It's an oil change, tire rotation, and inspection. I also recommend greasing the driveshaft u joints and slip yoke.
Good time to swap the cabin air filter too - I believe ours are charcoal activated and lose their smell-capturing ability after about a year.
If you're in the US, your 10k mile...
Agree with roaniecowpony 100%. I haven't seen any studies correlating early break in oil changes with wear over the life of the engine.
All I can say is increased wear contaminants from piston ring & bearing break in are consistently, reliably measurable, and their reduction as the engine...
Regarding the fuel range - this seems to be a pretty common complaint about modern Toyotas.
Toyota seems to design their cars such that you can regularly & reliably drive the car until your fuel gauge reads completely empty, with 0 miles remaining.
They seem to calibrate their fuel gauges...
I can say my Luxury+ handles just fine on the road in normal suspension mode, and I suspect the minor reduction in trunk space would be unnoticeable unless your bike is exactly tall enough to need the extra like 2 inches of height. It also has massaging seats.
I've never driven an OT, but the...
There's no way to tell. I don't think Toyota makes a genuine grease, so I think the dealers will probably use whatever brand is their preference.
If you can put up with it for a little while longer, maybe hang tight until you can have the Lexus dealer grease it. There's probably hundreds of...
I think you might be surprised how much of this might be related to mechanical design & manufacturing tolerances.
I can't find the link anymore, but I was reading the unsealed internal GM 8 speed communications from their class action lawsuit, where they described a very similar thunk...
I suggest asking your dealer (or any local shop, as long as you always go to the same shop) to lubricate your driveshaft slip yoke and u-joints. This has been in my experience the most reliable way to reduce the clunky downshifts, with the bonus of making our cars drive so luxuriously smooth...
Sadly, I can confirm after my second oil change, that blue crush washer was just as stuck this time as it was from the factory. I'm worried I'll scratch the oil pan paint and start giving rust a chance to form.
Guess we'll just have to wrestle with it every time or buy aftermarket crush...
I mean - widening the track could ever so slightly improve the ability to resist an actual rollover, but I don't think it would have done anything to change your experience. I almost guarantee your car had many inches more suspension travel before a wheel would have lifted off the ground -...
I also found this issue with my car.
Maybe try skateboard grip tape? Be sure to thoroughly clean the running boards with isopropyl alcohol before applying and consider heating up the mating surface with a heat gun or hair dryer before applying it. That should help give maximal adhesion so it...
Sorry to hear about your scary experience.
Every vehicle is going to have a perfect harmonic frequency that will cause the suspension to oscillate and wobble like you described - you might have just found it in a very scary, unlucky time - especially because our soft suspension and high center...
I believe Car Care Nut's theory is corroborated by some details in Toyota's November 6, 2025 NHTSA Recall filing: https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2025/RMISC-25V767-8528.pdf
In section 2, sub-note 2, it says "This recall covers V35A engines of a particular configuration, manufactured during a...
I think he showed that the extra wear wasn't catastrophic, but it is measurable.
I'm not convinced flushing some of the oil in the pan really makes that big of a difference for oil mixing, because there's so much oil trapped in passages around the engine, but I'll definitely do my best to stick...