Steve Oliver

11 hours ago, ColinBarber said:

It's a nice feature, but pretty standard across the industry. Audi, VW, Volvo, Tesla, Land Rover, Honda, Mazda, MB, BMW, Kia and probably a dozen more all have this.

Except the Land Rover ones will fail of course... 😂

1 hour ago, subria88 said:

Must say, the L E X U S across the boot instead of the badge is a bit... odd and a change from the leaked video

I think it makes it look very prestigious.

36 minutes ago, ColinBarber said:

The series II NX is to be revealed Sat 12 June:

https://www.lexus.eu/car-models/all-new-nx/reveal/

Here's a taste:

At last! Excellent! With A 10 year warranty too. What's not to love?

41 minutes ago, DanD said:

See this thread:

 

Missed that! Cheers

https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/toyota/355133/toyota-launches-groundbreaking-10-year-warranty !!

I have to unlock the car first, then press the tailgate button...

2 hours ago, ColinBarber said:

That is not the reason. The CT and RX have the same design.

The RXs that have been targeted do not have the same design as the NX, that is why they are targeted. The cat on the targeted cars are very simple to access and right under the centre of the car. You can see this in the many photos that have been posted of the missing cats. Also the RX is higher off the ground, making the theft quick and easy.

Yep!

The same motoring journalists who love to recommend Land Rovers without taking any consideration whatsoever of reliability. There shouldn't be a recommendation in the world that puts forward a Land Rover, yet they do, over and over.

5 hours ago, Alan305 said:

Same as mine, as you say, back to the handbook.

That is a setting, I remember seeing it....

4 hours ago, paulrnx said:

My first NX had the convenience pack. Always thought I could go into the house and make a coffee whilst the rear hatch closed 🤣 It always felt way too slow for me. Coupled with a charging tray I never used but which restricted my access to the useful storage under the armrest, I specifically ignored any NX that had this feature when I bought this time around.

The one thing I do particularly dislike about an NX300H is the almost complete lack of performance. Sure they are ok in isolation when driven normally. Long motorway runs or fast A road trips which maybe require a bit of overtaking of slow moving lorries etc, are less ok. I counter this by always driving in Sport mode on these roads but this only makes the car barely adequate.

Luckily my driving is mainly short commutes and slower A road journeys due to 50 limits and congestion. If I was to ever go back to driving 25k miles a year with plenty of motorway and dual carriageway driving, I think she would have to go 😀

You'll be looking forward to the 450h then!

51 minutes ago, BigcheesePaul said:

So after owning it for approx 6 months, here’s what niggles me (love the car otherwise):

1. No where to rest your elbow when driving (previous car had perfect door card height for that). Elbows just ‘hang’ which is tiring on long motorway journeys (yes I’m getting old!)

2. Boot opens so slowly. Wish there was a way to speed it up.

3. What’s the point of the EV mode button? Just hovering your foot over the accelerator is enough to disengage it. 

4. Does the battery meter for the hybrid ever show all full bars. Mine is always 2 bars short. 
 

Cheers

Paul

Hi Paul,

1. Haven't noticed that at all!

2. I haven't noticed this either. It's the same speed as my previous car I'd say.

3. To prevent the engine starting, eg. First thing in the morning just to warm up. It doesn't stop it starting under normal conditions where it would anyway, like when you put your foot down. Not very useful I agree.

4. I've had it full bars a number of times, particularly after coming down long hills.

👍

1 hour ago, ColinBarber said:

Sure

https://www.lexus.co.uk/owners/about-my-lexus/my-lexus-portal/lexus-link#features-table

 

🙄 Missed it by a month ... 

47 minutes ago, ColinBarber said:

It is dependant on the age of the vehicle. For the MY2020 NX you get full LexusLink functionality so you can see the charge state of your 12v aux battery. That would be quite useful for a number of people who have suffered flat batteries during Covid lockdowns due to lack of use of the vehicle.

