ColdAsahi

Its a double edged sword. The UK is a relatively small market in which lexus doesn't do that well in so they don't care.

What they don't seem to realise is that their poor sales come from the utter lack of mid range engine choices. Anyone wanting a sporty luxury sedan or coupe with some decent performance will go get something like a 3L bmw because the IS hybrid lacks power and the RC-F is a higher end, more expensive pick. 

The 350s are probably the most popular choices in the states and for good reason, they they chose to not sell the best option to us in the UK. 

But if i ever have the money, I'll just import a IS500... or move out from this ****ty country.

On 3/22/2021 at 1:18 PM, ianhu said:

Hi. 

I once had similar situation. Unfortunately for me the men at said garage treat all wheels and tyres and tpms as one and tried to tell me the car will learn the new tpms sensor they had replaced "just drive it around and it will sort itself out". Yeah right, after a week still had indicator on dash so I know how annoying it is. I also now know they had sh*t for brains. If they had used their brains they could have picked the phone up where lexus would have told them any new tpms needs coding to the car. Usually done with teachsteam. (Btw that's not the amazon cheapo job, reason being is that the software works but the cable has some connections disabled. Buying proper cable costing £70 got all working.) Anyway I got said garage to give me all four tmps id's and I programmed them into techstream. Since then no tpms light in a year. 

Lesson learnt. Don't use garages that just shift tyres and nowt else. 

Ahahahaha this. Currently in the process of buying a new wheel & tyre package with TPMS installed, emailed the shop asking if they'll provide the IDs so I can have them coded to the car, and they reply with that, "the car will detect them" sure it will. 

For a while, the car has been making a friction/wind like noise while driving at higher speeds and steering even a small amount. Any ideas what it may be?