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  1. Be very cautious. If it sounds to good to be true, It's likely too good to be true. A post on the Club Lexus forum said that this is a Russian website selling pirated software. Take notice of how few times the people in this thread have posted on this forum.
  2. The parts diagram shows the navigation hard drive as being on the right (passenger) side of the trunk. I'm not very familiar with the GS but on the 1998-2000 LS400 like I had, the navigation hard drive was under a false floor on the right side of the trunk along with the ECU for the factory installed telephone system.
  3. Try a salvage company. For example, there are twenty-eight 1995-2000 LS400 at Pick-N-Pull salvage years scattered around the U.S. I also found salvaged rear differentials on eBay. According to a part number cross reference, the 1995-2000 LS400 use the same rear diff.
  4. Probably not. TPMS is a federal requirement which is why reputable tire sellers will not mount new tires unless TPMS is functioning. You should be checking the pressure in your tires when they are cold and much more often than only at tire rotations. Tire pressures increase and decrease about 1 psi for every 10 degrees Fahrenheit change. I sometimes have to correct tire pressures more than once a week if there are big temperature swings. Costco's price for TPMS is pretty good. I bought and had Costco install TPMS on the winter wheels I bought for my Porsche last fall. In fact, I've bought all our tires except one set from Costco since 2001 when they opened a store nearby. Discount Tire is pretty good too but Costco almost always beats them on price either up front or with the annual Costco member giveback check. Some Costco stores have nitrogen air pumps out front if you want to use them but be sure to recheck your tire pressures when they are cold. Does the 2009 RX350 have a full size spare tire with a TPMS sensor? You might have TPMS only on four tires. I'm a strong believer in TPMS. Getting a low pressure alert has helped me get to a safe area several times where I could either change the tire or add air with the portable compressor I carry so I could limp it to a tire shop for a tire repair .... or tire purchase if the tire was ruined. The last thing I want to do is to change a tire while semi's are whizzing by me on a busy highway.
  5. 1990LS400

    Sirus

    Yes, streaming audio from a cell phone uses cellular data. The amount of data used varies depending on application and how much it is used. I don't remember how much data the SiriusXM cell phone app uses since the last several vehicles we've purchased have had built-in sat radio. You could also buy a separate SiriusXM tuner and likely output its audio to a cable that would plug into the VAIS aux-in jack. But why bother at this point. Sat radio isn't really from satellites in many areas anyway but instead is broadcast from ground based repeaters.. The money you spend on installing a separate SiriusXM tuner is better applied to a more robust data plan in my opinion. Unlimited data plans or data plans that provide a massive amount of data are fairly common and inexpensive these days. When I was daily streaming Pandora from my cell phone to my modified radio in my 2000 LS400 10 years ago, I doubt that it ever took more than 1 or 2 GB of data per month. I haven't used the SiriusXM cell phone app in several years but from what I remember it sounded better than sound from a built-in SiriusXM receiver. In my current daily driver (2022 Porsche Cayenne), 99% of what I listen to is streamed from the Internet. We even listen to local radio stations on the Internet based TuneIn service when we travel out of our home area. Steaming from a cell phone opens up all sorts of possibilities. For example, I burned my entire music collection from CD's to my cell phone. Doing that requires a decent amount of storage on a cell phone but not that much compared to how much storage many modern cell phones have. My current aging Samsung S10 phone has 512GB of built-in storage and a 512GB removable SD card for a total of one terabyte. I doubt that my personal music collection takes up even 5% of the total storage. Another cool aspect of doing everything from your phone is that it's portable. You can stream from your phone to other vehicles, wireless Bluetooth speakers or just listen to the audio (including SiriusXM) with earbuds. As you can see, once I get started on this stuff, I have a hard time stopping!
  6. I answered in your other thread:
  7. Weren't your original wiper blades of the "conventional" type? See the attachment showing the types. Beam type (also called "flat") wiper blades often work poorly on curved windshields - even on slightly curved windshields. If your original blades were of the conventional type, then go back to using those.
  8. 1990LS400

