Lexus-CT

More or less like here. It never rains,,, So I have summer tyres on the little car, and man they are great. 10 times better than what was on from new.

Good luck finding a brand that care more for being correct than for profit and thus accepting that there is a missing point in service manuals. If owners of cars with sun-roof themselves must take care of getting the drains cleaned it should be mentioned in manuals, but correct would be that it should be part of service plan to clean the drains. Soon I need my yearly service in order to keep warranty of hybrid battery and will ask for having the drains cleaned at the same time. Not that it rains much here, actually almost never. But drains could be clogged by dust or other things.

Take the Lexus on a long test-ride and see what you think. Hondas are good and reliable cars and, in my eyes, not that difficult a question if the Honda is in good shape. Honda Accord Coupé is one of the cars I liked a lot.

I wonder if this could be a gamechanger for heating houses where it is cold? Global heating is not yet everywhere: https://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/hydrogen-duct-burner-fives/8560416/?awt_a=1jpsU&awt_l=IFzTR&awt_m=gkCJbuLyJ85DlsU Where we live all that is needed for the time being is air-condition to get temperature down.

The manual is for a CT 2016. Seems that functions in ES and CT work more or less same way. Manual is a terrible mess. Maybe written in Japanese - translated into Chinese - and from there to English (on Google)!

This is how my manual tells me to do it:

Only use cruise control when driving at night on highways without other traffic or very little.

I certainly agree with you that hybrid cars are maybe the best compromise available most places in the world today. That does not mean that when we bought the little CT (big enough for us, we are only 3) that a hybrid was, what I was looking for but at least the best compromise. In 1984 I was driving in a Toyota Crown a friend let us use while we were visiting and that was luxury then, probably something like a Camry but absolutely a car using a lot of fuel. I like the idea of not destroying the planet, being an old tree-hugger. When I was young there were no talk about pollution and problems with fossil fuels, so I have had terrible fuel consumers, company cars with fuel paid by the boss, part of salary. Later when I started thinking about our children and the world they are going to live in; that was when information started to pop up about the way we destroy the ocean and born on a little island and loved (still do) to walk on the beach, I was seeing what was washed up from ships sailing by, I started to think about the way we were living. People living in California are having the possibility to drive in cars not polluting no matter if EV’s or Hydrogen powered, but till now the fuel for them has been made in so big a part from fossil fuels so the green image is only imaginary. As long as we use fossil fuels to make electricity, we are not getting anywhere away from making the planet a dangerous place for those coming after us. Some say that climate change is a hoax and that the fires around the world and other disasters that seems to be coming more regularly are something that happens now and then and not a result of humans destroying the place we live. Maybe they are the same that as religion has “profit first” and think only about themselves. We are fortunate to live in a part of the world where some (or most of us) never usually think about anything else than getting more. I have been travelling a lot and often walking around in mountains in Africa, where education was (and very many places still is) not something that was/is important; when family seldom have bellies full, other things are counting. The higher you get up on the mountain, the cleaner the air is, the quieter it is, and I like to think, the better you are able to think about other things than getting richer – or the best car. I hope that one day soon we will have enough clean electricity to make H2 reasonable in price and we can transport ourselves securely from where we are to where we need to be without polluting.

