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11 minutes ago, Pm4 said:

Still none the wiser

Me neither 😒  🤐      Here's a less puerile and less facetious very basic answer for you --  Companies like to use fancy words to make their products sound expensive and good quality. A BUS is a simple term for a network backbone or in other words connecting wires The CAN bit is another way of saying that things connected to this bus can send and receive signals to controlled devices.  Dead simple really innit?  But google it and you will get a load of techno bumf that talks about the sizzle and not the sausage - know what I mean?

18 hours ago, Pm4 said:

Excuse my ignorance but what's a CAN bus? Some sort of old bus?

Good question -  I will try to explain for you.   We have dustbins for recycling tin cans and plastic. To save the planet we re-use these materials to make cars from the tin/steel/aluminium cans. The plastic makes the faux leather and other cheapo bits.

So the CAN bus is a description of what your SUV or BUS like vehicle actually is - which is a bus made out of cans.  Hence CANbus   - QED.😉

When we were there the menu was €9.50 but that's inflation for you. Another local place - Olargues - Fresh trout from the river Orb with salad and chips for €7.50. Another place - set dinner - no choice, you get what you get but is usually duck breast or chicken or guinea fowl or bavette steak all beautifully done with gratin dauphinois potatoes and mange tout peas including wine quarter litre and dessert all for €11.50 - Restaurant Lou Castel in Nages. Just checked tripadvisor and they have gone up market and charge about €20 now for a choice of dishes.

27 minutes ago, Linas.P said:

yeah, but in other hand I have seen businesses that are like that, who are kind of pervasive when it comes to personal life

The company I worked for had a 24/7 contract. On call any time of day or night. A worldwide private VPN for all our network traffic use and full monitoring of all their/our remote devices. We were 100% logged in to the servers at all times or nothing worked.  If we did not accept those terms ( and their decent salary ) then we were free to leave anytime. Maybe today this could be seen as intrusive but we accepted that basically it was good practice and very safe. We had a " demilitarised" network zone available to outsiders and all the servers were virtual machines that had no physical presence and no way to get at the base systems from outside.. It may help to know that the servers were based in Tel Aviv and were under attack most of the time, so go figure why the security was so absolute. We all learned a lot from these practices.😇. I just wish our banks were half as good as this lot.👮‍♂️

Talking about quality and value for money -  This is from a local restaurant in the South of France near where we lived, from their website recently. Includes a quarter litre of GOOD local house wine. You would be lucky to get away with the equivalent of €20 over here and that would not be fresh local food but would include a glass of the most awful mass produced plonk.

I remember when facebook ( or whatever it was called years ago ) was launched. The computer security company that I worked for issued a staff notice threatening instant dismissal if anyone subscribed to it!  Never gone near facebook or the other social media rubbish since then.  Turned out to be good advice.

compare the market  - got  a few quotes at between 600 and 700 pounds this year. It was £475 last year. 5 yrs no claims, £200 Vol excess. Low mileage use. Not imported. The price has not changed since November when the car was SORN ed. Back on the road 1st May.  How does that compare?    BTW some companies wanted stupid money £1500 plus, and my existing insurer Churchill refused to insure the car this year because "they said" their underwriters said NO to certain Lexus cars.

I know that these RX cars are very attractive and apparently one would need to be relatively well off to be able to afford a newish one, but £10K and £12K insurance every year surely makes the unaffordable?  I heard on this site at least one person saying that they will have to get rid....

 Even the house insurance has gone up by over 35% this year. These companies are taking us for mugs.  When I rang the company to query the increase - after all the customer avoidance tricks and the stupid chatbot, I got a miserable person on the phone who flatly refused to lower the price a bit despite no claims.. BTW Water damage now carries a £500 excess!.   When I again queried her response she told me the reason for the increase is because the price of wood has gone up 200%. What a joker. How does a possible water leak repair depend on the price of wood and carry a £500 excess? Needless to say I went elsewhere.

I just hope that this insurance con comes to an end at some point in the future and these cheapskate robber companies go bust.

2010 Kia Ceed 3  1.6 dci  best ever run from Lancaster to Kirby Lonsdale 70mpg  HONEST!  Car cost me £1000 from a friend -  gave it away to my son and it is still going strong at 138,000 miles!

Yes it's interesting, I think all these nagging "driver aids" add to the stress of driving.  I had a mad moment this week when I thought an old classic MGA or MGB might be a good idea as an everyday driver - you know, to the shops and back etc. My wife soon put me off that idea.🥸.

Looking forward to June when the isF gets back on the road. That will put the wind up these boy racers.

Maybe an idea while you are at it to check for anything stuck between the disk and the internal weather guard. I got a stone caught in mine this week  - made a helluva din until I got it out. More of a scraping noise than a rumbling bearing.

