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no am radio reception? When I mentioned
this to Lexus service they acknowledged
this to be a problem, but offered no
solution.
http://www.autosite.com/new/detmenus/2832.asp
website for several weeks. No changes
dvd/nav now standard, thats it.
Thanks for your quick response. That was my first visit to Town Hall and you were a big help.
Don
My wife and I bought an LX470 in late March and we simply love it. My wife loves it more cuz she drives it all the time and I only get to drive it on the W/E.
Could you share any specifics so that I could go to my local auto accessory dealer and have this done?
Also, do you know if a signal splitter could be used to tie in a second monitor for the kids to view from ?
Thanks in advance for any help !
Good luck.
I did have the Dvd bypassed. However it is not an easy thing to do. Bypassing after markets Dvd players are relatively easy, they even sell kits to make it easy.
Bypassing the factory Lexus Dvd is another story. The shop that performed this service advised me it took them several months to figure out how to configure the system to work correctly. They have since then done many Lx's.
Khuynh was right even if some shops can figure it out, most are simply unwilling to do so. I don't think they want to assume any liability if somebody has an accident.
Bigdave12 - any advice on proceeding (i.e. I'd certainly apreciate some, rather than re-inventing the wheel, so to say, with several months worth of research)?
I live in New England and am friendly with an auto accessories shop owner in my state who can have the work done on the side for me. Maybe I should go out and buy the repair manual for the 2001 model -and review the wiring diagrams, etc. ???
If it's simply not worthwhile, please let me know and I'll drop searching for the DVD Holy Grail!
Thanks again!
If I were you, I'd try your salesperson at Lexus. I pressed and complained to my salesperson that I thought it was ridiculous to have a dvd player that only played while the car was parked.
I am sure there is shop in the New England area that is doing them, and the Lexus salespersons know who they are.
Tell him you don't want to bypass the Dvd but does he know where other owners are taking their Lx for this service.
This is the way I would go. I would defintely not have a shop experiment with my car or be the test car in this learning process.
I appreciate your taking the time to respond.
Randy
1.5speed AT
2.variable gear ratio steering
3.18inch wheel
4.side and curtain shield air bags
and so on....
I would appreciate any other info you have on the 03 LX.
Will there be a new lx in 03? ... just in Japan or the US as well?
But as I see it even after enabling it you will still need to install one or more additional LCD screens )for rear seat passengers) plus install a wireless transmitter for wireless head phones? By this time you have spent the same as a dedicated system. Even then you will have a less than perfect system:
1. You won't be able to use the NAV while playing a movies
2. You won't be able to listen to other music while the movie is playing.
3. You won't be able to pump other video sources like a Playstation thu it.
I have a roof mounted pod system in my LX and its great....my wife and I can listen to our CD's while the kids watch the movie (or play on the Playstation) with sound thru the wireless headphones.
That ought to do closer to $41-42 at the auction if its clean and in a good color (What color is it?)
Ya got a good deal. Local guys are getting about that for 99s!
Bill
Could be a good color, could be a bad color.
Where do you live? And what was the Interior color?
Bill
Ivory interior
Would cert pre-owned require the dealer to replace tires and brake pads anyway?
Actually, I have it, I love it, and everyone said it was a very fair deal - nothing ridiculous, but I could have done much worse - so I'm happy
The dealer is not required to do this work per se, but they have to be within like 50% of new tread on tires and brakes.
So, at your mileage, them were prolly getting thin. When I worked at a Lexus store we'd replace them unless they were a lot closer than that.
Bill
Ivory interior
Would cert pre-owned require the dealer to replace tires and brake pads anyway?
Actually, I have it, I love it, and everyone said it was a very fair deal - nothing ridiculous, but I could have done much worse - so I'm happy
Newer screens I believe will have better side viewing angles..you need to check the specs.
Best viewing is third row or center 2nd. When we go on a trip the kids sit in the third row and we fold down the 2nd row seats to make a table or sorts...thats where the N64 sits. I run power from the center storage box outlet. Hope this helps.
>jagger6
In South Florida Ive heard of deals as cheap as 2200-2300 over invoice, but $3K over seems to be the norm.
Bill
I think a price at less than $2000 over invoice is a good price. Good luck with your search.
Then I checked with other dealers - they have them but are selling them for $5500 to $8000 over invoice (which is essentially MSRP).
Short supply apparently has to do with a conscious decision by Toyota to cut production due to the recession. This has impacted, not only the Lexus LX470 but the Toyota Land Cruiser and Sequoia as well. Market pricing therefore is significantly higher.
One example, in November I got a Sequoia Limited for a client at $1200 over invoice. My client's benchmark for paying this was Carsdirect.com's pricing at $1200 over. Today, Carsdirect's pricing for the same car is $2900 over!
Pathdoc, there are LX470s available to look at in Orange County and LA. I found a number of them yesterday (high priced!) so if your goals is just to drive one, you should be able to do so if you call around.
Thank you, in advance.
You might get some kind of response if (a) you explain what demographic characteristics of customer segments have to do with environmental analysis of a company or product and (b) of what use could a nonrandom sampling be to you? (By definition, you are not getting a random sampling by soliciting data from Edmund's members.)
tidester
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By the way its a fabulous truck.
Thanks for the clarification. I understood your original message to refer to "the environment" meaning ecology.
Just leave the details of the project to me
Trust me! I have no intention of doing your work for you!
tidester
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You actually asked someone to describe the demographic characteristics of a few of Lexus' customers as opposed to describing Lexus' customers demographics (which is much more meaningful) - so you did not ask for information about the car. It is difficult to condescend when you are in an introductory management course. A poorly phrased question will get an answer, just not the right one.