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Good video. Shame about the quality though. I am surprised anyone uses 360p anymore these days. Also, is it silly that I found it annoying that he kept referring to the bonnet as the hood?

Nice one Glad it worked. Do you mean single spaces between the first and second part of the number? E.g. 07770 000000? If so, then that is odd since I have the same formatting on my phone and they appear on my car without problem?

Hmm, that does look like mine. Strange. Perhaps the GS and IS systems are slightly different then?

@The-Acre Yeah, I saw from the post on the other thread that the 2005 GS has the older sat nav system. Hopefully it will still work. @Initial P Yeah? Is that the same Gen 05 sat nav as mine? If so, then that is strange because mine is the exact opposite - if the phone is connected it will not transfer anything.

Ok, been out to take a look (sorry, forgot to do it yesterday). This is what I did: First, you need to disconnect the phone from the cars Bluetooth (I forgot to get a picture of how to get here. If you press your phone dial button, you should then be able to see a Settings option in the bottom left): Then, select Phonebook: Next, if you want to start from scratch, you can delete the current contacts by pressing Delete: You then press the Transfer data button: The next screen (which I also forgot to picture) is if you want to have more then one group of contacts. In my case I didn't, so I just selected Group00. Now, on your phone, you go to your Contacts, and select Share: Something similar to the following should appear giving the option to select and transfer all: You then select sharing by Bluetooth: The source will be whatever the Bluetooth name of your car is called, in my case Hands Free: The car should display this during this time: Once the phone has finished, a notification similar to this one appears: The car screen should have now reverted to this: As you can see, I transferred 70 contacts. They all appear to be present: Finally, remember to reactivate Auto connect: And that should do it. There may be some slight differences. One thing to note is that all my contacts are stored in the same place on my phone. This may not work if you have more then one location enabled. Another thing is that this is on my IS220d, which I believe uses the Gen 05 sat nav system. The phone used is a Samsung Galaxy S8. I hope this is helpful to some of you.

Welcome Pete The G3 should be fine Phil. On mine, you go to the phone menu and disconnect the phone. You then try and transfer the contacts and it should attempt a new connection to get the info across. I will have another go at doing mine again tomorrow and see exactly what the procedure is.

Does it mention not doing only short journeys? Could save a lot of people some time and money if it does

It should be the same sat nav system as in mine, and I have managed to transfer my contacts. The only tricky thing to figure out is that the phone must be disconnected from the Bluetooth in the car when trying to transfer. Not sure why, but it seems to make a new connection just to do the transfer. What phone are you trying to sync with?

Nice one. That is a remarkably clean looking car, especially considering it is 12 years old. A credit to its former keepers.

Another vote for Dodo Juice. You can see the results I had with it here: http://www.lexusownersclub.co.uk/forum/topic/109946-cleaning-leather/

That is quite interesting John. Thanks for doing that. So it seems that 3.3V is about right then? Also, I have actually never used the graph function of TechStream before. How do you access it? Thanks.

This is true John, but as you can see from the screenshot I posted earlier, the live engine data should include the voltage values for the sensors, so I am assuming you can still compare those to what is in the manual?

Where did you find these? They look like they are from the manual, so in which section did they list these diagrams? One thing that springs to mind is that what you have posted says turn the car on and test at 2500rpm for 90 seconds. Is this with the engine cold? If so, that will affect the readings since the car will naturally run rich whilst cold.

As far as I am aware, if yours has the 4 digit postcode lookup then you are stuck with it. Mine certainly didn't add it when I upgraded, albeit this was in 2015. It does update the firmware though, which in my case added the useful functionality of being able to input addresses into the sat nav whilst on the move.

Whoops, didn't realise you meant it for F owners only. My bad

Personally, all my cars, including my current one, have been male. I just feel that it is too bulky and rough to be anything else. My partners Renault Clio was female. Maybe it was because she was delicate and fell apart easily?

Death Proof? Feel free to try again

That is a nice plate for a GS. If I were selling the car, I would be tempted to remove the plate and sell it separately. I'm sure one of you GS owners would pay a reasonable amount for it

Turns out I was wrong

Well done tackling your EGR cleaning Daniel At least Lexus managed to place the EGR valve in a very accessible location. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the fuel filter. I have changed mine once, and next time I am finding a garage to do it for me! Believe it or not, 2 hours labour is actually quite good for doing that job, but I would obviously not recommend paying Lexus main dealer labour rates. Have you tried JEM in Colindale? https://www.jemservice.co.uk/contact I have never been there myself, but I know someone who has and he told me they were good. You just have to make sure that they drain and clean the fuel sediment filter at the same time since it is a separate unit. @rtho If you haven't cleaned your EGR valve in ~38K miles, I can pretty much guarantee it is going to need a clean. As you have no doubt seen, all you need is a basic socket set and about an hour to get it done. You also don't need to remove the metal pipe, as some people suggest in their videos, since you can move it out of the way enough to remove the EGR valve.

@Ado1379 Sorry about the hijack Adam, but we did start with the best of intentions

Way ahead of you. That is where I got the drawing from.

I also think that this actuator: Is this: I know what you mean, this is like a murder mystery now, it must be solved

You don't mean this, do you? Because that appears to be where the EGR Cooler gets it exhaust gas from? I am seriously tempted to go try and cram my camera down there on mine tomorrow

Ok, posting at the same time just gets confusing So is this the actuator for the wastegate? I thought this was for the EGR cooler as I mentioned before.