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I just thought about what I wrote las might and realized I may have come across a little over critical, and I apologize for that. I still feel the same way about emblems, I hate them. But the bottom line is you own it do what ever makes you happy because the only person that counts is the one that makes the payment for the car. But please consider tha sometimes less is more and there could be a possibility that less emblems make the car look better

Thank you. I should be on my way to NY in less than 24 hours. My little puppy has been taken in the car with me every where I go on short trips to get him ready for this. I am pretty sure he will be fine on the long drive.

Why do you care if anyone knows what you are driving? The cars I drive are something I like , I get them to please myself, not to say to everyone "Look at me, look at my car" Maybe I am just an old !Removed! and I have gotten to the point where I really don't care what people think about my car, all I care about is pleasing myself. I was never into designer clothing or other trendy stuff I prefer not advertising what I drive because some people have the misconception that all hybrid drivers are all tree hugging hippies. I love my hybrids. I loved the RX that I leased and now I love the GS I replaced it with. If anyone asks I tell them it is a great car. I had my GS since June 21 and it only has about 600 miles on it, but right now I am excited because I will be leaving SC for a trip to NY tomorrow. I didn't activate the 90 day free trial yet so this trip 1,800 round trip will be a perfect time o try out the car and radio. I don’t know if they did this with just the GS or if they did it with the RX and their other hybrid but the GS has a nice blue “L” that sets it apart from non-hybrids so I guess when anyone “in he know” sees the blue “L” they know it is a hybrid. The blue “L” is enough of a hybrid identifier for me. By the way I don't really care about gas mileage because it took about 4 to 5 thousand miles till I noticed a big improvement, but I still plan on checking [paper and pencil actual number not computer number just for the heck of it. I usually hate driving and getting stuck in NY city traffic but the fact my engine will be turned off while I am stuck makes it tolerable. PS I have a theory about there being a side benefit to hybrids in hot weather. There have been times when stuck in traffic I not only shut off the A/C I also turned on the Heater to help cool the engine when the Temp gauge moved toward the danger zone.. My guess is the due to the fact the A/C is electric and the engine will only run intermittently the car will be less likely to ‘boil over” in hot weather PS Many people like to customize their cars by removing all the emblems, I personally like the clean look of a de-badged car

I am going to keep a close eye on the battery. I am going to LI NY to pick up my mother and bring her to SC for a visit. I'll put on about 1700 miles in less than a week. I don't drive much, I put on less than 600 miles since I got the car on 6/21/08 but when I do drive I put on a lot of long distance miles. I am going to repeat the whole thing in late Sept when I bring her back. I am only going to be in NY for a day or two so I won't have the time to bring it to the NY dealer where I bought it. If there is a problem with the car that is causing the battery to fail it should show up before next next trip on Sept 23 or 24. PS I am a little ticked off about the way they handled it, But I am glad the just took my word that the battery was bad and replaced it without spending time with them trying to put a charger on it to verify it wouldn't take a charge. I have a few last minute things to do before the drive and I wasted Monday in bed because I wasn't feeling good so in a way i was happy to get in and out fast.

I wasn't feeling too good yesterday and today wasn't much better but I got myself down to Greenville Lexus which is about 25 to 30 miles each way, I brought it in this morning [Tue 11:00 AM], they replaced the battery. I asked the mechanic if he did any tests to see if there was a drain on the battery that caused it to fail. He told me that they usually just replace the battery without doing a test. He said in most cases it just happens when a car is left sitting on the lot for a long time waiting to be sold. I don’t like that they didn’t check to see if there was a reason for the dead battery, I and driving up to NY soon and hope I don’t have a problem but at least I am starting off with a fresh battery. I always carry, jumper cables, and a plug in battery charger in my trunk, I have been also carring a portable battery jumper in my trunk but it is a few years old and the battery does not seem to be holding a charge so I an picking up another one tomorrow. I'll try Sam's club first because they are close but O'Rileys isn't much further