Really? Is this UK spec, Colin? 🤔

And I had the presentation room too...

11 minutes ago, Phil Catterall said:

HI Steve

Thanks for the very useful tips on the driving aids - much appreciated. I hope I can achieve your fuel consumption with mine when I get it, 37.6 according to your Fuelly script, that's excellent. Will be reporting back after my journey next week. After driving cars for almost 50 years I cannot recall so much anticipation in getting a car as for this one, having said that I've never paid out so much for a car as I have this time. Put it down to lockdown, no holidays, no clothes nothing to spend our pension money on for over a year, so we decided on buying a Lexus.

Best wishes

Phil 

I'm pretty much the same in the excitement I had for this my first Lexus and most expensive car I've bought. My dealer made it wonderful though, while I was waiting for delivery of my NX, he sent titbit videos and quick flash photos of the car to keep the excitement going. He was absolutely marvelous. Ryan at Chester. Best salesman I've ever dealt with.

8 hours ago, Phil Catterall said:

Lexus NX Driver Assist Systems

I’m really looking forward to catching the train to Cambridge in 8 days time to collect my one-year-old Lexus NX-300H Premium Sport. To familiarise myself before driving the 185 miles back to my home in North Yorkshire I’ve been studying the 580-page Manual, downloaded from the Lexus UK website. I haven’t yet looked at the 308-page Navigation and Multi-Media manual.

The extensive driving support systems on this car are sophisticated and significant. I wondered if current owners find these systems useful and vital safety features, or are they a significant distraction, bleeping or flashing up on the display at the slightest indiscretion by the driver or producing false alarms for no apparent reason?  If this is the case, I imagine drivers may well disable some of these driver assist systems. Maybe some just take all the driver assist systems for granted and simply drive the vehicle as they would any other car without these features?

1.    Dynamic radar cruise control – having already had a car with this feature I think its great and will certainly be using it.

2.    RSA Road sign assist – does this function work well?  I am aware it is also installed on Toyota cars.

3.    AHS Adaptive High Beam System – this system seems to assess the ambient light and your speed / direction of travel on the road and then controls the headlight light distribution and intensity accordingly.

4.    Automatic High Beam - if this works reliably it must be very useful. My understanding is on unlit roads you can leave your headlights on main beam and they will automatically dip for approaching vehicles.

5.    LDA – Lane Departure Alert with steering control – something I’ve never had on a vehicle, seemingly the car steers itself without driver intervention when it believes the vehicle is departing from its expected line.

6.    LTA Lane Tracing Assist – Seems to work in a similar way to LDA by following white or yellow lines in the road to keep the car in the middle of the lane.

7.    PCS – Pre-Collision System – A radar sensor is looking ahead of the vehicle and will apply greater braking than the driver applies or will apply the brakes irrespective of the drivers’ actions if a collision is likely, to help avoid it or to reduce the impact. This sounds like a really good safety feature providing that with sensible driving it only impacts on the vehicle when absolutely necessary.  

So - what do NX owners generally find useful and safer to leave on and what do some owners turn off?

I also read somewhere that I may be buying a “Connected Car” sounds interesting and is something else to be investigated….

Best wishes

Phil

Hi Phil,

Congratulations on your purchase, you'll love it 😊 I have a 2019 NX F Sport with all the features you're talking about. I love tech so I don't switch anything off and I don't think any of the features are annoying in any way and they certainly don't keep going off erroneously or anything (unless you have a fault, which I'll come to!!)

1. Yep 

2. RSA Works really really well, sometimes a little too well, reading speed limits on the back of vans 😮 otherwise you can pretty much rely on it to tell you the current speed limit accurately.

