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DrDistorzion

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  1. YES :whistles: I wouldn't mind more power from the 400h. As you know I'm new to the RX, but I work with electric motors and my guess is that there are several reasons why the torque is limited. First of all, the transmission must be dimensioned to cope with the torque, and if you add up all the torque from the 3 sources togeather you get over 700Nm, so if you where to develop a transmission to cope with that, it woul probably mean a pretty good elevation of an already high pricetag, and reliability and lifespan is priority for Lexus so I find it very natural that they prioritize lifespan and reliability instead of peak power. But non the less I agree that I would also like different modes for the drivetrain, gaining more "manual" control over how it operates. Maby a natural need for a technology nerd. :D
  2. Thanks a lot for the info! :) I was actually thinking of cree's not to get their maximum light emission but rather run them on a little bit lower current than their design-max, so that I get more light than 5mm-LED's but without excess heat, it would also save me from voltage spikes, and it would also increase the lifespan of the lights. The door handle lights sounded complicated so I guess I start with the glove-box and then move on to the door sills. :) I'll keep you posted. And thanks again for all the useful information!
  3. ok, dimming is no problem, I don't need it. I don't think there's any use of dimming those lights, although I guess there could be an idea to put a switch in the door mechanism that switches the cupholder lights off when the cupholder door is closed, and another switch for the glove box light connected to that door mechanics. It could at least be useful if I decide to go for real highpower-LED's that emmits a lot of heat. I thought of placing one like that in the glove box, or several of the around the sides because it's allways hard to find what you're looking for in there with a lot of stuff scrambled. :) And about the door sills, maby I missed it somewhere, but I read that the LED's are incased in epoxy so a little bit of surgery is needed, that's no big deal but to get to them, did you remove the whole plastic part that the LEXUS-sign is built into? is it just "clicked" in place if you understand what I mean? I want to be extra carefull not to try to bend here and there causing something to break... I noticed the lights for the driver-side feets, and the passenger side as well. They are very very faint on mine, so are the LED's in the lexus-sign. Did you replace the lights lighting up the door-handle cavities? Those are also very faint and ugly on mine, so I'm thinking of replacing them aswell.
  4. Hi, I must admit this is rather embarrassing, I found the problem... I didn't know these lights were connected to the headlight-switch. Because of the fact that I bought the car a couple of weeks ago and the headlights come on automatically and I haven't driven any time where the high-power-mode has been needed, I have never switched the headlights to the on-position. I thought those LED's should be on the same power source and control as the instrument panel and door sill-lights, but obviously they aren't, which in itself is quite odd I think... isn't it quite often you look for something in the glove box before or after you have the car powered up? So even now when I have them working the way they are intended, I'm thinking of moving them to another power source. I just need to be careful so that I don't connect them in a way so that they are constantly on, as I also intend to exchange them for some highpower-ones. Does your lights work in the same way as mine?
  5. oh, thanks a lot! :) no, mine doesn't have those lights (if they aren't also unpowered at the moment as my center console lights). This morning on my way to work I double-checked so they weren't just dimmed down, I dimmed up the instrument lights to full and there was no light in the center console. I'll check the instrument panel fuse box this evening. again, thanks a lot for taking your time! This car has been my dream car for several years, and now that I finally have had opportunity to buy one, I'm going to learn as much as I can about it. Then it's nice to have a community like this to share ideas and info on!
  6. Thanks, yes I saw they are already LED's, but I figured it would be nice to change to some really bright ones, to get good ilumination in the large "bucket" when searching for parking coins and stuff. I guess otherwise that I could re-rout the power to these lights from somehwere else on the dashboard, like from the 12V cig-lighter-output for example. Then it wouldn't be affected by the dimmer. I searched the manual deeply for a description on the fuses, but obviously not deep enough. Or they have mistakenly lost that part in the swedish translation... I found the pages describing how to find the fuses, but no description on what they are fore. Anyway, if I understand you correctly, you replaced the lights under the doorstep (illuminated lexus sign)? I would like to replace those also, with brighter blue ones. I have spent some time tonight searching for info on how to get to them, but with no luck, could you describe how I get those off? is it just to pull the plastic cover upwards? Thanks in advance!
  7. Hi again, I managed to remove the obstacle under the door, without removing the door itself. I folowed cduluk's instructions and removed the console, removed the plastic frame underneath the compartments and could reach the jammed piece from there. I figured I could share some photoes I took during the operation that might be helpful to others. But when doing this operation I dismantled one of the cupholder lights to see what type of light source it was because I'm into changing the interior lighting to bright LED's, but when doing this it struck me that these lights haven't been on since I baught the car.. and I measured on the loos connector and there's no voltage on it.. I checked the fuse box and I see there's some fuses missing, and I couldn't figure out what these are for from the text on the fuse box cover, could any one explain? I would be very thankfull. And if someone has any other suggestion on what could be the cause of the non functioning console lights, it would be very appreciated. Not much idea to change the light sources if I have no juice coming to them.. :S
  8. thanks for the information! I think I will have to dismantle the center console. I am an robotics engineer so technology is not a problem, the problem is that they are pretty good at hiding how the details are put togeather! :)
  9. hi all! I tried searching for a way to remove the cup holder door in the mid console on my 2006 RX-400h, but haven't found any usefull info. The door won't open fully which makes it impossible to use the cup holders. Somehting has dropped belowe the door blocking it from opening fully and I can't get hold of it. Any one have any link or info of how to remove the door? Thenks a lot!
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