A bulldozer buries wind turbine blades used for green energy. Why could you ask? Because these blades must be disposed of because there is currently no way to recycle them. Yes, that's how green energy works. Now the wind turbine blades can be used to make other things out of them, but the required energy and other costs do not make it financially sound. Total fuel consumption in the U.S. to airlines is more or less 72 billion liters per year. The total fuel consumption for mining ore (minerals) for the construction of electric car batteries is more than 79 billion liters per year. The environmental and human costs of digging for the minerals are not mentioned here. These more than 79 billion liters of fuel can produce enough ore to build about 250,000 car batteries; not the very long-range ones, the common ones. If well built, Li-Ion batteries will last 10 years and still have reasonable power. The minerals still in the batteries can only be recycled with a lot of work, since the battery cells they are glued firmly to survive (not to short-circuit) the harsh life of a car driving around on not always smooth surfaces, meaning it doesn't happen because of the cost of it. If one of these car batteries catches fire, putting it out is a tough job. This will result in around 25 tons of landfill waste that is not environmentally friendly as it does not decompose. The glue used is so solid that to get cobalt and lithium out of them, it is so expensive and difficult that we will continue to look for more minerals instead. Until the planet is completely destroyed, and no matter how much ore there is, it's not something that will last forever. Not even enough to make all cars battery powered so they can drive around cities without pollution coming out of exhaust pipes. There are not enough minerals to make batteries for all cars, trucks, industrial machines etc. that run on gasoline or diesel today. So, what will we do after 10 years when the batteries no longer hold enough energy. To make the picture a little worse for electric cars, according to Volvo in Sweden they must have driven more than 100,000 km on green fuel to be energy neutral with existing gasoline cars that use gasoline (where the cars are already built). Petrol and diesel cars are still the vast majority of cars that drive around the world. Another thing that is not talked about much is that long-distance electric cars would have very heavy batteries, which would cause them to wear tires faster. Tires are not made of environmentally friendly stuff. Particles from tires are found in water that seeps down, and will be in water that is supposed to be suitable for human consumption and with the filters used today it just might not be that. That the electrical grid available today is nowhere near capable of charging all the electric cars our politicians dream of us driving around in is another matter and, funnily enough, the supply grid has not really started being made bigger and nearly robust enough to meet the demand in any country in the world and according to the best I know, no country is even in the start-up phase of doing so. But: It doesn't matter, since the electricity that needs to charge the electric cars is still for more than 50% made from fossil fuels. In more than 20 years, England has managed to go from 2% renewable energy to around 40%. At that rate green electricity will never come and to get power / make electricity the UK government has just given out 100 drilling permissions to get oil from the sea as they think there is more need for oil than living water. The sea gives us much of what we need, but according to UK politicians that is not as needed as oil. I wonder if people would still believe that electric cars, vehicles or equipment are good for the environment if they knew how massive the CO2 emission pressure really is coming from “going green the electric battery powered way”? If you think solar cells are the solution, you're forgiven, as China, which produces most of them, won't disclose how much energy it costs to make the cells, and how many minerals are needed, and what kind of child and forced labor is used to be over-competitive. Unconfirmed but possibly / presumably reliable sources report that China uses coal to make electricity to make the power needed to make "green energy". Do you still think it's a good thing to have cars that drive around and don't pollute from exhaust pipes? If the British government would spend the same amount of effort / money they are drilling for oil from now on to create equipment to make electricity from the ever-reliable tide on their vast coastline, they could get electricity that doesn't need to be burned oil to get, increasing pollution. Since the Paris Declaration long ago, perhaps no country has reduced pollution nearly as much as they promised when they signed the declaration; some of them have planted trees (which might grow big enough to help a bit in say 50 years) and some have bought permission to pollute from less polluting countries, but overall pollution has increased since the declaration was signed. The Gulf Stream, which passes by and through the Canary Islands, was 20 degrees Celsius there in 2005, and now 18 years later it is 24 degrees. Ice in polar regions is melting faster than anyone imagined 5 years ago. Glaciers melt and no longer keep the rocks firmly bound to the mountains they are on. In many places in the world, wildfires are destroying forests that were able to produce oxygen and keep CO2 bonded, so there is no reason to blame only Brazil for destroying the rainforest. Italy and Spain used to produce much of the rice eaten in Europe They no longer have enough water to grow rice, while elsewhere in the world record-breaking rain is falling, destroying roads and houses etc. This year we used the resources the planet makes for us halfway through the year. Are the politicians we elect doing a good job of making this planet a safe place for our children? Our politicians are lame ducks. Afraid to tell the truth, and although the industrialized countries promised and signed papers in 2009 that they would use less fossil fuels, the opposite has happened. What our politicians are working for is to get re-elected, and they think that will only happen if they keep promising higher living standards, more profits – etc. Not many are trying to use the only constant source of energy on the planet to make the electricity we are so dependent on. Wind doesn't always blow and the sun doesn't always shine and all the energy used to make machines for these 2 power sources could be spent more intelligently figuring out how to make the same or much more electricity out of the tide, that will be constant as long as the moon circles above us. Do not trust what I write to you. Don't ask oil company lobbyists or those in their pockets. Search for yourself and find out. All data is available. Something to think about and tell your friends. This is bad news that has been known for a long time. The young part of our generation will feel many of the negative consequences if nothing is done. Some of the rest of us are now hearing about and feeling the rise in temperature; last weekend I was in a place where the temperature was 48 degrees Celsius. Politicians talk about how much they are doing to help reduce pollution while doing the opposite. Live in peace and help our little ones. If you want to see a picture of a bulldozer burying wind turbine blades: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-05/wind-turbine-blades-can-t-be-recycled-so-they-re-piling-up-in-landfills#xj4y7vzkg Several wind turbine blades, some longer than a Boeing 747: https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2020/feb/08/wind-turbine-blades-pile-up-in-landfill/ https://ktxs.com/news/local/old-windfarm-blades-causing-problems-in-nolan-county 2050 there will be 43 million tons of wind turbine blade waste: https://cowboystatedaily.com/2023/03/01/by-2050-used-wind-turbine-blades-will-exceed-43-million-tons-of-waste-every-year/

