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Hello and welcome! If you have charge in your battery this is normal to shut off the engine. There are some circumstances where it may not do it immediately or stay longer on engine. In normal situation with charged battery it will remain on it until it's on 2 bars and need to recharge. Then charge up with engine to 3 bars and shut off again soon. Bart

Hello Hazel, From my own experience with MK4 if I leave with keys and car is on it starts beeping like crazy, not sure of it auto shuts off after a while as never tested that out. All the best, Bart

Hey Steven, Thanks for sharing your experience with E10! We have it in Ireland for few weeks now and I filled 3 tanks already, then I see same or even lower consumption on MK4 GS450h.. I agree there is too much fuzz about it.. 🤣🤣

Hey Sergio, I would like to share a bit of my experience here to add on the same dealer (Cork) - as I started to have some mixed feeling about. Initially, had no issues at all with first service and some small work done early in ownership of my GS. At end of November I went for another full service as I did 15k kms and I've been asked if I want to do pre-nct check (I had it booked for early December but I said why not). It pre-NCT result was that my rear shocks have imbalance and very likely they will fail NCT. I was bit surprised, as there are no issues with them, no sounds, leaks, they look dry and like new. This was quoted for about 1000E with labour!! Funnily enough, I though that F-Sport model have different shocks due to S+ mode and suspention stiffening - and quote was for standard IS/GS300h shocks? I decided to give a try on NCT - I went to Blarney and surprise surprise - I have failed. Man said that he is surprised as they indeed look like new and he made few tries - lowest imbalance he could see is 42% which is above passable 30. I was a bit let down and called to Lexus to discuss options of replacement. They said that they quote is up and if Iwould like to book service. Then I decided to give another try for a retest on another centre after Christmas and NY - this time in Little Island. Guess what - I passed in flying colours. Of course there were no changes or anythign done with the car. So I called Lexus to say I'm not going to replace anything. In general I felt really weird that they did service, pre-nct check and I failed NCT.. Then passed re-test perfectly fine with no changes (and haven't done much km's in between tests). Still, I had same set of questions about wipers, lights set, pre-nct (where I choose to get lightgs set and that pre-nct) and last thing they have tried to sell me was fuel additive as they said it's winter and it will be better for the car - I declined that saying I have no issues at all with it in winter or any other season and dont want any additives in my engine lol. I don't remember them on previous services but looks to me that they may try to do some upselling. Fun fact about loan car - I took it on each service and each time I ended up with Toyota (Yaris & C-HR) - quite funny that Lexus here can't provide Lexus loaner - I was actually genuinely interested in having a feel of ES300h or IS300h so I could compare it to my GS but I see that's not happening here. Bit silly. Another fun fact - on first service I took their insurance for 30E and they said at the end they cover that and I don't have to pay, then on another time I paid 30E - seems that it's bit out of control - with you having 15E. Oh and interestingly on the sticker they put my next service after 12k kms - which I believe is a typo as should be 15k as usual. Attaching NCT reports too

Hello Charlie, I paid 800e in Ireland for exactly same swrvice on same yr car. I would expect similiar amount converted to GBP All the best Bart

I find mileage of GS 450h very good but I enjoy steady ride and I get about 40mpg+ from every tank (right now I usually start from ecu showing ~830 km left once I fill tank fully). Sum it up with cheap tax and hassle free service and it would be hard to beat. Same time I know I'm not matching your considerations of 10k entry point 🙂

Oh dear, after all that you took to restore it back to living state this happened 😕 Hope you will get into some conclusions after talking to them

Hello Boris, This battery bar looks to be taken when car is not fully powered on - I have same if I clean interior and only have radio on without ignition 🙂 As soon as you press brake pedal and start button the battery bar will show reading 🙂 It is also right that for the most of the time you will have 6/8 bars and on 2 car will turn off engine charging if it won't chare by other means like going downhill, coasting.

Hey Herbie, It was exact 3.63E with shipping from Aliexpress 🙂 surprisingly delivery was fast, as I ordered that one on February 5th and got it today 🙂 Ive seen prices around and that was the reason I decided to source it that way - as had no rush with it (still 1 month is not bad I would say 🙂 ) On the other hand sourcing it in Ireland is hard All the best Bart

Just to add on the topic - I received CR2412 battery today and it doesn't work with the key I have. I have a suspicion that either: - Card is faulty, as it have a barely visible crack in the middle (could be seen on my first pic) - which possibly broke it - After long time with drained battery it require reprogramming - this I may check at some point with dealership or Techstream myself (just have not much time to play around it due to loads of work) All the best Bart

Hey Robert I have one on GS45h 2013 jap import 🙂 downside is that battery is out on it, so I ordered that weird CR2412 online and should have it by Monday 🙂 I agree that its idea is great and really hassle free 🙂

Hey Nico As far as I know this device will only work in cars that already supports Andriod Auto, so in our case it wont do anything because we dont have this option in GS MK4. There doesnt seem to be a reasonable option to have Android Auto on the main screen apart from placing the phone at front of it sadly 😞

Oh dear sorry to see that 😞 Hope it would be minor and easy to get rid off scratch.. To be fair shortly since purchase I'm always on the far end of every car park - got few marks done by people just opening the doors with likely full force and got so angry about it (same thing happened within weeks of purchase), that now I'm parked as far as one can be..

Perfect Christmas present 🙂 With the mirrors not going down, check if you have any mirror selected on the adjustment panel. If I switch it off to none selected, then they wont go down on reverse 🙂 Happy Christmas!

On the side, after the service I checked and they charge in Cork exact 300E for 6 plugs and replacement together, which I find reasonable after all considering genuine parts and bit of hassle with engine there Other interesting thing I have found in jap service book is that over there they change iridium plugs every 10 years/100k km, so that was the reason I did it while I was on service around 92k with my one to get it off the list (car was 7.5 yrs old then) 🙂