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    Maciej
  • Lexus Model
    Is 220d
  • Year of Lexus
    2006
  • UK/Ireland Location
    Other/NonUK

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  1. Meczko
    Hello, When I used to work in a dealership I talked with a guy with over 20 years of experience in changing tires and doing alignments. He said one thing that was sus to me so I don’t know if it’s true but both my ford and my Lexus keep on pulling to the left so he might be right. He said that a lot of car manufacturers make the car geometry in a way that it slightly pulls to the left so if you fall asleep or anything happens, the car will slowly roll out of the roar and crash into a guardrail or end out of the road and not cause any major accident. With my Lexus I think there is something else, I did the alignment at a veeery good shop in my city and for the first couple of days it was all good, but the suddenly it started pulling to the other side at high speeds and the steering wheel keeps on going to the left without my input. I want to do a full suspension overhaul sooner or later but I don’t know where to get oe parts, brand new ones are expensive as hell and not worth but I can’t find a place that sells parts for an is 220 with LHD and I don’t know if it’s the same parts used in the RHD model. cheers
  2. Meczko started following Is220d electrical issue and How to restore IS250 headlamps?
  3. Meczko
    If it is something you still looking into, I restored my headlights with Cerakote headlight restoration kit I got on Amazon.com, it took like 3 days to get to me in Italy from the us but the results are incredible, from terrible yellow lights to perfectly clear, they give you all you need and a ceramic coating to apply for the shine and protective layer, there is some people showing it on YouTube, I will put a link to it down here so you can check it out, for the price, super bargain in my opinion, I used a couple of theme but once o tried this one there was no need to look for others, I restored 4 cars with this one for family and friends and it is a great product. Highly recommend. https://www.amazon.com/CERAKOTE-Ceramic-Headlight-Restoration-Kit/dp/B084RQKLV8/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=9G2POGA1D3TL&keywords=cerakote%2Bheadlight%2Brestoration%2Bkit&qid=1675473946&sprefix=cerakote%2Caps%2C254&sr=8-1&th=1&psc=1
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  5. Meczko
    Yeah from what I know, Lexus works similar to Volvo on that (both use denso ecu and modules), and usually if you go to a tuner and you say you want to map a Volvo they will show you the door😂 but the same thing applies to what happened with my keys but I still managed to find someone that was willing to put the work and effort for it. As he said, he is not doing it for the money (still payed a lot looking at his prices) but for the experience and for the knowledge, as he said, you can do all the courses and update classes and look at people teaching all that stuff, but until you put hand on one of those, you can’t really know if you know how to do it. So yeah this is something that can wait but I can’t stay more than a couple of days without the car, I still have my old Ford fiesta but is not running well, I think the fuel pump is saying it’s last words after 220.000km done, specially the last 60.000 where I drove it pretty hard and was enjoying the fantastic handling of the fiesta. Aaaah it was a great first car, will never sell it unless I’m at gunpoint haha.
  6. Meczko
    Nice to meet you too! ☺️ i think there might be a slight logistic problem with me getting my car remapped by Maciej, because you most likely are in the UK, and I’m in Italy.. There is a small shop here in my city, they seem very good at doing cars, in know one of the guys that started the shop since he used to work in a Toyota dealership, so maybe they can map a Lexus too.. I don’t know, will have to look into it but not now, my life is in a very strange and bad moment now so I can’t really spend money now.😅 thank you anyway tho, I appreciate it ☺️
  7. Meczko
    I hope to net have the need for that hahaha, atm the car is going very well, done around 1000km since last update, car is doing very well. 🙂
  8. Meczko
    I’m maciej, and no, I did not tue your car lmao, but I’m looking into getting my is220 remapped, drinks too much for the power in my opinion, going 50kmh I burn around 9.5 liters
  9. Meczko
    Well after some hard months, I did it, the car is back in the road, I couldn’t afford fixing it so I just let it sat there but now, it’s going great. After I removed all the modules from the car, I took theme to a guy that fixes motherboard and similar stuff, he checked everything under the microscope and told me that the modules are in great shape and that I cleaned them every well so they have no hardware problems. After that I did go to a guy that specializes in keys and security, but he also codes car keys, so after a little chat and 400 euros, he reset all the modules and did code both the keys to the car, and my gosh it works better than when I bought it, not a single issue since there. I waited a little before writing down to not give any info that might not work, but after around 300km of driving and a lot of turn on and off, it works perfectly fine, So there was no need to scrap the car 😂. Now there are some issues that I’m becoming to know about the car that will need some minor fixing, but as of today, nothing severe, just the cracked dashboard and a thermostat that needs changing. With all of that I will do a complete maintenece, new brakes and after that, gotta take it on a roadtrip to get stranded a thousand kilometers from home haha.
