Bykfixer

These days you can buy a camera snake that plugs to your smart phone for not much dough.

Would it be practical to install an on/off switch on (or near) the dash-cam itself?

Poison

https://community.onion.io/topic/784/resolved-relays-sticking/24 Try reading this and see if it helps. About half way down the fun begins but frankly I don't speak "electrician" so I do not understand some of the terms. Anyway it seems the folks there figured out how to resolve the issue.

Hello V01, I moved this to the LS section where folks with LS cars who may not visit this area will see it. A site called road kill customs has a list for junkyards across the US. Often times junkyards will list available items on their web site or you can email one nearby. I've restored cars using junkyard parts when new items were unavailable or the parts from the junked cars were like new. Another option is lexuspartsnow for brand new items left in the Toyota warehouses. Best of luck sourcing parts.

The closest beach to me is also closest to about a million people who all go there at the same time. My brother showed me a park about 2/3 the distance where a hurricane broke through a strip of island separating the ocean from the coast. You get the same ankle !Removed! waves and smell of salt water but only locals and fishermen go there. A sand bar on certain days creates waves that aren't tall by any stretch but the ride is long enough to make you take a break before paddling back out. To get there you take one of the oldest roads in America passing through a place several US presidents used to hang out on a regular basis and end up near a place the Revolutionary war ended at. Lots of long, wide sweeping curves with smooth asphalt done back when the Queen of England visited for a 400th year celebration. The occasional gas station has old school soda pop in glass bottles and wonderful fried chicken. Rte 5 in VA is a day trip that cuts through the crowded interstate and allows travellers to pull over at old plantations, parks or other places while allowing a leisurely pace or just a short cut through time. It's even better in fall when all the leaves on the numerous hardwoods are in their glory. Shh! Don't tell anybody about it.

Back when I was working on Honda Preludes a bunch of folks from as far south as Georgia and north from New York would meet at a campground not far from Charlottesville VA in the fall and drive the Blue Ridge Parkway. It was called "Skyline Drive XX" (whichever year). My son and I went in 013 in his car but it began making a funky noise by the time we got to the campground. We chose not to participate and drove it back to Richmond VA. The car had a modified transmission that had an adapter plate to mount the tranaxle to the engine. Two bolts out of four had fallen off, one was loose and the sound was the plate that held the transaxle flopping back and forth. By the time we reached home the fourth bolt was loose and the third had about 1/2 the metal gone from the loose plate rubbing it. Skyline drive is awesome in the fall but the car needs to be tip top including brakes. Lots of hills with sweeping curves makes it fun but very taxing on the vehicle. Standard transmissions (or paddle shifters) are reccomended to save on braking.

Pretty cool idea but I think I'd rather watch it on tv thank ya!

Rte 66. Cause "you can get your kicks on Route 66"……

Pencil

I like Spring (achoo). Spring in my hometown means more neighbors are outside and my heater doesn't run as often.

I don't like that as you get older days are telephone poles clicking past like a picket fence. In other words moving waaaaaay too fast. My Sunday school teacher said life is like a roll of toilet paper. The less there is the faster it runs out. So yeah, looking on the bright side is a great idea. It's too bad more people don't.

I like orange soda after work. Just one small can does the trick.

Evel Knievel and Keith Richards were my childhood hero's. 💀😃

Yes you can but probably don't need to. The modern day conventional oil is incredible at properly lubricating moving parts and does not cling to parts like in the old days. I drive a Ford F-150 for work and keep the oil changed every 5k miles or 90 days, whichever comes first. At oil change time when checking the dipstick I still have to look at the stick at an angle for the wet spot because the crank case is so clean. I use Valvoline conventional. The reason for not going longer than 90 days is because the motor idles a lot. Sometimes the oil life is at 10% with less than 3000 miles. That and frequent short trips means the motor heats and cools a few times a day leading to condensation inside the engine. The water in the tailpipe is condensation from the exhaust heating and cooling. A little bit is normal. Say a few table spoons at a time. But if it leaves a pond on a regular basis that is a good indicator to change oil by time. Another indicator is the cap you remove to fill the crank case with oil. If it has a film of yellow or white residue that is also a sign of condensation.

