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I buy my parts and bring any work on my car to a Toyota dealership, easier to get in and less expensive.

Toyota changed to the metal lines mid 2009 for the 3.5V6's.

Door lock, trunk lock...that's totally your decision. Transmission drain/fill is a good idea. Coolant from what I found online per Lexus is 100k miles/120 months (10yrs), so it's overdue as the car is 14 yrs old. Maintenance Schedules - All Models | Lexus Drivers You have to get underneath the car to see if the rack is leaking from both boots. You usually won't see anything on the floor from this if it's not a huge leak. Struts, the same thing you won't see anything on the floor. If it's seeping/leaking, you'll see the dampness on the strut itself. I'd bring it elsewhere for a 2nd opinion on the rack and struts and have them show you the leaks.

2014-2017 Lexus IS350 Axle-Back Exhaust System S-Type Part # 11898 (borla.com)

Yeppers...it's the same dang part number and such a big diff in $$.... If any part(s) I need cross-reference with Toyota...I go straight to -yota dealer. They're less expensive, usually in stock, and if not can get next day. (and they're much more friendly to deal with).

I don't go to Lexus to get my canister oil filters. I go straight to a Toyota dealer, it's the least expensive option for OEM oil filter. Local Lexus dealer charges about $10 and not in-stock. Toyota about $5 and always stocked. O'reilly's carries oem but they want $15 and takes a day or 2 to get.

Current BT has much higher transfer rates and performance that newer 5G phones are capable of. Current BT is 5 and your car being a 2005 is BT 2.0. The hardware in your car is likely not capable of supporting the higher capabilities of current BT standard which is likely why you got the response you got from the dealer.

eTrailer shows hitches for es300h from 2013-2018. May have to wait to see if one gets developed for the newer generation of es300h.

That was pre-covid and probably what the market was 7 years ago....today, everything preowned is overpriced by at least $2500 if not more in some cases.

I had Michelin's on my ES 300h but don't remember what model, but they were around 5/32 and noisy. didn't want to go thru winter being marginally above min. I went with Yokohama YK740 GTX. Checked reviews from people that had similar cars and they had very good reviews. I think they're better than the Michelins, but they're new. Will see how they are a year from now once I get some more miles on them. When I had my Camaro SS I had good experience with Continental and Bridgestone.

Ok, that's good that they're not run flats I hate them. Well, it's funny because Michelin touts the MXM4 as being good with noise and ride comfort, but I noticed they're also an eco mfg'd tire for low rolling resistance. The rough ride could be from wearing down to 5-6/32's. That's down a lot for only 25k miles. Did they ride better when had more tread?

How old are they and how much tread is left? There are 2 types of primacy MXM4's, the normal MXM4 or MXM4 ZP ? MXM4 ZP are run flats, and all run-flat tires have a very rough and noisy ride quality.

Go and get your money back

What tires do you have on your ES350? Do they happen to be run-flats?

My 2013 ES300h has 165k miles on it and the wheel bearing have never been replace. Are they making noise ? if not I wouldn't touch 'em.

I've had good luck with Gates and Dayco in the past for the timing belt kits. The Aisin water pump is probably the closest to oem. Usually find the best prices at Rock Auto.

Enform, entune; whatever Toyota wants to call it. It's pretty dang awful.

The tire pressure sensors have individual ID's. when changing them, the new ID needs to be registered and system relearned into the car so it knows to look at this new sensor. I had discount tire replace mine and they relearned with their scan hi-level scan tool. What brand of sensor did you have yours replaced with? OEM Denso, or aftermarket? Toyota/Lexus are very picky with aftermarket tpms sensors. Whoever changed your sensor should've done this procedure.

I was able to trigger my sensors with a tpms tool, and showed battery in sensor was good, but yet car wasn't seeing them anymore. I replaced with new OEM Denso sensors and relearned the new ID codes and all is well now. Guess even though the sensor battery showed ok, but maybe not enough to transmit a strong enough signal to the car's tpms receiver. Sensors were 8 years old.

The strange thing is that I was able to trigger the old sensors with my Autel TPMS tool. Reading pressure, battery was ok, and the ID's matched what my other scan tool was showing, but they were probably original and 8 yrs. old. But the car was reading all sorts of strange values in live data. I figured that couldn't properly diagnose if the sensors where questionable due to age. We had the whole back of the car tore down to start with the receiver box once the sensors were known new and good. I saw some videos where others have replaced that receiver box and that worked for them. So spent last night putting the interior back together. Hope you can get yours sorted out.

Well....I had no idea how old the tpms sensors that were in car when I got it last week. So while I was getting new tires I had discount tire install new sensors while they were doing the tires anyway, (bought a set of factory Denso's from Amazon). They were able to learn the sensors, and all is well now and display the pressures. Glad I don't have to dig into the tpms system any further.

I've heard of this issue across Toyota and Lexus lineups (all vehicles). Something Toyota did a few years ago.

I wouldn't doubt it since the door control is also part of the module. That's why I'm just leaving it alone. the light is not coming on the dashboard. out of sight out of mind.😐

First the signal from the sensors goes to the "Receiver Assembly, Door Control & Tire Pressure Monitoring System" ($310) which is buried behind the rear pillar somewhere, and then from there the info goes into even more expensive parts/pieces. And even if the problem is only with the $310 box; you have to tear apart the whole back of the car just to get to it. Nah...I'll check my pressures with my trusty gauge the way we used to do it before the gov't go involved & legislated the stupid systems.

I would like for the psi to display, but decided this is a rabbit hole I don't want to go into.