Bykfixer

Sometimes an EGR system loaded with soot can cause the darndest things. In the old days before the car had all kinds of sensors the old vacuum checker at various points in the system could point out where vacuum is out of spec leading the mechanic to know if it's the exhaust valves out of spec, the EGR clogging, low compression etc. I had all kinds of idle issues from a Honda once and it turned out a small leak in the head gasket had just enough coolant get into the exhaust pipe (undetected) and caused extra back pressure to give me a bunch of random grief like hard to start, shut off after releasing the throttle, low idle etc. Eventually the leak was bad enough to show up in the form of noticeable coolant loss but until then man it was so aggrevating.

I used to use Slime in my bmx bicycle tires but noted there were times it would spit back into the valve stem and cause the leak to be the valve stem itself. Once my son ran over a glass bottle that put a small slice in the tire. We used 3 of those rubber plugs side by side but they leaked slightly. Added a can of fix-a-flat, drove it around the block to spread it around and it sealed the leak until he could get to a tire store a few days later. The fix-a-flat actually hardens and becomes a putty like sunbstance like Elmers glue where the Slime stays liquid albeit a very thick liquid but if the car sits a lot it can puddle causing that imbalance thing until it spreads out again through centrifugal force. (or is it centrifical? I can never keep those 2 straight) Don't know about tireject. But sometimes a simple remount of the tires to reseal them can solve the problem.

Recently one of the hounds began to show serious leg issues. I thought it best to get him moving more as he had spent the last few months lounging in front of the tv. We'd work on that a little bit at a time 3x a day. 50 paces for a few days, then 60, 75……he was up to 100 one morning and all was well. He was happily engaging in his therapy. Then that evening he could not stand up. When he did manage to raise up to all four his rear legs were as stiff as a board. We took him to a to a doc who said it was only going to get worse, and fed him lasagne and cookies. So now he's in place lined with telephone poles and fire hydrants. Man, I hated it but could not stand to know his remaining time on earth would involve a painful existence. They say "all dogs go to Heaven"…… I feel confident our half lab/ half hound is in a much better place. We rescued him from a bad place when he was young about 10 years ago. And my life was happier with him in it. RIP Onyx.

I don't like it when a pet gets old and feeble.

I wore Seiko kinectics until the battery stopped taking a charge. I read online where to buy a battery and how to replace them but just never have. Quartz are good until the day you realize it stopped working 2 hours ago. I prefer hand wind watches but every one I own quits working long before it has unwound so I just stick with a solar watch or a quartz.

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https://www.auto-manual.com/toyota/ This may help.

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When driving in summer I try to keep a bigger gap between the front of my vehicle and rear of the one in front of me. More consistant air hitting the radiator. I also keep a sunshield in the window to greatly reduce interior temperature when entering the car. In winter I let the car run for a few minutes before driving it in order to allow the oil to warm up. If it does mostly city driving I try to take it onto the interstate on occasion to drive it 20 minutes or so at a steady speed. Drive 20 miles or so, turn around and drive back home.

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The lamp that charges the watches has an old CFL from the 1990's!! Yup, the bulb is about 25 years old. The watches are around 10 years old. I like watches.

If you run the engine at say 2000 rpms with it in park does it vibrate? If the needle bearings are going bad you normally hear a "clunk" noise when putting it in drive or reverse. Wheel out of balance?

I keep mine charged via small table lamp. Wake in the morning, cut on a small lamp that lights the room. Keep the 5 solar watches I own in a circle around it. I like table lamps too.

My GS don't like low octane fuel so it sits around more often due to the price of high octane fuel and I don't like that. I imagine folks in Europe are really feeling the pain at the pump lately.

I like Citizen solar watches. Nothing fancy, just analog face type that keep time well.

Have you had compression checked? Quite possibly the ECU has forgotten to send signals to the cylinders. ie bad ECU. At one point Toyota had some issues with capacitors failing in them. You can try cross matching ECU's at LexusPartsNow to see what cars it was used in and perhaps snag one at a local junkyard to see if that makes a difference.

I don't like that the strainer at the shower drain fills up with hair off my head that's never going to grow back.

A good pair of boots.

It's a Toyota engine. Nuf said?

I had a pickup one time that did that. In that case it was from the lug nuts not tightened at even tension(s). Often they should be re-torqued after a brief period. Or at least checked.

If you have a dirty sensor code this might help. If it's a heating element code replacement is required. Some places sell OEM spec parts. Some sell cheap parts. When possible buy OEM spec parts.

No idea the sticker price but I'd say "if ya gotta ask ya probably can't afford it"…… I typically wait for cars to become old enough to fall into my price range but I doubt I'll live long enough for one of the LES cars 💀

I was reading a bit about the LFA offspring the Lexus Electrified Sport just now. Holy cow, 0-60 in under 3 seconds…430 mile range? What's not to like about that? And later down the road (pun intended) Direct4 AWD technology. Experience Amazing.

I remember in high school this one fellow had a camaro that was really hopped up but no rumble or drone came out of the exhaust when it would ease past us in the high school parking lot. Just a raspy thunder. It wasn't quiet by any means but it had a sound that you knew that sucker was fast. What impressed me as much as anything was when the guy would roll down the electric window to chat with somebody. Diamond tucked leather seats, a/c…am/fm 8 track, electric antenna etc…that car was sweet!! Decades later a coffee and cars show for rich guys took place near where I was working and this one dude takes off in a Cadillac that sounded like an Indy car. Another guy in a beamer that sounded like an F1 car. Quality sounding high performance exhausts are a rare treat in my neck of the woods. To me the luxury hot rod is the ultimate in sports cars. The quiter the better though. Yet high performance exhausts produce more noise at speed. So when I stomp on the throttle no burp please. Loud just to be loud? No thanks.

Hey John I have an 04 GS car that had some obvious parasitic drain issues and it seemed to be the door ajar system thought a door wasn't closed all the way. Unplugged the overhead light and thought that solved it but time revealed it still had the issue. Turns out it was two things that happened on occasion while the car was not in use. 1 was the cd changer kept trying to change disks on occasion. 2 the seat memory kept adjusting the seat at random times. The shop hooked it up to some kind of monitor for a day and found the issues. They charged a diagnosis fee and some labor to unplug the stuff. Unplugged those two items and no more issue.