Interior Light On Gear Lever

[basildf]

Hi,

I have owned my secondhand LS430 for a month and love it.

With all those switches I do have problems.

1. How does one obtain a light for the gearbox? At night all is darkness!

2. With a dog in the car- my wife's fault- how can I lock the car without the dog setting off the alarm?

Thanks for any help.

Basil

[SteveLS400]

Hi,

I have owned my secondhand LS430 for a month and love it.

With all those switches I do have problems.

1. How does one obtain a light for the gearbox? At night all is darkness!

2. With a dog in the car- my wife's fault- how can I lock the car without the dog setting off the alarm?

Thanks for any help.

Basil

Hi

1) Do you mean there are no lights adjacent to the selector? What about on the dash board? You should be able to carefully prise-up the console top, find the bulb/s and replace it/them with little hassle.

2) Cant help with this as my Scorpion alarm was long obsolte by the time your car was first registered.

[passman53]

Hello,

On my 430 there is a button up by the Sun Glasses holder which switches off the interior movement sensor

[ManicMark]

Hi it may be the same, on my mark4 ls400 if you press the lock button on the key a second time it switches off the motion sensor.

[steveskeggy]

And the gold star goes to passman53, Press that button up near the rear view mirror, after you have turned off the ignition, and you have 5 minutes to get out and lock the car before it resets.

Then count how many times you forget to press it, and pooch sets off the alarm in the supermarket car park (I rescue Staffies, and have forgotten it many times).

The LS400 that I had was a much better system where you just pressed the lock button twice, so why Lexus took a step backwards with this metod is beyond me.

One more thing, dont leave your mobile phone in the car, it will probably be ok for a couple of days, then at 3.00 one morning the alarm will go off for no reason....