Daniel S

Offered 2 thousand with knowledge of the broken gearbox and the 19 days MOT left. Gave me 1400 due to bodywork being a grade 4 out of 8. Sorry for late reply I've only just got around to selling it due to work.

Thank you. Went into evans halshaw in hopes of getting a newish IS250 ended up test driving it and then the M140i my heart was just more set on it. Was thinking about auctioning it but I doubt there'd be a bidding war over a 2007 Lexus 😂.

To be honest I've just bought an M140i so just gonna take the lexus to we buy any car.

Half tempted to just buy a different car, do you think anybody would bother buying a 2007 IS 250 SE with a broken gearbox? Or would I need to just scrap it.

It was actually these peeps among 2 others I rang before saying f**k this.

Unfortunately not mate I have an automatic.

I've looked at these bit scared to buy a high mileage box to be honest.

Car is currently at 111k, I managed to squeeze 2k miles out of it after lexus had it of pretty stress free driving (my daily commute is 2 miles on a 40 road and 35 miles on the motorway then repeat back)

Unfortunately I did not, only got paid yesterday.

That was the original plan as current symptoms are slow first gear acceleration and no gear 5 and 6. But when I told Lexus these symptoms they estimated it'll be over a thousand pounds in diagnostics if not closer to two thousand.

Unfortunately not, bought the car broken (solenoid faults) developed slight judder at low RPM, took it to Lexus for full diagnostics which amounted up to £750 to be told oil is dirty, had oil and filter changed in box and box calibrated, 1 month later box dead. 😂

Lexus did change the ATF oil and filter not too long ago.

Might not be the worst idea actually.

Well might aswell throw it in here gearbox won't go into 5th or 6th anymore, diagnostics have come up with a P0894 - Transmission Component Slipping code. Gearbox specialist told me it'll be 4k plus vat to recon the box and put a new clutch in (as he thinks it's the clutch that's the issue), and lexus just basically told me box is dead would you like a new one for 6K. Thanks for your help guys my Lexus ownership has been short but sweet.

Been done 2 months ago by lexus, although it was the first one of its life so maybe another one wouldn't do any harm? Car is at 111k miles.

Was my first thought, unfortunately not the issue.

Didn't notice anything different with engine revs so yeah seems to be revving like normal. It's like the car stays in that little auto crawl when you come off the brake and only accelerates slightly then back to normal.

Also tried in sport mode still slow but as soon as car is over the 10mph mark its accelerating as should 😓

Hi guys, New problem with the car, since yesterday my car is setting off REALLY slowly. The first 0-10 ish mph is very slow and when stopping and then setting off again on a hill it's like the car is crawling it takes a solid 5-6 seconds to get up to 10mph. Everything else seems fine it kicks down gears fine and once out of that 0-10mph range it accelerates fine. The car will be going to Lexus on Tuesday (only time they have free) but the problem is I'm working every day till then and my daily commute to work is 75 miles round trip. Anyone know what the issue could be and if its okay to drive like this? Thank you in advance.

A combination of good price, young stupidity and inexperience lol! For anyone ever experiencing this issue in the future I took it to lexus they reserviced the gearbox, reflashed ecu and calibrated the gearbox. All solenoid problems fixed as is the juddering car is so smooth you can't feel a single gear change, and quite frankly the service was superb and everything all in with diagnostics was only £770.

Well yet again I am confused, the car has been driving like an absolute dream for the 150 miles I put on it today but just as I was getting home the check engine light came on and the gearbox code P2757 has made a reappearance resulting in the car instantly from driving 10/10 to juddering in every gear under 2k revs. Looking for advice on whether to continue with flushes, change solenoid and slap a new filter in or just say **** it and hand it in to Lexus? I am really losing my mind here.

Well gearbox flushed, weird one here, car feels better than ever holy crap I now understand the smoothness everyone talked about. Only problem is while the shuddering is gone in gears 1-5 it still appears in 6th gear when accelerating between 1.5k-2k revs. What do you guys think, another flush?

I guess I'm just going to have to keep flushing. Car feels awful it's juddering in every gear today, hopefully it'll fix the problem tomorrow.

Lovely thank you very much, I got 4L of oil left think I'll buy some more just incase. Is a flush best done straight away after circulating oil, or after driving it a bit?

Yes I'm using genuine oil. How would I tackle clutch contamination?