Barry14UK

I suppose if your car was away while you were on a long winter holiday and safely locked away, you could leave alarm off or disconnect battery accepting what that would entail or best of all leave on trickle charge if facility exists. The only other way I can think of would be to couple up to another battery temporarily. I am not sure it would need to be same type and could be smaller to boost capacity for an extended period. In summer you can fit a solar panel but probably not sufficient for winter. It may be that you could get a friend to charge the car from the hybrid battery using the prescribed Lexus procedure.

Many years ago there were a couple of devices that are no longer fitted. I refer to a gear lever lock and a fuel cut off. Appreciate this would not stop crims breaking into cars but would make it more difficult for them to drive away so more likely to give up.

NFU seem to have come top of the Insurers.in terms of satisfaction for several years. The only thing is they have an age ceiling which I am above unfortunately. I thing I tried all the comparison sites on the same, as quotes can vary from one day to another. I found Ageas either the cheapest or next so in almost all cases. I have used them in the past without problem and they are well know. For some reason that I am unaware of, quotes for using them varied considerably between the comparison sites.

One can only speculate as we don't know whether the culprit(s) was/were suspicious that there was a tracker and wanted to disable this before leading to where it was intended to break the car for parts or whatever. Maybe he/she/they was/were interrupted or decided they it was taking too long. Access was obtained to the car and it was driven to where found so I don't think it was an amateur job. Taking het Dash came was logical because of what it might have shown but I think it unlikely to have been an opportunist as other items of value were not taken. It's academic really because it doesn't change the situation. If this model is potentially affected using the Can bus attac, it would seem worthwhile getting Lexus to fit the protective plate. Would be interesting to learn the cost of repair if OP prepared to say.

Maybe the US being a much larger market with vehicles covering greater mileages, there is a bigger turn over of spares8. Regardless, whether it's cars, car parts or electronic items of various sorts, invariably item for item it's more expensive in the UK than for the same item in the US.

I have read this from several sources and I have just linked to one. It concerns an aspect that many would not think about, but perhaps they should.

I think a lot comes down to individual opinion of Technician. My car has always [assed MOT's without advisories. However, on the penultimate service at Lexus main Dealer, they said the rear disks and pads needed replacing and they offered a price for doing it. I actually bought replacements intending to put them on (as I did the fronts a year previously). but due to my wife needing much more help these were not fitted. I was therefore expecting this to be mentioned when they serviced my car last year but it wasn't, just that the trailing arm bushes needed replacing with an offer to do that @ circa £1500. I will take a look myself when it stops raining and becomes a little warmer. If they still seem reasonable and get through MOT, I will leave for another year. Be interesting to learn what Lexus say at next service!

Told at Lexus dealer service last year my bushes were going to need replacing and was given a price circa £1500 so will be looking for less expensive alternative. Have to establish whether my car having air suspension has same trailing arms as coil sprung models.

haven't tried Halfords for pens but ton the two occasions I tried their shake cans for two other makes they were well out and I returned them. I went to the official dealers and the match was much better and I got the appropriate lacquer with it. So I would pay a little more and possibly get a better match or get somebody like chips away to do the job if you don't want to pay for a good body shop to do it.

Spare parts for Lexus I have found to be expensive and provide a good return for Lexus. I think as long as there is sufficient demand these will remain available, at least for regularly replaced parts. Certainly there are much earlier RX cars still in use and with a need for parts and some suitable components can be brought in from other markets. I remember a long time ago now getting what I was told was the last available sump for my 2.5 v6 Camry. This was shipped in from abroad but in need I could have got one from a breakers. Other parts for that car were still available.

We all know or should do, that best the time to get a competitive quote is around 3 weeks before renewal is due. So this is what I did using a number of comparison sites among others on the same day. Most showed Ageas as lowest price or almost lowest for their Essential and then their Standard Policy for me. However, what I find surprising is the disparity between the prices quoted for this insurer by different comparison sites, some of them quite far apart. Do the comparison sites apply a different mark up or do the insurers give them differential rates according to how much business thay attract for the Insurer or is there some other reason I wonder?

You could fit a separate unit as here https://www.roadangelgroup.com/collections/road-angel-devices. Depends on how much info you want, if a lot, some people go for subscription package but basic may suffice. Because I find Sat Nav so poor on my third gen RX, I fitted a 6" TomTom that gives side by side road limit and Sat speed you are doing with free maps updates and free camera alerts. They also do a 5" that has the same features.

My experience with Stainless steel exhaust components is that these are longer lasting but more noisy than mild steel originals. Having said that though some stainless steel replacements are made from thinner gauge or lower quality than others, so a good recommendation worth getting.

It should be a requirement for long lasting material to be used in brake lines. Flexible hoses have a particularly hard life and apart from noting obvious external cracking and stiffness can suffer internally. Had this happen on a car where the rubber had swollen so much that it had completely stopped the passage of brake fluid to calliper. Found this as I cut the pipe apart.

Don't know if all tyres are the same size/directional but if same size you could try transposing front and rears to see if that makes a difference. Assume wheels are being gradually tightened in prescribed pattern.