praetor

What? There's a break hold feature? I know of the hill assist where you press the brakes to the floor and it holds the brakes for a second or two. Will have to try this.

AL13NV8D3R

I think what he is implying is that we do our own braking manually by braking, releasing, braking, releasing, and so on as traffic moves along. So basically it was a joke reply.

praetor

LOL. I'm a little slow in the mornings. hahhaa

SW17LS

No, I was talking about the brake hold assist mentioned above. It'll hold them for a few seconds at least

So...a half joke reply.

BobBass

5,000,000 miles? That' puts the old Volvo "Million Mile Club" ad campaign to shame!

Regarding RECIRC mode coming on automatically, that USED TO be changeable by the dealer in "personalized settings." I've had that done on ALL my Toyotas. After reading more HVAC posts on the newer Lexi, I'm not sure it can be done anymore.

You're absolutely right, this SHOULD be something that the owner can do, but I guess they have to put a limit on what is available in the normal menu system.

FastTags

What is auto parking brake?

coach1

I was an ES350 owner for about 1.5yrs. I was very excited about the car at first, but as time went on I noticed all the cost cutting. When the front seats began to break-down I could get past that I should have looked harder when buying. On top of that, the ES was the result of a bad decision with an A4 Audi, so I'm doubly stupid. I had a few conversations with Lexus over the seats....lost cause.

A month ago I seriously starting looking at the GS and comparing the differences. After a few test rides and convincing myself the cost was justified I pulled the trigger again. I'm satisfied with the deal I made. Basically we traded keys for less than the difference in MSRP and I had negotiated about 10% off the first deal.

Bottom line....I stepped out of the 2013 ES350 Premium into a 2014 GS350 F-Sport...and feel like I'm driving a very sporty quality Lexus instead of a glorified Toyota. I owned a SC430 a one time, driven many LS models and I feel the GS will carry on the tradition for me. I'm the kind of guy that historically kept quality cars for 10-15yrs. My younger years I bought 3-4yrs old cars, so this is unusual behavior for me. You only live once. What I DO have to control is how much time I spend in this forum reading about what is good, what is bad, what problems to look for, etc....because I'm very happy with this car.

AL13NV8D3R

Its located below the steering wheel right above your right knee when your sitting in the car. This controls the Parking/Emergency hand brake.....you know the brake traditionally meant to lockup the rear wheels for initiating drifts? Well in our cars this brake is automatic if you enable it with a toggle switch. If activated the parking brake should engage everytime you put the car in park and disengage when you shift to D mode. Its a set it and forget it option so many people dont even realize they have this feature.

FastTags

yes I've seen the switch but I still dont get what its for, is that like a Hand Brake?

If so, how do you use it in a drift? or you can't?

SW17LS

It's a parking brake. Every car has a parking brake, they're for parking not for drifting.

ItzFilyO

It would be dangerous if u try to drift with electronic parking brake like this.

SW17LS

Its terrifying to me that people in the US don't understand what a parking brake is and don't use it every time they park.

If you read the owners manual of any car it clearly says that the car is not designed to sit in park alone, and the parking brake should always be used when parking.

dougm213

Let me paint a picture, 1980's, Idyllic setting, with a lake then a couple of occupied picnic tables with cars parked along the lake drive ( one table with people in their 60's and 70's). I am 16 or 17 driving a Datsun 210. I am SLOWLY backing up from across the street and go a little too far and my car falls off the lip of the road (4 inches). It knocks the bumper of a car which is kicked out of park and starts to roll towards the picnic table. In my rear view mirror I see everyone scrambling (if you can call it that). I think some of the 70 year olds gave up submitting that their time was done and did not move.

Luckily, there was no incline and the car stopped short of the table. No damage to either car. Would the parking brake helped? If it was on, there might have been damage, but it would have been much safer if it was applied in place.

SW17LS

Yup, 100% You hear stories like that even now.

FastTags

I call it hand brake, was kind caught off guard with Parking brake )