squarehead

I'll try this today and let you know the outcome!

Yes it is the one that spun off on the M4!

No disrespect mate but your car is a V reg isn't it, is the car worth 12k or did you take out gap insurance?

Thanks for your help guys.

Ad77 - I never knew there was a section in the knowledgebase - so thanks for that!

Going to clean the engine bay tomorrow.

Am I right in saying that if I cover the electrical bits such as the fuse box, Battery, oil cap, anything else that has electrical wires connected to them with cling film - I will ensure that the engine is cold.

Then apply Autoglym engine & machine cleaner and then agitate with a long brush and hose down with a light spray on the hosepipe. Then leave to dry for a couple of hours & remove cling film.

Should I be OK or is there anything I should look out for?

Thanks a lot.

The only thing that worries me here is running the car idle for 20 - 30 minutes, is it ok for the engine to run idle for such a long time?

:winky: Jiberjaber - you are absolutely correct, I did also use your pinout layout to locate pin 4 - so my apologies and a big thankyou to you as I was convinced I was using the right pinout as pin 5 was empty - so cheers mate

I'm not going to bother with the ignition sensor as sometimes I use the carkit before I start the engine - thanks anyway!

What about using the car speaker - do I need a relay for that? Yes I know search is my friend :mat: but has anybody succesfully achieved it?

Ta!

Did you pay by credit card mate? Doesn't insurance cover this sort of thing?

Not really sure about scottish law, but in the UK you only have to give 24 hours notice to cancel hotels, I have stayed in a lot of hotels with my job and I have even cancelled a room in the morning and not had to pay diddly squat. The best example (sorry it doesn't help you but it might add to your complaint - I booked a night out last christmas as a work do for 4 lads in Manchester and 1 cancelled at 5pm when we were driving up there - I checked in and explained the problem and they said ok no issue no charge!!! BTW, it was The Sachas Hotel in Manchester - thumbs up!

Hope you get it sorted - it sounds pretty naff to me.

i have had this in for a while now got thwe nokia ck 1 kit

i installed base etc just got me mate to do the wiring

only thing not quite working is the mute!!!!!!!

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Yellow cable from your carkit to pin4 orange and blue cable at the back of the stereo (just posted this elsewhere).

Well yesterday I finally plucked up the courage to wire up my Nokia Carkit to mute my stereo when receiving and making calls.

I would like to say that I s*****d myself when I unplugged the stereo wired the yellow mute cable to pin 4 on the stereo (blue and orange cable) and plugged the connector back into the back of the stereo and the cd player started making a shuffling sound for about 30 seconds. I think this was a hard reset? Anyway it has been great since.

Anyhoos, it is working brilliantly, I would like to thank Duncan for providing the pin-out colour (in another forum) and Scarface for his contribution as well (in another search I did).

If your thinking of doing this I would advise you to do it, I am no electrician and managed to wire up the mute cable no problems. In hindsight I did cut the cable and use plugs to wire the cables together but I don't think you need to do that as there is sufficient space to plug the yellow mute cable in directly into pin4 (I would recommend you use a hard cable to do this (household electrical type) as it is much firmer to plug in.

Anyway, hope that all makes sense - now I will never miss a call!

Shame it doesn't pause the CD player though, well can't have everything!

Cheers guys!

Sold for 99p - was that real???? How much would a new auto gearbox cost!!!!

Hi

Here is a solution that might be usefull   but not sure if still available

http://www.pdamods.com/proddetail.asp?prod=XTTBTMAG&cat=23

2ddesign

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That's for the GPS receiver mate!

I've mounted my Ipaq on in the airvent horizontally, not sure if the tomtom go mount is the same as the navigator version though.

Quicker than what I thought!!!!!!!!! Great addition I think, especially if your out and about in a strange city and need to get to a Lexus garage!

OK so i've done it - who wants it PM me!

I think there already available from pocketgps.co.uk

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I've already looked on there mate that's what pre-empted me to do it.

Work in progress - watch this space :D

I'm thinking of setting up the Lexus Dealers as POI's for tomtom. Before I do it - has anybody else done it already???

If your interested in the files it'll take me a couple of days to accumulate the information into excel and then import it into tomtom. PM me your email address and I'll sort it out :winky:

If anybody has the full list of dealers in an excel of flat file with postcodes then it would be great as a starting point (please pm me info).

Cheers........Mark.

Welcome to the club mate! :D

Your gonna love the spec, just make sure you've got some decent cd's with you on Saturday - gotta love that stereo

Stick the phone between you legs with vibrate on - my place of choice.

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How much is an SC430 new? Over £50k and your putting your mobile inbetween your legs

I'm sorry but you spend that sort of money on a car surely you'd fit a car kit? Even a measly IS200 driver like me has a car kit fitted!

Great mate - sounds good!

I'm no expert on uploading as well - I'm sure somebody will be along soon to help!

Mine's always read at the same position as yours!!! Even from new!

This is right isn't it? Garage have never mentioned it.

I drove one of these 2 weeks ago at an open day with Lexus Liverpool.

I love the way it looks, probably more so with the roof up. I thought the handling with the roof down was really boggy and sloppy, it was on 05 plate as well. I was convinced about the brakes either, trouble was I'd just driven a new GS430 which was fab in every area.

My biggest gripe was that the doors seemed a lot higher than the driving position, if you could imagine resting your arm on an IS is pretty much parallel, on the SC430 I had to rest my arm at an angle.

OH! thanks Zee...

I'm after an induction kit like the K&N but can only find one for an IS300 - can you buy an induction kit for the IS200?

Cheers........

I paid a lot less than your quote.

I posted my recommendations on gold:-

http://www.goldmembers.co.uk/loc/forums//i...?showtopic=2182

Go and have a look!

Anybody fitted one of thes:

http://www.needforspeed.co.uk/pages/sbv_pl...&PartType=AFP02

Might buy one for £80 if they're any good!

Feedback appreciated!

WOW - might try this!

I'd have one but they have stiching rather than piped leather (mine's an 02 with the nice piped leather edging) - hope you know wot I mean!

At least we all know where Rod Stewart was that weekend!