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The airbag light came on about 50k miles dealer wants $2000 to repair. Rearview mirror went out at about 55k miles repair estimate $1200. Gas gauge quit at 65k miles $1200 estimate. To me that is an outrageous amount to pay for repairs on a vehicle with less than 100k miles. My Chevy trucks and Suburban are much more reliable and less expensive to repair.
Amortized over your 14 years of ownership that would amount to $366 per year if you fixed all three....That doesn't sound so bad to me.
Maybe a new LS430 in your future?
A fix would probable be $20 or $30 bucks.
Also, what is the access point to replace the spark plugs. Also, what are the best replacements beside the expensive Toyota plugs?
I believe that fearing lawsuits from accidents where an oncoming driver alleges that the car's HID's blinded them (according to Consumer Reports, there are thousands of complaints about the glare from HID's), Lexus has aimed alot of technology at the goal of keeping HID light out of oncoming driver's eyes. A laudable goal, up to the point where downroad vision for the driver of the LS is significantly impaired. And that is exactly what I experienced. The worst case is when you are ascending a hill and the autolevelers point the lights down, cutting short downroad vision even further. No question that the sides of the road are well lit, but far vision is less than half that of regular halogens in certain circumstances.
I suggest that anyone interested in an LS430 test-drive it on a very dark, hilly road first. Any amount of ambient light will mitigate this effect, so if you never plan to travel on a dark road this may not be important. For me, however, it changed my buying decision. It broke my heart too....this is an otherwise great car.
In regard to the plane of the earth vs. the car, the autoleveling would appear to compensate for changes in the cars attitude relative to an imaginary line tangent to the earth's surface. So if a car is heading up a hill it restores the angle of the headlights to a flatter angle that results in less distance, whereas when descending a hill the lights point up. Standared "fixed" lights would have their aim permanently coupled to the plane of the car, which makes more sense if the goal is illuminating the bit of terrain you happen to be on at the moment. From this I conclude that autoleveling is more for keeping HID light out of oncoming driver's eyes.
out, four hours later, the battery was dead. Evidently I had gotten so excited over the ribs, I forgot to close the door and I left the headlights on lights as well as the emergency flashers. God those were great ribs.
I think you're kidding yourself there. The dealer isn't going to give a rip about the differential of miles on your tranny or fuel pump. But they did step up, as they should.
After I picked up my car, I did some experimenting. It seems like the sunroof rattles more at slower speeds and is partially caused by wind buffeting. I opened the sunroof about 3/4 with all windows closed and at exactly 25mph, the pressure from the wind and the rattle hurts your ears. Any faster or slower, the pressure is relieved and the rattle is more intermittent. Fully open, the sunroof continues to rattle intermittently, but without the air pressure, and by putting light pressure on it, the rattle stops. By lightly touching the open sunroof while driving, I can feel it vibrating, like the sunroof is flexing.
I guess I can understand the wind buffeting and the air pressure, especially with such a large sunroof, but I can't believe the rattle is normal. Does anyone else have this problem? I guess the only way to see if it is normal is to drive another LS430. I have to believe if anyone else had this problem, there would have been a thread about it before. Any help, recommendations, advice would be greatly appreciated.
Mike
Mike
Brake "feeling" is the result of BA, Brake Assist, now standard equipment on many new cars.
BTW, the Lexus is NOT overrated! It is probably the finest car I've ever owned and I've owned a lot of luxury brands.
My LS430 also has the sports suspension, lots of fun
Where and how is this accomplished? Also, has anyone ordered the CD version shop manual and how would you rate it? Lexus Technical Information System
i got 2 estimates. one from a lexus dealer, and from some third party auto shop.
the dealer, for the window, tinting of the window, and replace the black side panel on the door(which was also bent in) = $850
the other shop i went for same stuff: $750 for lexus glass, $650 for generic glass.
i went for the $650. he told me it would be virtually impossible to tell the difference, there just wouldnt be a lexus sticker. will i notice any difference, noise,anything between the two? should i just pay the extra 100? anybody know?
Thanks
maadm