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  1. as the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy says......DON'T PANIC. you still have brakes even if they don't seem so good there should stlil be at least some vacum in your inlet manifold and you still hjave steering it's just not power assisted, I was once driving a 10 tonne Volvo B10B Bus when the engine failed mid-roundabout, loseing my powersteering, i merely hauled on the steering wheel to get the bus around the roundabout, if i can get 10 tonnes of bus round a roundabout with no powersteering i'm not worrying about the lexus. Strange siproad if omeones coming towards you and the guy behind is too close anyway if you are worried about them. plus you can just bang it into neutral and restart the engine without havign o turn it off first like in a lot of cars. That all being said it's probably the fact that i worked for First bus (Worst bus...) for 4 1/2 years 13 days a fortnight 70-80 hour weeks that i'm kind of prepared for most things to fail on vehicles i drive.... Not the wheel nuts coming off but some berk putting the wrong oil in the Diff and casuing it to snap the driveshaft coupling mid-roundabout, the brakes on the wheel caught fire shortly after this. You mustn't do much driving if you think a slip road with traffic coming towards you at the top is strange. I can't speak for your strength but as a disabled person there was no way I could steer the beast out of trouble and my 5 foot wife could never do it either, especially when you are panicking to stop the thing from hitting something or going in a ditch. And I can assure you there is not one ounce of gunk in the engine no sticky valve, no engine error codes, all sensors and everything else either new or cleaned. I can now bang it in neutral as I know where it is, it's OK saying don't panic, but when you buy a car and driven it for hours in traffic jams then you want to give it a burst (within legal limits of course) And all is fine, in a Lexus you sort of drift into a sense of full relax mode, so when that call of nature happens the last thing on your mind is to bang it in neutral. I totally forgot where the handbrake was in the panic which was my first reaction, when the handbrake couldn't be found I had to take my eyes off the road to find neutral hoping I didn't put it in reverse. All said we shouldn't have to remember to bang it in neutral, turn the AC on or worry about long journeys, no matter how old the car is. They knew about it and should have done something about it.
  2. Not on a car that has an oil change every 6 months and the oil that comes out is as clean as the oil going in. You really don't want to expect anything like this to happen to you, imagine a nice relaxing cruise for a couple hundred miles nearly at your destination, looking forward to where you are going to. Come on to a slip road (lets say one that goes up a ramp tuning to the left) All of a sudden you have no engine, no steering and little brakes with a 30 ton beast behind you and one coming toward you, what do you do? I know what I did, I nearly crapped my pants and I think the truckers did too. Lexus knew about this in 1996 when the cars were nearly new with a lot of miles on the clock and updated the software on the ECU but no recall for the cars with lower mileage that this was going to happen to in the future. Sucks....
  3. I don't think we have a leg to stand on, it is a very dangerous fault which when found out about, they should have recalled them. Maybe a letter to the (can't remember their name) That test all the Euro cars may help but doubt it as many years have passed by. If Lexus were that good I don't think they would say "Bring it in and we'll remove it" About an alarm immobiliser that kicked in after taking the battery off, other companies would reactivate the alarm no matter how old it is or if it was another company that installed the alarm on their behalf when new (Happened a few times to me on different cars Ford, Mitsu, audi) Then to charge you over £250 + VAT to remove it is just taking the mick. They actually said to me "it's a pity it's not older as they are easier to remove!!!" I have the wiring diagram of the alarm and will be cutting the immobiliser as soon as it stops raining.
  4. Tried everything including a rain dance 6 times. Why change ECU? Problems as above common with 95-97 Too dangerous to use on motorway runs for me anyway, who always forgets to turn AC on at slip roads.
  5. I really hope someone can help me here. I got the ECU and installed, everything fine except I think the Immobiliser has kicked in (scorpion 5000) I've tried all the ways on the club of reprogramming it but no luck and now battery nearly dead with all the 6 times locking etc. Any suggestions please?
  6. Well all went fine so no fluke. I went for over an hour there, stopped for coffee and drove home the tickover idle still seems low at times. It was the BP super I used as the only other garage near me was Asda (I never touch the stuff) I have an ECU lined up but have to get at mine to see the numbers. Well must have been a fluke :( Happened again last night. Definitely getting the ECU off the Ebay guy this week.
  7. Well all went fine so no fluke. I went for over an hour there, stopped for coffee and drove home the tickover idle still seems low at times. It was the BP super I used as the only other garage near me was Asda (I never touch the stuff) I have an ECU lined up but have to get at mine to see the numbers.
  8. Excellent, many thanks. Will clean this too. In the meantime the AC is staying on!! When I bought mine last month, bringing it home and it did this on the slip road off the M5 I didn't even know until I tried to turn the wheel. Lucky the lorry park was empty!! Then again at the next stop and so on. I did all the info available cleaned everything, new oil & filters, spark plugs. Went on a run and the thing still did it. Today I filled up with Super drove for a couple of hours came off the motorway and she was still purring at the roundabout just off out again to make sure it wasn't a fluke and to spend a little time getting to know my new toy.
  9. It has to be, my wife only passed her test 2 years ago and can't drive my LS Insurance won't let her.
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