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Hi, I'm new to the club and lexus. Just bought a 2002 LX470. Biggest problem, horrible stereo with blown speakers. After some research on this club and taking to stereo pros, I decided to change both head unit and speakers. It's complicated on my model as it's a smaller than normal single din Oem unit. The dealer and some other shops told me : IT'S IMPOSSIBLE, very wrong, IT IS POSSIBLE. Although I'm an electrician and can do this install, I went with a pro installer who knows toyota and Lexus. The shop is Custom car Alarm in Pleasant Hill, Ca. The awesome installer is Mike, he knows those cars inside and out. Shop tel #925-680-8881, make sure you talk to Mike, he is the only one that knows this procedure. I went with ALPINE CDE-149-BT head unit. Blue tooth, hands free phone calls, USB, sirius XM….. Great Sound and WAY better than the Naka-LOUSY. (my opinion) For Front door speakers, I spent a little extra and got the JL C2 650 with 1" twitters, sounds so good, great fidelity. For rear speakers, I went with the Alpine SPS610. For now no subwoofer but have the RCA cables extended so that can be done later without having to pull the head unit out. With this set up it will require a small amp. USB extension cable to center console, charge your iPhone or memory stick with media. Sirius XM SXV300 tuner. One call to sirius transferred my service from my last car to the new unit ($15. Fee). Microphone by mirror. Mike did a great job. He had to customize the head unit fitting and custom make a couple side wings. The speakers needed some customization as well. The original rear speakers were 4" but he made a custom box for 6" speakers which are much nicer. I'm VERY HAPPY with the installation, super clean. The sound is amazing, full fidelity, HUGE IMPROVEMENT. Hi, I got a little more info from my installer: the nakamichi head unit has to stay in car in order for the nav system and a couple other things to work. So he relocated the OEM nakamichi unit under passenger side dash and ran the needed 5-6 wires to it in a harnez he made. Than he installed the after market Alpine head unit in the dash with some customization. COST: $ 1200 parts and labor. Hope this is helpful. Now I can go on my trip to Montana and rock out. Cheers, Alon Quote MultiQuote Edit

Hi, I'm new to the club. Just bought a 2002 LX470. I need new tires. The dealer told me 16" tires but on the forum and on the web people were saying you could put 18" on the LX. My friend has a 2006 LX with 18" tires. Please help: Should I get 16" tires or !8"? will the 18" tires rub the fender? Any advantages to either? Leaning toward the Michelin LTX or AT2 or TOYO open country. Which would be better for FWY, snow and light off road once in awhile. If you have any other tire recommendation please let me know. Thanks in advance, Alon

Hi, I'm new to the club and lexus. Just bought a 2002 LX470. Biggest problem, horrible stereo with blown speakers. After some research on this club and taking to stereo pros, I decided to change both head unit and speakers. It's complicated on my model as it's a smaller than normal single din Oem unit. The dealer and some other shops told me : IT'S IMPOSSIBLE, very wrong, IT IS POSSIBLE. Although I'm an electrician and can do this install, I went with a pro installer who knows toyota and Lexus. The shop is Custom car Alarm in Pleasant Hill, Ca. The awesome installer is Mike, he knows those cars inside and out. Shop tel #925-680-8881, make sure you talk to Mike, he is the only one that knows this procedure. I went with ALPINE CDE-149-BT head unit. Blue tooth, hands free phone calls, USB, sirius XM….. Great Sound and WAY better than the Naka-LOUSY. (my opinion) For Front door speakers, I spent a little extra and got the JL C2 650 with 1" twitters, sounds so good, great fidelity. For rear speakers, I went with the Alpine SPS610. For now no subwoofer but have the RCA cables extended so that can be done later without having to pull the head unit out. With this set up it will require a small amp. USB extension cable to center console, charge your iPhone or memory stick with media. Sirius XM SXV300 tuner. One call to sirius transferred my service from my last car to the new unit ($15. Fee). Microphone by mirror. Mike did a great job. He had to customize the head unit fitting and custom make a couple side wings. The speakers needed some customization as well. The original rear speakers were 4" but he made a custom box for 6" speakers which are much nicer. I'm VERY HAPPY with the installation, super clean. The sound is amazing, full fidelity, HUGE IMPROVEMENT. Hi, I got a little more info from my installer: the nakamichi head unit has to stay in car in order for the nav system and a couple other things to work. So he relocated the OEM nakamichi unit under passenger side dash and ran the needed 5-6 wires to it in a harnez he made. Than he installed the after market Alpine head unit in the dash with some customization. COST: $ 1200 parts and labor. Hope this is helpful. Now I can go on my trip to Montana and rock out. Cheers, Alon