curlywasastooge

Just bought a 2010 RX450h CPO. To date majority of my driving has been maybe 6-7 miles to/from work with no trips more than 10 miles. It's Feb. so temps cool to cold here in Delaware. I read about extra time in winter for warming up etc. which affects MPG. The vechile had 11,800 miles on it, which is great for long term keeping it etc.. Now to the mpg. first fill up (note only down to about 3/4 of a tank so not alot of miles). 24.5 approx. I see others posting much better MPG, but wondering about travel distances, etc. Perhaps the short trips are a killer ? Speed at max 50mph, with several stops, lower speeds etc. and only about 6-7 miles either way as noted above. This weekend we may get our first trip of 75 miles or so. Hopeing to see better results. What are opinions as to mpg i'm getting now? Others see that in winter, short trips etc.and if so, how are you MPG ratings on longer trips in winter, and short/long trips in spring to fall time frame. Love the quiet smooth ride.

Interesting to see this subject timing cover leak etc. My 07 CPO ES350 is now at dealer for same problem. Thank goodness they honor the warranty. They advised me Friday they'd have to remove the engine to fix it. Imagine the labor on that one. Anyway, gave me a loaner till possibly this Wed. Sure hope it goes back to together with no "new" problems created.

Thanks for all the great reply's. Going for oil change later today and will again address the oil leak problem. Last time....Duh, we can't find anything. WIll push on dash rattle as well. The rear tire area rattle will need a road test i'm sure and hopefully they'll do etc.... concerned with it. Mileage wise a bit over 61000 miles. Produced in late summer time frame 2006 and lease apparently around that same time frame. Forgot to mention the memory seat adjustment acts up. Wasn't working for awhile (still does once in awhile). Took in, the manager confirmed situation. Guy working on car said working fine. It was then. Manager had him relook since he saw same thing. Anyway, nothing ever fixed, but a on again/off again problem. I've heard about changing tire pressure so and reset so may give that a try. With cold temps just came on again so i'm sure pressure dropped with temps some (need to check spare too). Actually thinking later this year when CPO warranty runs out looking for something else. Maybe a Lexus, but not sure. We're retiring (hopefully) by summer 2013. And do want something nice for trips.... And regardless of whether all issues resolved this car not in those long travel plans. Probably the luck of the draw. Again thanks for all the responses.

Although not happy with my 07 ES350 that much, when we bought in 2009 dealership said they only put regular in all Lexus models.....we've run 87 only. Runs fine. 23-24 mpg local stop/go...... 32-33 on trips consistently. So from a gasoline standpoint and mpg for nice size vehicle, we've been happy.

My first post in this forum. I bought a 2007 ES350 CPO back in Oct. 2009. Overall dissapointed with the vehicle. Between numerous oil leaks, water pump failure, dash rattle etc. it has been a major dissapointment. Now a recent rattle sound when pulling into driveway or over a speed bump (both obviously very low speed). Sound like something loose in left rear tire area. Hard to determine. Will need to have dealership look but curious if anyone noticed anything similar? My wife loves the car more so i think due to Ruby Red Metallic color. Does look nice, and rides fairly decent. Keeping 35 lb. psi in tires makes things a bit rough but tire pressure light comes on if we don't. Dealer says it needs 35 yet recommends 32. Forget 32. light comes on immediately. Dash rattle worse in colder weather (like now). There was a TSB on that but per dealer i'm past the deadline....great, most of the time lost when it was leased prior to sale in Nov. 2009...thanks Lexus. Headed in tomorrow for 4th oil leak in vehicle. Water pump leaked and at least that got fixed under warranty. For now though any thoughts on what this metal rattle sound (only hear it once) and only occurs every so often as i described above. 3 year warranty runs out end of this year, so most likely good bye Lexus.