trevorh

Hey fellow members,

Thank you for the welcome to this marvellous club.

I aquired my '98 Lexus LS400 last year and soon after it developed an annoying fault. Everytime I took the car onto the motorway, after driving at high speed for more than about 20 miles the engine would stall whenever I slowed down. After I restarted the engine it would be fine, but sometimes it was very dangerous. I took it to my local lexus service centre and they were unable to trace the fault and suggested I spend over £1000 on a new ECU. I don't really do too much motorway driving and I've been living with the problem for nearly 12 months until I came across this web site and found a thread where several members had the same fault with their own vehicles. The solution to the problem was found and published by a happy member here. I printed it off and took it with my car last week to have the throttle body cleaned and this procedure has completely cured the fault. Instead of spending £1000+ on something I didn't need (and which wouldn't have solved the fault in any case) I paid £150+vat for 2 hours labour.

I would like to post this on the relevant thread, but can't find it...

Trevor H

Hi and Welcome to LOC trevorh,

You could say Hello in the new members sections on the front page of the forum ;)

and maybe post some pictures up of your car,there all pretty friendly on here :)

Chips..

Well I finally got my hands on one of the SoundLinQ SLI iPod interfaces and promptly started to investigate getting it fitted.

First port of call was Lexus Oxford, where I bought the LS 430 from, it's now two weeks later and they've still not got back to me. :(

In the meantime I also tried Lexus Hatfield who initially replied quickly for clarification and quoted me around what I expected to pay but have now ignored two further queries and it's now been over a week since I've heard anything from them.

Finally I tried Lexus Milton Keynes and fair play to them I've had two very prompt and courteous responses but they're quoting £111 an hour including VAT and expect the job to take two hours, so £225 in total! (Although if it takes less than two hours they'll charge me pro-rata.)

Now I know it's a £50k car but I'm sorry, over £100 an hour to get behind the dash is just more than I'm willing to pay.

I'm feeling quite disallusioned with Lexus right now, probably unfairly. I've had my 430 for over a year now and was seriously considering the 460 later this year but I'm really having second thoughts.

Rant over.

Hello again,

1st of all nobody hurt apart from a stiff neck today.

Last evening whilst driving through Derby the driver in front of me decided to do an emergency stop! to allow another motorist to pull out in front of him.I stopped ok without contact only to be hit by the driver behind me who couldn't stop in time OOOPS!

Got out of my car looked at hers, bumper disintegrated, bonnet a concertina and thought if that's her's whats mine like!

Result nearside exhaust pipe 3" shorter and 4 marks on the bumper and a under bumper trim piece hanging off on one side (ok there may be other damage when it goes in for repairs) but I drove mine home!

Just goes to show there's quality and there's Lexus quality.

One question, if the exhaust has been pushed forward should I insist on a complete replacement as I dont want problems later with stress fractures?

Cheers,

Steve

Shortly after aquiring my Lexus LS400, I backed out of my drive and not being familar with the length of the vehicle promptly reversed straight into the back of a micra. The damage to the poor micra was horrendous, but there was absolutly no damage at all to the Lexus. Then a few days later some idiot parked across my drive, it was a Honda of some sort. I was so annoyed I crept up to the car in the lexus and pushed it backwards, it moved as if it's brakes were off (they weren't). A tank indeed!!

Trevor