Tommy Runnels

This has to be done by the dealer. We had the chime disabled when we bought the car.

We have had ours for 3 months and have no complaints about the brakes at all. They have performed exactly as expected every time under many conditions. As far as upgrading, I would expect the RX to share it's brakes with some other Toyota. You might go that direction when you are looking.

We just bought a RX350 from Sewell in Fort Worth and had the XM radio installed. I watched them off and on and if you do it by the manual it is not easy. The most difficult part is installing the antennae and running the wire to the back. The installation can be simplified by putting the antennae on the far right side of the dash up against the windshield. That is where I installed on our 2004 RX330 when I installed the Vais Technology unit and it worked perfectly there.

Here are the commands for a 2009. I don't know if they are the same.

Navigation mode

Destination- go home, address, delete final destination

Map operation - show map, zoom in, zoom out

Guidance Help - repeat guidance, arrow guidance, turn list guidance, turn by turn guidance, resume guidance, stop guidance,

freewat guidance, intersection guidance

screen Preferences - single map, dual map, compass mode

Volume - louder, softer

POI - nearest(American, Chinese, Fast, Italian, French, Japanese, Mexican, Seafood, or other) restaurant, ATM, airport, amusement park,

bank, barber shop, car wash, coffee house, convenuence store, department store, dry cleaning, ferry terminal, gas station, golf course,

grocery store, historical monuments, home and garden, library, parks, pharmacy, post office, restaurant, specialty food store, sports complex,

theater, tourist information, zoo, hide icons

Telephone mode

calling - dial by number, dial by name, dial, cancel

Audio mode

Mode - radio, AM, FM, FM1, FM2, sat, CD changer

Functions - audio on, audio off, next track, previous track, seek up, seek down, next disc, previous disc