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Is is this one below that I may need? https://www.ebay.ie/itm/275192263967?hash=item4012bcb51f:g:8GUAAOSw5M9aivTl&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAA8NstOxFNTSRyGkeG6ib74TFHGOz63v%2FvX%2F9PeAC7pCy%2FaLrxB9H6waUbw8SPTqS48NjtCwn34lY2lfg8AlGqcvxi8qjS7I0dsapAlknNlkuiwoDBK8CyXLhTRSuXlDHTxECeERoPqM8te3eTnYp3LnJs909rQWPfwoh0PIM4X2FGaqMmajjw%2B98t1jt%2B4YM1Q8YfHdKfzWjN513VBZ8iTzQWrEk9uKXPDS0im6jzqk%2B%2BnIvf%2FLsXhFIZN1YWmoWekZMOz%2BhZHTeCJh6mZMQkgUDnYLP0kHmsnkwamzLOaM0vGIgjKh0%2FNlCezSpQzP0Glg%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR5zyiezYYQ

If the head office is the same as Toyota Ireland it will be a waste of time: some years ago I took my Prius to this same dealer (it is the same dealer for Toyota and Lexus even though with separate showrooms and entrances but they share the same garage) for the major service with spark pugs. When I dropped the car I asked how much it would cost me approximately and they said "200 euros more or less". I ended up paying 400 euros and they even put the oil 10W40 in my car. I wrote a complaint to Toyota Ireland who replied to me defending the dealer as "for the high mileage of your car (200,000 kms) that oil is correct". That was the first and last time that they saw my car.

I have always been pleased reading how you members of the LOC are so happy with the treatment you receive from your Lexus dealer, so I was really looking forward to my first ever service at Lexus Cork confident to receive the same outstanding treatment. So here below is the story: On the 19th January 2023 I emailed my local dealer Lexus Cork to reschedule the major service for my GS450H and I booked it with Mr Drazen Baotic for the 8th March 2023. I agreed that I would drop my car the day before around 5pm and drive away in a loan car that would be provided to me by the dealer. Mr Baotic told me that the loan car would have been available from 8:30am the day before the service (7th March) until the 8th March at 5pm. On the 6th March at 08:13 am I emailed Mr Baotic asking for the registration plate of the loan car in order to transfer my insurance temporarily. I did not receive any reply to my email. On the 7th March at 10:45am I called Lexus Cork and I spoke to someone at reception who, after listening to me, assured me that he would either call me back or email me as the person he needed to ask for the loan car was not there at that moment. After approximately 2 hours as I had not received neither a call back nor an email, I emailed again Mr Baotic asking again for the registration plate of the loan car (the time was 12:27pm and please note that I have always emailed Mr Baotic on the general email address and not him personally so I suppose someone else could have replied if he was absent). I did not receive any reply to my second email. 2 hours after sending my second email, having not received any reply, at 02:30pm, I called again Lexus Cork and I spoke to the same person I had talked earlier. He apologised for not calling or emailing me back and said that there had been a problem with the loan car and it would come back to them in 20 minutes from then and he surely would call me back to give me the registration plate. Nobody called me back. So I guessed that there was no loan car available for me (I wonder is there only one loan car for all Lexus customers? There was no other loan car available for me? Or for some reason that specific loan car had to be assigned to me?). At 4:15pm I asked my wife to collect me from Lexus Cork at 5:10pm. At 4:45pm I arrived at the Lexus Cork dealer to drop my car for the service booked. I went to the service reception and I was welcomed by Bernard, an employee who also spoke a bit of Italian. I think he was Albanian or from Macedonia. I told him that I was supposed to get a loan car but given that nobody called me back I guessed that the loan car was not available. He smiled and, showing me the keys, said that the loan car was there. I smiled as well and I replied that it was too late for me to transfer my insurance to the loan car, that I had sent 2 emails and called twice and nobody called me back or emailed me back even though they had told me that they would call me back. He said (without apologising) that they had been very busy that day (so I guess they just ignored a customer because they were very busy), but that I could purchase the insurance from them for 15 euros a day. I suddenly realised that there might have been a reason for being ignored for 2 days. I thanked him but declined the loan car. He looked very surprised: “ you really don’t need the loan car?”. “No I don’t, my wife is on the way to collect me” I replied. Before leaving I told him that I did not want neither the wipers nor the tyres be replaced and made sure that he would call me if extra works were needed before proceeding. The day after (8th March) at 11:30am he called me and said that some extra works were necessary but that he would give me a quotation when I would collect the car. He asked me to replace the wipers (40 euros) because they were sticky and I reminded that I did not want to replace the wipers and that after 10 days without rain the wipers could be sticky. I agreed to have the lights checked and focused for extra 20 euros. He told me that they could not fit the mudflaps that I had in the car (previously quoted 80 euros for 30 mins job) because there were no screws with them. I asked him if they had some spare screws as they were original dedicated Lexus mudflaps. He said that they did not have the screws and did not know where I could find them. So the only Lexus dealer for Cork city and county did not have some spare screws to fit a set of original Lexus mudflaps and moreover did not know where to source them. At 4:30pm I arrived at Lexus Cork to collect my car. I paid 720 euros for the major service and Bernard gave me the quotation for the extra works needed (LHF and LHR caliper sized; rear AFS sensor damage (I don’t know what it is); rear exhaust section defective; rear shock absorber defective (complete unit)) for the total amount of 3,689.53 euros!!! When I asked if these works were urgent he answered that they were not urgent but necessary at some stage. I remember when I bought the car the seller told me that the shock absorbers had been replaced by the previous owner 6 months earlier because the car had not passed the NCT (MOT) at that time but he had no receipts to prove it. Now, given that my car passed the NCT (MOT) last September without advisories there are 3 possible scenarios: 1) The mechanics at the NCT centre did not understand anything about my car or were drunk; 2) The conditions of the car have badly deteriorated since last September until now with only 3,000 kms done since then; 3) Lexus Cork is trying to rip me off. Obviously for the moment I am not going to do anything with Lexus Cork but I have already booked my car with my trustworthy garage on the 22nd March to have all these issues checked. Your views are highly appreciated

