92ls forhundo

if i ever drive to colorado with my silver 92, we can have a sequetial model year meeting. Kinda interesting thing about these cars is that they are truly appreciated by all races and creeds. Here in socal, asian,white,latino,african-american, middle-eastern, ive run into all of the the above and have had gushing/glowing conversations about our LS's. Even male and female. Ahhhh, serendipity.....

Wow that sounds like a lot of work. Did you say you removed thee transmission? Good stuff either way.

no conflict, just an exchanging of ideals/ideas, btw sw03es, i think it was blake i meant to respond to not you....

The point about e85 and sugar vs. corn is that it is a sugar is a superior option AND CAN,swes330, be grown here, last time i checked us wacky californians ARE the worlds highest producers of sugarcane. My point was in the context of my previous post is that America often doesnt take the best course of action for all, but the most profitable action for the parties that are already invested. Thats as non-partisan as it gets. Did anyone see the special on cnn about brazil? 1 4000 acre sugarcane farm can power(fill up) 11,000 cars per day. Higher octane,less efficiancy. As clean or cleaner than corn ethanol. Oh and the plant that refines the sugar? powered by.........sugar. But were not going to this.....all the crops we pay farmers to destroy, to not ruin markets....sugarcane......faced with this reality it really makes hydrogen seem kinda silly at least in the near future. I am a pretty moderate "lefty" yet i didnt have the need to insult anybody.........smoke that.

its called sarcasm guys. In other words, from the speakers point of view "i told you so". A strong argument can be made that high oil prices are due to world instability right? It could be argued that OUR CURRENT government has contributed greatly to the destabilization of the worlds economic condition. On a completely Bi-partisan bent we as americans have been held hostage by a greedy infrastructure of oil. I live in Los Angeles. the public transportation system is joke at best. Back in the 1940's l.a. had a very good mass-transit system that was prchased by standard oil and dismantled, all the while angelinos were encouraged to move to suberbs, hence being forced to buy petrol in order to drive to work. That is true story. If youve ever seen who framed roger rabbit? that premise is based on fact. Now everybody is talking about switching to corn ethanol or e85 as a substitute for petrolium. What no one will tell you is corn ethanol takes as much energy to produce as it gives off. Sugar ethanol is much more efficient, produces higher octane, but less mileage and is so clean burning it is not even funny. Point is even if we were to switch to corn-ethanol we would be using an inferior energy means yet again due to the fact that there is already a corn lobby and infrastructure in place in america. Conversely they pay about $1.75 U.S. PER LITER!!! =$7.00 U.S. IN EUROPE and have been paying twice as much for a long time. But they have efficient means of mass transit and not our fat cat,greed driven, oil based infrastructure that our country is so infected with.