3. and 4. Adaptive High Beam system, you basically leave the high beam switched on and the car will switch the headlights on when it's dark, dipped until it's both dark enough and you're traveling at over 42mph, when it will switch to high beam. The 42mph limit is frankly a pain as you typically need it on at low speeds too especially down little country lanes. It will then deactivate again at below 30 something mph (can't remember the exact speed but it's lower than the activation speed). If, while on high beam, the car detects headlights or tail lights ahead, it will deactivate the part(s) of the main beam that would blind the driver of that vehicle or vehicles. That's the theory and it largely works very well and cleverly, but sometimes I get flashed and I think it can react a little slowly. Or, the other driver has already flashed thinking you're not going to dip the lights, but do. Not sure. Some say they've seen NXs blind them, so the jury is out. Nevertheless I love it.

5 and 6. LDA, yes it does, a little, it just pulls you back into line a bit, can be a bit irritating sometimes so I tend to leave it off unless I'm on the motorway. Then put it on for safety.

7. Yes, never had it activate so far, thankfully.

The only problem I've had is the front parking sensors, as you may have read in other threads, if you have the problem, they go off erroneously in the rain. THAT'S annoying!

Don't get excited about the Connected Car business, as it really doesn't mean much, you can send a route to your car for the sat nav but if you have Android Auto or Carplay it isn't very useful. The Americans have full remote control but we don't get it unfortunately. 😕

Hope that's of interest, will be interested in your thoughts when you've tried it all out. Enjoy!!

Steve

Cheers, Phil! 👍

4 minutes ago, First_Lexus said:

^^ This may be something I hadn’t realised from the discussion thus far. To clarify my understanding, if this upgrade is performed and I don’t attach my mobile telephone with a cable then the current oem Lexus system - navigation, Bluetooth etc. - remains entirely unchanged?

That's correct! 👍 And if you do plug it in at some point to try it, you can always stop using it just as easily.

11 hours ago, First_Lexus said:

My car can have the upgrade, so I do have a choice. Logic is simple - I don’t really like technology, find the existing system fine and don’t need any additional functionality. If at some future point I sell the car, a new owner can have the upgrade.

Personally, and having looked into it, I don’t see the point of spending £80 on something I don’t feel I need, and the dealer information about what it adds, reinforced that fact.
 

And that's fine, but I almost didn't buy my NX because it didn't already have it, and at the time there was no expectation of a retro fit... I have now spent the £80 and am overjoyed at having access to Android Auto, the brilliant Google Maps and all my music accessible in the car.

4 hours ago, Grumps said:

My NX went in for its 3rd service and first MOT last week. I asked if they would do any updates available. Dropped off at 8.30am and at 12.30pm received a phone call to say that it was ready. To my surprise they had updated it to Android auto. All good.

I was telling my Son about the update and he recommended looking at Indiegogo  when it becomes available. Indigogo has been previously mentioned in an earlier post and interested to see the results.

Yeah, I've "contributed"to that too... delivery in April hopefully.

A YouTube channel to watch..... something happening in Japan on March 26. Could be the new NX...

https://www.autoindustriya.com/auto-industry-news/what-is-lexus-launching-on-march-26.html

https://youtube.com/channel/UCoZ__FLgIBd1GW9scv-mLfg

1.

I think you'll need a Green Card now for driving in Europe, from your insurance company.

1 hour ago, Ed659 said:

Parking Sensor issue...    So on my second service I mentioned the issue to the service reception again..   I was told, 'it is  known issue and that Lexus are aware of it but it was inherent in the model'    Well, that's was a red flag to me.   I then wrote to customer relations at Lexus through the Lexus website indicating my dismay at my buying an inherent issue!  I received a phone call from Lexus UK customer relations saying I would receive a call from the after-sales manager at my Lexus dealership, I did too..    so my car goes in tomorrow for ALL front sensors to be replaced... (where the issue shows as being the problem) and the car is going to software updated with latest info from manufacturing..   so lets see if works and I don't have parking sensor issues indicated while in the outside of our local motorway systems in the future         

Totally agree with your perspective!!! Well done, I wonder if there is really a software update that works for it!?