Great way to look at it. Solving a problem is good, solving two is better. While you are at it you could control the discs if they are straight or warped.

https://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/green-hydrogen-newhydrogen-uscb/8560378/?awt_a=1jpsU&awt_l=IFzTR&awt_m=gSs4FIW_u85DlsU Still believe though, that tide is as close to the best eternal power source we know of today. The heat they use to split the water, need to come from energy created somewhere, but as long as it is waste energy that can make hydrogen instead of just heating the planet, I think it is one of the best ideas I have heard of in quite a long time. Electric Formula1? Cannot find any useful data on how much the formula like electric cars, some think shall be replacing Formula1. The amount of energy building the batteries and motors, plus the energy for charging these (most electricity today is still made from fossil fuels one way or the other) compared with what energy is used building the combustion engines they use today with their fuel use. Neither have I seen data on how much pollution is “invested” in both technologies. Strange actually, as the super batteries used for the electric races, that need to be super speedy charged, will, with the technology that exist today, most likely have a rather short life with the full energy capacity needed. Toyota is informing that maybe not in 2024 but no later than 2025 they will have a 24 hour Le Mans car ready, and having won that race more than once, they probably know what they are talking about. Funny thing with this is, that the fuel to be used will be H2 (hydrogen); so far, they have not yet decided (or informed) if only fuel-cell or combined fuel-cell with combustion engine (either gasoline or hydrogen powered) plus the hybrid power regaining they have been used quite a while now. Anyway, Le Mans is a race worth keeping an eye on. .

By the way, it is far easier to make sound better for just front seat like it is in a Lexus LC and Corvette C8.

You have a newer ML and a larger car than we so answer may be less than great for you. Do not know if the car you have has a problem with audio; best way to find out is to try another similar and listen if it sounds different. The CT we have has a close to neutral sound meaning that what is put in is amplified and reproduced rather close to perfect. A car is a difficult place to get perfect sound stage for all in it – it is too small. Listening to classical music and jazz I find the audio in our car close to a perfect compromise. Can hear the difficult to reproduce sound from the double bass when the bass player is sliding fingers on the fret, and drums also sound close to natural. A more powerful sub could be able to reproduce disco and heavy bass music more efficiently, but the more filters you put in the car in order to get more dedicated speakers to perform their best the more difficult it will be to keep natural sound of instruments and voices. No car will probably ever be able to sound as well as the old Quad home stereo with electrostatic speakers, there is no way to have such a large volume in a car. The price of a perfect home stereo is maybe a bit higher than the price of a car. I think Lexus has chosen a good compromise for audio: https://www.maerklevinson.com

What will happen if hydrogen become cheaper than gasoline? I was looking for a small real green car but bought the hybrid CT. An EV was out of the question as electricity to charge with here is mostly made from fossil fuels and production of large batteries is in no way green, so a hybrid seemed to be best option. Now it looks like real green hydrogen will possibly be available sooner than previously expected at reasonable price, so just waiting for a CT size hydrogen car to be made. Thought that least polluting way to make electricity was to use the power of tide, maybe this is more efficient. https://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/green-hydrogen-newhydrogen-uscb/8560378/?awt_a=1jpsU&awt_l=IFzTR&awt_m=gSs4FIW_u85DlsU

Used this Saris Bones on a MR2 Spyder and VW Golf 2.0tdi DSG without problems: Thule from Sweden also make one that can be used on most cars: Both should keep a bike high enough to not disturb the rear sensors.

