Fikamika

Hello everyone, Tried looking for something similar but havent really found any exact... In need for a bit of help which really does my head in... so car is 2008 IS 250 102k miles, bought car 6 months ago and the noise is probably been around ever since and the movement too, after getting to work 12 miles A road, highway and a bit of traffic due to road work, so brakes sort of operating temp by the time get to work, park up, correct the parking, so very slowly steering and braking at the same time, and it is just makes horrible noise almost like cracking, poping noise, I made a little video of the caliper I recon something isn't right with, since only one caliper does this, I know floating calipers should move etc. bit this cant be right. Funny enough couple weeks ago went to a place where the road was quite steep and had traffic so brake, roll, brake roll (engine brake wan't enough) and so the brakes got quite hot, so hot by the time I got to the street I had to turn in as a was braking and turning that popping cracking noise just got extremely loud. Should I take caliper off grease pins if needed replace and I'm also not sure about the shims they do look rusty so not sure if pads moving makes the sound or the caliper movement or both. Sorry if it doesnt makes sense but its just how I would describe this. Please check out the video, any help appreciated. https://youtube.com/shorts/1_cCh727pFI?feature=share

Yeah should since all this will add up I guess! Might see if scrapyards have Is's and ask around! Thanks guys!!!!

Thanks Linas, 101,000 mi, yeah the cat section is online its like £360 so that will probably be replaced but the downpipe bit might not, just get a new flange welded on there or something! Regarding the oil, I mean it was simply a missunderstanding... I was told its £75 to change it, not to only replace 1L, tho on invoice there is 2L oil i dont know exactly how much it takes but it says 2L. So yeah i think whoever told me the price wasnt sure about what they doing, or because i was paying cash they might have just wanted to take my money?! Dont know! Just had a look is 1.5L drain&refill sound alright?! If so than they prob changed it rather than changed a bit.

Thanks, Vlad, I'll have a look around. Well, I had the transmission oil changed, but it wasn't that easy. 3 weeks ago I called them to see how much would it cost and she said £75, early this week called them again to actually book it in, they done it and the sales guy was walking out with the invoice showing £140.71, and I was like hang on 3 weeks ago a lady told me it will be £75 and he basically just said oooh well I'm really sorry he knows it all gets messed up blabla, and basically he was fine with the 75... So 75. :) Very interesting...

Hello people. I'm new here since i only bought my first Lexus in Dec 2021. Soon after i bought the car it needed a new rear section of the exhaust went ahead bought it put it on(reason for replacing is the tail pipe broke off of the muffler and looked odd), but I knew the cat section was looking just as bad as the rear. Now I took it to the local Lexus dealer to have the transmission oil changed and they did a visual health check as well, and straight up the mechanic pointed out that the cat section have a tiny hole (from previous weld patch), sorry if im not right but he also pointed both flange are looking terrible (from manifold pipe to ---->cat section). My question is if the manifold bit needs (prob will) replacing as well is it expensive on the labour side, and the part as well since I cant find that bit online. I attach photos to see better. Thanks for your help. The bit you see is the one in red circle.