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risingsun

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  1. My 62,000 miles 1995 LS400 runs great on short trips, but it does have a tendency to stall after it's been driven for more than 30 miles or so at highway speeds. It re-starts OK, but will continue to stall thereafter if you lift off the accelerator at speed and thereby allow the revs to drop right down. If anyone has any ideas, I'd be delighted to hear them. Thanks.
  2. I have the official Lexus (2 volume) workshop manuals. (Cost me £50 privately.)
  3. Point taken, GB. Well, if you're right and there IS anyone out there with the old-style indicators sitting on a shelf, please let me know what you want for them! As for the central locking motors being required rather than something else, that's the verdict of the auto-electrician who looked at the fault for me. He kindly suggested that I might like to find the parts myself rather than having to re-mortgage the house by buying them at the local Lexus dealership. Anyway, what's the law on cracked rear lenses? Do you automatically fail the MOT strictly speaking if you've a cracked lens, or what?
  4. Does anyone know of a good source for used LS400 spares? I need a offside rear light* and a couple of central locking motors for my newly acquired '95 Mark 3 LS400 As none of them are particularly urgent, I don't mind waiting to see if it's possible to pick up something from a salvage yard. Has anyone heard of any similar vehicles being broken recently? *Photo of Part Required
  5. GreyBeard Please tell us how you got on this week. Was it bad news after all, and if so, did you manage to stick it to them for their failure to diagnose the problem properly in the first place?
  6. I hope they're wrong, for your sake! And I hope that that isn't what's causing my problem either, as I'd like to hold on to my "golden nuggets" for a while longer yet. Thanks for the warning, though, and please keep us posted with any developments. Do you mean that there's some overheating going on, with you having to regularly top up the coolant or something. (Please elaborate.) I don't know if this is relevant, but I had a BMW once that used to drop some water on the tarmac after a bout of hard driving, but the actual coolant level never needed topping up, so I just assumed it was condensation being expelled from the air-con system. I don't suppose there's any possibility that could be what's what's happening in your case?
  7. I recently travelled to the Midlands to buy a 1995 Celsior/LS400 Mark 3 which also demonstrated the same hot-stalling symptom you describe. At least it did on the longish motorway journey home to Cardiff. In the last two weeks of use, it's not happened again, although I should point out that it hasn't been driven under the same conditions since (no prolonged high-speed journeys since that day.) The idle speed does seem fairly regularly to drop down to barely 600 rpm, though. Did your car also falter only on longer, faster journeys, or was it more common than that? Anyway, Simon, I was just wondering if you've managed to solve the problem yet. And if so, how?
  8. Praise be!!! The problem is now sorted and, yes, btorz it was apparently a fuse that had blown. To be honest, that had occurred to me, too, as a possible cause but as the car was already booked into my local garage anyway today (being treated for another minor and - we think - unrelated problem with the driver's electric seat motor) I let the auto-electrician check out that aspect of it, and it turned out to be the cause. Thing is, I couldn't seem to find out myself which of the many fuses was responsible for this particular feature on the car, and to be honest I didn't fancy standing outside for any length of time in this freezing weather checking each of the fuses in turn looking for a blown one. Anyway, all's well that ends well, as they say, and thanks to both of you for your thoughtful contributions. Now if I could just find someone who can tell me where to get hold of a couple of central-locking motors for my two passenger doors...
  9. Thanks, guys, for the advice. Much appreciated, but no luck as yet. Rodders - I've tried disconnecting the battery, but it made no difference. Btorz - I mean the whole screen (rather than just the icons) goes grey. In other words, it's still "lit up", but otherwise it's completely blank. And yet, as I've indicated, all the other "screens" can still be called up as normal (and they still work as normal, with full touch-screen functionality. The "Off" button (to switch off the auto climate facility) does not however appear to function.
  10. The touch-screen on my '95 Mark 3 Celsior/LS400 is playing up, but in a rather odd way. As anyone who has one of these screens in their car will know, various functions are displayed via this screen including the sat nav, the audio controls and, more significantly, the heating/climate control settings. Whilst all the other displays appear to be functioning as normal, when I press the climate button on the dash in order to display the heating/ventilation and air-con settings on the monitor, the screen simply goes blank (i.e. light grey). In other words, power is still going to the screen, and indeed all the other screen displays are continuing to work as normal - including the "touch" facility- but there is currently no means to access or adjust anything to do with the climate control/heating. Does anyone have any ideas what might be the cause or - more importantly - the solution? Thanks
  11. The touch-screen on my '95 Mark 3 Celsior is playing up, but in a rather odd way. As anyone who has one of these screens in their car will know, various functions are displayed via this screen including the audio controls and, more significantly, the heating/climate control settings. Whilst everything else seems to be functioning as normal, when I press the climate button on the dash in order to display the heating/ventilation and air-con settings, the screen simply goes blank (i.e. light grey). In other words, power is still going to the screen, and all the other screen displays are continuing to work as normal, but there is now no means to adjust anything to do with the climate control/heating. Does anyone have any ideas what might be the cause or - more importantly - the solution? Thanks
  12. Thanks guys. That's interesting. (It seems you don't have to get a jolt even when the revs are high. That's news to me, right there.) Well, if there is actually something wrong with the gearbox to cause this lack of smoothness (when engaging Drive at those kind of revs) does anyone have any idea what it might be? I've already taken the car to be examined by my local dealer (in Cardiff) and discussed the whole issue with them. They found nothing wrong. Amazingly, however, I got the distinct impression from talking to the service managers that they weren't terribly clued-up about the actual transmission units in these cars. They claimed they'd never had a problem with one before and, hence, they had no real problem-solving experience to call upon. Maybe I should take it to a transmission specialist instead. Guess what? I already did that, too, and with the same result. (No problem found.) Help!!! (This cold start jolting is slowly driving me nuts!) Otherwise the car is brilliant and it seems so unLexus-like to not be smooth at all times. Any ideas?
  13. Greybeard If your car "idles" at 1400rpm before warming up, don't you get a major clunk when you engage Drive - as well as a jolt - as the gearbox is engaged at such a relatively high engine speed? I only ask because my car idles at the same speed when cold - and I get both of those! Anybody else here suffer from high idle speed when cold? Any solutions out there? All contributions welcome. Thank you.
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