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Recently switched from LG standard phone to a Motorola DroidX. Bluetooth connection is simple, but the phonebook will not copy down to the system. Indications are that the transfer is taking place, but then a "transfer failed" message comes up and no contacts have been moved across. Anyone else experiencing anything like this?

My 2010 460L has about i/3 the door opener range that my 2007 460L and my 2003 430 had. Best range is now about 125 feet.

Stick it on the sunroof, works fine for me.

If I recall correctly, my 2010 owners manual explains that if the "Hold" feature is engaged for more than 3 minutes, the parking brake is set in order to prevent overheating of the solenoid that applies the hold pressure to the brakes. By engaging the parking brake, they can release the solenoid and prevent burn out. Makes sense.

Guess what, Lexus informs me that the problem is normal, they all do it. No remediation in order. Go figure.

Make sure you have a fresh spare on hand, you're in a world of hurt if the battery goes bad. You may have to go to Radio Shack to get this battery, it isn't common in the places you usually see the quarter sized batteries.

Wondering if any similar problems have shown up on equivalent vehicles. 2010 LS 460L AWD, I have an interesting problem that Lexus has witnessed, but not solved. It is repeatable and is experienced in both right and left turns. When starting from a dead stop with the steering wheel at full lock, as it would be exiting a driveway, the wheels stick in that position upon acceleration. This sticking is enough that unless you grab the wheel and help it straighten out, you will likely turn 130 or more degrees before the wheels are straight. In order for the problem to be at it's worst, the wheels have to be turned to lock while the car is rolling to a stop. It happens whether you back up, as out of a line of parked cars in a parking lot, or pull up to a full turn situation. It seems to be ok if you start out slowly enough, but any normal acceleration, or rapid as when entering a line of traffic quickly, will show the problem. I have had the recall done for the centering of the wheel, but that was never a problem and made no difference in the symptoms. Car has been checked for dead animals between the belly pan and the steering linkage. Feels, very much, like insufficient caster. And the car has done it since it was new, 7000 miles ago. Do I have the only one?

Interesting thread. I have 212 Black on my 460 and had the same reservations expressed here. My dealer built a knock your socks off carwash for his and his customers' use. He uses it on brand new black cars and there are NO marks on the cars. My 460 shows NO ill effects from the wash and I am a convert. I will not use any other wash because I don't know how clean their cloths are and don't know how much fresh water they use or how well their filters are working. The coffee and cookies are good, the rest rooms clean and the dog is welcome. The end of the line area is staffed with a half dozen guys with no rings, belt buckles or zippers to mark the car and they do the inside as well, clean the windows and dry the whole thing and you're out in less than 10 minutes. Your concerns are legitimate and many cars have lost the mile deep gloss that makes black so nice looking because they went to a car wash running on a shoestring. One thing to remember when you wash it a home, try drying it with your leaf blower if it is strong enough. This will really help keep the micro-fine marks out of your paint and preserve the depth of your shine.

I have used the Porter Cable unit for a number of years on 2002 LS430 and 2007 460L, both black. Great tool, even bought one for my son-in=law for his LX450 Black and his Lund, also black. The machine will do all you could ask of it and with a few different backing plates and a housing for dust removal it makes a terrific sander. This sanding duty will help justify it to the lady of the house and she will even like using the polishing gear on her kitchen counters and stainless sink. The Porter Cable won't get you into trouble.

My dealer installed new Michelins on my 460L because he was dissatisfied with the ride and performance of the Dunlops that came on it. This was at 13K mi this last winter. The new tires are Pilot HX MXM4 in size XSE P235/50 ZR18 97W M+S. These tires are superb; silent, great snow performance, good handling and smooth as silk. I don't care about tread life as long as I have smooth, quiet dependable traction at speeds usually between 65 and 80 with an occasional irresponsible burst to 3 figures. You want to insist on having the tires balanced on a balancer like a Hunter with the optional load roller. This balancer will match the low spot on your rim with the high spot on your tire and it does make a difference! I had Bridgestone Turenzas on my 430 and liked them, but I think these may actually be better, but who knows?

OK, let's see if I have this right. to OPEN the trunk with the car not running. 1. use the key fob, or 2. use goldplater's pad over the license plate, or 3. push the button on the dashboard or 4. use the key in the cylinder to the right of Goldplaters pad. To CLOSE the trunk, 1. push the utoon inside the trunk lid, or 2. do it manually. With the glove box located lockout engaged, only the key will open it?

