What does ARS light on the dash and the air-con control screen mean on a V300 Aristo? Is it Active Rear Steer? What is this please?

Maybe Aido can help. Firstly because he's got a V300, and secondly because his ARS is constantly on show!

Yeah it's the rear steering rack, it does eventually pack in - one of the guys on this forum - Yoshi - used to sell these, but Dave Ellen @ Prolex now sells the TOMS ARS Canceller - basically it's a metal bar that locks the rear steering in place so it doesn't work and a little gizmo that plugs into the sensor that fools the system into working and gets rid of the light.

At least I think that's about right.

It's also supposed to have the advantage of getting rid of that floaty sensation that the rear of the car seems to have at higher speeds.

I've only ever seen the light come on once which was when I came out of those silly multistory car parks with the coiled exists where you just sit going around in circles for ages! I pulled up and restarted the engine and the light disappeared never to be seen again (well apart from when the system initialises at start up!)

Yes........

You spend months on perfecting a video system. At the time, the only one who had managed to get a stock system to display normal composite images in an IS200.

Then came the reversing camera. Again at the time the only one fitted to stock adapted stock system.

Work your fingers to the bone. Electronics wizardry. Research and development.

You do all this and what does Aido do?
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Good job I never had a towbar really.

And i thought Aido wore glasses??

He was nearly wearing an IS200. I should have backed up a bit. Explaining exhaust burns to on his backside to A+E would have been hilarious.......

That's a classic crack
It really makes all that time of R&D worthwhile.
Btw thats a cool mod, shame mines not a Navigator

I remember that pic, was at the Ashton meet

Blimey it's definitely got hairier over the years!!

There was an influx of these pics hit Facebook last week, it's just wrong

Thanks Aido, thats very helpful

that sounds worrying

PMSL & i was just guna av my breakfast