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Back from PV, the tires are much nicer than the OEM Bridgestones. I hear more wind noise in the windshield area now with less tire noise LOL, also smoother on the rough paved road to my house. So far a very nice tire, when I get to try them out on a mountain road I'll report back. Jeff

Got the Geolanders installed for $511.00 out the door with lifetime rotation and balance, this also included $40.00 shipping. I haven't even got to drive the 300 yet but the wife said they are nice compared to the stock Bridgestones. They are a little more aggressive than I thought they looked in the pictures. Outline white letters to the inside. Very nice looking tire. Going to Puerto Vallarta for a week and taking the 300 to the airport so I'll finally get to drive it. Let you know how they ride and sound when I get back on the 5th. Jeff

Here is a link to some DIY maint. http://mywebpages.comcast.net/rx300how2/index.html hope this helps

I'm having a set of the yokos put on this morning I'll let everyone know how I like them. Jeff

So has any one tried the Yokohama Geolander H/TS G051 yet?

While pulling the open handel from inside you will have to use your fingers to turn the locking latch ,the one that locks onto the post pin when you close the door and get it back into the open position then it will close.

If you find a turbo kit for the RX you better also find a trans builder to build you a stronger tranny or it will never last. Jeff

If it has never had any major problems it sounds like a no brainer go for it. Don't worry about the grade of fuel it's not a problem, I always put 87 in mine. 70-30% town to hwy and average 18.8MPG. The small scratches and dings on a kids first car are a plus, almost every kid will have a small altercation with something and a perfect car will really get the parents upset when this happens. My kids would have given their eye teeth for a car that nice. They got a 92 Caviler wagon with 100K miles, it made it through 3 kids and a few minor altercations. LOL The RX is a very safe car for a young girl and she will be proud to own it. The Nav install will cost more to install than you will want to spend. If you must have it I would buy this car and keep looking for one from a dealer and then trade it in. Tell the Aunt she loved the car but kept getting lost so you upgraded. LOL Good luck. Jeff

Here is a good link to learn about fixing your V710 to get more functions out of the blue tooth, A SEEM update will allow you to transfer like it was made to before Vorizon disabled the file transfer features so you would have to use there pay services. http://www.inetron.com/ In the main menu on the left read the message boards and the V710 item. All you need to make the blue tooth right is the usb cord to hook it to your computer and the motorola phone tools software, then down load and install the seem hack from this web site and your phone should work just fine. Jeff

I use the motorola v710 and HS850 headset, my RX 300 doesn't have blue tooth but this phone is great. voice dialing that is intelligent and doesn't have to learn your voice to work. With the bluetooth headset you push the button on the headset and the phone ask for a command, name dial or digit dial. It will recognize any name you have programed to a number just using the spelling of the name. If the phone is not sure what you said it will ask did you say, and then it repeats what it thinks you said, if it is right you say yes, if wrong you say no, and it will prompt you to say the name again. In digit dial you just say the number with no pauses and it will repeat it and dial, if it is not sure it will ask did you say, and repeat the number it thought it heard. Very nice for hands free in the car or when you need to write down information. The company I work for bought the phone and headset for me as they have a hands free policy and I couldn't stand those ear buds. Jeff

Must have been all down hill !!!

Turn the letters to the inside. Jeff

Geno, check this link. It is for a tester for the evap system. The tester is pretty expensive $600, but the link goes through all the steps of testing all the componets and may give you some more info on things you can look at. http://www.troublecodes.net/articles/waeko...P_Test_Kit.html Jeff

If your able I would pull a cam cover and check to see if it is sludge or just the area under the filler cap. You can't see the sludge that will cause a problem with out pulling cam covers. That is what a dealer will do if they are trying to find the sludge. Any one that tells you you can see it with out pulling a cam cover is IMHO not doing his job. Jeff

Oil drains back very fast, if it took 5 min to drain back, your pan would run dry with engine running. It is very close after a very short amout of time but 5 min is more than enough time. Are you sure the stick was all the way in the first time you checked? Jeff

Same here good during day too bright at night. My daughters chrysler has a neat feature, if you are running headlights in day light twist switch and the radio and other lights stay bright so you can see them in bright sunlight. Jeff

http://us.lexusownersclub.com/forums/index...showtopic=19396 This should help. Jeff

I would guess that if you didn't want the lojack they would have disabled it. I bought my daughter a car a few years back that had an ignition disabler, the dealer installed these on all the cars it sells and if you don't want it it gets disabled and the visable part removed. Jeff

Hey Sal, I thought your name was familiar. I am a member of Cadillac Forums, although I traded my Eldorado in for my RX300. Good to see you here. Jeff

My wall control unit has a button that when pushed keeps any remote opener from working. I push mine every night when I lock the house up before I go to bed.

Use the dip stick. After a drive of 15-20 min. park on level ground with engine running pull the dip stick wipe off and reinsert, pull out and hold it horizontal in good light and read the fluid level. It should be in the hot range between the two hash marks. If it is low just add a little at a time to get into the hot range. Not sure if the 99 has the positive battery terminal right next to the tranny dip stick, but watch out if it does and the batt terminal is not covered good. The first time I checked mine the dip stick bent half way in and hit the pos term and made some sparks and put a gouge in the dip stick. Jeff

Auto Zone will loan with refundable deposit the tool that you can use for compressing the piston. Jeff

Some more good info on octane, see my posts #20-21. http://us.lexusownersclub.com/forums/index...hl=octane&st=15 Jeff

I have to say on the bad cop thing that I have never got a ticket when I wasn't speeding!!! I never got *BLEEP*ed at the cop for doing his job. I havn't had a ticket since I started using my detector. Jeff

Check for a blown fuse. Jeff