hansaplast26

Hi Guys. In october last year I bought a 2006 Lexus IS250. I like the car but I am a bit surprised about it with regards to servicing. Last week my brake pads made a howling/annoying noise while braking. turned out that the brake pads were gone and the mechanical indicators started making the noise when getting in touch with the disc. It was not what i expected from a luxury car, but it made me go to the garage quick:-) and it seems to be normal for a japanese car (what i've been told). The manual doesn't say too much about this, I maybe expected an electronic indicator light like in my previous car, a simple vw golf. Now I am reading further in the manual and I do not see any information in the manual about a service indications. I've now driven 10.000km's and I expect the service interval at 15 or 20.000km's. will the display show me any message if service is coming up? my Golf started indicating with a message 'service in 3000km's'. what will my lexus tell me?

I know from reading the forums that the Quick Connect QCJBL-2 harness is all "plug and play" (no wire splicing) and allows playing the audio from MP3/iPod/USB devices through all the car speakers when used with a Parrot kit (e.g. the MKi9100) that has this feature. Does your ISO converter cable do that? Do Lexus radio systems for UK/Europe and North America use the same connectors and architecture? The Parrot kit I have is an MKi9000, it should do iPod playback, at least I hope so. I really want to have my iPhone integrated:) I believe the connectors are in same. in Europe the radio does not have an AM/SAT button, it says AM only. I believe that some kits require radio's with a sat input.

Hi there, I just got myself a Parrot Carkit. Since I don't want to cut wires but do a nice clean install I ordered myselfs a ISO converter cable, at http://www.nexxia.co.uk/car_kit_installation_leads/lexus.htm (SOT-910). This converter cable is sold for approximately 20 pounds Now I happen to found here on the forums that somebody obtained a cable / conversion kit called that is available for 99 USD at quickharness.com Does anybody know the differences? The quickharness looks easy, but I guess the SOT lead is also relatively straight forward. are there any technical advantages? THanks, Hans