BTW Hen, I see from your avatar info you don't have a hybrid. The Toyota/Lexus HSD Hybrids don't have alternators. The aux battery is charged off the high voltage traction battery system, which in turn is recharged via the hybrid's electric motor(s). Don't feel bad, as many hybrid owners don't grasp the nifty-ness of the hsd. That said, some folks here have switched over to the yellowtop Optima (we did our 04 Prius when it hit 65K miles), which actually has "cranking amps". The little OEM aux battery isn't designed to do as heavy a work load, so the yellowtop is a nice alternative, even if you're just changing out a defective battery. It'll give you that little extra benefit if/when you're not driving much, or only taking short trips, which doesn't give much time for recharge. The topic has been written here on several other occasions. The search tool can be your friend :D Good Luck! By the way I type real slow, it took a long time to type this usin't hunt and peck The RX400H was something that I loved but never intended to keep from the day I got it it was an extra car I owned while I was living part time in NY and part time in TX. The RX was the car that I kept in my TX house. I can’t say a single bad thing about the RX, I loved the car and the fact it was a hybrid but I am pretty finicky when it comes to cars and like to change them often. I pretty much intended to switch to a Volt type electric vehicle when the lease was over. But since the lease on the RX would end in Oct 09 there would be a gap between the lease end and the introduction of an electric vehicle. The RX served me well hauling my stuff between my moves to TX and SC but I just didn’t need an SUV and snow was no longer an issue so AWD was no loner needed. Therefore I decided that since I no longer needed the size and utility of an SUV to switch to a hybrid sedan lease that would bring me closer to the introduction of Volt and Lexus’s version of Volt. I have no doubt in my mind that Lexus has a version of the Volt in the works but they are probably keeping it hush hush. So I really saw no point in putting money into a vehicle that I was sure I was going to dump when the lease ran out. By the way it cost a lot to get out of the RX lease 14~15 months early But a funny thing happened to me when I got the GS that hasn’t happened in the 12 years since I bought my 96 Corvette collector edition. I fell in love with the GS400H. With few exceptions I consider most of my cars to be disposable commodities like Kleenex tissue. Use it up get rid of it and get another one. But this GS is something I like so much I may wind up keeping. Since I am retired and don’t really put on that many miles a pure electric vehicle won’t have a big impact on my driving costs and when you weight the cost of getting a new electric vehicle against buying out the lease on the GS, so I may just change my plans and keep this car. Although I have only owned for two moths and really haven’t taken it on a long drive yet so far I am very happy with it I am familiar with the yellow top. Besides the 96 Corvette I also owned a 98 Corvette. The 98 also was a car plagued with battery issues and a lot of C-5 owners have switched to Yellow tops for an important reason. In the 98 the battery is right on top of the computer and if the battery fails and spills acid it can destroy the computer. I may eventually follow your advice and get a yellow top but right now I have issues with the battery of a two month old car with a little over 500 miles on it. So before I do anything I want to make sure there isn’t an underlying reason for the battery problem. I retired from the police department due to health issues and they are causing me some problems today so I had to put off taking the car in for service till tomorrow when hopefully I will feel better. By the way thanks for the info I was aware the car didn’t have a conventional starter, but wasn’t aware it did not have a conventional alternator. That makes me feel better about not possibly causing damage to the alternator by not giving it a full charge before driving off. PS you are 100% correct about the undersized RX battery, I learned that the hard way. The GS battery seems better but after looking for it under the hood for about 15 to 30 minutes I had to get out the book to find out it is in the trunk.

I thought that was odd also, maybe there was a problem with the car and the NY dealer replaced the factory battery with a Panasonic. I traded in the old RX with a little over a year on the lease and got the GS. I towed [all wheels off the ground] the GS in back of a moving truck. So when I got to SC it only had a few miles on it. The car was new with 30 miles on the OD. I didn't notice the miles till I got to SC. I got it off the dealers inventory and I assume the extra miles were because the dealer added pin striping [real paint] and tinted windows. I assume they drove it to the shop that added the extras

I just got up a while ago and after leaving the car on a 10 amp overnight charge the battery is still not fully charged, I am driving up to NY in a few days with a few last minutes things to do before I leave so I may just take a chance and drive it to NY and take care of it when I get back. I always keep a set of jumpers and a small charge in the trunk so I should be OK as long as I park close to an electric outlet PS I don't know if it matters but it has a Panasonic battery, I didn't know they made car batteries

I have about a dozen chargers {I usually keep the small Schumakers in the trunk of each of my cars because jumper cables are useless if there isn't a car to jump from}, one of which is the the Schumacher 2/10/40/200 amp that is an older version of this one that they use in service stations, is has a fan and it is pretty large so it has wheels. I used that one for a quick jump start but I used the tender because I was afraid to charge it too fast. Too many amps for too long can heat up the plates and cause them to warp. I have brought nearly dead batteries back using the tender but I just checked it and after over 24 hours on the tender the red light did not switch to green. I think I am going to put a bigger charger on it tonight and see what happens tomorrow morning. I just put a 10 amp right now before going to bed

I have had a battery tender on it for almost 24 hours and it still isn't up to full charge