Smart enough to not learn to cook sitting on the john or double post. You're taking the wrong classes.

There should be a trigger underneath the trim above the license plate that will open the trunk, and there should be a button on the trim inside the trunk lid to close it. Are you sure about this button above the license plate, beneath the trim? I've been looking for it for 3 months and STILL can't find it!

Well, my problem is solved. Due to some highway debris (a long story in itself) I had to have both headlamp assemblies replaced with new ones. The new ones are just what I had wanted. No dark band between the highs and lows and the dealer didn't even have to adjust them. Powering up the new assemblies made them "cage" and they've been great since. I will say that at about $600 for each side I thought I was being taken - until I saw the assemblies themselves. There are several servos, a computer or two and probably 50 or more parts in each one. I'd hate to make them for the price they sell for. In any event, they do work. The lights are a bear to get to and there is a 2hr flatrate just to get to where they can be romoved. I would think that before long, a firmware change or something will be available to correct those lamps that don't seem well directed.

I have taken a few months vacation from this site with the full understanding that the sanctimonious support of the Lexus "perfection" would continue. I see it has. I now have 14K mi on the 460L and while it's OK, it's no 430. The trunk still won't close with the remote or the dash button, but wording on the hype for the 600h implies that it will close with eitherif I just put in another $40 or$50K. The nav package is still as aggrevating as ever, but I do have a solution!!!!!! I bought a Tomtom 920 and it doesn't know how dangerous it has made us. My wife can use it as I drive and we can do phone calls, POI searches and everything. Of course we are risking our lives by her not helping me drive. Next I will have to run into SAMs and get one of those rear cameras that I will connect to the directionals so that I can see my blind spot when I signal for turns or lane changes. Then I can hire a Lexus geek to give me a remote start like every other car has available. What to you want for $80 grand, perfection? '

Maybe your LS460 is different from mine. I have no button on the outside to open it and the inside button will not close it. Please describe again to us, how you do this. Thanks

Are you all certain that the Mark Levinson hard drive and the Denso nav hard drive are the same? I'd be surprised, in that the Nav drive used to be located under a panel on, I believe, the passenger side in the trunk. I have no idea of the configuration of the ML drive, but it may be a proprietary protocol. Why not try loading as many MP3 tracks as possible on a CD and playig it in one of the CD drive slots. I think this can be done, but I don't fo MP3. WMA format works fine.

How to rip the CD to HDD? All names will be track #1; #2 & so on? Then you stucked by second CD because the track will be same name? I think we should have someway to copy many MP3 at the same time via the cable or something? And how big of the HDD? Is it easy to replace the old HDD with the bigger HDD? TIA There are a couple issues here and I'm sure no expert on MP3, but I have over 900 tracks(songs)loaded on mine by ripping from CDs. All tracks are labelled as you would expect, and Lexus will give you up to 4 complimentary updates per year to the program that assigns the track information. You just copy the CD and it runs it in. Later you can delete complete CDs or individual songs. My drive shows slightly less than 50% full. I usderstand the drive is around 12GB. You can play other formats on discs that are loaded into the changer. I have, for example, one disc that contains about 15 Christmas albums in WMA format and another that contains all of Sinatras Columbia and Capital years which is about 7 or 8 albums. These files will also show the track information as titles and so forth, but you have to be careful how you coad the files from the albums and convert to WMA etc. Some of mine didn't bring the track titles over and show "track 1" Track 2" etc. I am sure it's pilot error because most are correct and all the albums are from the same original sets. I wouldn't worry about the location of the drive as Lexus can dump it to a service drive and reload to a new one if necessary (according to the documentation I've seen) My biggest disappointment with the system is the small sample of tunes it plays in the PM Random mode (whatever PM stands for). I have never heard some of my tracks and keep hearing the same family of 30 or 40 off of a half dozen albums until I manually cancel random, run up a dozen or two albums in the que and restart PM Random. You probably know about the input jack in the center console and whatever it will do. I have no experience with it, but maybe there is a solution for you there.

