue, still the right side is flickering with the original bulb. So far I have switched the ballasts around, changed both bulbs, checked the battery (showing 12.25v) so that's not the issue. Anyone got any ideas of what can be causing the occasional flicker?

Thanks, I guess that solves that. I am still going to try to source the wiring loom to connect to the cluster. I will update here if it worked or not.

Yes it could be a premium nav feature. Could someone with basic nav confirm if they see the navigation option on their cluster.

I think there is meant to be a navigation icon in the cluster options which mine hasn’t got. Wierd because my car comes with navigation and I checked the back of my cluster and I have the blue connection.

Also does anyone know if the other end of the cable plugs into the screen or the headunit?

This is the connector located on my cluster that is missing the cable.

I tried setting a destination but it doesn’t show junctions in mine. Your cars probably got the plug connected on the back. Do you have basic sat nav or premium?

Hi to all, just joined this forum after purchasing my 2015 Lexus is300h Executive edition in Sonic Titanium Really enjoying the experience and getting used to the hybrid drive. I have tested afew different prius and auris and this is a totally different drive to them, especially in sports mode. The problem I have is that I have noticed my sat nav isn’t displayed on my instrument cluster, I have read that there is a blue connector at the back of the cluster that connects to the navigation system so that it can communicate. It got me thinking if it would be as simple as getting the wire and connecting it up myself to get the navigation to show on my cluster or is there more changes needed?