guy747

see i am not shore exacly what your problem could be but i would ask you is your check engine light on ? if so you might want to do the same thing i did witch is: auto zone sells a code reader for 25-30 dollars for toyota but works good on lexus just plug it and read the code it will tell you exacly what is wrong with the car if the check engine light is on hope this will work for you on mines it did tell me the codes but there were 3 different ones one the o2 sensor 2 the air flow meter 3 main oxigent sensor but i just bought the air flow sensor and did not work it still idles high tomorow i will work with the o2 sensor and the oxigent good luck

Toot. ← hey you were right all along it was that but now i have another problem maybe you guys can help

i will get that on friday but the car was ok for a few days know it is idleling verry high when i put it in park today i changed the air flow sensor thinking it was falty but not its still high at around 2,000 rpm's if i turn the ac on it goes down a little and if i shift it on drive it helps even more do you know how to fix this?

yes i will let you guys know and thanks for the advice ← ok guys here is the deal the cars problem with the white smoke was two things one was the gas tank had water in it caussing this white smoke what i did was i got a fuel atifreeze with the gat cap opened droped the liquid and left the cap off the cranked the car and ran it for an hour till it ran out of gas then refill with 93 octain and fixed the smoke the next thing was the fuel problem so i disconected the 1 and 7 injectors and ran a new wire from the 3 and 5 just one the yellow one cut the brown white ones and taged the yellows and that was all, the fuel regulated great and running great with a lot of power now the gas burns great and no smoke apperantly the wire was making a ground some were on the system causing the injector to stay on at all times and the funny thing was that the dealer wanted to replace the injectors

yes i will let you guys know and thanks for the advice

dude what part of connecticut you from?

thats a good advice i will do so i have a friend that works on expensive cars so i will take it to him i just did not want to because he is so busy most of the days but like you said i rather have it done by a pro thanks again

I believe he is panting it himself and is paying 500.00 just for the paint itself..... Yes a Lexus is a great car, but any used car is only as good as how the last owner took care of it. Abuse can turn any car into junk in less then 20,000 miles. Sorry to hear you went 300.00 just to fix the front seat. You can but a set of custom made skins, and pay to have them installed. Skins are about 400.00 for the whole car as I recall, and about 200.00 to install... What do you know about the care and use this car got from the old owner??? I got mine from my dad. He did not drive much, and only in traffic. When he needed to sell it I bought it becouse I knew it was well cared for. But it did not drive that greaty on the open hiway, untill I did about 3 tanks of gas with an additive in the fuil, and severail 400 mile drives, to blow all the "stuff" built up from short hop, slow stop and go traffic. In fact when I got it, if you hit the gas hard, you got smoke out the back... Think it was white/blue... But no more... So, the way it was driven does effect a car. ← oh man see thats what i get for not shoping around that would have been great to change all of them but i really wanted it done right away i did not know the past owner but what i can see from the car was receipts from the dealer for tune up s lots of them and i looked for any vissible wrecks on the frame or body of the car and none no rust too and the interior was well maintained\ with the exeption of the drivers seat the car does indicate about 80,000 miles but i am a little skeptic because the title said 72,000 back in 2003 when the guy registered the car here in florida and one thing about florida is that you can register a car and change the title and they dont even check the car to see if what you say the miles in the car are true and he told me that he was the only previous owner of the car so he had the tilte when it said 0 miles , i mean for what you know the guy could have gone to a junk yard and got the instrument / miles gages at the 80,000 changed them and told me the miles are real

yes but that is my discount as a body man i will prep the car and that cost is for just paint alone with a shop discount the paint i use is glasurit the best shine best quality and yes it can get expensive a paint job at a body shop like us will run about 2,500.00 to 3,000.00 now there is other resorces for the people who cant afford a great paint job that is o oh better get macco its the embasador paint job witch runs about 500.00 with a clear coat (no body work) and a 5 year garantee but like i said this is a cheap way of doing it and i would not recomend you can ask me about body work and i can help but mechanic work terrible at it

yes i did change the spark plugs and the injectors i got are from a local junk yard that sells really cheap unlike other junk yards they have a list were they have all the pricing so they will not charge more for a part and sence its so big they can sell the injectors for about 20.00 a set of 4 were is the o2 sensor located on this model? and also i saw this guy selling a set of high performance injectors for this model on ebay the bid was going at 50.00 and no one has yet bid on them hey the car has about 80,000 miles on it is this normal for it to have so much problems? the interior looks like new but the body has some scratches and dents and needs a paint job i work in a body shop and i am paiting it soon white perl how much do you think i can get for it? i just want to know because i am investing a lot on the paint sence factory paint has perl well i have to pay 500.00 more or less for just the paint and perl not counting the engine investment and interior leather i had to pay some shop 300.00 to fix the drivers side seat because the leather was ripped and still have to get the a/c controller because it would not read the temp or time and the transmition has about 4,000 miles in it sence it was rebuit with a 1 year warranty i just got it done about a month ago \ a lot of people say its a great car but i had bad luck with this one i have a honda civic that has been with me for 5 years and all i have done to it is change the oil and spark plugs has 190,000 and the only job i did to it has been the timming belt 75.00

yes i did buy new o rings and i bought a code tester to see if it would help and the code it gave me was a main oxygent sensor a leak air induction, bad spark plugs, fuel injectors,air flow meter o2 sensor,inproper fuel pressure faulty distributer or ingition wiring associated wth parts now today my mission was to toble shoot these errors so i did check the spart plugs and replaced them with new ones try to crank it and got the same results then changed the disributer cap and rotor and igniter and got the same responce the replaced the injectors again for the third time same responce air flow meter, 0 2 sensor and heater were the only thing i did not replace because i dont really know what they are do you? the locations of these items

so true, i thought that he smelled gas in his engine. could have saved alot of time if i would have known it was coming out the pipes ← yes sorry for that i am still having the same problem and tried a lots of things well you can read it for your self on the reply skperformance

lol what you said about the gas thing is true i did not think this thru but were is the water coming from? today i got the coil put it on and it still smokes i also put a gas regulator a ingnition for the coil and tried to change other spark plugs and the wires as well with the spark plugs and still the same problem the injector 1 and 7 still drained i got some electrical problems i am guessing but i am still worried about the darn water i mean why is there water in the exhaust and why is the canaster for the coolant full if its water why doesnt it drain today i tried to disconnect the 1 and 7 injectors and the engine got a little chaky but i just wanted to see if there was smoke still and yes so i disconnected all on one side all 4 injector to see if maybe it would burn the water faster and it did smoke like heck i mean it was bad so i turned the car off and connected the injectors back and the same thing again the gas smell ect... but i know now that there is water for shore because it got worst with the test if you disconnect the injectors on one side should it smoke the way it did?

cool i will follow as soon as i get my ride running

hey sha4000 thanks for giving input i really need all the advice i can get now the car is leaking gas but thru the tail pipes in the back along with the white smoke and the weard thing is that the car seems to be ok no engine knocking or spudering or chaking it simply sounds good in the front but when you go to the back of the car you have this really bad smell of gas with the white smoke and the weard thing is that i even checkd the coolant again and it looks great not low anymore no oil no gas smell or res the oil is still good too and today i replaiced the injectors thinkig maybe one was stuck but it did the same thing of the old injectors smoke and gas burn the rail seems to be good no leaks on or around the engine compartment thanks