This one below appeared on sale yesterday in Dublin but I doubt they will sell it for that money https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/toyota-celsior-v8-56-motor-tax-lexus-ls400/33501237?campaign=3

My GS is going for the full service next week and they told me 700 euros. Actually 780 for an additional half an hour job to fit he mudflaps.

I did not mean the new plug in RX450H (even though my apologies as I wrote brand new) but the hybrid version like these below: https://www.carzone.ie/search?make=Lexus&model=RX450H&minYear=2018 (181)&page=2 I personally think that the road tax should not be based only on the emissions but also on the value of the car. I don't think it is fair that a 2004 Prius worth 1,000 euros pays 413 euros in road tax and a 2022 RX450H which costs 82,900 euros (the second in the list) pays only 280 euros in road tax. Could a 1.5cc Prius pollute more than a 3.5cc Lexus? Could a 2006 GS450H pollute so much more than a 2022 RX450H to justify 1,809 euros in motor tax (when the car is maybe worth 5,000 euros) against 280 euros of the RX? But I agree with you they should just abolish the road tax and spread the costs by increasing the price per litre of fuel accordingly so the more one uses the car, the more pollutes and the more pays.

If you consider that a brand new RX450H which costs 65-70,000 euros only pays 280 euros road tax and my 2008 GS450H which is worth 6-7,000 euros pays 790 euros in motor tax. And it is even better than a 2007 GS450H which pays 1,809 euros! It is just ridiculous.

Honestly I don't see anything wrong in a road tax of £ 145 on a car which costs over 60,000 euros (the GR). I actually think it should be more than £ 145. In Ireland it costs 600 euros.

It is the same unfair situation in Ireland where my 2008 GS costs me 790 euros in motor tax and the same model of 2013 only 280 euros.

