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The 330 can handle sporty driving. When you push down the pedal, it feels like it accelerates faster. It doesn't but it sure feels like it. And when you drive it fast on a bend, it sticks to the road. The hybrid feels like there is an extra ton weight in the trunk that is trying to overtake.

I am with you on this, and absolutely love my rx400h, but have you ever driven a 330? Boy, it is one fine ride! Getting back to the hybrid feels like you are driving a truck. Just my .02

I recently saw a 2010 rx450h with 14k miles having a $41000 indicated as MMR price (mannheim market report). Pricey, imo.

I found this out the hard way: took the car for inspection at the dealarship where I moved. They said sparks-replacement is due, so I had them changed. It wsa at 40k miles. They charged a fortune and I was not sure they even opened up the hood. Lesson learned, I am having everything done at the local garage since. (Car is not under warranty anymore.) A quick question: is it conceiveable that I need to change the front breakpads at 60k?

that is because it is an IS250. People posting here have the rx400h which is shipped with different satnav headunits from different makers for the US and the EU markets. Your experience unfortunately does not help here much.

pschmoker, I also bought my rx400h used. I had terrible mileage for the first few months until I perfected coasting and more importantly, until I replaced the auxiliary battery. The original has a "magic eye" thingy on it that indicates battery damage. Mine was nice and blue so I thought it is fine, but then the car had to be jumpstarted (yes, it was very embarrassing) so I checked the battery and found that 2 cells were shorted. The "magic eye" was in a third cell and that very cell was ok, so it showed blue. I do not know what the connection is, lemon, the op here is much more knowledable than me, but I suspect that some sensor running off the aux battery reports false data and that misleads the controller to fire up the combustion engine... My advice would be to replace the aux battery if you can borrow one, do the learning procedure and see what happens. Let us know!

Hello, a turkey flew up I hit my garage door as I was reversing and now I need to replace the mirror. The case and the positioning gear looks intact but the glass needs to be replaced. Reading these fora I concluded that a similar glass (with heating and self-dimming) would cost upwards of 200USD, thus my best bet is an OEM replacement. I very much like (the price of) the burco mirrors referred by the op, but I only found their "7-15/16" Dg.Electrochromic Fit Over" for the rx400h. This is a "Fit Over" meaning I should glue it on top of the broken mirror. I guess I would use urethane liquid glue so that the heating will propagate through the layers of glass -- to some extent at least. But self-dimming? Tis is an "electrochromatic" fit-over, but apparently no wiring is necessary, how is it powered then? The op also says he is instructed to break out the original mirror. This Fit-Over needs the original mirror to stay in place, what Burco did he possibly have? Any help would be much appreciated!