Daniel S
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12 minutes ago, toffee_pie said:
Nice car, enjoy. Quite a step up in performance
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.
11 minutes ago, steve2006 said:I’ll keep a look out for it on BCA then 😀
Was thinking about auctioning it but I doubt there'd be a bidding war over a 2007 Lexus 😂.
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18 minutes ago, toffee_pie said:
If the rest of the car is solid I would find a decent garage and ask them to investigate - NOT LEXUS...why people take cars of this age to Lexus is astounding
A reputable skilled garage will either tell you it can be fixed and this is the cost or they will say its a write off
To be honest I've just bought an M140i so just gonna take the lexus to we buy any car.
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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.
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Just now, dublet said:
Could look at it differently, in that high-ish mileage means it's been used but never failed, so that means it's good.
I'd be curious to know which gearbox specialist you got a quote from.
Seeing as you're in Yorkshire, these peeps seem to have good reviews?
It was actually these peeps among 2 others I rang before saying f**k this.
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1 minute ago, dublet said:
Slightly higher mileage? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255035503307
Doesn't specify mileage and looks a bit rusty but cheap: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/265002387882
I've looked at these bit scared to buy a high mileage box to be honest.
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7 minutes ago, steve2006 said:
The eBay transmission has sold did you buy it Daniel?
So did you pay Lexus £750.00 to sort the gearbox a month ago and it has now failed completely?
What mileage has it done, sounds like an ex Birmingham taxi.
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)
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2 minutes ago, steve2006 said:
The eBay transmission has sold did you buy it Daniel?
Unfortunately I did not, only got paid yesterday.
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5 hours ago, toffee_pie said:
its unusual for these to fail, if you are absolutely sure no flush was carried out and ATF has been on the point I would push for lexus to look into it
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.
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1 hour ago, Malc said:
methinks if Lexus are telling you to throw possibly £6k at a replacement gearbox etc then one should analyse when the flush / oil and ATF filter change was done and at what miles and why on earth nobody at Lexus advised you there was a problem !
Seems somewhat strange
....... have you got more to this tale to impart ?
Malc
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. 😂
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5 hours ago, toffee_pie said:
did you ever do a 'transmission flush...'??
these units should last the life of the car, assuming regular gear oil is used - if they break there is usually a reason
Lexus did change the ATF oil and filter not too long ago.
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1 minute ago, dublet said:
You can get a second hand gearbox for £~550 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/265186428680
Might not be the worst idea actually.
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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.
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11 minutes ago, dublet said:
Time for a transmission fluid change, and checking the transmission filter?
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.
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20 minutes ago, steve2006 said:
Just check the wheels for excess heat, if one is a lot hotter it could be the proverbial seized calliper problem, the effect would be more pronounced from a standing start but overcome once the wheels get rolling faster.
Was my first thought, unfortunately not the issue.
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3 minutes ago, steve2006 said:
So the engine is revving up OK but the transmission is sluggish?
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.
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1 minute ago, madasahatter said:
Have you knocked the mode button , you could be in snow mode or normal mode.
Also tried in sport mode still slow but as soon as car is over the 10mph mark its accelerating as should 😓
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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.
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On 6/29/2021 at 10:06 PM, toffee_pie said:
why did you buy a car with a error code? do you know how much transmission's cost? sorry to be abrupt but you really should not buy a used car with such a malfunction, or any even.
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.
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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.
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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?
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6 hours ago, steve2006 said:
When I did mine on the LS I did a drain and refill five times so used 10 litres of fluid, I didn’t get all the old stuff out but it certainly looked better afterwards. I did the drains over a week to allow the fluid to circulate and mix. Last year it got 2 more drains over 2 weekends and the colour looks fine.
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.
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8 minutes ago, ColinBarber said:
Another flush/drain & refill, otherwise it would be a transmission strip down.
Definitely check the fluid level first, and inspect other things such as engine/transmission mounts. Then do another fluid drain/refill and go from there.
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?
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20 minutes ago, ColinBarber said:
Not sure it is fluid level, but the correct procedure is this:
IS250 transmission fluid.pdf 107.16 kB · 0 downloads
Did you use Toyota WS fluid? Sounds like clutch contamination possibly in the torque converter, although that should be in lock-up on the motorway
Yes I'm using genuine oil. How would I tackle clutch contamination?
....... have you got more to this tale to impart ?
0-10 MPH acceleration super slow
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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.