DavidCHurd

I live over 100 miles to the nearest Lexus Dealership. I purchased my GX 460 knowing there was a great distance between home and servicing the vehicle. After all, it is a Lexus and as I have experienced in the past, rarely has anything gone wrong. I too use my local in town, Toyota dealership to service my Lexus. I also have a 2012 Toyota FJ Cruiser and have owned several Toyotas purchased from the local dealership with much success. They are very dependable, Also, they provide curteous personal attention to all my needs. If the service is a normal scheduled service as outlined in the maintenance manual I find Toyota is capable in handling it. I basically alternate between services and whenever I know I am going to be in the neighborhood of the Lexus dealership and a service is to be scheduled, I do have it done there. This Monday I am having the oil changed at the Toyota dealership. In another 2,000 miles, there is a regular maintenance service due and I will take the GX to the Lexus dealer. None of this is a secret and I do not receive any negative comments, or encouragement to do anything else. Afterall, what can one expect if one must drive 2 hours to have a service for their vehicle. Also, I did consider purchasing a Range Rover when I purchased the GX 460. Even with the dealerships practically next door to each other and over 100 miles away, and the Range Rover was about $5,000 less. However, having a local Toyota dealeship available for servicing the Lexus was a deciding factor. Otherwise, I would have been held hostage to having to trek the 100 miles every time I would have to service the Range Rover and think of the effort if the vehicle were to have a problem that prevented it being driven to the dealership for that service. I am not sorry in the least in deciding to purchase the GX 460 and I am very happy with the attention I receive by my local Toyota dealer in servicing it. Although, the 2011 GX 460 does have some features I do not like in comparison to the GX 470 that I traded in for it which is another story in itself.

I have a 2003. The color is called Ice. It has a silvergreen tone in daylight and looks silver at night. Interior is Ivory

hard corner+snow+drift=usualy kicks in Seems to be operating normal as that is when it should kick in when one wheel or the other might loose tracdtion. If you are in snow and wnat to pull evenly at slow speed, push in your center differential disconnect and that will add positraction to the rear wheels. Did you ever get an operators/owners manual? I have three (3) and would be happy to send you one of mine. I was hoping to get a shop service manual and was sent two operators manuals. I only need one.

I'd second that. When I bought my GX, they were coming with three different brands of tires..the Michelins, the Bridgestones, and Dunlops. The Dunlops seemed to be the worst of the three in terms of wear and troubles. I've been happy with the performance of the Bridgestones that mine came with, but the Michelins would be my first choice. The bridgestones aren't too bad. I have the Duelers on my 4Runner and I sooo wanted Cross Terrains on it but the dealers didn't want to exchange tires with different units even though most of them have the optional 17" rims. :chairshot: But I like them because they feel soft, but I'm seeing myself at the tire store at about 30k miles, I'm guessing? My GX has 47k on the Cross Terrains and so far, it doesn't seem to wear off. It's not as thick as a new one, but relatively it's still thick, maybe about 45% left still on it. :D I have 70,000 miles on my 2003 GX with Michelin Cross Terrain tires. There appears to be more miles left. I am used to a more agressive tire on all my past SUVs, i.e., BF Goodrich All Terrain which can be aired down for extreme conditions. I am considering Toyo Open Country A/T tires. Other recommendations I have received are Bridgestone Desert Dueler H/T, Bridgestone Dueler A/T Revo, Pirelli Scorpian ATR and Yokahoma Geolander A/T - S. The Michelin are good highway tires, but I have a cabin at Donner Ski Ranch and the last snow storm I came back in my FJ Cruiser with BF Goodrich and the ride seemed much more sure-footed at 40 MPH. The only vehicle I dared not keep up with were two Audis that flew by me. They had to have studded tires. Any experience with any of these tires on the GX by anyone out there?

Make sure that you did not inadvertenly push your center differential disconnect button. If you did the TC light will go off, but the 4 x 4 with the 'x' in the middle in red light will be on.

Try these: 1. Switch to Michelin P265/65R17 tires. 2. Make sure the center differential disconnect botton is off. 3. Remove the perpendicular luggage rack bars to reduce the harmonic vibration caused by air-speed. I have an FJ Cruiser that came with no rack. It was very quite at speed. After installing the roof rack, it has this same condition as described.