    Sirus

    It looks like VAIS still sells aux-in kits for your car: https://vaistech.com/ You could stream SiriusXM from the SiriiusXM cell phone app by either connecting your cell phone directly to the aux-in or adding a bluetooth adapter to the aux-in and streaming wirelessly. SiriusXM sounds quite nice when streamed from its cell phone app. This aux-in would allow you to stream whatever you want from your phone ... Pandora, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, etc.
  9. Car electronics sometimes fail as they age. For example, there were some Lexus vehicles in 1990's that were especially prone to leaking capacitors in their ECU's. And sometimes electronics failures can be caused by simple corrosion. Sometimes ECU's can be repaired. You could try buying a used ECU but it might have similar problems. Is whoever that diagnosed the problem offering a solution?
  10. I now see what you mean. The photo of a supposedly OEM GX460 receiver hitch I was looking at on the Lexus.com accessories page was apparently a generic photo of a hitch and not specifically for a GX. The GX gallery on Lexus.com shows the receiver hitch with the tube cross bar which is very different from the aftermarket hitches.
  11. The aftermarket receiver hitches for the GX available from etrailer look identical to the OEM receiver hitch shown for the GX in the accessories section of lexus.com . It's odd that they are rated at 5,000 pounds max instead of the GX's 6,500 pound towing limit. I suppose you could contact etrailer or the aftermarket hitch companies and ask why. The reason for a stop sale could be as simple as a supply chain issue ... there have been many during the past few years. There was a stop-sale on a receiver hitch on the Toyota Sienna that I special ordered in 2014. The Toyota dealer I ordered through was contacted by the factory in Indiana to get my approval to go ahead and build the vehicle without the hitch. When the OEM receiver hitch became available again some months later, it looked exactly the same as the one sold before the stop sale. I couldn't wait, so I bought a Curt receiver hitch from etrailer and installed it myself. A class 5 receiver hitch with a 10,000+ pound rating is superfluous on a GX that's rated to tow a maximum of 6,500 pounds unless Lexus specifically states that a class 5 hitch will increase towing capacity - very unlikely. Here's a link to the current Lexus towing capacity guide: https://www.metrolexus.com/towing-capacity-guide.html The guide says that the 2022 LX has the highest towing capacity of all Lexus models - 8,000 pounds.
  12. etrailer.com appears to have two hitches for the 2022 GX460 but both have a maximum of 5,000 pounds instead of the maximum 6,500 pounds the GX is rated for: https://www.etrailer.com/hitch-2022_Lexus_GX+460.htm Unless you are really going to tow more than 5,000 pounds, either of these two hitches should work well and they're inexpensive to boot.
  13. No splicing will be necessary. The mechanic will simply unplug and discard what is left of the exterior mirror harness from the door panel wiring harness. He will then plug the harness for the replacement mirror into the door panel wiring harness. Here is a photo from eBay of a used right side mirror for a 1998-2005 GS. The cable from the mirror attaches to the wiring harness behind the door panel.
  14. Nice photo!! Thanks. Yes, it is safe to cut through the large insulated cable I see in the photo. There will likely be a number of smaller wires each with there own insulation inside the black cable. It's best to make a super clean cut so that the wire cores of the smaller wires don't contact each other but it probably wouldn't be a problem even if they did. Maybe wrap the car side end of the wire bundle with electrical tape after you cut it to prevent any of the wire cores from contacting metal such as the car door. RX400h, no, there are no connectors inside a mirror housing that have to be disconnected or connected when replacing an exterior mirror. There is only one connector for each exterior mirror that has to be connected to a wiring harness in the doors. Replacing an exterior mirror is usually pretty easy although it often requires popping off the door panel which is not very difficult. I've had some practice due to collisions ands having added turn signals to exterior mirrors. If I'm wrong, I guess you will have to hunt me down and slap me. If you are reluctant to remove the hanging mirror yourself, have your mechanic cut the cable and remove it. Or, if you are uncomfortable with cutting the cable, your mechanic could remove whatever interior trim is necessary and then unbolt the mirror from the door and disconnect the mirror connector from from the door wiring harness. That's no more than a 15 minute operation if your mechanic knows what he's doing.
  15. The connector for the exterior mirror is probably inside the car and behind a door panel - at least that's the way it is on most vehicles made by Toyota. It would help if you provide a photo showing the dangling exterior mirror and the electrical cable connecting the mirror to the door.
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