daloosh

Coastaltech.com sells a nice permanent override, which also works to defeat phone lock out as well. The only thing is, does it work in all applications, or is it suspect to the revision of the software? i.e. I have a 2006 RX 400H, production May 2006, PDI June 2006 and the manual over-ride does not work for it... I can never get a straight answer from Coastaltech on this, compatibility. Cheers, MadloR I'll go one step more. The procedures act like it works on our 2006 RX400h but bottom line it not only didn't work, it screwed up things where our Motorola would not work with the system at all. We got a message on the phone saying something like "Bluetooth module not found". I had to delete our phones completely and re-add them ... not fun! Don't mess with it. RolandB Strangely, we've had no trouble with the manual override. I haven't summoned the guts to actually start cutting wires in the thing. Our 400h was delivered to the dealer in August 2006. The nav and phone work fine after entering the override sequence. However, as to the bluetooth phone, ours is a verizon LG, not a moto. daloosh

Just did last weekend. Shrink wrapping something to the roof rack, I turned the car on to open the windows to pass the shrink wrap thru. Headlights came on, and I forgot about them for awhile. My friend eventually turned off the car when we were mostly done. Fast forward an hour, when we're leaving, won't start. But did exactly what you mentioned above, positive to positive, and negative to ground on the engine block, and the car went to "READY" immediately, and then the engine came on, and I left, without any further ado. Drove home on the highway, and it's been normal since. daloosh