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Have just had my 70k service on my 10yr old RX300 and have decided that its not worth getting the work done at Lexus any longer as their prices are astronomical. Can anyone recommend an independent, reputable Japanese auto centre? Its a good car, never goes wrong, don't fancy trading it in unless I can get my hands on a dark brown one ...any they are RARE.

hi there, just to confirm that the DVD drive was kaput - I managed to buy one off a breakers yard on ebay for £130 incl postage, Lexus have just fitted it for me for £75 and bingo all working fine. Im gong to get the faulty one repaired too . Thanks for advice above - appreciated!

thanks for responses - I have now tried some other discs and still no joy so am booking into auto audio specialists in park royal London to get them to look at the DVD lens. Cant believe I'm the only one with this problem though - any further advise would be greatly appreciated......

thanks - I bought them!

I have answered Q3 myself after digging thru some of the other topics: http://www.lexus-mapupdates.eu

Hi there, Sat Nav is on the blink. Keep getting above error message. It kept freezing but occasionally if I went over a speed bump it would work again, but after I took it to the Lexus garage for repair and they took the disc out, did some reset nonsense that achieved nothing , it doesn't even show the local area map now, I just have the error message - so its worse than it was before I took it in! Their unhelpful solution was for me to get a new one at £2.5k. I have the following questions please so I can try and solve by elimination: 1. does the DVD go in printed side up or down? 2. I was advised to get a head cleaner, does the head cleaner go in with brushes up or down? 3. I have also been advised to get a new disc in case its scratched/old (although is only 2009), I recall on here when I bought the '09 disc someone had a super useful link to a European distributor of Satnav discs for half the price the UK dealership is flogging them for - can I have it please? 4. Can anyone recommend a good Lexus technician within M25 who isnt just going to just recommend a new unit? 5. has anyone solved this error message ? many thanks AR