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I have respect for people that take luxury SUVs offroading. ...that said, I've navigated worse trails in a hertz rental car. :D

What exactly do you mean by 'excellent high performance'? By definition there really is no 'high performance' all season tire. All season tires are not high performance in any category, no matter what the companies tell you. Summer tires will always perform better in the dry (a halfway decent street set will perform better in the wet too) and winter tires will always perform better in the snow/ice/freezing temperatures. All-season tires are never 'high performance' in anything, but rather a somewhat mediocre compromise in everything. They will never be able to offer the performance that season specialized tires will. As established already, I am the resident BMW auto-crosser :P ← Well as stated by Sport Cross earlier in his thread, he was having trouble with his car because of the snow & because it does not snow much where he is was wondering if it was necessary at all to put specific winter rubber on the car. I suggested a 'top shelf' high performance all season that should do the job. You haven't told us anything we did not know already with regards to actualy summer tires & winter tires & their specific functions.......some don't need 2 or more sets of wheels & tires, nor do they want them because of various reasons. Sport Cross did not mention anything about 'auto-crossing' either so I don't know exactly what point you were trying to make with that comment as it had nothing to do with the subject at hand. Also established already, I am one of the tire 'advisors' for both LOC & CL :whistles: :P There are many 'all season' tires in whatever category you want them to be classified as that will perform a more than admirable job to get one through winter driving conditions without much fuss. If the weather is that horrendous out....even with winter rubber & it's not an 'emergency', then why go out at all? :whistles: Exercising good common sense sometimes is better than any tire ever made no matter how good the traction is. :whistles: ;) ← I made the post 'cause one of my pet peeves is when people call all-seasons "high performance" ;)

AH HA! I was wondering why it was doing that!!! btw, what on earth would one use a pirate smiley for??

What exactly do you mean by 'excellent high performance'? By definition there really is no 'high performance' all season tire. All season tires are not high performance in any category, no matter what the companies tell you. Summer tires will always perform better in the dry (a halfway decent street set will perform better in the wet too) and winter tires will always perform better in the snow/ice/freezing temperatures. All-season tires are never 'high performance' in anything, but rather a somewhat mediocre compromise in everything. They will never be able to offer the performance that season specialized tires will. As established already, I am the resident BMW auto-crosser :P

<_< I'll see if I can figure something out. I'll get back to you with results. $3 says I do it! :D

ha, one time I had to give someone a ride someplace, they got in the car and said "new car, eh?" me: "yeah, we just bought it." them: "but it's brand new, right?" Even so, I don't think the exterior styling of the LS400 has aged as gracefully as the BMW 5-series of the same era. e34 5 series

I do occasionally stop by and check out the cars they have out front, they usually look awesome. I made sure to ask about their techniques and what products they used, and all his answers checked out.

Looks like they got some design cues from BMW's banglized 6 series. <_<

Really? I was wondering about that myself, what about with a heated, textured metal roller or something?

considering that they regularly detail bentleys, ferraris, porsches, and NSX's and still have return customers I'd think they probably would :D

Mine is beginning to develop similar symptoms. Do you have to take off the interior door panel to change the handle, or can it be done from the outside only? Outside would be sooo much easier than taking off the door panel.

I got an estimate to repaint the rear bumper, fix the door dings, touch up all the clear coat and paint chips/blemishes, and get a full detail (including removal of scratches and swirl marks) for the lexus today, and the cost came out to around $1000US. Does that sound like a lot or is that about right? PS here is the place I got the estimate from: http://www.losra.net

I wasn't thinking about enhancing the current key, instead I was wondering about building an entirely new device that functioned the same way, but had a much longer range. I know some electrical engineers that specialize in building radio frequency circuitry that might be able to help me. Does anybody have any idea what the transmitter codes are, or is this information still under lock and key by lexus? Even with a code grabber it would likely be very hard to figure out how the system works if it rotates codes every time you lock/unlock the doors. Does anyone know if the first gen keyless entry transmitters are each programmed with a single, unique, non-changing code, or do they have a dynamic system where the code changes every time the transmitter is used?

Would this be possible for a particularly skilled electrical engineer? How does the coding work on these keys? Anyone know?

wow, that engineering is completely useless. :chairshot: It took me 45 minutes to get the filter off; it was on waaaaaay too tight and my filter wrench was too big for the filter and wouldn't fit in the spot anyways. I had to pound a screwdriver through the thing to get it to budge, and then I had to crush it with vice grips to get it the rest of the way off.