Coil Pack Replacement

[Gurj Mann]

Hi there.

The dreaded trc an eng lights lit up the dasboard last week (Is 200 sport, 94k). had the fault read (£35 from car audio shop) then took it to Toyota in Leicester, hoping labour rates would be cheaper. Anyway, it cost me £204 to have 1 coil pack replaced!! re-setting the ecu has improved performance.

Cheeky ****ers charged me £10 plus vat for a new bosh super 4 spark plug, i only paid around £20 for 6 in the firstplace.

They also want £315 for cambelt plus other belt changes. 2.5 hours labour @£70 per hour approx.

Will ring lexus later. Gonna ring nottingham lexus also. For any people who want an aditional key, get 1 from e-bay, nottingham lexus charged between 50-60 to programme it. Leicester wudnt as i had got key my self (that came from the parts manager!!) I tried the "pedal dance" got the doors to open n close, but cudnt get the engine started.

[kam05]

£204 for a coil pack, is that price supply and fit? You should have bought the coilpack and fitted it yourself, very easy to do-could have saved some labour charges.

The dealer should only supply/fit iridum spark plugs (these suit Toyota/Lexus/Jap engines). I've read that the Bosch Super 4's shouldn't be fitted to Jap cars.

Cambelt price seems reasonable to me, does the price also include replacing the idler and tensioner?- my local dealer wanted £550 to do this job! Why not get your Cambelt done by a good local garage?

The 'pedal dance' routine does work, see post by forum member 84Stoney on how to program a new key. I used his instuctions last week to program a new key- his instructions DO work! Try again, it took me several attempts to get the key to start the engine- the locking/unlocking of the doors is easy.

[Gurj Mann]

yea it was 204 supply and fit. I would still have had to get the engine re-set so didnt cost all that much in labour. was £70 quid ish to accuratly diagnose (they charged the next guy 45 jus to have a look at someting) fit part, and re-set ecu. I know for next time. I didnt know it was coil pack untill toyota told me.

The cambelt is cam belt, ac belt, powersteering and altenator belts plus idler an tensinor. Local garage charges around £30 per hour labour. Will go to him later, I was at Toyota so thought id ask um. will post on here when i get a price.

I know peddle dance workes for some, but for me it jus didnt. was working in nottingham so took it there as had key since january!!

[kam05]

I would still have had to get the engine re-set so didnt cost all that much in labour

Engine reset/resetting the ECU:

Make sure the ignition is turned off

Remove the engine bay fuse box cover

Remove the 20Amp/25Amp EFI fuse

Remove the 15Amp ETCS fuse

Wait 30 seconds

Re-insert the two fuses

Install the fuse box cover

So you know for next time, you don't need to pay a dealer for this, the IS200 does not have a service indicator/light that only can be reset by a dealer like on VAG cars.

[ColinBarber]

once the fault was corrected, by replacing the coil pack, the engine check light would have gone out itself after three restarts. No need to reset the ECU at all.