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I had a similar rattle and tried all of the areas identified in this thread with no luck. Finally my dealership found the problem - the back seat was not bolted down properly to the floor - once they tightened the bolts the noise went away.

I recently had the misfortune to catch my passenger side mirror while backing out of my rather narrow garage door and break the glass. That it cost nearly $600 to replace was bad enough, but the real problem was that the mirror contains some kind of oily green fluid that splattered all over the side of the car when the glass broke. I assume it is somehow related to either the fact that the mirror has electronic dimming or that it is heated. Either way, the fluid is apparently highly corrosive to paintwork and has eaten right through the clear coat on both doors, the front fender, the roof and the rear of the car - i.e. about half the vehicle. I now have a nearly-new RX400h that looks as if it's been splashed all over with paint stripper. The dealership that repaired the mirror did everything they could to try an minimize the damage, but the car still looks horrible. The only solution seems to be a complete repaint of half the vehicle, and it's not clear whether Lexus or the dealership will pay for it. I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced something like this and if so how it was resolved - as far as I'm concerned it's a serious design defect if breaking a mirror destroys your car!

Interesting that you live in Colorado and get such good mileage. I used to get around 27-28 when I lived at 7200 feet up in the mountains west of Denver. Now I've moved to Dallas, my mileage has dropped to 24. I wonder if it's the increased air resistance of all the extra atmosphere we have down here :-)

I experience another strange Bluetooth anomaly with my RX400h and Motorola RAZR phone - when you get a second call while on the phone through Bluetooth, answering the second call causes the first one to be lost. If you don't answer the second call, the first one works fine until the second caller hangs up (i.e. call waiting beeps stop) and then the first call hangs up. I used to use a Motorola v510 and don't remember this ever happening - is this a Lexus problem, or something weird in the RAZR?

Silly old me - I thought that having reached the level of disposable income required to purchase a Lexus, I could afford to pay someone else to change my oil for me... Reading this thread sure convinces me of the wisdom of that approach! :)

Colorado does - I have claimed two Priuses in past years, and my RX400h this year. There may be others...

The key to getting the VAIS unit to work correctly with the RX 400h is to set it to CD emulation, not MD - there's no problem identifying which unit is active, since the display on the radio shows CD for the real CD player. and CD1 for the VAIS unit. Setting things to CD emulation allows the CD text feature to work correctly so that you can see song titles etc. The rest of the interface quirks are real and apparently insouble, but you get used to them after a while...

There is one other possible explanation - many states require oxygenation of the gas in winter (sometimes using the infamous MTBE). The additives used reduce the energy content of the gas and typically result in lower MPG. Most people don't notice this, but us Hybrid owners tend to be more aware of our precise gas mileage...

Sorry, but the web page messed up and I don't think my reply to this post was posted. Here it is: "Does anyone know where to find this bypass module?" ← The url for the Prius modification device is: http://www.coastaletech.com/nav_kit.htm Sounds like they have not started shipping it quite yet. No indication of whether it will work with the RX400h or not. If anybody buys one and gets it to work please post here and let us all know...

Because those hooks hold 4# maximum-- I find them useless. ← ...though if you typically use them for grocery bags, the weight limit is not really an issue - the bags are usually big enough to put all the weight of the contents of on the floor, and the hook is only there to keep them upright when you go around corners. I've been putting up to three full bags on each hook and driving around the mountains with no problems...

There is no direct entry of radio frequencies on the big screen, whether you have RES or not. Radio info only displays on the small LCD on the radio itself.

In Colorado at least, both the Prius and the RX400h are permanently exempt from Smog checks - there's a special State of CO sticker on the windshield applied by the dealership that indicates this.

I think so. The VAIS documents say that it works with XM Direct or XM Commander. ← It works with either, but the Commander is a lot more expensive than the Direct, and offers no advantage with the VAIS interface, so unless you already have one like Jerry, it's not worth buying one for this purpose - i.e. stick with the Direct.

Another question about the RES. I have a problem with it whenever I turn off the car and then turn it on again - e.g. to fill up at a gas station. When I restart the car, the movie continues to play, but is not visible on the rear screen - the screen simply stays blank. The audio is fine, and the movie can be watched on the front screen if I put the car in Park and set the emergency brake. The only way I have found to get things going again is to eject the DVD and reinsert it, at which point the rear screen comes back to life, but of course I've lost the place on the DVD. Does anyone else have this problem, or do I have a defective unit?

Does the "roof" mounted RSES unit block your view to the rear when you look in your rearview mirror?? ← Yes - slightly, but not enough to be a problem.