1990LS400

Replacing the tires shouldn't have affected the TPMS. If the TPMS was working with the old tires then they should be working with the new ones. I suggest you take your RX back to Discount Tire and have them diagnose the problem. Perhaps they damaged one of the sensors during the tire changeover. It wouldn't be the first time a tire shop has done that. I doubt if one of the TPMS batteries would be low after 7 years but that's possible - but too much of a coincidence if the problem started immediately after getting new tires. I love TPMS. It's save both my wife and me a lot of trouble. TPMS has twice allowed me to get to the next Interstate highway exit before tires went flat so I could address the problem without vehicles whizzing by me at high speeds while stopped on a shoulder. My wife has had several leaking tires while driving in town and TPMS has given her time to drive to a shop before tire went flat. It's impossible to tell if many low profile tires are low on air just be looking at them like we could in the old days of 70 or 75 profile tires. I don't know which model year the RX got a TPMS system that automatically learns TPMS codes. I don't know if any vehicles are still made that have the type of TPMS that has to be programmed with electronic devices.

I haven't owned a Lexus since selling my 2000 LS400 to a friend in 2014. I drove a 2014 Toyota Sienna Limited van from 2014 to 2022 when I sold it to another friend and bought a new Porsche Cayenne. I had planned buy the new Corvette I mentioned but it never got the safety features I wanted. I'm not sure what the Cayenne is. Put it in Sport Plus mode and it handles like a hard core raucous sports car. Put it in Normal mode and it's like a serene limo. I've for decades kept an ever changing prioritized list of the features I want in a new vehicle. A trailer hitch - either OEM or aftermarket - is a nonnegotiable item on the list. I don't buy a vehicle if it doesn't have or I can't get a trailer hitch for it. Having a requirements list makes it easier to identify suitable vehicles. For example, we had planned to replace the Prius v wagon my wife drives with a Toyota RAV4 until I found out that some important features weren't available on it. After finding that the features missing from the RAV4 were available on the similar Lexus NX, we got on a wait list for one. By the way, an OEM trailer hitch is available for the Lexus NX.

I suggest removing the mirror from you RX and looking at the repair possibilities on a work bench. I haven't removed an exterior mirror from an RX but I've removed and disassembled mirrors on other vehicles made by Toyota including ones that power fold. It's not all that difficult to remove and reinstall but it usually does require removing the door panel. All you need are interior trim tools, medium size Phillips screw driver and a metric socket set. Or purchase a used exterior mirror assembly and have it repainted if necessary. Maybe the paint won't match perfectly but after all it's a 17 year old low value vehicle. No one except you will notice if the paint match isn't perfect. There are videos on YouTube on removing RX mirrors that I easily found with Google.

Maybe you should seek medical advice. People can develop allergies as they age and some non-allergy maladies have allergy-like symptoms. For example, I wasn't allergic to poison ivy until I got into my 60's and now I'm terribly allergic to it. Similarly, mosquitoes didn't bite me until I got into my 60's and now they feast on me. It's the same with pollen - allergies got much worse as I aged. My take is that Toyota/Lexus still can't be beat for quality, low maintenance requirements and freedom from repairs. Most surveys I've seen support that such as this recent one: https://www.jdpower.com/business/press-releases/2024-us-vehicle-dependability-study-vds In 2022 we broke our 32 year string of buying only Lexus and Toyota brand vehicles and bought a new Porsche Cayenne SUV looking for a better driving experience. We got a pretty remarkable driving experience but the Cayenne has required more visits to the dealer for repairs (mostly software related) in two years than any Toyota/Lexus vehicle we've owned has required in 8 to 14 years. I'm already thinking that I'll go back to Lexus when I'm done with this Porsche. If your Lexus really is causing your illness, can you dump it and buy something else? It doesn't seem reasonable to continue driving a vehicle that compromises one's health.

It appears so which is pretty typical of car forums if they allow any at all. It's best to provide year and model whenever you post about a particular vehicle. You could also create a custom signature containing a list of your vehicles which would automatically appear in each post you make.

Try the links posted February 15, 2019.

Are you absolutely certain that nothing in your purse pressed against the hatch button on your fob? This has happened over and over on multiple vehicles when something in my wife's purse pressed against a vehicle fob button. It was so frequent on our Porsche Cayenne that I bought a case for that fob that made it impossible for it to happen again. Goggle something like "key case for lexus rx500h key fob" and maybe you'll find a case you like that can prevent or at least reduce the problem.

Be very cautious. If it sounds to good to be true, It's likely too good to be true. A post on the Club Lexus forum said that this is a Russian website selling pirated software. Take notice of how few times the people in this thread have posted on this forum.