Going back to "golden years" of motoring whatever decade is nice to look back on. Based on my recent experiences motoring today is absolutely awful. Cameras, bus lanes, agressive drivers, stupid drivers, ignorant could not care less drivers, nutcases, idiots, uninsured drivers, drugged/drunk drivers at any time of day. It's just not much fun anymore. It sounds awful but you really need to try to keep off the roads at rush hour/school dropping off hour/ weekends/ nighttime/holidays/ when the mad cyclists are out looking for trouble. It all sounds so negative but it really is that bad around here.  I think it is time to go and live somewhere sensible and tranquil.  I had a particularly close call this week as a nutcase tried to join the sliproad off the motorway at speed and force me out of the way. I could hear his tyres squealing and hitting the noise warning strips as he approached from behind me. He only just missed hitting the armco as he swerved into the slip road. It was a bit of a shock . Next thing he is racing on the inside lane forcing other cars out of his way. All I can say is that he was either mad or drunk or drugged or all the above.  It just puts you off driving. Maybe I am getting older and can't handle or don't want the cut and thrust of aggressive driving techniques??

Anyway if the sun is shining and the roads are dry it's out on the bike on a quiet monday morning.. Fingers crossed.

25 minutes ago, Al D-Much said:

All show and no go.

I find it quite odd that my IS200t F sport looks very sporty but is definitely not, and the ISF which looks fairly plain to the uninitiated is definitely very sporty. A bit like it is the wrong way round.  Sheep and Wolves come to mind.🤔

The nice thing about the F sport is the dash display, wheels and grille, that's about it for me.

28 minutes ago, cur666 said:

It's really easy to get a valuation using their app...takes minutes...just tell the truth, and you'll get what they say...I've sold two cars to them...was brilliant...no problems.

I tried motorway.com and they were very straightforward. Had to take a lot of photos and proof of servicing but that's a reasonable thing to ask. Worth a try. I did not sell my car to them in the end but they were very polite about it.

18 minutes ago, Don C said:

What was wrong with the terrible UX

I made some remarks about the UX and got shot down in flames on this forum site. I still have the same opinion - having driven one for two days - but I am keeping shtum now for fear of reprisals.😬🙊

4 minutes ago, dutchie01 said:

They are warning about de-industrialization in Europe and are drawing parallels to the solar panel market.

Not happy reading...

Sounds a bit like what happened to the mobile phone market/manufacture .  Taking your production figures a step further ---  2011 europe production 28%../.. 2022 ditto  19%../..2033 ditto  11% .../..2044 ( if we ever reach that! ) 2%.

A lot can happen in 11 yrs....... Help!😨

Yep, just drink loads of their coffee and take the biscuits home for later.

I suppose someone has to pay for the fancy showrooms and stuff😒

Sounds like other people have had similar issues. In the old days ( and I do mean OLD ) we used to put a bit of molyslip in a worn engine, worked wonders, but I think nowadays that may interfere with something else and is probably not recommended.

 Answered by Honest John

This is an Atkinson cycle engine that revs in steps rather than in a linear manner, but you know that. Unless the programming is sticking, what you describe simply should not happen. You need to find an independent Lexus hybrid specialist. If you Google <Lexus hybrid specialists> you'll find a few; hopefully one reasonably close to where you live.

29 minutes ago, fourbanks said:

My UX is 18 month old paid 36'000 and is now worth £20'000 with 5000 miles (ca. 8,047 km) on the clock 

A loss of £16000 in 18 months is awful Lost over 40% of its original price ( I won't say value because I don't think new cars are good value generally ).  But I think it reflects on poor trade-in prices at the moment, although they seem to still sell used cars at high prices at Lexus😴   I just looked on Autotrader and they seem to be sold for about£34K by Lexus dealers. Maybe a private sale would be better for you?

33 minutes ago, Spock66 said:

Lexus Canbus issue which affects a number of recent Lexus vehicles being very vulnerable to theft, the insurance issue is a secondary effect.

It would seem that some insurance companies are tarring all Lexus with the same brush . Mine has no Canbus but was still refused insurance for the first time this year.

3 minutes ago, Tickedon said:

There doesn’t appear to be a “Lexus premium” for my car insurance. It’s a huge amount of money (that’s mostly my fault for being in London), but quotes for comparable plug-in SUVs are comparable- those in slightly lower insurance groups are fractionally less, those in higher groups are fractionally more (e.g. Audi Q5). Just as you’d expect. 

Oh well, maybe we just have to get used to the new criteria and standards for car insurance and accept the status quo.

It's funny how it just seems to follow the new political trend to push people away from ICE and polluting cars. Hidden agenda? Maybe, maybe not?   3 cylinder 998cc car or low power ( 4 x AAA batteries) electric option anyone?

1 hour ago, Sundance said:

Why ever not? I agree with Al, no business is going to pursue loss leaders if the loss gets out of hand or too large to recover. Insurers are not obliged to insure you or your items if it's not considered profitable. It's not greed, it's basic economics.

That would be fine if the refusals to insure actually made any sense, I would not insure a car with such a likelihood of being stolen either. They blanket refuse or increase prices so that all Lexus cars suffer from the failings of a few. An example; my ISF was refused. It does not have canbus, no bad history, did only 1000 miles last year.  They just told me that the underwriters have put the ISF in an "uninsurable" bracket.  So, it's baby out with bathwater time.  Maybe if they were a bit more discriminating it would not seem so unfair.

Thieves steal the car and then you are robbed again by the insurance company.  So sorry.😢