  10. Meczko
    Yeah I had to replace the steering once and I know it’s a huge pain but I tbh your prices are a bit off, you can get all the parts from Lithuania for really cheap, I will go to a guy that fixes circuit boards in the next couple of days and see if he can do something about that module, if not, the module is like 10 euro so I might try that one first, but I think the module is salvageable, the corrosion was just superficial and it might just be condensation because the car was sitting for some months. it was not under water for sure, the water didn’t even touch the fuse boxes inside the car. The highest point was under the driver seat where it touched the motors corroding theme but I already replaced those and everything works flawlessly, at least it did haha. I will update y’all as soon as I know something from that circuit repair man. He seems to be REALLY good so I have high hopes!!
  11. Meczko
    I have a slight update on that, today I managed to get power to the car after I removed the immobilizer module, 89784-53011 is the code for it, it’s in a really akward location and I struggled to find it, I will send a pic tomorrow, mine was a bit corroded in the inside so I tried cleaning it but nothing changed, as soon as I plug it in the car starts acting up. In the next couple of days I will try to talk to my local Lexus dealer if I changing it with a different one needs to recode the car, I will move it in a different place later because it got corroded for some reason and I don’t want it to happen again. the start botton couldn’t be because I changed it with different ones and nothing changed. All I tried is thanks to a guy that made a post on this forum talking about the same module I’m having problems with. If you reading this post, let me just say I love you 💕 it helped me so much
  12. Meczko
    The key is good, the battery is almost new, i can lock and unlock the car from 30 meters without hesitation. And I tried using both of the keys. anyway, if I the key was low the car would say that the key is not detected and I would have to put it closer, but I did anyway, in the video I even how that the key is in my hand. Best regards
  13. Meczko
    Hey memoridha, from a past experience, did you rebuild the injectors? It’s usually a good thing to do before you put theme in a new engine. Did you check the high pressure fuel pump? They can go bad after some time and are pretty expensive hope you will find the issue soon
  14. Meczko
    Hello Steve, the issue is a bit different, same to the two guys that had the b2799 code, if you look at the video, the ignition botton doesn’t have the amber light, I tried changing the switch with a spare one I had but no response, I tried two different modules but I don’t know if they require coding, I didn’t call my local Lexus dealer but I think I will and will ask that, I need to fix it asap because the car has an open window… 😅😂
  15. Meczko
    Hello people! I have an issue with my is220d, it’s an LHD car and has 260k km on the clock. a couple of days ago, the nightmare begun, when for some reason, the engine start bottom doesn’t show any colors, it just stays with the backlight in and if I press it, nothing happens. I tried looking the battery, it’s ok. I looked all the ground, it’s ok. I looked all the fuses, they are ok. I will be honest, the car is an ex flood damage, but the car worked perfectly until a couple of days ago. I bought the car really cheap but now I’m “balls deep” in it so I can’t just sell it because I will end in a huge loss, plus I really love the car so no reason for me to get rid of it. Going back to the issue, I removed the module that should decode the key and make the car go brum brum, (89670-53030) since I saw that the same issue happened to other people as well, they had the code b2799 but I can’t scan the car because the dash won’t turn on. anyway the only guy that fixed it said he heated it up with a hairdryer, I tried it, no work for me, I tried two different modules, no life at all. so I’m asking y’all for some help. anyone has ideas? 68694855583__D8F4725B-96FD-4CD4-B613-1CD5219D47E6.MOV
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