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Let me quote Dolly Parton: “It costs a lot of money to look this cheap” If you want big wheels: https://dymag.com/videos/

In 2005 Toyota had Japanese direction here on the island. I had a MR2 Spyder then and service was just great. Old replaced parts were placed in the car. Next to Toyota there was a big imposing Lexus workshop, and I suppose same management. Now a Spanish company has the service of both Toyota and Lexus in the same place where before only was Toyota. Service is lacking. Never finished at the time promised like it was in 2005. Replaced parts (windshield wipers and cabine filter) were thrown out and not possible to know if they were actually replaced with new or just washed. Lexus was once and should still be a fantastic car with a perfect service department, but I do not believe it is going the right way.

Beautiful car. Mark Levinson audio. Steering wheel is in wrong side.

Suppose it is a typing error. 7 4 are so close to each other on a standard keyboard that registration date probably should have been in 2017 or model year should have been 2014

If running lights are on top or not is not important. Important for light is how they light up the road when driving at night. LED lamps are far better than halogen and HID. Does the new lamps have LED on both high and low beam? Have read somewhere that the CT lamps are all same size but do not know if that is so. If correct anybody that want the running light up can buy the latest model.

A question to a question: How can a car supposedly built after summer holiday in 2016 be registered in 2014? I really enjoy listening to music playing in the Mark Levinson audio and all the other extras in the luxury/premium or whatever they call it around the world. Hope you find the answer somewhere else.

Thank you, John

Some could profit from a mid-life update. But getting fit is a lot harder than keeping fit. This is what helped me when I retired from a job that mostly meant sitting on a chair in front of a computer with a phone in my hand. The mountains here are beautiful.

If you put cold air from air-condition in it, it could give you a bit more power as cold air has less volume than hot air Would increase fuel consumption too.

What is that? Mountains here are maybe different to many other places. Most Tour de France teams come here to get mountain kilometres in the legs for some reason. The MPG is not because the temperature is low here. We have about 20° C in the night.

Reset and fill the car with V-Power from Shell and going a tour in the mountains. They are beautiful now that summer is here again. Coming down to town and seeing that consume is 8.1L / 100km. Car is great and Lexus tell me all is in perfect working order, so hybrid is not for driving in mountains. Golf 2.0tdi DSG was consuming 6.5 on a similar tour.

Hi, and welcome to the forum. It seems that everybody were so interested in solving the paint question that nobody took the time to say welcome. You are in the right forum for getting answers to all kind of problems, no matter the size of these, so congratulation choosing a well built car.

Lexus hardware is great. Lexus software - not at all. Maybe manuals and explanations have been translated from Japanese to Chinese and Korean before translated on to English so nobody understand anything.

When temperature is very high it cools down really fast. Here heating is not the problem.

Air condition is keeping the car dry even in wet winter months and though it is costing a bit in fuel it is worth it. Here in summer we have temp setting on 25° C in order not to have too big a difference to going out from a cold car to our rather high daily temperature. Too big difference between in- and out-temperature can get some people to get sick.

It is a moon-roof because there is no UV protection in the glass. Have installed Llumar 99% protection for when we are driving in the day.

Catlock is a great thing for Lexus to get work and to let us pay for something that will delay a pro 5 - 10 seconds.

The chemical process electrolysis can "store energy". And this can be used to make even better use of wind power, for example. If we do not use the power produced in the water- and wind turbines – such as at night, when the power demand is smaller – it is practically lost. "It's great that more wind farms are being built, but when we don't have a way to store the power, we have to build extremely many before we start covering our energy needs during the daytime. The transition to sustainable forms of energy will be much faster. In addition to storing wind energy, electrolysis cells also form hydrogen, which can be used as fuel for trucks and trains, among other things (cars). Though hydrogen fuel cells for many seems the only possibility to use hydrogen in cars this is not really the best. Most combustion engines can be converted to using liquid natural gas and the companies doing this can convert these engines to burning hydrogen instead of LPG. Nothing can be compared to the sound of a well-constructed and -maintained combustion engine, not necessarily loud, just good. Electric cars – not at all. Material for batteries are not sufficient to be power plants for the cars we have today and in winter batteries deliver less power and they lose capacity after some years, a well-constructed combustion engine can last as long as it is maintained. Want to see an electrolysis cell: https://nyheder.tv2.dk/2022-04-30-28-aarig-forsker-hyldes-for-sin-klimaopfindelse-troede-naermest-ikke-sine-egne-oejne https://www.atenaweb.com/world-hydrogen-2022-awards/

Drive through wash, vacuumed and wiped off water droplets. 5½ year old car looks like new.

northernstar said it a bit loud, but I too find that wind deflectors do not make the car look any better. What good are they anyway? AC is consuming a bit power, but driving with open windows also increase fuel consumption.

Do you know how much you paid for service and extended warranty in the almost 10 years you have had it? And did you wear ear protection when blowing the loudspeaker or now have permanent tinnitus?

Only those in power. I do not know anybody that not primarily will take care of their own interests. It is only real bad when they hurt other people and then they risk like what happened with many dictators. Does this have much to do with "Fuel panic"?

Did you forget that owners of tobacco companies and liquor distilleries are in the bad peoples group? Anyway! Fuel panic is now down to the price of the drops. Here now 2 weeks with same price so we better get used to it. China is locked down and hardly using as much as usual and with the prices people are maybe riding their bikes and horse so they also not use gasoline. When is the price going down, when fewer are buying fuel?

If the line-in for guitars (etc.) was the only thing needed, the sound must have been good enough for the ears of a skilled musician to put his signature on the car.

Easy to understand that in UK you need a coat. Here where temperatures are above 15 night- and 20 daytime the locals say it is cold.