this is made by pioneer and looks like it has the same dimensions as our stock ls ones, also i think only the head unit is of nak electronics all the looms and changer are pioneer so the odds of compatability are fairly good???! http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/pna/prod...2869141,00.html FH-P4200MP In-Dash Double-DIN CD/Cassette Receiver with MP3/WMA/WAV/iTunes AAC Playback Suggested Price: $380.00 (1573 KB, 225 sec @56k) (119 KB, 17 sec @56k) FH-P4200MP Regular FH-P4200MP Remote small Close Up Front View Close Up of Remote Control Product Overview Product Specifications Product Accessories Got a double-DIN headunit space? We have one word for you: FH-P4200MP. It’s the King Kong of headunits and it fits perfectly into your dash. But that’s not all: playback includes not only MP3 and WMA, but also CDs with iTunes® AAC files — a world’s first! This model delivers DSP with 9-Band Graphic EQ for customizing your vehicle’s sound. And it’s ready for Satellite Radio (XM or Sirius) and our hot iPod Adapter shipping in Spring ‘05. Apple iTunes logoiTunes® AAC Playback Compatibility! Here’s an important world’s first from Pioneer: Apple iTunes AAC compatibility! The FH-P4200MP can play CDs with AAC files ripped using Apple’s iTunes Media Player. Now you can make iTunes your one-stop music player for your PC, iPod and CDs as well. (Note: Not compatible with DRM-protected music purchased from Apple iTunes Music Store) MP3/WMA Playback Included MP3+WMA logoPlus, the FH-P4200MP plays your MP3 and WMA files. This gives you huge flexibility with the types of music you can play and the sources that your music can come from. Each CD-R or CD-RW disc you burn has the capacity to hold up to ten complete albums of MP3 music and twenty for AAC/WMA discs. Trust us, that's a lot of music. And since these CDs hold so much data, you'll be happy to know that Pioneer MP3 headunits also include a random play mode. You'll also be pleasantly surprised to find that our players support ID3 Tags and AAC/WMA text, which display artist, title, track and album information, just like your computer. Last but not least, our Digital Speedread2 mechanism speeds up track-to-track access, cutting down on the wait time. It can actually access an MP3 file faster than most receivers access a CD-Audio file. DSP with 9-Band Graphic EQ Big size calls for big controls, and the FH-P4200MP gives it to you, with DSP settings with a 9-band graphic equalizer. With DSP your vehicle can become a Jazz Club. A Studio. A Stadium, a Dome, and more. You choose. And the 9-band EQ lets you fine-tune your sound just the way you like it, to fit your vehicle or just to fit your mood. Double-DIN Size for a Perfect Fit If your vehicle has a double space for a headunit, don’t even THINK about: go with the double-DIN sized FH-P4200MP. It’s custom-made for your vehicle. It fits tight and it looks right. The install will go fast. And with the double-sized headunit you get an over-sized display, showing lots of info that’s easy to read. SAT Radio Ready logoSatellite Radio Ready? Ready. Satellite Radio. It’s digital, high-quality programming beamed from satellites. And the signal that doesn’t fade, no matter where you drive. It offers commercial-free music of nearly every genre, plus talk, news, sports, weather, and more. There are two companies that offer this great product — XM Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio — and the FH-P4200MP is compatible with both of these subscription-based services. So you choose. You’ll just need a Pioneer digital satellite tuner to match the satellite service you select. iPod Adapter Ready! Attention current and future iPod owners: this deck can be your gateway to taking your iPod music collection on the road! The new Pioneer CD-IB100 iPod Adapter is now available to add to your Pioneer headunit. Once you connect this adapter, you can control your iPod through the headunit and even view album, artist, and other music info on its display. The Pioneer iPod adapter powers your iPod and even re-charges its internal battery. Just think: now you can play all of your iPod tunes via a powerful Pioneer mobile audio system! iPod and iTunes are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. registered in the U.S. and other countries. XM Satellite Radio is a subscription service not affiliated with Pioneer Electronics - service is available only in the 48 continental U.S. states (not available in Alaska, Hawaii, or U.S. territories). More information is available at www.xmradio.com. Sirius Satellite Radio is a subscription service not affiliated with Pioneer Electronics - service is available only in the 48 continental U.S. states (not available in Alaska, Hawaii, or U.S. territories). More information is available at www.siriusradio.com.

perhaps it is just what you said, put a fresh brand new battery in your car and see if it persists. When batteries start to go bad,potentially in any electronic device, funny things can happen. Try that first. Or take your battery to an autozone type place and they will test its ability to hold charge.

there is a web site(company) called superbrightleds.com that have waht you need and they also cross-reference their leds to popular bulbs i.e, 1157= whatever. Not a very easy site you may have to root around a bit. Actually they have made this site better since i was last there...

good lookin feldes, by the way i never did thank you for the hood shocks, i did recieve them and still havent installed them yet, but much thanks again

in response to the earlier queries, the a/c is simply not cold never has been since i bought the car, this guy was fairly honest and was recommended from my regular mechanic whom i trust. Basically they filled it up and almost all the gas escaped immediatly through the evap unit, now they said that there could a valve inside the evap that could be the culprit...$500 parts and labor.....or it could be the evap itself...$1000 parts and labor......however the kicker is he said the compressor IS noisy already and if i were to replace that.....$2000.....so $500 is agamble that may or may not solve the issue......and your right i should try another opinion, seeing that this guy was an a/c only shop.....But what if i were to buy an evap unit myself,put it on and then try to have it filled?? is that just no good for some reason????

