LuckyApril7

why would you diagnose the trans throttle cable? Has this happened to anyone you know before?

I have all four identical 19 inch rims with a 1 inch lip lowered on Eibach prokit springs. I tried 20 inch but i couldn't make a U turn.

My car makes a loud whirring noise in park every morning when i start it to warm it up . Then it shifts really hard out of park. All my other gears work fine. This only happens when i leave my car parked for awhile then start it up and it only happens out of Park. I have a 92 SC400 with 160K miles. Last tranny oil change was 2 months ago with Type 3 ATF.

I'm not exactly sure what company made my body kit because it was a copy that a bodyshop did when they ordered the real deal from japan. So of course mine is fiberglass and the real one is polyurethane. But the fit and look is still the same. It was some japanese name, i forgot.

i have a set of 3 1/2 inch chrome tips welded onto my original muffler and it fits my rear body kit lip perfectly.

reversing polarity on the batteries of ANY car will fry most all the computers in your car. You're lucky if it only fried your ECU. After replacing your ECU, most likely some other computer will be bad. This is a FACT, not assumptions.

The in thing right now is black rims with chrome lips. Looks aggressive.

Your doors are too heavy to have lamborghini mods. If you do it, the hydraulic lifts will wear out quick and you'll find yourself replacing them all the time. It happened on a Ford MUstang and the lexus doors are way heavier than mustang doors. Yeah, I knew they were heavy; I was afraid of something like that. Problems, you think, even if the company selling the kit says it could handle it? If i was the company selling the kit, i'd sell it to you regardless of any known problems and make money on all the hydraulic shocks i'd be replacing for you over the years. Only get it if they warranty the shocks for at least a year or two.

I decided to change my tranny fluid when i got my synthetic oil change at a Jiffy Lube in southern California. I drove off and a week later i got hard shifting. I would let my car sit awhile and when i shifted out of park, it shifted hard. When i would slow to a red light, the tranny would shift hard to a stop. I thought the worse and went doing some price checks to replace my whole transmission. A rebuilt SC tranny runs $1300 in my area. I was already in the market of buying a new car so i decided to mask off the problem by changing all the lube in my engine and tranny one last time to hopefully make it smooth for any test drives. I went to a different Oil change place and noticed they poured in an additive that the other oil change place didn't do. With my curiousity, I asked the mechanic and he told me that Lexus uses special tranny fluid than other cars do. He told me putting in the wrong fluid will cause hard shifting and stalling. To my surprise the problem went away. I drove back to the original oil change place and asked them what tranny fluid they used and to my horror, they told me they use regular ATF fluid and even showed me the bottle. To make a long story short, Lexus uses Dexron/Mercon 3 for tranny and not all fluids are made the same even though they look it.

There are numerous transmission shops that will rebuild any SC or LS transmissions for under $1300 in the San Gabriel VAlley. I did some research when I thought my tranny went out.

Does anyone know how to properly wire up the antenna wire for the power antenna. Wiring diagram states Antenna Wire "A" and Antenna Wire "B". Someone said that both of these wires should be connected to the output "Antenna" wire on the receivers wire harness? Does this sound correct? Yes both wires need to be powered for the antenna to go up. Just twist them together and connect them to the blue wire of your aftermarket radio. I found the best way to fill up the huge gap is to not only install a head unit but to also install a EQ or processor underneath it to create a double din. You'll minimize the gap to the point where you'll just need a a small ABS plastic piece to cover the rest.

A complete 3M, Johnsons, or Llumar tint on all 5 windows of your Lexus SC400 runs no more than $120 at California Tint. 4325 North Rosemead Blvd, Rosemead. CA. Any shade and any material. They're really famous for all the entire San Gabriel Valley, but the waiting list is ridiculous sometimes. I chose the office building mirror tint for my SC.

Its not your bulbs because i've done thousands of HID kits. I worked for California Auto Accessories for 7 years while going to school and this is what i found out. The flickering is caused by not enough trigger power to load the ballast. The right way to do it is to chop off your oem headlight bulb plug completely and solder them to the wires leading into your ballast. This gives a more complete and full electrical current to power up your ballast. The wrong and short cut way of doing it that most shops do is to 3m T-tap it or splice them onto the oem wires. The contact is minimal and your ballast is trying hard to suck power out of your oem trigger wires that it flickers before it finally has enough load to stay on. If this method doesn't work then you'd need to relay to grab power from your battery to load the ballast with power using the oem headlight bulb plug to trigger the relay.

Your doors are too heavy to have lamborghini mods. If you do it, the hydraulic lifts will wear out quick and you'll find yourself replacing them all the time. It happened on a Ford MUstang and the lexus doors are way heavier than mustang doors.

I sandpapered my headlights with 1200 grit paper and polished it with plastic cleaner and the damn things looks spanking brand new. Sandpaper is a few cents, and plastic cleaner is 4 bucks.