Category: Lexus LS430
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100,000 Miles Overdue
Lexus invested roughly one billion dollars into the development of the LS400, the predecessor to my LS430. The LS400 changed the world of luxury cars by putting Lexus on the map as a serious competitor to Mercedes-Benz and BMW, whom Lexus was aiming squarely to beat. The LS400 was a very hard act to follow,…
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Mechanical Hipster
Compact Discs are dead. Second-hand store 2nd & Charles sells a Mystery Box of 100 CDs for $30.00 or less with coupons. Thrift stores have CDs in jewel cases piled up to act as bookends, if organized, or more typically jumbled in a laundry basket marked “$1” in permanent marker on a dogeared piece of…
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Do the Simplest Things… Always
Maintaining a vehicle often comes down to ensuring the simplest things are done on a regular basis. Other times, especially with older vehicles, maintenance comes down to doing simple but odd things. When I got the LS430, the check engine light (CEL) kept coming on because it was firing P0440, P0441 and P0446 codes. All…
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Luxury Headlamps
Why Xenon? Lamps that use electrical arcs – lightning is an electrical arc, for example – have been around since before the lightbulb was invented. Carbon arc lamps were used in factories and as street lamps because they were so bright compared to gas lights. Later, arc lamps were used in movie projectors and search…