The car runs very well, really smooth. I am only a bit disappointed by the fuel consumption but maybe I still have to learn how to get the best of it. I have no clue about any major repairs as the seller only knew about the shocks absorbers and the HV battery should be the original one. I don't even know when the 12V battery was replaced. The car doesn't have a Lexus FSH as the last 3-4 services were done by an independent garage. This is also the reason why I have booked it for the major service with replacement of the spark plugs as I don't think they were replaced at 180,000 kms service. Probably I took some risks in buying it without investigating deeply but after 14 months it seems that I have been lucky. If you need a large boot maybe this model is not suitable unless you are happy to drive always with a roof box fitted.

In December 2021 I bought a 2008 GS450H with 188,000 kms. The seller told me that the previous owner (the one he had bought the car from 7 months earlier) had replaced the shocks absorbers but he hadn't seen any receipts to prove it. Anyway so far so good, the car has shown no issues so far. It will have the major service in March. I hope that there's no need for unexpected works apart from the service. Fingers crossed.

For me it doesn't really make sense to put such a high starting price for bidding. The purpose of bidding is to attract buyers starting from a low price. It would have been more logical just to put a "buy it now" price then.

Zotto has these tyres on his RX450H and told me that they are very good. Maybe it is worth for you sending him a PM to ask information?

I had the windscreen replaced in my GS in June and it was completely covered by my insurance.

For my next set of tyres I think I will go for Debica Presto UHP2: they are produced by Goodyear in the same factory as Goodyear tyres, so I suppose with the same quality standards but for a lower price, and I have read positive reviews on tyrereviews.com. Also my local tyres garage can supply and fit them for a good price. https://www.tyrereviews.com/Tyre/Debica/Presto-UHP2.htm

Hi David and welcome to the club. I am not Irish but I live close to Cork. I don't drive a CT but I have owned a Prius (same technology) for nearly 12 years and I have had only one problem to the Power steering module, solved with 150 euros. In 12 years only normal servicing and only once at the Toyota dealer. Now I drive a Lexus GS450H and I am very happy with it. When I was looking to replace the Prius the only condition I firmly put to my choice was that it had to be hybrid Toyota or Lexus and eventually I have actively looked for a GS450H for nearly one year before finding the good one. My suggestion is to test drive the CT before buying. I personally love the HSD technology and the ecvt of Toyota/Lexus. I personally love the CT facelift of 2018 but I don't know about the spare wheel missing if there is a sunroof. Owners of the CT here may be more informed about it.

I also suggest to look at the GS450H as being hybrid it has a better fuel consumption than the GS300 and even more powerful. There should be a good variety to choose from on AT.

Yes I think national arrogance is what I would define the French attitude. I was in contact with a French friend (well I would not call him a friend, but I have known him for some years) and he has kept saying that France was a better team than England and deserved to win (I think France was just lucky that Kane missed the penalty because had he scored nobody could have been sure that France would have gone through), and denied that France was also lucky against Morocco as Morocco had some good chances that unfortunately did not produce a goal and for most of the match France was only leading 1-0 and both teams were playing at the same level. He had already celebrated the victory by saying in a message "we are world champions!" even before playing the final and eventually concluded that any team can win at penalties not admitting that for 80 minutes Argentina had widely dominated the match and France did not even seem a finalist. After all the record of Italy winning 2 consecutive World Cup editions with the same manager stays unbeaten.

I absolutely agree with you: I think the best team won. Argentina has dominated the match until the 80' minute. France absolutely embarrassing in the first half for being a finalist: not even one shot on target. I think the 2 french goals in less than 2 minutes are more the fault of Argentina than the ability of the French to come back. In other words Argentina should not have wasted 2 goals lead just 10 minutes to the end of regular time even though I must admit that the second goal by Mbappe' was extraordinary. After all I am very happy for Argentina and Messi who has achieved the only missing trophy in his fabulous career and especially I am happy that I won my bet.

I also have a bet on Argentina to win the world cup that I did before the start of the competition but anyway even without the bet I would prefer Argentina to win 😉.

Are we all together supporting Argentina? Or someone prefers the French to win?

Thank you. I have added them to my watchlist.

John is it easy to mount them into the wipers? You just slide them in?

And Maradona if I can add. The goal he scored to England (sorry guys) running with the ball from midfield is something unique. And also with Napoli he scored some amazing goals.

This is exactly my feeling about the car.