The parts diagram shows the navigation hard drive as being on the right (passenger) side of the trunk. I'm not very familiar with the GS but on the 1998-2000 LS400 like I had, the navigation hard drive was under a false floor on the right side of the trunk along with the ECU for the factory installed telephone system.

Try a salvage company. For example, there are twenty-eight 1995-2000 LS400 at Pick-N-Pull salvage years scattered around the U.S. I also found salvaged rear differentials on eBay. According to a part number cross reference, the 1995-2000 LS400 use the same rear diff.

Probably not. TPMS is a federal requirement which is why reputable tire sellers will not mount new tires unless TPMS is functioning. You should be checking the pressure in your tires when they are cold and much more often than only at tire rotations. Tire pressures increase and decrease about 1 psi for every 10 degrees Fahrenheit change. I sometimes have to correct tire pressures more than once a week if there are big temperature swings. Costco's price for TPMS is pretty good. I bought and had Costco install TPMS on the winter wheels I bought for my Porsche last fall. In fact, I've bought all our tires except one set from Costco since 2001 when they opened a store nearby. Discount Tire is pretty good too but Costco almost always beats them on price either up front or with the annual Costco member giveback check. Some Costco stores have nitrogen air pumps out front if you want to use them but be sure to recheck your tire pressures when they are cold. Does the 2009 RX350 have a full size spare tire with a TPMS sensor? You might have TPMS only on four tires. I'm a strong believer in TPMS. Getting a low pressure alert has helped me get to a safe area several times where I could either change the tire or add air with the portable compressor I carry so I could limp it to a tire shop for a tire repair .... or tire purchase if the tire was ruined. The last thing I want to do is to change a tire while semi's are whizzing by me on a busy highway.

Yes, streaming audio from a cell phone uses cellular data. The amount of data used varies depending on application and how much it is used. I don't remember how much data the SiriusXM cell phone app uses since the last several vehicles we've purchased have had built-in sat radio. You could also buy a separate SiriusXM tuner and likely output its audio to a cable that would plug into the VAIS aux-in jack. But why bother at this point. Sat radio isn't really from satellites in many areas anyway but instead is broadcast from ground based repeaters.. The money you spend on installing a separate SiriusXM tuner is better applied to a more robust data plan in my opinion. Unlimited data plans or data plans that provide a massive amount of data are fairly common and inexpensive these days. When I was daily streaming Pandora from my cell phone to my modified radio in my 2000 LS400 10 years ago, I doubt that it ever took more than 1 or 2 GB of data per month. I haven't used the SiriusXM cell phone app in several years but from what I remember it sounded better than sound from a built-in SiriusXM receiver. In my current daily driver (2022 Porsche Cayenne), 99% of what I listen to is streamed from the Internet. We even listen to local radio stations on the Internet based TuneIn service when we travel out of our home area. Steaming from a cell phone opens up all sorts of possibilities. For example, I burned my entire music collection from CD's to my cell phone. Doing that requires a decent amount of storage on a cell phone but not that much compared to how much storage many modern cell phones have. My current aging Samsung S10 phone has 512GB of built-in storage and a 512GB removable SD card for a total of one terabyte. I doubt that my personal music collection takes up even 5% of the total storage. Another cool aspect of doing everything from your phone is that it's portable. You can stream from your phone to other vehicles, wireless Bluetooth speakers or just listen to the audio (including SiriusXM) with earbuds. As you can see, once I get started on this stuff, I have a hard time stopping!

I answered in your other thread:

Weren't your original wiper blades of the "conventional" type? See the attachment showing the types. Beam type (also called "flat") wiper blades often work poorly on curved windshields - even on slightly curved windshields. If your original blades were of the conventional type, then go back to using those.

It looks like VAIS still sells aux-in kits for your car: https://vaistech.com/ You could stream SiriusXM from the SiriiusXM cell phone app by either connecting your cell phone directly to the aux-in or adding a bluetooth adapter to the aux-in and streaming wirelessly. SiriusXM sounds quite nice when streamed from its cell phone app. This aux-in would allow you to stream whatever you want from your phone ... Pandora, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, etc.

Car electronics sometimes fail as they age. For example, there were some Lexus vehicles in 1990's that were especially prone to leaking capacitors in their ECU's. And sometimes electronics failures can be caused by simple corrosion. Sometimes ECU's can be repaired. You could try buying a used ECU but it might have similar problems. Is whoever that diagnosed the problem offering a solution?

I now see what you mean. The photo of a supposedly OEM GX460 receiver hitch I was looking at on the Lexus.com accessories page was apparently a generic photo of a hitch and not specifically for a GX. The GX gallery on Lexus.com shows the receiver hitch with the tube cross bar which is very different from the aftermarket hitches.

