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Malc1 your still 70k miles behind me.

Greenlight are highly recommended for modified car insurance. Certainly understand modifications and what they do.

Malc 1 just got a stunning deal from greenlight insurance. All mods declared can add more if I feel like it. Can have track day cover for £45 per day if I feel the need to track day her 😱😬.

Hi Malc1 I am in discussions with several insurance companies. Problem is not the mods, it's the car 🤔. Lexus seems to be so misunderstood as brand. Far more than a jumped Toyota. Billions spent on refining every part for optimal weight reduction and strength is on scale that's never been repeated. LS430 is not a difficult car to work on. Design and quality of parts and ease of routine maintenance is phenomenal.

Finally got all the parts for fitting coilovers, top control arms and rear drop links. Plus insurance is due. Current insurer will not insure me with mods. Been looking around for an insurer to cover mods. Got what I think is reasonable quotes considering changes from OEM spec. Costing me about £400 more than last year, bearing in mind insurance has rocketed in price.

Malc 1 most garages up here will only fit parts supplied by themselves. My local garage is one of the few where you can buy parts for them to fit. All local garages are busy fitting springs, shocks, drop links and replacing bent rims due to state of roads. Check out Facebook Caithness roads recovery to what state our roads are in. Probably raise suspension and keep it soft to deal with crater's. Even lorries are going through springs at an alarming rate. Local council will not pay out for vehicle damage 🤬🤬🤬🤬.

Maximus Prime air lines are they just push and turn? As for getting another garage to do the work I have issue mentioned before, if I remove jack stands from front of car bottom of front bumper is on the deck. Be lucky to get an ant to squeeze through the gap. Recovery for lowered cars is jack them up and but wedges in the coil spring. No coil springs is going to make even more difficult. Can take bumper off to help. Nearest garage that I could find that would do cambelt, water pump etc etc was 8 hours driving from me. So went to dealer. If you look at map of UK find Orkney im right up in that corner of Scotland, part of Highlands and islands. Swapping suspension should not cause to many issues if I do it myself. Have done spring swaps on MacPherson struts that is a very dangerous game. No air in struts being removed. Coilovers already have springs fitted. Got adjustable top control arms to fit on all 4 corners as well at same time. Off with the old on with the new. Will be keeping everything for air suspension refitting. Also bought some super lightweight road rims that look stock to go on. Lightweight rims might take some harshness out of ride by reducing unsprung weight. Next job after fitting this lot is to sort exhaust out. Previous owner fitted a straight through 3" exhaust with 2 straight through silencers. Need to get a resonater fitted to get rid of drone.

Maximus Prime tried to get my local independent garage to fit adjustable top control arms front and rear, got a refusal as far too complicated 🤔🙄. They carry out 4 wheel aliment this is 2nd time they've refused to work on my LS430. They will happily fix beemers, Merc's and Audi's. They are far more difficult and complicated to work on. They think Lexus and go no not touching it. Shame as they do fantastic work. Do I need a tool to disconnect air lines Thanks

Tomtit am going to change insurance companies for other mods that are going to be carried out. My current insurer won't even let me go over to all season tyres 🤔. Living where I'm in Scotland every tyre retail place recommend all season tyres.

Malc your right with mileage on 330k. Love to see 500k on my LS430. Have some more expensive parts to fit at same time. Adjustable top control arms all round and uprated drop links. All from Hardrace. Have two 2nd front seats to replace original seats. Leather is splitting on perforated holes. Can't complain about seats, strangely passenger seat is the worst. Probably upset those that like oem parts fitted. Knew I was going to be spending money on LS430. Probably saved it from being a parts car 🤔.

Car is undrivable at present until suspension sorted. Front bumper hits the ground if I take it off jack stands.

PS when I replaced relay and removed compressor, I ran techstream and only fault was exhaust solenoid.

Hi have quite a big issue with my air suspension. Did a scan with techstream. Need a new compressor and part which splits air to front and rear. Used items are not going to be under £200+ shipping. If I fit new or parts still don't know if that will fix air system. I could be going down a rabbit warren and find I still need more parts. On techstream my ride height sensors are giving huge difference in measurement. Cannot not adjust height via techstream. No air in system might be why I cannot adjust them. I can get a set of BC coilovers for £1000. Very tempted to go down this route, then again I like the air suspension. What views do members have on trying to keep air suspension or go coilovers.

