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It does indeed ;)

I cleaned the thread out. Lets keep it on topic.

LOL, thats awesome!

Having had 3G CDMA service and now 1X CDMA service I don't see any difference. In fact the Verizon service (1x) works several places my Sprint service (3G) would not work like in metro tunnels and in highway tunnels. Yes I am aware that GSM is the standard in other parts of the world but I doubt their ability to streamline it here for one reason, it is legal in America to blacklist ESNs. In europe that is ILLEGAL which means the phone manufacturers can build what they want and all the service providers must activate those units and provide service for them. Thats why other countries get all the cool phones first, they don't want to sell phones in the US because the phone carriers like Verizon call all the shots. Your friends at Motorola should be very aware of that, Verizon walks all over them. As long as the two largest cell carriers are CDMA (Verizon and Sprint)and it remains legal to blacklist ESNs and refuse to activate and fully support all phones on compatible frequencies then CDMA is in the US to stay. Motorola and all the other cellular companies will keep making CDMA phones for Verizon and Sprint to use because they cannot afford not to. The only way we'll see GSM here within 2-5 years is if it is made illegal to blacklist ESNs here like it is in europe. Which is very possible and would be the way to go as the only countries left that allow blacklisting of ESNs are the United States and several remaining semi-communist strongholds. As for the V60 you are aware it came out as CDMA first right? And that it is STILL sold in various new iterations as CDMA right? Verizon was the first company to bring the V60 out (along with Alltell) then only after a matter of a couple years it became availiable through a GSM carrier (I believe T-Mobile). That phone is STILL produced and sold in a CDMA version sold by Verizon and now Sprint. Your company, Motorola, probably does 60% of their business with Verizon. If you think Motorola is just going to stop making CDMA phones when: 1. Verizon provides CDMA service and they are their biggest customer. 2. Verizon maintains the legal right to blacklist all Motorola ESNs and refuse to allow them to be activated on their service. 3. They have little to no strongholds with GSM carriers as it is then you're fooling yourself. This is a very political decision, and these politics aren't present in countries that have GSM service now. A switch to GSM for the US would put Verizon and Sprint out of business do you really think they're going to allow that to happen? No way, not without a fight. Motorola in particular has already shown the power Verizon has over them by allowing them to strong arm them into disabling most of the advanced bluettoh and email features on the V710. Verizon is a nasty nasty company, its whats left of "Ma Bell" which you may be too young to remember, I almost am. All the telephone service in America was basically controlled by one company, "Ma Bell". You used to only be allowed to use specific telephones, couldn't install lines by yourself. Phones got SO expensive you used to have to rent them! The gov't finally stepped in and said no more, disbanded the company into the subsidiaries we have today, At&T, Bell Atlantic and others. You know what Verizon was called a few years ago right? Bell Atlantic Mobile. I hope this will happen to the cellular service industry as well but we'll have to wait and see. I would be happy to switch over to GSM whenever the service is of the same quality as CDMA. The only reason I bought this phone was because it has Bluetooth and I got tired of waiting for Sprint to come out with something. CDMA is here to stay unless a couple of fundamental things change. Also, I realize that this is your business but please don't talk to me like I'm an idiot. I know what I'm talking about.

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Interestingly enough after carefully inspecting my RX330 loaner the wood on the console and doors is actually fake. The only real wood in the RX330 is the steering wheel and shifter.

Keep in mind that his nav and my nav are different generations from your nav.

They are very long lived vehicles when maintained well. One thing you're gonna wanna do pretty soon though, if you haen't already is shop around for a good, trustworthy, independent mechanic that knows Toyota/Lexus vehicles. The dealership doesn't seem so expensive when the car is new, but it can make maintaining an older Lexus far more expensive than paying for a new one.

Well it does appear that Lexus has removed the bit about putting the car out of gear when stopped with the engine running. The manual does however still have the same parking procedure I outlined before: There it is, if you had applied the brake as Lexus described in the manual the accident may have been avoided. Thats a release from liability right there.

Have you tried something along the lines of Klasse AIO? The P21S polish is very mild as polishes go.

Interesting, I'm having a similar situation in my ES and the dealer checked out the front suspension and couldn't find anything wrong. I don't think they thought to check the steering...

Thats how we all drive, but thats not how its "supposed" to be done. When sitting at a stop you're supposed to shift the car into neutral. All car manuals used to say that, I'm not sure if they still do or not.

Sounds to me like somebody needs to stick to new cars in the future.

This is common on AM vs FM dials. I always assumed it had to do with AM being mono and FM being stereo.

But like I said before, the vehicle will move when its engaged in gear regardless of whether your foot is on the gas or not. The ES creeps probably 6-8MPH thats plenty fast to tear through the gate and cause the damage you showed here. If you relaxed your foot on the brake even for an instant, perhaps in anticipation of placing the car in park it could have moved forward at idle causing the damage we see here. The car actually isn't designed to stay at a stop when the brake is pressed. We all drive that way but owners manuals and drivers handbooks all over say that the car should be moved out of gear when sitting at a stop. Hindsight is always 20/20 and its perfectly human nature to both remember things with much more assurance than when they actually took place and to attribute fault to external forces. All I'm saying is its possible that what happened truly was an accident, and as long as that possibility is there you're not going to be able to make Lexus or the NHTSA do anything about it.

This is actually easily done, I'm not sure why its not included in the menu screen though... Go to "INFO" and push "SCREEN TRANSITION" this will be a simple screen with an "ON" and an "OFF" buttons. It will be set to "ON" switch it to "OFF" ;)

The dealership charges around $700 for the kit installed, you can do better than that just buying the kit and having a car stereo shop install it. You don't have to have nav.

I don't doubt that, the thing is though that automatic transmissioned vehicles will move forward or backward when in gear regardless of whether or not your foot is on the accelerator. According to the Maryland Drivers Handbook the proper procedure for parking a vehicle is to: 1. Stop 2. Set the parking brake with foot still on the service brake 3. Shift to park This is how you're "supposed" to park the car (and also how I always park, BTW), and if you had parked that way then this never would have happened. Again, I'm not saying this was your fault because I cannot possibly make such a judgement, but you have to be prepared for all avenues of defense. I don't see how its possible to prove any fault on the part of the vehicle manufacturer. Take a gun for instance. A gun is designed to do one thing, to fire. If you brush the trigger and the gun fires then its not the gun company's fault for designing a hair trigger, its yours because you shot the gun. A car is designed to do one thing, move. To me the strongest argument that it was not the vehicles fault is how high the car would have to rev in order to push past the brakes when they are applied fully. I will do a little test later today when I back out on my street, I'll sit with the brakes applied and I will apply throttle. My guess is it would take more throttle to move the car with the brakes applied than I'm comfortable of giving the car.

Yep

That should be the software update...

Couple problems with this. 1. The engine wouldn't rev any higher during such a lurch than it normally would during acceleration. So any kind of readout would be meaningless. 2. And most importantly no computer regesters such information on this car.

MIL means Malfunction Indicator Lamp, the check engine light.

There was a silver SC430 in Mean Girls and a green 98-00 LS400 in Heartbreakers.

Whats wrong with water? You can also use water to clean the wood just fine. What you're missing is that nothing you use is ever going to touch the actual wood surface. The wood is coated in clearcoat, just like the car's paint. You can use anything you would use on the paint. Using wood oils that soak into the wood on a car interior is pointless and will only create a slimy mess.

The Lexus products are simplu Zymol consumer products rebadged. Lexol is better IMHO.