Too big to find parking space for here. When the CT is to be replaced will look for a similar size H2 car. Warranty for hybrid battery is good till 2031. Parking places here are made for Fiat 500, the original, not the new that is bigger than a CT.

Hope the fire will soon be extinguished. If the layers of clear lacquer are not enough to keep them good looking, maybe you can send one of the Honda caps to a 3D printing service and have 4 made with Lexus logo on them. They should be able to print more or less anything. 3D Innovations, in Honolulu claim they can print your dreams. +1 808 722 8667 Lexus-Logo-Wallpaper-2022-291275574.eps

No, not from around there: More than 15 years in car business. First Mercedes Benz. Then Volvo.

I did not actually look for tyres in the size for such a heavy car, so you are right, Ultra Contact tyres are not what you need. Still Continental as I have had that brand for our cars living many different places and even on dirt roads in Africa they never gave me a flat. Continental Premium Contact 6 would be what I would put on such a big car now, no matter if on 17 or 18 wheels. It is probably even better than what we had while living there; once we got the crazy idea to take a trip round in Sahara. More than 40K Km on dirt- and paved roads in Africa in a MB350S and a lot of Km in a 300SEL, both rather heavy cars.

Not sure I understand what you write, but love is for family and friends, not things that can be bought. In my opinion. Have had many cars and really liked about 10 of them for various reasons. 3 from Honda, 1 Lancia Rally, 2 MB, 2 Nissan, 2 Toyota MR2 and the CT is not bad either. Right now, it is sufficient. In not too many years from now the CT probably will be pensioned and a new bought and with all the progress in future fuels I believe that H2 is one that may be the best and easiest affordable and least polluting option.

I thought the wheels were black! Hope you are not having problems with the terrible fire on the island.

No problem Les. I do not even remember from where I have copied it. One more thing that make fuel economy hard to understand when reading from other countries is the different kind of money we have. The old UK system with pounds, farthings etc. was so complicated that nobody today would be able to understand how that was.

I do not know where Jeff goes when winter holyday is the time; if it is Alaska maybe winter tyres would not be bad, though in these times with global warming, maybe Alaska will just be next place to get out of the frying pan. Last weekend we were down south where we live and temperature was 47 degrees Celsius. Not nice at all. Air condition is really fine in the CT; when it is cold here it is 10 degrees Celsius. The Ultra Contact tyres are quiet, drive 10 times better than the OEM, my wife says car drives better now and the little one says that music sound better, as noise is less. All season tyres are for people living where it is never really cold nor hot. That is a way not to need to have 2 set of wheels. Have been living in Norway and sometimes snow chains were so badly needed, that it some places was criminally stupid to drive without them.

Continental Ultra Contact Is what we use. Far better than the terrible OEM. All season are compromise. They are supposed to be good at everything and are not. If you live in a summer climate summer all year. When we lived up north, we used summer tyres in summer and the 3 - 4 months snow and ice was common (and salt on the roads) we put on the other set of wheels with real winter tyres. In real winter all season tyres are no good. In hot summer they are inferior to summer tyres.

1 gal (UK) = 1.2009499255 gal (US) Easy to understand??? Not? In the UK, a pint is 20 fluid ounces, or about 568ml. How much is a gallon? In the US, a gallon is 8 pints, 128 fluid ounces or about 3.8 litres. In the UK, a gallon is 8 pints, 160 fluid ounces, or about 4.5 litres. These differences can lead to quite a few problems when it comes to comparing quantities or prices per gallon in different countries! That make sense??? Not? The present international mile is usually what is understood by the unqualified term mile. When this distance needs to be distinguished from the nautical mile, the international mile may also be described as a land mile or statute mile. UK vs. US??? Speaking about miles it is a little bit more complicated. A UK mile is different to a US Mile which is different to a Swedish mile. While the Swedish mile makes a bit of sense, the 2 others do not. And then there is the nautical mile. But to speak about the one that makes sense: When you can see the flash of lightning, it will be a while before you hear the crash of the lightning. The longer time passes, the further away the thunderstorm is. Every second you can count means the sound is the number of miles away that you count seconds. Here we are talking about Swedish miles. A Swedish mile is 10km. Is it easy to understand that people worldwide have difficulties understanding fuel economy?