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Well, I tried another thing and it worked. i took off the negative battery clamp  and let it sit for a hour. Took the car for a 25 minute drive and it started working again. Maybe it completed some sort of drive cycle and reset?  Anyhow it now works. Bob D

Hi all, have a 1996 LS and both original key fobs have stopped working. All functions still work with the key, car starts, can set alarm system, rear trunk lid opener opens with the switch inside on dash. Here is what I have done so far: Checked battery voltage in both remotes, they both read about 2.4V. Even put in new batteries. Checked with a voltmeter every fuse in both the engine and interior fuse panels. Cleaned the terminals on the car battery, which is new. Unhooked the negative battery terminal and let the car sit to "reset". Nothing I haven't done the reset procedure because I read that without all of the door actuators working you cannot complete the steps. 3 of mine are bad. I have the factory manual, but unfortunately don't have the companion manual with the wiring diagrams. If anyone knows what pages in the mechanical manual would help out let me know. Would  anyone have any info regarding the placement, and how to check the actual remote receiver that receives the signal from the remote, or am I barking up the wrong tree? Any help appreciated as I'm out of ideas. Thanks, Bob D    

I've never bothered to look into why artist, album and track information doesn't show when playing music from CD's on Toyota/Lexus in-dash systems but all the information does show on the in-dash screens after I copied my music collection to my phone and then stream the same music from my phone via Bluetooth.  And it's way easier to scroll through my rather large music collection on my phone screen than to juggle a bunch of physical CD's.  I put phone holders high on our dashboards to make it easier.  The steering wheel controls can be used to skip and restart music tracks streamed from phones over Bluetooth. Streaming my music collection via Bluetooth from my phone sounds as good as playing the same music from an original commercial CD - I've tried hard to tell a difference even with engine off.  Bluetooth sound quality sure has improved since the early days. I don't listen to my music collection all that much anymore ... mainly stream from Internet services (Pandora, YouTube Music, Amazon Prime Music, Tunein Radio) or listen to The Bridge or The Spectrum channels on XM satellite radio while I drive.  I use the free iBolt Dock'n Drive phone app to make using streaming apps safer to use while driving. All the music on your 500 albums would probably all fit on an 32 GB SD card in your phone or in an iPhone if it has a decent amount of memory.  Or upload your music to a cloud storage service and stream it from there.  A bonus of having my music collection on my phone is that I can listen to it while I'm flying and in other situations where I don't have Internet access.   Sorry I can't answer your question but CD's are going the way of cassette and 8-track tapes.  Some car makers have stopped putting CD players in new vehicles.  

My 2015 RX 350 CD player won't display the song/track titles.  The dealer says that the software is up to date. They also say the CD has to have a Gracenote emblem on them to display the track names. I have over 500 CD's and none of them have a Gracenote emblem on them.  If I place any of my CD's in a 2009 Nissan Murano (which also uses Gracenote), the track titles are displayed. Has anyone else experienced this?

I was going to buy a Lexus RX 350 maybe a 2013-2015 models but is it worth getting the hybrid and are they just as reliable?