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Found a hairline crack in the dash above the instrument panel today. I was devasted. As many other owners my Lexus is garage kept. I only drive it work a couple of times a week and put a sun screen in the windshield while it's outside. Does any other members have updates on this? It apparently is a problem with other GX470 owners. I've sent an email to Lexus but doubt I will get a response. Does anyone have a specific address or phone number to contact Lexus directly about this?

2006 GX470 Savannah Metallic ( gold) :)

found installer in pelham who ordered an oem part to add satellite to existing system with navigation. they also added an aux input in the console (great job on this). satellite radio was great for 2 weeks, now it doesn't work. called xm and each time they send a signal to the radio it comes on for about a minute and goes back. i will have to return to the installer to check. it was expensive and now frustrating as i've made 3 trips so far to get it complete. has anyone else experienced this?

I ended up going to ebay and purchased from a Lexus dealer in arizona for 148 s&h included. called all dealers in alabama and they wouldn't honor the price, so the arizona dealership got my business. arrived in 2 days, installed (nothing to it). still getting used to navigating. it's much different than a tom-tom :)

has anyone purchased an upgrade for the navigation system? checked with local dealer and it costs 169; ebay has them for 125-150.. not sure if I should go ebay or the dealer. Has anyone done this and did you purchase directly from dealer or from ebay or somewhere else??

2006 GX470 in Savannah Gold (?) Metallic

Thanks for the replies. I have a cassette adapter and purchased a scoshe fm transmitter/adapter and it works ok. Still some static in the background and you have to turn up the volume pretty loud in the lexus in order to hear the mp3 (30+). I found a couple of places on the internet that sell a kit to add a aux iniput.. www.vaistech.com I would appreciate some of the LOC members to check this out and give me their opinion. I'm not very knowledgeable of what this would to do the interior and I still want to add xm satellite so I'm considering biting the bullet and purchasing a kit. Thanks again or the response. Looking forward to talking with other lexus owners.

has anyone installed a auxilliary input in a 06 GX470? Surprised Lexus didn't have one in this model. Or how to install xm satellite radio or use mp3 without cassette adapter? Dont want to change any factory options if possible. Thanks.