kewl, your ls looks really good man, what year is it again?

just took my ls to an a/c guy said evaporator is leaking, could be valve inside evap,if so $500, if it is evap $1000 if compressor is bad $2000 :cries: :cries: :cries: :cries: :cries: :cries: :cries: i guess im doomed as far as a/c is concerned, i love this car but $2000 would be tune-up and shocks and ball joints etc....AAAAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHH

ive noticed in pretty much every car ive ever driven, and i ve driven ALOT on the california highways, that regardless of speed, if you can use cruise control it always makes pretty significant difference in consumption, id say there is definately something to be said for c.c. For example coming back home from camp pendleton(brother is a marine) to where i live in upland, on an open 5 freeway, with c.c. on i used about 4 gallons or so to go about 110-115 miles.

oem shocks approx. $50 each. $300-$500 other parts, not labor. off the top of my head.

Srk, i completely agree, cars do always seem quicker with a fresh wash. My apologies.

i was a huge acura/honda proponent for the longest time, i started with a 93 integra and just loved that car immesely, i always hated toyotas for their conservative blandness, until i got my ls00,anyhoo the thing about hondas is they are able to extract power from engines that should never be able to output what they do, sweet engineering, but their is a trade-off for making say, an average-sized v6,non aspirated v6,in 1997, perform like say a 2005 maxima does now.....food for thought.....

my 92 gets anywhere from 16-20 mpg stop and start in city driving however on the highway i can average about 24-26mpg....im not complaining all things considered. Congrats on your mileage if figure out why, please let us know....

hey man, i would change tires and do as much little stuff as possible, going with the most important stuff first. I have a 92 with about the same mileage as yours if i had a grand to spend right now i would redo the suspension parts ane replace the shocks/struts. In all likelyhood i could use timing belt change,distributor,plugs wires and all that, but even through a good indie thats still well over $1000. Now if your mechanically inclined you could buy all the parts for above tune-up and still have a little leftover to where you still maybe buy two tires for now, or maybe have ALL the fluids replaced,air filter all stuff. Try handwriting a list of everything you could think of doing,search on the internet for parts and pricing,call around a few trusted shops ask them what things would cost and then wittle the list from there in order of importance.......ill stop now :whistles:

well im not the original owner of this car so i cannot say how long that oil was in there but it didnt look good coming out....probably has lost some of its properties. Oh maybe im just crazy and there is no difference , that or i am just lying...... srk are implying that i dont know my car or that im so ignorent that i would fall for "the placebo" effect of changing my oil in diff? I greatly respect your opinions and enjoy very much reading you, however i cant stand being condescended to.

my car is about 245,000(my odo broke a year ago) it really made a difference in acceleration smoothness, also in stopping a "turbulence" from the drive wheels that i didnt realize was there until it was gone.

I changed my diff. oil today and what significant difference it made, not major but significant in a subtle way, smoother acceleration, and just seemingly more tranquil ride.....good stuff....i recommend doing this, i know the heavy hitters do this already but for newbies like me it was eye opening.

it was just a couple pics, no big deal. when im on this site my family disappears. This is automobile repair primarily, to generalize. Really so what? You had to look for it anyway, and "children" could find much,much worse without looking at a lexus forum. I think its a bit puritannical really.

i like dusts simplified take on it. It seems that lexus is quickly gaining the knowledge and wherewithall to soundly re;reliably, creep into the performance end of all as well......

i protest this being removed, this is a site for the boys,for the most part

Hey Bradicus, i too am in so. cal, also with a 92. What dealership told you this? Ive known people that have worked at crown in ontario,who have advised me never, ever to go there. But ive heard great things about longo in el monte, and no matter where i go be it beverly hills, the westside,newport beach etc, I ALWAYS see new lexus with paper longo tags on them.....f.w.i.w.