1990LS400

I've installed several aftermarket radios myself and had one professionally installed in a 2000 LS400 and the factory radio antenna has always worked fine with all of them. Do you have the fixed (non-retractable) antenna with the removable mast on the right rear fender? If you do, your owners manual says it is (was) for Lexus Link which was a rebranded OnStar emergency service. In the parts list for the 2004 SC430, the removal mast is labeled as "ROD, TELEPHONE ANTENNA". The analog Lexus Link was available on the 2003-2004 SC430 but for some reason the SC430 didn't get the analog/digital Lexus Link that was launched in 2005 - at least according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexus_Link Here's a link to the 2004 SC430 owners manual so you can search it for "antenna" and be just as confused as I am about it: https://drivers.lexus.com/t3Portal/document/om-s/OM24458U/pdf/OM244558U.pdf Toyota played some odd "antenna games" in the 2000's when vehicles had the optional Lexus Link. For example, the roof mounted antenna on the LS430 was for a dealer installed Lexus branded phone system only on vehicles without Lexus Link. On vehicles with Lexus Link, the roof antenna was used for it and the phone antenna was imprinted on the rear window. Lexus Link was superseded by Safety Connect which is now standard on many Toyota and Lexus models. Edit: I should have mentioned that the early SC430 had the removable mast antenna regardless of whether they had the optional Lexus Link.

Unless I'm hallucinating, my memory is that the LS400 I purchased in 1990 had triple door seals as did my 2000 LS400. A Camry we bought in the 90's also had triple door seals. Does your RX have a power door latch that wrenches the door shut the final inch or so? If it does, it might have an electric "pinch protection" sensor inside the door gasket that you will have to deal with. Are hard copy manuals still available? The last set I purchased was in 2003 for a 2000 LS400. Nowadays, most people view the manuals online at https://techinfo.toyota.com . A standard 2-day subscription is now $20. The manual sections are in PDF format and can be downloaded. With a good broad band connection, you could probably download all the manual sections for your RX in a few hours.

LOL, maybe that's why the previous owner sold the RX. These slight "pulls" can be difficult to diagnose and eliminate. Is the steering wheel perfectly aligned when driving straight ahead? If it isn't, there is still probably an alignment problem. The cause could be a slightly damaged (bent) suspension parts. I know the tires are new and shouldn't have a wear pattern that could cause a pull but swapping the wheels side-to-side could in theory help as long as the tires are not "directional". Directional tires should not be swapped side to side - only front to back. If the tires are directional, I suppose you could have the wheels swapped front to back to see if that makes any difference. I've had improper alignments several times due to mechanics not being competent or having defective equipment. Just a few months ago, a Toyota dealership tech said my Sienna needed an alignment even though the tires were wearing evenly, the steering wheel was aligned and the vehicle was driving perfectly. When I got the van back, the steering wheel was cockeyed and there was a severe pull to the right. The dealer tech clearly didn't know what he was doing. When I took the van back for a "re-do", the tech essentially put the alignment back to where it was which was already perfect ... but they (Hendrick Toyota of Merriam Kansas) certainly didn't refund what I paid to have it screwed up and then restored back to where it was.

Don't hold me to the $50 estimate. Prices could vary wildly depending on whether name brand or off brand sensors are used. The pressure sensors I bought at Costco five years ago for use on winter wheels were about $45 each but they were name brand - either Pacific or Dill. The ID codes should be printed on each new sensor. Some tire shops "ping" each sensor after installing them to retrieve the ID codes instead of manually inputting the printed codes but that might be more efficient if they use the same tool to upload the ID's through the vehicle diagnostic port. I upload the ID codes to vehicle ECU's myself with a cheap (about $125) electronic tool since we have multiple vehicles and winter wheels/tires for them. Doubting that you use winter tires in Mississippi!