The aftermarket receiver hitches for the GX available from etrailer look identical to the OEM receiver hitch shown for the GX in the accessories section of lexus.com . It's odd that they are rated at 5,000 pounds max instead of the GX's 6,500 pound towing limit. I suppose you could contact etrailer or the aftermarket hitch companies and ask why. The reason for a stop sale could be as simple as a supply chain issue ... there have been many during the past few years. There was a stop-sale on a receiver hitch on the Toyota Sienna that I special ordered in 2014. The Toyota dealer I ordered through was contacted by the factory in Indiana to get my approval to go ahead and build the vehicle without the hitch. When the OEM receiver hitch became available again some months later, it looked exactly the same as the one sold before the stop sale. I couldn't wait, so I bought a Curt receiver hitch from etrailer and installed it myself. A class 5 receiver hitch with a 10,000+ pound rating is superfluous on a GX that's rated to tow a maximum of 6,500 pounds unless Lexus specifically states that a class 5 hitch will increase towing capacity - very unlikely. Here's a link to the current Lexus towing capacity guide: https://www.metrolexus.com/towing-capacity-guide.html The guide says that the 2022 LX has the highest towing capacity of all Lexus models - 8,000 pounds.

etrailer.com appears to have two hitches for the 2022 GX460 but both have a maximum of 5,000 pounds instead of the maximum 6,500 pounds the GX is rated for: https://www.etrailer.com/hitch-2022_Lexus_GX+460.htm Unless you are really going to tow more than 5,000 pounds, either of these two hitches should work well and they're inexpensive to boot.

No splicing will be necessary. The mechanic will simply unplug and discard what is left of the exterior mirror harness from the door panel wiring harness. He will then plug the harness for the replacement mirror into the door panel wiring harness. Here is a photo from eBay of a used right side mirror for a 1998-2005 GS. The cable from the mirror attaches to the wiring harness behind the door panel.

Nice photo!! Thanks. Yes, it is safe to cut through the large insulated cable I see in the photo. There will likely be a number of smaller wires each with there own insulation inside the black cable. It's best to make a super clean cut so that the wire cores of the smaller wires don't contact each other but it probably wouldn't be a problem even if they did. Maybe wrap the car side end of the wire bundle with electrical tape after you cut it to prevent any of the wire cores from contacting metal such as the car door. RX400h, no, there are no connectors inside a mirror housing that have to be disconnected or connected when replacing an exterior mirror. There is only one connector for each exterior mirror that has to be connected to a wiring harness in the doors. Replacing an exterior mirror is usually pretty easy although it often requires popping off the door panel which is not very difficult. I've had some practice due to collisions ands having added turn signals to exterior mirrors. If I'm wrong, I guess you will have to hunt me down and slap me. If you are reluctant to remove the hanging mirror yourself, have your mechanic cut the cable and remove it. Or, if you are uncomfortable with cutting the cable, your mechanic could remove whatever interior trim is necessary and then unbolt the mirror from the door and disconnect the mirror connector from from the door wiring harness. That's no more than a 15 minute operation if your mechanic knows what he's doing.

The connector for the exterior mirror is probably inside the car and behind a door panel - at least that's the way it is on most vehicles made by Toyota. It would help if you provide a photo showing the dangling exterior mirror and the electrical cable connecting the mirror to the door.

Have you verified that it working as well as the rear cameras in other LX470? Toyota has long been criticized for the poor image quality of backup cameras in most of their vehicles regardless of brand, e.g. Lexus, Toyota, Scion, etc. Clarity is probably limited by the screen resolution or the interface between the camera and the screen. If it is, a higher resolution backup camera isn't going to help.

I don't expect a receiver hitch to ever be introduced for the UX since it's been in production for quite a long time. If a receiver hitch was going to be available, it would have happened in the first year or two of UX production. Most of your options have been presented in this thread. You could get a hatch mount bike rack. You could buy cross bars and a bike carrying product for them and carry your bike(s) on the roof. You could find a company that can fabricate a receiver hitch for you. Where in the wilds of Missouri do you live? Unfortunately, a fabricated hitch can get pretty expensive but often no more than an OEM hitch. I'm going to be spending nearly $1,000 to have a class II hitch fabricated for a sports car I'm getting. The hitch is going to be used only for carrying bikes. As much as I hate carrying bikes on a roof, that's what I would do if I had a UX. But that would work mainly for "normal" bikes. I sure wouldn't want to hoist a 60 pound e-bike up to a roof.

I doubt that anyone here in North America can provide guidance on car prices in Greece. The car's value is largely dependent local prices, condition, how it was maintained and how it was driven. LOL, driving on rural roads in Greece is one of the more exciting things I've done! My last rental car there was a Hyundai Atos.