By the way, I was wearing this shirt while typing the previous post…… It's a 50/50 polyester/cotton blend I wear in spring or fall.

It's one of those vacuum sealed stainless inside, alluminum outside cups that you put 6 ice cubes in at 9am and still have ice at 4pm types. A Yeti knockoff if you will. Some don't like them because the stainless liner has some texture, which they say makes beer go flat prematurely. Since I don't drink beer as a rule (or soda) I cannot comment on that. I spray painted the outside with black krylon primer, let cure for a week, applied the stickers, then the Mrs put it on a "spit" type device, applied epoxy resin to slowly spin over night, then let it cure another week. The Mrs was experimenting with resins I stuck this one in the cue. It matches my car 😃 The logos on the trunk are die cut stickers too. It came with logos removed so the Mrs cut me some accurate sized stick on vinyl replicas. The S&SPOG sticker is a club my son and I started back when we were restoring Honda Preludes using like new parts from junkyards. He was selling some hard to find stuff to other Prelude fans who called up Sanford & Son. So we started Sanford & Son Prelude Owner Guys. The O is a recycled symbol.

I'm like my Lexus, it's not the age. It's the mileage.

I'm always a sucker for promo stuff like stickers, hats and t-shirts. When I was a kid companies gave the stuff away. Then one day they figured out dummies (like me) will pay for the stuff. I discovered a site in Ohio called "the Lexus Collection", which carrys the swag that a Lexus dealer sells. My local dealer sells a bunch of apparel for golfer types and the jet-set community, but not a fat old pickup driving yahoo like me. I like a Lexus clad item on my key fob or drinking my decaf from a Lexus coffee cup at 6am. So I ordered those from the Lexus Collection along with a couple of baseball caps and an inkpen for my pen collection. Recently I saw a hoody there made by a company called Independent Trading Company so I looked them up. They make apparel for a younger, more active sect than me. But the hoody called "polytech" is a big hit based on reviews I read. 85% polyester 15% cotton outter shell. Zip off hood. Polar fleece liner. So I bought one from TLC. Feels like a hoody but softer. Wears like a hoody and if one chooses to remove the hood it has a collar. Sleeve cuffs have thumb holes. Unlike a traditional hoody this one had a slight sheen at first. My wife has a die cut machine called crikut and last summer covered some drinking cups with expoxy resin. She die cut some GS 300 logos for my car and extras for a drinking cup covered with epoxy resin. That's my favorite swag. ^^

Back when I was single and drove a Ford Ranger that aside from Ford logos was a Mazda maybe. Now I'm happily married and drive an old beat up Lexus money pit, so paper was replaced with those plastic "rewards cards" and two $1 bills so that I'll always have two things with me……plastic cards to MeGeveyer stuff and paper to start a campfire if the MeGeyver stuff fails. Well that and notes to myself like my phone number, home ac/heater filter sizes, my anniverssary date (not year because we forgot to put the year on the invitations so neither of us know which year it was), random stuff I keep thinking matters but does not and my list of daily prescriptions now that I'm old enough to have a doctor for each organ. Come to think of it I don't think I like that either. 😂

One thing I don't like is the "princess and the pea" thing with my wallet. I carry it in my back trouser pocket and if I add so much as a business card my cheek feels bruised for a few days. Remove some clutter and it feels like I'm sitting crooked for a few days. Can't say I like that.

Teacher

Welcome aboard. I moved this to 1st gen GS cars since that may provide more specific information to your car. Here in the states some junkyards have a set up where you request a model of a vehicle, in your case the gen 1 years and they send you an email when one arrives. Many will pull the part for a small fee. Some even mail them. https://www.salvage-parts.com/scrap-yards/canada Try this ^^

I like Hot Wheels cars…… The adult size kind……

I like beer. I don't like the headache it causes So torn……which thread to post that in……🥴