Batteries in the sensors are not replaceable. The Lexus dealer installed a new sensor. I've seen threads about people buying pressure sensors on eBay for as little as $10 each but the tire has to be dismounted to install them and they have to be torqued correctly when installed on the wheel with a miniature torque wrench. And the new sensor ID's have to be uploaded to the vehicle ECU. I assume you don't have the equipment to remove a tire from a wheel in order to install a new sensor. I would expect that an independent tire shop could install new pressure sensors in the other tires and upload the sensor ID's to the vehicle ECU for no more than $50 each. 11 years on a pressure sensor is pretty good. They can fail sooner than that.

If you want to avoid Lexus dealers, you can likely find indie shops that repair them by searching with google or by asking other Lexus owners. I've used mainly indie shops where I live to do maintenance and repairs on my Lexus cars. The indie shops I used were owned and staffed by former Lexus dealership employees.

You are likely going to need a professional to figure this out. I suggest taking it to a Lexus dealer or an independent repair shop specializing in Lexus. I definitely wouldn't take it to one of those chain transmission repair businesses.

It can take a year or more for aftermarket hitch makers to market receiver hitches for new models ... if they ever do. I've bought several receiver hitches, including for Lexus LS, from etrailer but they don't yet have one for the UX. I suppose you could contact them and ask if there is anything in the works: https://www.etrailer.com/vehicle/2019/Lexus/UX+200 You could buy the roof rack cross rails for your UX if you don't already have them and use your choice of bike carrier attachments on them. I've carried bikes only on hitch racks for the past 30 years but I used roof bike racks for many years before that. As much as I dislike carrying bikes on the roof, sometimes that's the best way. I dislike trunk/hatch mounted bike carriers even more due to the damage they can cause. Another possibility is to have a receiver hitch custom fabricated. That can cost substantially more than an off-the-shelf hitch but there are numerous companies that do it. Torklift near Seattle is one of the most well known nationally that custom fabricates hitches: https://torkliftcentral.com/ It's not unusual that there was a tow hitch sold by Lexus dealers in the UK and Europe from the first day the UX was sold. It's not shown on the Lexus UK website for the UX but there is also a bike carrier that fits the hitch. Unfortunately, the UK/Europe tow hitch is not compatible with accessories for U.S. standard receiver hitches. For your amusement, the following Lexus UK web page shows the tow hitch and roof bike racks sold for the UX by Lexus dealers in the UK and Europe: https://www.lexus.co.uk/car-models/ux/accessories/#choose-accessories

The only time I've had that problem was 45 years ago when a driveshaft U-joint broke.

I've been following this issue for nearly 20 years and I have as yet to see anyone identify preventative maintenance. It is sometimes possible to band-aid repair the early LS400 tilt/telescope system with washers and zip ties but I don't think that can be done on the later ones which may be sealed units. There were at least three variations of the tilt/telescope system used in the 1998-2000. The final variation was implemented at the factory in Spring 2000. The attached TSIB describes how to retrofit the final component version if problems arose. I was fortunate that the 2000 LS400 I drove for 11 years was assembled in June 2000 and got the final version at the factory. 1999-2000 LS400 Tilt- Telescopic Steering Column TSIB.pdf

The 2007 LS navigation system is generation 5 and can be updated only by a Lexus dealer ... assuming navigation updates are still available for a nearly 13 model year old vehicle. Toyota/Lexus has discontinued navigation updates in as little as four years after the last vehicle was made that used a particular nav generation. Contact a Lexus dealership for availability and cost. I get a kick out of seeing people who live in high population areas tell others to use their phones for navigation. Bullsh#t. I had to do an unplanned 200 mile drive in total darkness on rural Midwest 2-lane "black top" country roads late last Friday night where there was virtually no cell phone service. Much of the drive was in torrential rain at low speeds ... sometimes as low as 20 mph due to poor visibility. I was in totally unfamiliar territory with no hard copy maps. The in-dash navigation was totally valuable.

