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I have a 98 ls. Tracked it down to the wire from the harness to the cig lighter. It was intermittent. Was very careful, found 18 AWG wire and carefully replaced both wires. Lasted about 3 or 4 openings then it stopped working again. Broken wires again Looking carefully how it worked. The wires twist when you open and close the lighter door. Found in a wire manufacturer's catalogue something they called high twist wire. Have not bought it yet but hope that is the solution. Another thought it to use small braid wire. Whole bunch of small wires woven in a cylinder shape. This is sure to be flexible. Sorry I really do not have a good solution yet!!! Will work on it Ron

Hi all, Check out the attachement for an right hand drive. There is a problem with the gear wearing. Found this on a US website. Hope it fixes you up. Do not see ahve to do an attachemnt. Here is a WORD document. Hope is is accepted few days ago, I had a post regarding my jammed steering column (94 LS400). it was stuck at 'up' most position and refused to go down. so, this morning, with hints from other good folks in the forum, I took sometime and completely fixed the problem. I took some pictures along the way, so anyone with the same problem, present or future, can use these pictured steps to fix it up without hundreds of ‘donation’ dollars to dealership! dealers don't fix parts, they only install replacement parts. the motor is dealer-only item and it will cost you $524 last time I checked. take off the box-like cover behind steering wheel by removing two screws at bottom. top/bottom halfs are sort of 'snap on' to each other, the bottom part can be easily removed with the steering column telescoping all the way out. you can leave the top part on. with driver door open, unscrew 3 screws, loosen the bolt of the swing-out piece, then the small side panel for the motor's gear box can be removed to expose the blue plastic gear which drives the screw rod above to control the column up and down. remove nut/washer at center axis in front of the gear piece. the gear in mine was somewhat loose after years of use. when up-down button was pressed, it tilted inward and the teeth lost contact with the screw rod. so I had to remove the gear piece in order to put some shim piece as support behind the gear to make it rotate straight again! if your gear has totally worn teeth, then you must find one at junk yard. the gear worth only a few cents but dealer just don't sell it standalone! picture #4 but the gear in mine was kinda difficult to take out, so I made a small ‘hook’ from a piece of flat metal on my work bench and kinda wedged the gear off the center axis by reachng the ‘hook’ behind the gear picture #5 this was how I made the shim piece which must be some sort of ring shape with about 1/4" thickness: I took the cap of an empty ‘fuel injector cleaner’ bottle (long neck), and used my Dremel to saw it into half along rim side. then I took the inner ring which is hard plastic and used it as the shim ring going behind the gear piece. it’s in perfect diameter and thickness for this purpose! picture #6 place the shim ring around center axis, reinsert the gear piece, make sure it is straight and in good contact with the screw rod above. reinstall washer/nut at center axis. try the up-down button again, and BINGO! my steering column now goes up-down perfectly and freely! I assume you know what to do in reverse after that. total time spent: no more than 20 minutes, total cost: 0 dolars and 0 cents

Hi, Usually hang out on US site so I have an answer for you. Autozone has replacement struts for $13.99 ea. If you browse through the usa ls400 forum you can find a web site that gives details of exactly how to replace them and the autozone part number. Thought I had printed out the info but can't find it. I have a 1993 that the struts are very weak. Will replace them soon. PS Lexus cost in us is $71 each. good luck