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I have found that if the engine cuts in from EV mode, for the initial cycle it is very noisy with a ticking, knocking noise. If I start it in HV straight away generally it is quiet from the start the other day I happened to start it with the accelerator depressed and the noise was there. i find that the engine will cut in on EV mode even with some miles of range left when the temperature is below 15 deg and often it is as I am accelerating (even gently) and so it could be that if the engine cold starts with the throttle open something else is happening to me it sounds like something ancillary to the engine (AC etc) or something is loose when cold, as once the EV goes back on any subsequent engine running is ok i will mention it to the garage when I’m in next time but I won’t hold much hope

I never got around to performing the update, mainly as I couldn’t face taking the time sorting out the issues with things being busy at home. The car has now stopped offering the update, so I am not sure if Lexus have pulled it to resolve issues or the car has given up. Is anyone else still being prompted to update?

The washers holding my CT shields on held fine for 2 years until I got rid of the car

I’ve not had any issues in my NX but I did have both heat shields come away on my CT after about 5-6 years. I ended up Jerry rigging them back on with washers etc. they seemed very flimsy and easily disintegrated I’m sure the dealer can fit replacements but I remember my quote being quite expensive as they had to remove the exhaust to fit so I didn’t bother

I have this issue and it only started following an update to iOS 17. It seems to mainly be Lexus cars and not all are affected so Apple isn’t going to rush to fix it. I am assuming Lexus/toyota have coded something different in their implementation of CarPlay which has been broken in the update i think we’re going to have both parties pointing at each other until some future random update resolves it. The dealers will not be able to do anything other than report to the manufacturer

I haven’t upgraded to 17.4 yet but nothing fixed. I believe someone running their phone on a beta version has said that it works ok on that so I think it is an Apple problem and might come in some future update. It only started happening to me when I update to iOS 17 so I now don’t use Siri unless absolutely necessary and I end up sending messages blind as it doesn’t read them out

My 450+ insurance went from £370 to £790 this year. Full no claims and no incidents. When I checked on comparison sites the cheapest was over £900 so took the renewal Not great but if this trend keeps up it might be time to start hunting around for a mid 90’s BMW with no tech on it as I believe it is the lead time and cost of parts are a significant factor to the increase

Oh that’s going to be a pain if the favourites always disappear as I’ve got loads of them I’m really hoping the Siri issue has been fixed on CarPlay as that is unusable for me at the moment I’ll probably update at the weekend after noting all of the favourites and see how it goes

My car (2022 450h+) started offering the update today. I’m holding off for a little while but once I update I will post results here

I only went for the sport because the colour I wanted was the fsport exclusive. having tried the extra takumi as a courtesy car I would probably go for that myself next time as the seats are far comfier than in the sport

Had my handles changed yesterday, excellent service as always from the team at Leicester. Discussed the cause and changes to rectify the problem so looking forward to easy entry to the car for the rest of the winter I’d definitely recommend getting them changed as soon as you get an inkling of an issue

I have always taken the satnav routes with a pinch of salt. Every single nav system that I have owned in cars for the last 20 years has tried to take me down a cut-through footpath (we call them jittys in Leicester but might be one of those dialects like cob/batch/roll). It has never been a road but the mapping source that all navigation systems seem to use obviously think it is accessible. what I have noticed however is that often when starting a journey the location is 2-3 meters out so the route gets a bit confused to start with. After a few minutes it does sort itself out but we often have a laugh with the kids when the nav is showing the car going through houses. it does happen mid journey as well sometimes, especially when there is a parallel service road close to the road I’m on, and the navigation thinks I’ve turned into the service road even though I haven’t. Having watched it when I haven’t been driving it’s seems the navigation tries to be predictive with where you’re going, I assume using compass and speed/steering etc so it doesn’t need to query the GPS so often and so seems to think you’re going down a different road, and then a minute or two later it corrects itself. i don’t think systems are charged for GPS use other than the initial licence so it might be a processing/responsiveness thing for info I have the 14” nav system

I added an AirTag into the car when the app wasn’t working for car location etc. I just haven’t removed it since app started working again as I thought that a secondary location wouldn’t hurt

I have the same issue. It’s as though Siri starts to listen to itself and stops reading in my case I think I read somewhere either here or on a Facebook forum that Lexus and Apple are discussing a fix which might come at some point. I’m hoping it’s an Apple change (especially as it occurred when going from 16 to 17) as their updates are far more frequent

When I was discussing it with them about times etc, the service desk said it is about an hour for each front door handle and just under and hour for the rear ones so they want the car for 4 hours which I take as they will be replacing all four handles did you say all handles were affected or just the front ones? I know I had issues with all of the handles a couple of weeks ago