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Not as yet no,but I’ll keep an ear out.took it for a good spin straight after and didn’t notice any noise.

the one I’ve had is a plate and the fitter did mention the others that use a chain or cables to secure them being not very good.

Gone for it and had a catloc fitted at Lincoln Lexus,all done in under a hour 👍

Hi

had my f-sport for a few weeks now and love it.

As I’m new to Lexus cars and hybrids I didn’t have a clue about the catalytic converters being stolen and only just found out this.

is there anything i can do to prevent this and is my car at risk?

I’m impressed with mine🤷‍♂️
but that’s probably as it’s my first car with built in satnav,but we’ve been to a few places already in it and it’s been spot on,tested it against google maps on my phone.

its just this voice thing I need to work out and set up.

Don’t know,but I’ll give your suggestion a go tomorrow.

Not sure now about the premium nav,I’ll have to find out.

cheers I’ll give that a go👍

Weird I just don’t get a choice to click options,it’s just not there.

Nope still can’t find the voice tags

Same here

On 6/29/2020 at 3:21 PM, Thackeray said:

This was my experience too on the IS. I gave up for about 18 months before investigating again. I hope I can help you avoid the same experience.

The thing is, you were expecting voice recognition (as I was) and it doesn't have this feature. To do decent voice recognition you need a biggish computer or Google's servers. These cars don't have this, though perhaps some other Lexus models do. You may have experience with dictation software like Dragon Dictate or similar. With these, you can train it to recognise your voice and then it types what you say increasingly accurately as you correct it over time. This is also how live subtitles are done on television. The computer can't cope with the range of voices heard on the television so a subtitler trains the computer with his or her voice and then re-speaks everything that's said, using a single voice that the computer is then familiar with.

But the IS and as far as I can see the CT don't do this. That's why I ignored this feature for 18 months. However, it does have a much more basic feature, which despite being limited is nonetheless quite useful. This is that you can record the names of people on your phone contact list. When you've done this, it's actually quite convenient to be able to call them just by pressing the voice button on the steering wheel and then speaking the person's name. The number will then be dialled. It's actually a nice and useful feature. But it's not voice recognition as generally understood and there's a maximum of 50 names that you can record.

These recorded names are called "Voice Tags" which isn't very intuitive if you're trying to find the feature in the index of the manual and you don't know what it's called. So as so often with manuals, it's not very useful if you don't know what they call the thing that you're looking for. As I say, it took me 18 months to work it out. It would be nice if Lexus had a Documentation Testing Department but it looks as though they don't. So although the manual looks as though it ought to be able to help you, since they don't seem to have tested the manual on real customers, as often as not it doesn't.

 

Hi I’m still trying to find out how to access the voice tag feature,could you tell me how it’s done?

26 minutes ago, wharfhouse said:

See my post a few above - even at the "discounted" price this is still more (by a few pounds) than the official Lexus price on the Lexus website (and has the car had the first 10k service yet?) - personally I think they are pulling a fast one and would not be happy with their approach...

It’s had a Battery health check and a intermediate service on June the 20th and I’ve just done the price check on the Lexus site and that comes to £1055

thinkbi can live with that.

That’s the best they can do,they are saying they have got stick the Lexus service plan prices

Also got them down to £1079.50 for the service package,do any of you think that’s a good deal?

it does include it’s first MOT,free bulb fittings(except the headlights),free puncture repairs,free wash&vac.

Nice one i will check it out 

think I’ve been looking at the wrong YouTube videos on this subject,because there was an option to do voice training from the screen,but I’m guessing with him being American,it’s only in America 😁

Just downloaded the nav Manuel,nothing about the voice training.

no worries 👍

Hi

been trying out the voice recognition,but not sure where I can find the voice training section,if it as one.It just doesn’t seem to get what I’m saying also when I press the voice button it brings a menu up of things to say then another menu,I gave up.I was expecting It to just let me say something and for it to do it.

does it need resetting or any?

I’ve had a quote of £650 for all three,big difference from the Lexus garage

Right I get it now,I did notice it wasn’t always blue when the arrows where going back to the Battery,I’m getting it now 😂

And am I correct on the first question?

Right I see,so not really needed then.

ive been telling the wife to put it into EV mode whene she’s around town,and she said it does it it’s self,and I’m saying no you have to press it😂

she’s right as always😁.

That’s sound,so why the button?

Hi 

As a new owner I’ve just got a question about the Battery.

Am I right in thinking that when you are driving along and it goes into charge mode,is the car running on petrol or Battery? Just that it shows neither,just the blue arrow going to the Battery.

Also does the car automatically go into EV mode when doing low speeds?just that the EV light comes on the dash when I’ve not pressed it

thanks.

They have said two full and one intermediate,and no its no where near 10k

Got an email from Lexus Lincoln about their service plan,the quote was £1,132 for 2 full services and a intermediate 😬

is that correct? Just seems a little steep and doesn’t say anything about the Battery health check.