Before I sold the NY house and moved to SC I had a house in TX & NY and lived part time in TX and NY. I kept the RX in TX and my Jeep in NY because it was better in the snow. The first time I left the RX in TX I forgot to plug in the battery tender and came back almost two months later and the RX battery was fine. So the RX got more abuse than the GS but didn't have as many problems. I did mess up the RX battery by leaving a Coleman 12 volt cooler plugged in too long, and I left the radio on while working in the garage so I have had battery problems with the RX but at least I knew it was my fault and I know what I did to cause it. It just seems odd that the battery should go down this fast for no apparent reason

The electronic key would not open the car, I had to use the old fashioned one to open the trunk to get to the battery. I have the battery tender on for a slow overnight charge, but I noticed the terminal was warm when I hooked up the cable as if there was some kind of drain on he battery

Your answer does make sense but I owned a RX400H for abour 22 months before I ended the lease and switched to the GS. I drove the RX about the same amount of time I now drive the GS. I am going to drive up to NY in a few days and I don't want to get stuck. I am going to go out right now and put on a over night battery tender charge on the car. In the past I only put the charger on for about a minute to get the car started

What if anything am I doing wrong with my 2008 GS450H to make the battery die? I don't drive the car much 525 miles since June 21, only driven 2 to 4 times a week. The battery went dead about 5 or 6 times so far. I think the last time I drove it was2 or 3 days ago, I had to hook it up to a charger to get it started. I went to drive it today and it wouldn’t start again. The first couple times it happened I thought I may have left a light on but I am pretty sure I am not. I just got a puppy a few weeks ago and I take him on a !Removed! walk a few times a night, When I pass next to the car the lights come on for a few minutes and turn off but I find it hard to believe the lights coming on two or three dozen times in a few days can drain the battery. Do you think I should leave the key in the house so the lights don’t come on when I walk next to the car at night? I normally wear the key on a chain around my neck so it is always with me. Any suggestions before I see the dealer, I really don't have the time to take it to a dealer to get it checked. Update I just took my puppy on a !Removed! walk around the house and the lights did not come on when I walked near the car, I opened the door and tried to start it, the headlights came on but there wasn’t enough power to turn on the ready light. I just drove it a few hours ago and the battery is dead again. My puppy

The reason is simple I am always misplacing my keys, before I started wearing the key around my neck I would wind up walking out to the car and getting in only to discover I left the keys in the house and had to go back in to get them. Misplaced keys have made me late for a few doctors appointments, I hate to carry a lot of stuff in my pockets so now that I keep the key around my neck at all times [they come off in the shower] it saves me the trouble of fumbling around for my keys. I even got rid of my house keys and got this product. I also have push button code entry for my garage door opener. By the way I only have this mental block with keys, I am licensed to carry a gun in all 50 states and in almost 40 years of carrying a gun I have never misplaced my gun or didn't have it secured and under my control at all times

I found it a little strange at first when I switched from the RX H to the GS H but now I just wear the key thing on a chain around my neck and push to start, but with the motor not running all the time in the hybrid I often forgot to turn the car off till I got the warning buzzer

I tried both methods and I like my method better for the following reason. If you are looking for a specific number you can use the emergency method a long distance from the location you are trying to find and watch the numbers change as you come up on the number you are looking for, with the other method you must continue touching the screen to keep updating your location. There are advantages and disadvantages to both methods, with my method you can't see the map and cross streets so I guess it would be best to use the method that fits yours needs best. If you just want to know where you are [which was the original question]and don't want to see the numbers change the touch screen location method is easiest

Edward "Ed" Zacklery, it is in great shape for a car with 265,000 miles, a new paint job makes it perfect

thought you might know but you are quite correct it seems only some are blessed with brains and yours were dynamite it would not blow your cap off tata I am all in favor of a little good natured friendly ribbing, and I don't mind having people having a little fun at my expense. But it does seem to me as if the nature of the joking is starting to get into unfriendly territory. Please for every ones sake lets keep it friendly and resist the urge for personal put downs

On my 08, you just have to press the Map button. Every time you press it, the display shows the current address. Good luck. Before I had an 08 GS450H I had a 07 RX400H and I don't recall it ever doing hat, as a matter of fact the map screen is locked out in the 07 untill you push the I agree button. The 08 has no I agree button

I should have realized, his one and only post was with reguard to a Citroen

The 33 caddy also had an adjustible suspension for soft or firm ride The Model "T" Ford had a tilt away steering wheel Back in the 1920's the Cord had flip up headlighs There are many things we consider to be new but they are just refinements of old inventions

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I have no respect for a man that only knows how to spell a word one way I think it was Mark Twain that said that

Here is something I stumbled on by accident, I don't think this method is mentioned in the book I'll have to go out to the car and double check but I think if you push the emergency button it allow you to contact police, fire dealer etc, and it also shows your location so you can tell them where you are I just had the chance to go out to my car, I pushed destination, then emergency and my location came up on the screen