Each of the four tire pressure sensors have a unique identification code (it is not called a VIN #) that must be uploaded to the vehicle ECU through the diagnostic port in the driver side (left) footwell. If the TLMS system has been working properly for 28 months, then the cause of the current problem is not from the selling dealer switching wheels. It is more likely that one of the four TLMS sensors has failed or that the TLMS system needs to be reset due to altering tire pressures.. If a sensor has failed, a competent tire shop should be able to determine which sensor(s) has failed by holding an appropriate electronic tool next to it and "pinging" it to determine it's ID code and battery health. TLMS batteries usually last up to 10 years from my experience but they can fail much earlier and can be damaged during a flat tire repair. After tire pressures have been corrected or after a flat tire has been fixed and reinstalled, it can be necessary to initialize the TLMS system by pressing the reset button under the dashboard until the TLMS warning light blinks three times. It's described in the Do-it-yourself Maintenance section of your owners manual.

The 1999 LS400 side windows fit only the 1995-2000 LS400 per the cross reference at https://www.toyodiy.com Besides, I owned a 1990 and 2000 LS400 at the same time and know first hand that the window dimensions are different. Here's a photo of them from around 2003.

A previous post in this thread said that the final update for the generation 5 navigation system was in 2015. I suppose you could verify this by calling a Lexus dealership parts department. There might be a product that allows displaying a phone navigation app in your RX screen via Android Auto or Apple CarPlay. The only one I know about is kind of expensive: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32812429786.html?spm=2114.12010612.8148356.21.4b0a5c19MDxS8o Or you could put your smart phone in a phone holder on the dashboard and use a navigation app on it. If you can't hear the navigation instructions from your phone, you could pair it with a portable Bluetooth speaker.

Well I hope the German brand you have now isn't Mercedes, BMW or VW/Audi! If so, then your troubles are just beginning. The vehicles I've owned that were manufactured by Toyota have been infinitely more reliable and of higher quality than the German vehicles I've owned. My last Mercedes, purchased new, was on its 3rd engine when I finally dumped it and bought a new Lexus LS.

Unfortunately, the exploding glass sunroof problem is occurring in vehicles from most car companies. That there are only a handful of auto glass suppliers might have something to do with it. Moving from Lexus to other brands doesn't mean it's not going to happen again. Here is an interesting Consumer Reports article with a podcast about it: https://www.consumerreports.org/car-safety/exploding-sunroof-cases-head-to-court/ Why did your replacement sunroof cost $7K? Mine was a long time ago but it was less than $1K with an OEM glass panel at a collision repair facility owned by the Lexus dealership. The current retail price of an OEM sunroof panel for a 2013 ES is only $830.46 and the going price is around $630. The replacement of mine was completed within an hour so the labor cost couldn't have been much. Based on your photos, your glass sunroof looks like the one I had replaced on my LS. Replacing the sunroof did not affect the value of my Lexus. Why yours?

It is standard procedure for radios replaced under warranty to be replaced with repaired ones although you might end up getting a new one. At least you didn't try the CarPlay/Alexa update yourself and trash the head unit as many owners have. Both dealer techs and individuals have "bricked" head units while doing the update. Some Lexus dealers suspended doing the updates until Toyota/Lexus came up with a reliable update solution. I suppose you could ask the Lexus dealership to buy back your car and then move on to something else. I have some experience with this kind of wait. The A/C compressor on my first Lexus LS400 failed during the first summer I had it in 1990. My LS was at the Lexus dealership for many days before I got it back but at least they gave me a nice loaner to drive in the interim. I would hope that your Lexus dealership has provided you with a decent loaner vehicle to drive.

