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Dealer prices are alway high. My Lexus dealer was asking $45K for the Lexus I bought. FWD, NAV, rear seat Ent Sys, MarK Levinson, towing package, chrome 18s, 14k miles, pristine interior and exterior. I bought it for $35k. If you are selling the car yourself, use the Prvate Party KBB values. When using Ebay make sure you see the final selling price. These are just guides and prices differ depending on your location and demand. If you aren't in a hurry, start at $32K and see how many nibbles you get and adjust from there.

Thanks for the replys. I found pine needles in mine. We'll see if that clears it up.

An electronic burning smell coming from vents, heater is turned on. I saw this mentioned im another post and I noticed it last night for the first time. Like dust burning off an electric heating element. Anyone else notice this? Does Lexus use an electric heating element to heat the air?

Along with Kelly Blue Book, check on Ebay and see what other Lexi similar to yours go for. 30K sounds like a good starting point for you Lexus. In the Atlanta area RXs with less miles and less wear start at 32-34K.

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I don't think the silicone is the correct lube for the sunroof. Its way to thin. I looked my manual for the correct grease but I couldn't find it. I'd call the Lexus dealer and ask. What ever you do don't use Lithium grease, it will get hard and gum up.

Camera unit? I think the Sirius install has something to do with your problem. I've also noticed my auto wipers will sometimes come on when its dry, but only when my window is dirty.

Have you recently changed you spark plugs? If so you may have damaged a spark plug wire or bought non-resistor type spark plugs.

Regarding my earlier post. I saw Ebay and a low price and just assumed they were cheap wheels and not chrome plating of OEM wheels. So, for $633.00 total and that includes shipping both ways.... I'd say why not. Worst case they peel after the 3 year point. Best case you have great looking chrome wheels at a low price. Again, my appologies for my earlier post.

You get what you pay for. I suppose that is why you own 5 Lexi. $1200-1500 for a set of chrome wheels in normal. $400-$500 for a set... I'd pass that up. They are probably inferior quality and safety. I have heard of cheap wheels failing and literally breaking off at the spokes.

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After driving a lot of highway miles lately with the CC. I found that using the CC on roads with mild hills and speeds above 78MPH would cause agressive acceleration. At or below 78 MPH I noticed it would downshift out of overdrive on bigger hills but it was almost imperceptable. Above 78 MPH it would kick down into 3rd gear, which was very noticable. Keeping the tire pressure around 35 PSI also seemed to make a big difference in the way the car drove and the CC behaved. I was also able to get 24.6 MPG :D

$10, a rainy day and this website, http://www.techinfo.lexus.com/ and you can download whatever Lexus manual you want. They are all in PDFs and you will need to download the pages 1 or 2 at a time. It will take just about all day.

How do you know the O2 sensor is bad? Now assuming it is bad there are two O2 Sensors on the RX 300. There is one on each side of exhaust behind each catalytic converter. The sensors above the Cats are Air/Fuel ratio sensors.

I think you want the ventilation valve.

Some things I have discovered about this cruise control since I bought it in August. First, it is very sensitive to tire pressure. Low tire pressure equals higher rolling resistance. I inflated the tires to 32-33 PSI cold and the CC responded as it should with no more downshifting all the time to maintain speed on hills. Second, the CC works more smoothly at speeds less than 78 MPH. Cruising around at 80 it would occasionally kick down into third gear when going up a mild hill.

same here.

If you don't get a better answer here is what I would suggest. Go to http://www.techinfo.lexus.com/, pay $10 for a one day subscription, download the wiring diagrams of the nav systems for both cars and then compare them. The diagrams will tell you exactly what each wire is and where it goes. All the diagrams are in Acrobat and you must download each page so it might take a while. I spent a rainy day downloading the entire manual for my 2004 RX330. Good luck and let us know how it turned out.

The Lexus and RX330 name plates on the rear door, are they just stuck on or are there studs that go through the sheet metal too?

I have an 04 Rx with rear seat DVD Entertainment system. I've hooked my xbox to the video jacks behinds the rear seat. While playing it I can only hear sound through the wireless headsets and not the speakers. I have the main head unit turned on, the E-brake is on and have selected disc. I would like to know if someone knows how to get it to play through the speakers?

Don't know how we went from the cruise control to a long winded explanation about fuel economy. What I do know is that if my foot can push down on the accelerator enough to smoothly speed up with out the tranny donwshifting then a CC can also perform the same simple task. Its all about the tolerances programmed into the computer. Here is an excerpt from the Wiring manual. Overdrive Control Function The overdrive control may be cancelled if the vehicle travels on the slope during cruise control travelling. After the overdrive control has been cancelled, if the vehicle speed exceeds the overdrive return speed (Set speed minus 2 km/h) and it is decided that the slope is finished, the vehicle returns to the overdrive control mode again. 2 Km isn't a lot of speed. They could let it drop 4 or 5km before dropping out of overdrive. Better yet, the computer could also sense the rate of speed decay and use that to determine if it is even necessary to drop out of overdrive. If speed decays slowly then apply more power slowly. If speed decays quicly, then drop it out of overdrive to maintain speed. Unfortunatly for us there is no easy way to tweak this as its all done in the ECM. Until I figure out if I can tweak it I guess when I see a hill I'll just smoothly step on the accelerator and cancel CC so that there is no jolt from sudden deceleration or from the CC shifting the car out of overdrive thereby letting my wife remain peacefully asleep.

Seaduck. I completely agree with you. The CC on this thing is dumb and also I have the same issues with my Camry. I figured the upgrade to Lexus would change things. The CC is very basic and is the same technology used on most cars. Things that could make it better… Relax the speed sensitivity tolerance. Allow for more speed decay before accelerating. When the CC accelerates it could do it gradually instead of "punching it". I'm convinced that if Lexus made it priority they could have a "smart" CC instead of cheaping out with a CC similar to everyone else’s. I've only owned My RX for a few weeks and tuning the CC is on my list of things to do.

Is it possible to copy the NAV DVD? A group of us were thinking of buying one disc and making a few "off-site back-ups". Would the back-up even work?