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Ran across this life/money saving post via Google search. I am truly estactic, here are my results; Just bought 2003 LS430 on 3.17.2011, It was so clean that I drove off the lot without cranking audio. 3 hours later noticed blown sub, felt like an idiot!!!! I blew the sub in my '92 SC400 15 years ago so I know these ain't cheap. 1) Used a flat wide round nose butter knife to pry off grill. Go slowly and gently increase pressure. Knife may bend a bit to a lot until compression fittings let go. Make sure you don't knock fittings off grill, they could fall onto deck and rattle around there forever!. 2) With music on loud enuff to get subwoofer buzz, I placed and moved my finger gently around cone/foam suspension junction until I found the spot to make it stop buzzing. Even though I could see no tears I assumed this was the spot. 3) No electricity out back for glue gun so I bought small tube of "GE Silicone II Clear - Premium Waterproof Silicone - 3 Hour rain ready/ sun-freeze proof" Cost me $4.29 from the caulk section of the hardware store. 4) Since the sub is almost purely moving air, probably handling everything under 200Hz or maybe even lower, I thought it safe to add a fair amount. Made small bead of silicone around entire cone/foam suspension junction and to be safe outside metal frame where it joins foam. Grab a small make up mirror to see area closest to front seat where you can't see that well. I used my finger to smooth out beads and ensure there was total coverage. This particular silicone wipes off easily from finger with paper towel Three hours later it works awesome !!!! No smell from curing etc. either!!! I am not going to crank it until tomorrow after 24 hour cure but already light years improvement I love when a plan works - Thanks so much to the poster for this idea!!! What a waste of money it would be to pay 300-700$ to replace that sub!!! I added a bit of detail so as to help the next guy who is extremely *BLEEP*ed off and !Removed! out the Lexus dealer about the sub! Hope this helps