How to change the state or region that's being searched for a destination should be shown in your navigation manual. If you don't have a navigation manual, it can be viewed in the owners section of https://www.lexus.com/

I suggest that you have your friend pair his phone with your LS and see if song information shows on its screen when he streams from Pandora. That might show whether or not there is a compatibility issue between your Pixel 2 phone and your Lexus unless he has a Pixel 2 like yours. Did you try streaming audio from a service other than Pandora as I suggested so as to see if song/program information from it displays on your LS in-dash screen? If it displays, that would indicate a compatibility problem between Pandora and your Lexus system. If it does not display, the problem could be either with your phone or with your LS. Edit: Do you have any music or other audio stored on your phone that you could stream to your LS via Bluetooth to see if song/program information displays on the in-dash screen? Lexus used to have a web page showing the level of compatibility between vehicle models and phone models but I can no longer find it on the Lexus website. For your amusement, here is a link to an old compatibility list that shows what it looked like: http://a230.g.akamai.net/7/230/2320/v001/toyota.download.akamai.com/2320/lexus/media/lexusdrivers/acs/enform/Enform Phone Compatibility List.pdf It's not as much of a problem anymore due to improvements in cell phone service, but I used to notice that song/program information would sometimes not display in areas where cell phone data service was poor even though there was enough bandwidth for audio to play over Bluetooth albeit with occasional buffering and skips. Do you have good 4G/LTE cell phone service? Which cell phone provider you have can also matter a lot depending on where you live and travel. For example, AT&T seems to provide the best service in the area in which I live followed by Verizon and then Sprint and T-Mobile bringing up the rear which is funny since Sprint's corporate headquarters is here. I've got excellent cell phone service on AT&T at a friend's house down the street a few miles but he's having to get a household signal booster for his T-Mobile cell phone. There are lots of variables.

Does your in-dash screen display song or program information when you stream audio from a service other than Pandora? If not, then I would suspect a phone software issue. What phone model? Pandora has sometimes gotten flakey with some vehicle models. There was a several month period maybe five years ago when Pandora stopped displaying song information on the in-dash screens of some vehicles made by Toyota and the steering wheel controls could not be used to skip and restart songs. After a few months Pandora fixed the problem. I've also noticed that occasionally Pandora will not display song information for a particular song and then it will for the next song although this issue seems to have decreased in frequency. If you haven't already, try deleting the Pandora app from your phone and then reinstall it.

Those prices would be more typical of an early model year LS460 or even an LS600hL in excellent condition - certainly not for a 2001 LS430 UL with 83,000 that needs repairs. Someone on ClubLexus bought a flawless 2004 LS430 Ultra Luxury with 92,000 miles on it and no repairs needed a few weeks ago for only $6,200 from a small dealer. That's a good price but one more typical of a private party purchase. Here's the thread about it: https://www.clublexus.com/forums/ls-3rd-gen-2001-2006/925195-found-a-lonesome-ls-430-ul-in-a-small-dealer-s-lot.html

Per the 2014 RX350 maintenance manual at the following link, brake fluid is to be replaced every 30,000 miles or 36 months whichever comes first: https://drivers.lexus.com/t3Portal/document/omms-s/L-MMS-14RX350/pdf/MY14_Lexus RX 350_WSG_lr.pdf That seems odd since the braking system on our 2014 Toyota Sienna is virtually identical as is the braking system on the Toyota Highlander. Changing the brake fluid on the Sienna is not in its maintenance schedule and is considered "lifetime".

The final update for the gen 2/3 nav system like you have was in 2013 - the part numbers, which I think are for either west or east of the Mississippi are: West Dealers: PT219-GN23W-13 East Dealers: PT219-GN23E-13

The part number appears to be PT211-33001 but it was listed as a discontinued part on the Lexus parts websites I searched. If you can't find one online, maybe ask a body shop specializing in repairing Lexus cars. If you still can't find one, I supposed you could remove them from your car. They should come right off if you heat them up with a hair dryer and carefully pry them up. When I had a 2000 LS400 Platinum Series fender replaced in around 2013, the body shop had difficulty getting the replacement Platinum badge lined up correctly. When I took the car back for them to try again, they pried off the Platinum badge they got on crooked with a heat gun and a plastic trim tool. They got the 2nd replacement Platinum badge on lined up correctly. I thought it was odd that the replacement Platinum badges were not exactly the same as the original badges in that they were missing the plastic coating of the original one.

Why bother? Just leave the lost fuse where it landed and buy a replacement fuse to use.