Hi does anyone have a site which I can download Toyota techstream from. Mega from NZ is no longer available. I have tried direct from Toyota. Have bought a 7 day licence and cannot get past last page. Only answer I got back from technical dept is download instructions. No help when screen says to contact owner of site. Have done a factory reset on windows computer still no joy. Wanted techstream to do a scan of air bag system. Mine is behaving strangely. If I lift NSF up 3" compared to OSF it holds height. Swap 3" lift to OSF and it holds height. Take 3" lift away from both sides and car drops on to bottom of front bumper 🤔. At OSR have correct height. On NSR I am about 2 inches above correct height. All adjustments arms are set to Toyota spec. If I can't solve problem then it going to be sacrilege and fit coil springs.

Hi have been on a mission to find out what's wrong with my air suspension. It is behaving strangely. Know compressed is working and have no apperante air leaks. Replaced front junction box for air distribution and sensors at front. Front of car when lowered on jack bumper sits about 2 inches off ground. Rear near side is high and off side rear low. Have altered links on front sensors to Lexus factory spec. Having problems downloading Toyota techstream for scanning for possible codes issues. Have been in contact with someone who knows Lexus LS430 like the back of their hand and they are more baffled than me. Any suggestions on where to start looking?

Hi big boomer have checked boot fuses. Everything is bone dry and no sign of water ever being in there. Have taken some fuses out for checking, no signs of any type of corrosion in fuse box.

Hi my radio comes up as audio off. Do have a clock spring issue but wouldn't of thought this would take radio out. Have removed navigation unit in boot as screen kept asking me to load a cd navigation disc. Found 3 discs jammed in there. Got them out and cleaned circuit board with an electrical contact cleaner. See attached photos that I've taken of screen once I got into diagnosic menu. Are fuses going to cause this. Boot is bone dry.

Hi Malc1 I use mine 6 days a week think my battery is dying due to cold spell we had 2 weeks ago. Had some frosts since. Old batteries don't like the cold.

Hi got a set of custom made seat covers to tide me over until I can get someone to repair split perforated leather on front seats.

Hi everyone it is battery that is at fault. Jumped it off a 2 litre car. Taken car for a 40mile round trip after it started. Going to try a start in a couple hours to see if battery is going to hold charge until I get new battery delivered. Any preferences on make of battery. Not going for cheap battery. Off on Internet to order a battery.

Hi went to start my LS430 today and all I got was a lot of fast clicking. Starter motor didn't even try to turn. Got no warning lights on dash. Took battery off to charge up. Volts where around 11v after charging volts still never got up to 12v+. So I either have a duff battery or starter motor. Battery looks to be quite old. Hope to try a jump start tomorrow to rule out starter motor. Also have option of taking battery to local garage for testing. Is there any thing else I need to check or look at. As starter motor is under inlet manifold I can't do a solenoid bypass with jump leads. If it turns out to be starter motor how much if a pain in the ***** is it to replace. Know I will need inlet gaskets and new connectors as these I understand will break when trying to remove them. Thanks David

Last night's dump of snow on my LS430. A good 2-3 inches as I can't see aerial on car.

Not driving today. Got a other 3"-4" of snow on car. Also will need to dig car out and path to road. Plus we have a warning for even more snow plus blizzards today 🥶. All public transport is not running North of Inverness and police have said do not drive. Police warning for not driving in highlands is quite rare. People up here are prepared for winter and given a bit more free reign for travelling.

Cleared another 3 inchs of snow of car before going to work. Have about 7" of snow already with more to come 🥶. LS430 is a very poor snow plough 🫣 other wise very good. Torque of engine means very little throttle. Traction control with snow mode makes LS430 feel quite planted. Have tried to get wheelspin intentionally but the traction control kicks in. Went to do a doughnut in company car park for the staff and failed dismally, LS430 has been named by staff as a "beast"? Who drives a 300hp car in the snow, so far I'm the only one I've seen since snow started.

I dug my lexus LS430 out of the snow. She is very good in snow with all season tyres and snow mode actived. Did try my mondeo out with same brand of all season tyres as LS430, scared the 💩 out of me. Got to dig LS430 out in a bit to get to work 🥶❄️🌨❄️🌨❄️🌨❄️