Mr_Groundhog

I'm just over 30k miles now, which is about the same.... Last time I went to the dealer for annual service (Novemeber) I asked them specifically to grease caliphers & slider pins, and they kindly did, but I dunno whether they used copper grease or not (would they, @ColinBarber ? ) ...fingers crossed they used the toyota one. I'm not sure I can see copper leftovers after this time.

For context, what's your mileage?

I saw the pics posted by @Djwbiker and the car looks great.

how are the suspensions holding uup after so many Kms?

F-Sport trims and some Luxury ones came with 18 inch wheels stock, but beware because these have different widths in front & rear.

I would maybe consider it, if the CANbus thing is fixed properly.... BUT I still think that the ES would be too large for me (small UK streets and car parks). I would probably end up going for the newest Civic. In the US, the ES makes more sense than here.

...and should add a station wagon version while they're at it

Yes when they installed it they connected it to the fuse box (which fuse I dunno) so I hope that's the case as much as I hope to not need it.

Be careful so it wont become "living on the hard shoulder" next time

Man, how do you manage to know everything?!

Is it plastic? I dont remember now. If it is, there is some stuff that's incredible called Cerakote trim coating that if applied on a clean, grease-free surface, will bond with the plastic to restore it. I used it on the wheel arches of my former car (honda civic 9th gen) and it was great, and very long-lasting (still there a year after when I sold the car) Apply it to pastic, not rubber though. https://www.cerakote.co.uk/shop/cerakote-coatings/auto-home/trim-coat-kit-1-vehicle-kit-r-gtkit1004/

The NextBase one that's installed at the dealership is also on during parking time, no? I can't remember

What a relief! thanks to the OP for clarifying! 💙 It's a shame that this is all it would have taken the designers/engineers to avoid such a wave of thefts and disappointments (and insurane hikes!) for so many people Next time someone at work tells you "design is ancillary/secondary" think of this... (yes im a designer myself)

I saw Michelin has a new primacy 4 range that's both A for fuel and A for rain, plus very low road noise. They're the "bmw approved" so I guess they're also developed for real wheel drive and I think those are the ones I will be fitting when the moment comes.

investing in good alignment by someone who knows pays off.... then if you feel uneasy about the steering after that you can replace the front arm bushings with those of the lexus GS-F (compatible) and will make it feel better (i did)

higher octanes are for engines with a compression ratio above 12 to 1, and this Lexus has 13 to 1, so I have always given her the slightly more expensive E5 for peace of mind.

i had heard of this before (hasn't happened to my car yet though) and found a video that explains it in 5 min...

That's exactly what brought the NHS to the situation it's in, my dear! ...Public health is not a zero sum game, and its very concept is at odds with maximising revenue. In healthcare, savings are often false savings... costing a lot more in the long run as conditions go undiagnosed until it's too late for it to be cheap to cure... (but the one in charge already "balanced the books" to look good to others with "business mentality"). That and the army of private consultants draining ludicrous amounts of public money in return for PowerPoint decks (I know because I once worked for a huge consultancy firm who did just that). That is the structural problem. It is not a question of "empathy", just good economic sense. A healthy society is more productive, if you like. Right now long waiting lists mean (among other things) that lots of people cannot go back to work and their conditions will worsen, just so the books can be balanced the upcoming quarter.

I wanna think in this paragraph you're referring to the Royal family? They've been on benefits for a long time too, refusing to get real jobs. On publicly-owned utilities, I'll just say you should look up what happened with the privatised water supply in Paris for example. Also, it is not "the government", it is us (as a group of humans forming a society) who need to help those who aren't able to help themselves. A younger society (with children) ultimately benefits everyone.

Calle me deluded, that's fine. 🙂 I have been called worse by others who can't grasp the basics of what it means to own (or not own) capital and the pressures on ever-increasing profits driven by an economic model favouring shareholders above all else. With all due respect, this thing you call free market is not free, nor a market (such belief sounds disingenuous), and whatever that thing may be, it is essentially at odds with the concept of democracy itself (but may be going a bit too off-topic here). The bit about price fixing being prohibited made me smile: once you learn a bit of history of economics & the financial sector as a whole, surely you cannot be as naive as to think it plays by any rules you & I have to abide to. 🫠

Hi there I bought these two (left and right side) in the off-chance they would more-or-less fit my IS300h (for noise insulation). Since im a bit of a fool, of course they don't fit a car they werent designed for, so I dunno what to do with them (can't return). So selling them for like 8 quid plus uk postage (both of them together) not to have them go to waste. That or collection near Rochester in Kent. Part number is 67895-76011 CTP1

Sorry to mention [what for me is] the elephant in the room.... but what we're all upset about here is in reality the very logic of capitalism itself: rip them off as much as you can, rip them off until the tables start turning. The rest is secondary or less. They do it essentially because they can and I would not be surprised if they called one another up to agree on price increases, not to compete too much. As @GMB mentioned, yes materials and costs have risen! ...But if you're paying your garages say +10% for labour for example, you can't increase the price +60% on the basis of labour costs, which is what you seem to be arguing @Boomer54 It's called greedflation at this point and it's happening everywhere. However I'm still called names when I dare say our economic system/model is a decadent and obsolete race to the bottom (for us paying the bills); governments should at least step in to protect consumers.

This is the one I use (link) and it's brilliant

Get one of those magnetic mounts that slide into the vents, don't mess the CD player

Oh man 😀 can you read that again? You say funding goes to NHS, policing, pensions, etc.. and none of those things is any better now (rather much worse!). Schools literally crumbling above children. The money goes to private consultancies milking the public sector (I know cuz I had to work in one of them, it was disgusting) + the oligopolies of privatised-but-subsidised things like Rail companies ("free money" said the Rail fat cats on their powerpoints). You are drawing this strange line between motorists and the Tories when we are in this situation after suffering them for 13 years; but you still believe they would care "if..."? They only care about themselves mate. Whoever still believes them deserves to have them elected for another term... Talk about cognitive dissonance! Yes Labout have sadly turned into Tory-lite, I know. They distinctly haven't run the country the last 13yrs though.