cdTray

Thanks a lot man.

Sounds to me like you just want to argue here. I'm asking this question on the forum simply to form an opinion about what others think about this situation. You're taking a very hostile position on the topic and should really step it down a notch. The position of my seat took me several days to finely tune and literally hundreds of miles of driving as I have issues with my back.

To answer one of your questions, I noticed this the day after i purchased the car as its not one of the first things that comes to one's mind when just buying the car. I simply assumed it would be included because the dealer told me I have the premium package. The car being a Lexus, i would have expected it to have simple memory seats as is standard on such models on the ES and has been for the past 10 years.

Well the reason I ask this is because I don't want car wash people, valet people, service people... moving it for their 1 minute of comfort or convenience. I'm thinking that I may just disable it before taking it to such places, then re-enabling the seats for any minute adjustments I may need to make on longer trips. However, if this brings up some liability issues, I would like to be made aware of that and possibly forget about doing this if it exists.

I bought an IS350 with the premium package and am very happy with it. I noticed days after my purchase that I don't have simple memory settings for my seats, which after paying 43k was kind of a downer. After much tweaking and refining of my seat settings, I really don't want anybody who sits in my seat to mess around with the settings. Is there any way I can disable the electricity going to the motors in the seats? Is there possibly a specific fuse I could remove to do the job and not disable any other systems? Thanks

I forgot to mention that I did call up Lexus, and I told them about this problem and if they had heard anything about it, and the guy told me he had not and that i should keep a log of when it happens and what not.

I just got myself a new 2009 IS350. I have owned it now for about 2 weeks, and after filling up the car with gas for the first time (i don't know if this has anything to do with my problem or not), and starting it a few hours later, I heard a clanking type sound coming from the car when the engine was relatively cold. It sounded like it came from the starter motor and sounded kind of like two pieces of metal rubbing on each other. This happened to me twice on the same day, but has not happened again since. I read about some 2006 IS's having a similar problem, but nothing on the 2009 model. I'm not sure what to do or what the problem is. Any advice? Should I be concerned?