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Absolutely no reason to replace the struts, they will last FAR longer than that. Mine has nearly 130k miles and the struts are fine.

Well if you're only interested in viewpoints that support exactly your take on the situation I'm not sure why you would post it on a discussion forum? Best of luck.

I do not work at Lexus at all, I am simply a Lexus owner and enthusiast like everyone else and I was attempting to make you feel better. Sorry I bothered I guess. My point was you did not loose 3 quarts while the engine was running. You lost three quarts at some point, a lot of that is on your garage floor, a lot of it is on the towtruck, and a lot of it is on the floor of the Lexus dealer. You were smart and did not continue to drive the vehicle which probably saved you from lasting engine damage IMHO. Not the check engine light...the oil pressure light. No low oil pressure=no low oil pressure light. This I agree with in part, however the only way to get rid of the smell is time, it has to burn off the exhaust components. Not a lot they could have done. Now if its knocking and still leaking you need to take it back. The warranty covers the work, but also the components which the work was done to. Should you have an issue later you have some leverage because the car was addressed within the warranty. Anyways its a moot point because the components you've had an issue with are covered under the powertrain warranty and that is still if effect. Do an experiment. take a little bit of motor oil and try and light it on fire. Motor oil is designed to operate at very high temperatures, your engine block is 250 degrees or so. It doesn't catch on fire very easily...its not like cooking oil... Again, I'm trying to help stop trying to pin me with an agenda

Wow..what a freak thing. I've never heard of anything like that happening before. In terms of the warranty, any work they do is warrantied for 12 months or 12,000 miles, so since you brought the vehicle in for this now that clock starts running now, so you are covered. It should be a powertrain warranty issue anyways, and thats still going to be under warranty for 70k miles. I wouldn't worry about damage in the future, you would have gotten an oil pressure light if it had fallen down into unsafe territory. The smell will wear away too as will the little drips. As for the service...what more would you want them to do? They fixed the issue and covered the repair at no cost to you. The Lexus is a very reliable machine but nothing is perfect and things do happen. Your particular hose had some sort of weakness when it was manufactured that caused it to fail. No fire risk...try lighting some motor oil on fire and see how easily it lights.

Yep, they're just old style LCD displays...

It doesn't have adaptive lighting but it does have auto-leveling lighting...

Call your insurance company. They will fix your car and then make sure they get the money from the other driver...

Sometimes though you're just screwed...

Not much you can do. That peice is a plastic trim, you could always remove it and respray it...

The dental floss works to take the emblems off, but its not going to remove leftover adhesive, you need a solvent for that. At least they didn't screw up the paint!

Its probably just bad luck...

Yep, gotta leave the engine on. Glad it worked!

I wouldn't use Murphy's Oil Soap. Its a heavy oil and will damage the interior materials over time. Plenty of cleaners out there specifically designed for automotive interiors...no need to use household products that can cause damage.

Well..its obviously an all new vehicle from a sheetmetal perspective so I'm not sure what you mean about them cutting costs...

Whats the per mile charge for overage?

I would contact them and see if you can make an adjustement and re-cast the payments for a higher mileage rate. Its a question of whether you want to pay the overage in the payments or upfront. I've done a lot of calculations and as far as I can tell, the difference is usually moot. I drive about 20k miles per year, and I've done the calculation from 12k to 20k and 15k to 20k, and all the leases if you add up the difference in payments vs paying the mileage overage at the end its roughly the same. Difference is if you lease for business the mileage overage is a penalty and penalties are not tax deductible, the higher payment for the mileage is. I agree with RX though, I like leasing for business but when you do that you need to think of the vehicle as a business vehicle and have another vehicle for personal use.

And it might ruin the battery...not electrocute people...

Lets not get started on the lockouts again, theres a really long thread about that subject. As I've said until my fingers hurt in that thread, its not only Lexus by far that has these lockouts, its most carmakers and there are only a couple left that don't have them and I bet within the next couple years they'll have lockouts too. The reason why not the Lexus one when you can operate a TomTom while moving? Because thats not Lexus' liability that you put a TomTom, a peice of non-OEM equipment in the car. The "bypass code" was never for owners to access, it was buried in a hidden service menu and was designed for use when a technician was servicing and calibrating the GPS. To bring everyone up to speed... Anyways the map quality varies a lot depending on where you live. I've never had any problems here, even with old outdated maps. The new '09 map (your '09 has series '08 maps) comes out in October, I would ask the dealer to give you a warranty update and see if it helps your problem. I've heard of them doing that before...

Try slamming both rear doors with the engine on and then try the windows again. Sometimes the rear windows jam, and slamming the doors resets the motors. I had this happen to my driver's side rear window last year and just by accident I found it worked after a client got out and slammed the door overly hard. After talking with others on here I learned that the slamming serves as a reset procedure.

Hey Hank! Its just that most hybrid owners in general have the RX because its been out the longest, and its the cheapest. You can feel free to post in either forum. If its something hybrid system related you might want to post that in the hybrid forum, but other than that I agree the members who post in here will have more in common with you probably.

I like it, don't care for the Lexus symbol applique on the front seats, but I kind of like the two-tone leather. I like the piping too...

Should cover everything. I've never had a heated seat fail in a Lexus...

The projector is still the low beam Dens, its just on the interior of the light cluster which is atypical..

But SHE tried it ;) Someone in the household spent money on Oxi-Clean and that was the goal. I have a better story, my father in law bought us "Sham-Wow"'s for Christmas (he's a classy guy lol). He loved the infomercials so much he bought himself a set...and one for everyone he knows for Christmas. They work...the infomercials not the Sham-Wows. They suck. Have you noticed Vince the Sham-Wow guy is EVERYWHERE now after Billy Mays died?

How does the front of your CRV look? Yeah its incredible how much damage can come about from a light hit. Cars doing what they're supposed to do, crumple to absorb impact forces... Definately go to the doctor...