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  1. My headlights were so dull one could not see the light bulb. For the daytime lights that was fine, but at night the frosted lens really cut down the distance of effective lighting. I started out using Plasti-X and a microfiber cloth, which helped a lot. Yet a some point somebody had placed a coating of some sort on mine. Factory? I dunno but it was coming off and causing weird patterns in the beam so it had to go, whatever it was. I tried the no sand route with a few products none of which worked. Ordinarilly things like Plasti-X or Mothers wheel polish would probably do fairly well but my lenses said "pffft, got any other bright ideas bucko?" Stashed in my trunk from another project was an older 3m no drill kit from when they came with 3 discs. First one being 500 grit. Now they have 2 discs, first being 1000 grit. I dry sanded whatever that stuff was with the 500 disk. Uh oh! Now they are really frosted. But the remains of that coating were gone. Got out my spray bottle of water and commenced to rubbing the lenses with a new 3m kit. The 1000 grit rubbed up a nice slurry of yellow tinted paste. Wipe that off and by the 3rd rub down the yellow was gone. So then I did the 3000 grit. Low and behold I could see the light bulbs again. Afther the third rub down I could see "made inbJapan" again. Nice! Yet it was no gin clear yet. I rubbed on Blue Magic wheel polish and could see light at the end of the tunnel was not a train. Wait about 10 minutes and buff it again and it looked pretty good. Then the last step was to apply the 3m supplied clear coat. They looked about as close to new as they ever will without using a drill. The 3m drill kit is amazing but I prefer to hand rub my headlights as one slip and you have a scratch on your car, even if using masking tape. All told it took about an hour and a half to rub down all 4 lenses on my GS300 and get back almost new looking headlights. I considered keeping the DRL's frosted but opted not to. Now by the 4th lens the disks were kinda worn so extra hard force had to be applied to get good results. If you look closly, the right side lenses are not quite as clear as the left side ones so I'd reccomend buying 2 of the 3m kits if you don't want to have to use a "scrub" amount of effort. The kit was $10.49 at my local auto parts store.
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  2. You'll love the uniqueness, power, sound, comfort, and attention. I had been checking turo ads for over one year before someone finally started renting this LC, here in San Diego. Check turo.com in your area; you never know when one will pop up.
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  3. Sounds like the seller will need ice cubes in the afterlife. Where did you get those codes from? Reason I ask is if you are using one of those $49 readers that was on sale for $29 like I use, the thing starts out telling you what it thinks the issue is followed "but it could be"…… Example, it may say the issue is the code for random misfire, but it may be a knock sensor or xxxx or xxxx or yyyy or zzzzz. If you are using one of those inexpensive DIY type it would be a good investment to take it to a shop and have them nail down what is really wrong. I'm surprised your car isn't running really bad with all of those codes. Best regards.
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  4. Take a look here: Lexus Codes – TroubleCodes.net By the way, according to California law the SELLER is responsible for having the vehicle smog-checked. Did you know this? If you did not and the seller did not verify that the vehicle was smogged, you should contact the California Bureau of Automotive Repair. Home page - Bureau of Automotive Repair (ca.gov)
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  5. "Brrrrrrrrrrp! Brrrrrrrrrp pop pop pppop" seems to be the thing to do these days by the crooked hat community with 95% of their skivies exposed. Ah, I take solice in knowing that this year I have to put up with the racket but next year I'll be picking good parts from what's left of them at my local junkyard because they're either crashed or the drivetrain is destroyed. I restored two Honda Preludes from junk yard cars with broken engines or bad transmissions.
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  6. Never tried driving an LC500 but with your good experience, I would love to rent one someday.
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  7. If the adaptive distance sensing feature of your cruise control no longer works, the dealer must have deactivated it with Techstream or via an in-dash setting that you can control yourself. Laser based adaptive cruise control was available in all years of the LS430 in the Custom Luxury and Ultra Luxury packages.? Its laser sensor was in the lower grill on the passenger side. The LS430 got radar based adaptive cruise control and automatic emergency braking for the 2004 model year as an option on top of the Custom Luxury and Ultra Luxury packages. It's radar sensor was behind the "L" emblem in the front grill like it is on your LS500. Radar based adaptive cruise control is one of my favorite features. All our current vehicles have it. I won't even rent a vehicle without it. Even a fully autonomous driving vehicle requires oversight from the driver. One can't just "zone out" while the vehicle is driving itself. Some who have done that have made the news by crashing. I'm rather looking forward to full self driving vehicles. A 700 mile medical related trip last week sure would have been less tiring with that. I would have bought a Tesla with the full autonomous driving option by now if there were enough convenient charging opportunities where we drive or if they had substantially longer range on a charge..
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