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Driving this afternoon with the radio on, all of a sudden two massive loud bangs. My first thought was something had hit the screen, but then followed white noise from the stereo which was unbearable.  Phoned Lexus who gave me the probable diagnosis of it being the amplifier which in their words ‘isn’t a cheap repair’  He said previous customers have refused to have the repair done such was the cost. He wouldn’t give me an exact price as they haven’t seen/heard the issue yet (that’s booked in for Tuesday).

 Googling the problems I’ve seen the cost of replacement as being astronomical, anyone else had the same issues, or know of a cheaper alternative fix. 
 

Thanks in advance. 

On 9/18/2019 at 9:05 PM, MattK9797 said:

I've had my IS300H F-Sport for nearly 3 weeks now.

And it's so smooth! And quiet, and comfortable with best seats I've ever had in a car, and it steers so nicely, and the handling is great. I think the suspension is the best possible compromise between comfort and body roll. Switching between petrol power and electric is seamless. And I've averaged 46mpg since I've first put fuel in.

It picks up Planet Rock Radio on DAB. This is important to me and this is the first car I've had that will do that! It also streams from my Deezer app on my Andoid phone perfectly, giving me song info and album art.

The audio isn't the best. I think it's just the basic 6 speaker set up. Needs more bass. But I think I was spoilt on my previous car because that had a Bose system and it was superb. I might investigate what I can do to improve the bass without hacking any of my interior.

And I've found out how to turn off the audible warning for excessive speed via the road sign awareness. And that only took me week! 🤣

I'm still learning the car. Because it's just so complicated, but that's par for the course with a high spec car these days I guess.

Anyway, I'm really pleased with my car. Can you tell? 😁

 

Pulse and glide my friends!

Had my F sport now lost three weeks, like yourself loving it. Still finding out new things about the car, love the massive spec of the car which is miles above what I previously had. Currently only got an average of 41mpg, due to the fact of using the sport mode a lot.  The Mark Levinson premium audio is outstanding, never had a sound system that comes close to it.  

Just got the windows tinted as it felt like a fish bowl to be honest, and think it’s made the overall look much better.  The slight negatives I have are the cup holders when a passenger and your elbow falling in them, and getting used to the indicator stalk. 

Collected a 63 plate is300h F Sport yesterday. Took awhile to find what we were after, and a few problems with salesmen which made the search longer than we bargained for, but extremely happy after finally going to collect it. Now the task of fathoming out how everything works. 😀

New to the board and I’m looking for some advice regarding the IS300h. I have a RX300, 2004, which I bought off my dad when he himself got an IS300h two and a half years ago. I’ve just got rid of the RX300, solely down to the fact of the fuel economy and have been looking at IS300’s. 

My trouble is trying to fathom out the spec on the different models, am I correct in thinking Premier are the better between them and the Executive/Advance models? Currently thinking about a Premier or the F sport model, but it seems F sports only come in half leather/half cloth trim. Looking at a max spend of £16500. 

‘Any advice appreciated thanks.