bartkat

Have you changed a tire or had a wheel off for any reason? This sounds as if one of the wires to the ABS sensors on the wheels has become disconnected.

Not quite sure what you mean, but my IS350 downshifts itself when slowing down. Are you watching the little window "current gear"?

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Hadn't seen those before. But at that price and with wiring mods needed I doubt I'll be looking into it any deeper.

It's ok. I post my.is links when they are helpful. I've also posted CL links. There are some especially good DIY posts there.

I believe they are not good for certain components of the vehicle long term. Plastic components. By proper washing I mean a detailed wash by hand using a good soap formulated for automotive finishes. haha. After a detail I'm sure it'd be a wash (no pun intended) BUT After me taking 40 minutes and handwashing my car after a period of rain and bad weather and you taking yours to the touchless, I'd take that bet. Putting any question about chemicals and their effects aside, the touchless wash doesn't do any detailed work to the wheels, leaves road film on the paint and the glass which hides the true beauty of the paint. I don't consider that clean ;) Weather conditions here make a big difference too. I do clean the wheels myself, mostly due to the infamous IS350 brake dust. I do however like the extra underspray at the car wash. I found that the SUV and truck bay does the underspray even on the wash and rinse only selection.

Picky picky picky. I only use the one car wash and the only time cloth or anything else touches my car is when I detail it. I'll put my car's finish up against yours any day, big boy. :D

I don't think you can say that about touchless car washes in general. Some may not be so good, but I've been using the same one for almost 4 years and have seen none of those supposed problems. I will agree though that many of the car washes at gas stations don't do a really good job of cleaning.

I only ever use the touchless car wash. Some of them are pretty good. My car has never been through a brush or felt car wash and has never been washed by hand.

Well since the author needed help ASAP, I certainly hope this situation has been resolved.

You'll have to go turbo to get those numbers. Read this first. http://us.lexusownersclub.com/forums/index...showtopic=37347

Could be the connector is corroded.

Why not? It is just an IS250, not an Sti or an RS4... :P Based on that when my IS350 had a non-fixable rear flat after 5K miles I should have bought two rear tires... no way Jose! One tire was enough...and it already hurt a lot... the dealer charged me $350...ughh! No because your IS350 is not AWD. Besides that this has all been explained in previous posts.

That works.

:D

Based on the above, whatever you do should be done soon. Driving on the donut spare isn't doing the diveline any good either.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qi...03155716AAO83bV

I did some reading on this and the concensus seems to be that with AWD you should change all 4 tires. http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tiretech/tec...e.jsp?techid=18

I think you should replace at least two tires so you have identical tires on the same axle. You have 50% tire wear now, but that second 50% will wear out much faster than the first 50% did. Tires wear faster as they wear down.

Good grief. They ought to be able to find it by now. Is there anybody else you can talk to?

Did they have to order it?

Please stop typing in all caps. Don't try to sell your car in the IS forum. Thanks. not trying to sell my car in this forum it was a joke the kia dealership is making a real nice offer on it There's a guy on my.is that had some problems that they never could fix so finally they gave him a new car. http://my.is/forums/f126/they-say-its-igni...-switch-349683/