SW03ES, I am sorry, but I think your're out of your league. I know you won't understand that statement, but others will. To conclude this childish exchange I will answer one of your questions in a way you may understand. Some of the vehicles that currently offer remote start as a factory installed option include Toyota Avalon,Tundra, Highlander, Camry;Cadillac - all models, Chevrolet Malibu, Buick Lucerne - do your homework and grow up before you pontificate again. (look it up)

You know SW03ES, I am going to try and stay impersonal with this response even though you insist on words like "still you ramble", "rattling on" and "makes zero sense". I can assure you that I am able to spar with you if that is what you want, but frankly I do not believe that personal degradations have any place on a forum. First of all, I don't believe your personal experience involves using much of your own money so how can you identify with or understand the frustration of someone who has dumped $80K into a car only to find that there are a number of arbitrary and unreasonable design inconsistencies in the car" First, a rather simple but very revealing change in the 460. A simple hook in the trunk to which the cargo net is attached. As I recall, the 430 had a plastic hook that was inserted into a stamped hole in the body sheet metal and then turned 90 degrees to lock it in, much like a bayonet base lamp. The 460 has a rectangular hole stamped in the body into which a plastic hook is pushed. Two fingers (part of the same plastic casting as the hook) snap into the hole and are meant to hold it in. The problem is, if there is a load on the net and the trunk gets up to summer temperatures, the hooks fall out. This is an example of reengineering for either a less expensive hook or an assembly time reduction that was implemented without sufficient design analysis, if an analysis revealed that there might be a problem someone decided the savings were worth the risk. Another cost cutting or lack of depth in the design has to do with the headlights. According to the dealer and others, the dark band that exists between the high and low beams during high beam operation cannot be reduced. The headlight aiming function moves both the high and low beams as a unit. How about remote start? Many many modern cars from GM, Chrysler, Ford, Toyoto, Nissan, BMW and so forth offer remote start as either an option or as standard. Lexus cannot and will not add the function to a 460 "that's the way it's designed". Radar cruise will not likely be in your 460 unless you order the collision avoidance system and then I believe it is Laser. In any event, the ordinary optioned 460 at $10K over base sticker does not have the radar cruise so popular in the 430, do you think it was safety or economy that triggered this deduction? As for "eating your seed corn" when things got really hopeless in the pioneer winters, the worst thing a family could do was to eat their seed corn because they would have nothing to plant in the spring and they would perish. My analogy was seed corn to good will. When a company starts depending on previously earned good will to carry them through rather than practicing continued customer support they are essentially consuming their good will. You asked for one example of where a company sacrificed customer satisfaction for marketability. How about the 1955 Ford that was released with a white dashboard in some color combinations, looked great except if you were driving it you couldn't see out past the glare, Ford repainted. Please consider your use of inflammatory verbiage; it only detracts from the objectivity of the forum.

I was at Taste of Lexus last week in Chicago. I specifically asked for a demo of the trunk. They got the "key" fob and remotely OPENED and CLOSED the trunk without touching it. Teach That is certainly good news, do you think they were they demoing '08 models?

No, it is not true unless Lexus values our safety more than the driver of an RX300/330. It is my understanding that the remote will both open and close the hatch on that model. This issue was apparently addressed at a recent Lexus / Lexujs dealer meeting and the dealers were told that's the way it is, nothing will be done. I went to the dealer to purchase the shop manual for the 460 only to find out the manual is now in six volumes priced at $225 per volume. My intention was to route the trigger from the remote to the motor when the trunk was open by using a mercury switch and a relay; the closure button is just a normally open contact that closes when you push the button. The rest of the wires seem to be just for illumination of the button. The problem is that there is about a 1" bundle of wiring that contains the required wires and without a manual you could really mess up a bunch of stuff. Stay with the forum, you are going to discover more similar aggrevations with your 460.

Pleae explain what part of my short respone made "absolutely zero sense". I can list several items that are compromises between customer convenience and manufacturing economy. In each of these instances the customer lost. Please let us know your exposure to the LS460/460L so we can appreciate your perspective. In my case I only have 100Kmiles in a 430 and 10K in a 460L. Harvesting is reaping the rewards of what you have planted earlier. Careless harvesting can damage future crops. Have you ever heard of "eating your seed corn"?

Save your energy, it ain't there and won't be. There are no design flaws in an LS460, everything that doesn't work isn't supposed to.

You are right! The reason is $$$$$$$$$$ Lexus is starting to harvest their reputation by "reengineering" the car for marketability, not customer satisfaction.