The page you requested could not be found. VVT Solenoid (OCV) Replacement DIY VVT Solenoid (OCV) Replacement DIY - Symptoms: Momentary Engine Lag (like a shifting of gears that only lasts 1-2 seconds) Hard Brakes in the last few seconds of a stop - like stepping on a brick Low, Rough Idle - feels like it is going to stall Inability to Use Over Drive - going 65mph with 4500 RPM ... won't shift to lower RPMs DIY Installation of GROM + Bluetooth Dongle Front seat & belt buckle (receptacle) replacement: Note: These are not my DIYs', and I do not take credit for it in any way. Rear Valve Cover Gasket DIY - 01' Lexus RX300 1MZ-FE 3.0L Valve Cover Gasket,VVT Gear and Oil Control Valve - YouTube Remove Door Panel & Fix Door Handle DIY - 2001 lexus RX300 fix broken door handle - YouTube Note: These are not my DIY's, and I do not take credit for them in any way. Warm-Up cat (pre-cat) between radiator and engine WU-Cat (pre-cat) for the left side.

Here is the DIY for add gps navigation to non navigation RX for navigation, backup camera and Ipod A/V display in the oem gps screen. easy mod for front and back lights with LED. Now this is on my ES 300 and since its the same layout as RX the setup is same too. makes it much easier too: FIX FOR FAULTY BRAKE LIGHT FAILURE SENSOR MODULE. Front Lower Control Arms [2nd gen RX is different. Please visit 2nd gen forum ... salim] another: added by salimIn 1998, Lexus introduced a wonder drug to an already SUV-addicted populace-Cipro, Lipitor, Ginkgo biloba, and maybe a grain or two of Prozac all rolled into one, and badged RX300. "Euphoric-high seating position, go-anywhere energy, no truckish side effects!" So addictive was this four-wheel intoxicant that five years later, in a market flooded with effective generic equivalents, the RX still holds 22 percent of the luxury-ute market. Nevertheless, to keep its regulars hooked, the pharmacists at Lexus are upping the dosage for 2004 with this RX330.

There's more of everything-space, power, even refinement. The capsule itself is about six inches longer, an inch wider, and a half-inch taller. Inside, the passengers only get an extra four cubic feet of stretch-out space, mostly in the front seat. Blue Lacy Puppies For Sale In OhioOn paper, the cargo hold expands by 10 cubes to 85 with the seats down, but that stylish rear window rakes right through the usable space, reducing seats-up volume by 1.5, to 38 cubic feet.Cavachon Puppies For Adoption In Michigan Styling was a big part of the RX300's allure, and the designers of the RX330 tried hard to trump themselves in the uniqueness department. Homes For Sale In Sun City BossierThe front is fresh, evolutionary, and sporty, as is the IS300 SportCross-like greenhouse.

But the glass sits atop a slightly too tall and too slab-sided midsection and tail, and the fast-'n'-furious clear taillamps (aren't these a cliché yet?) cling to the high rear window, leaving a broad, Ford Focus-like expanse of tailgate below. Functionally, that high beltline restricts rear-seat visibility somewhat-then again, maybe this appeals to today's hunkered-down bunker society.The adjustable rear seatbacks can now be folded in 40/20/40 segments, permitting, say, a surfboard to ride in the trunk pass-through between two surfers. The rear seats still slide fore and aft about five inches to apportion cargo and passenger space as necessary. The spare tire hangs outside beneath the cargo floor, freeing up room for underdeck stowage, including a place to stash the cargo cover. A clever latching system automatically reels in the cargo cover when the rear hatch is opened, and a power-operated hatch is now optional, as is a huge three-panel glass sunroof that gives front- and rear-seat passengers a great view up.

The dirty parts are all greatly revised as well. As the name suggests, the familiar V-6 has been bored out to 3.3 liters, with a commensurate bump in potency of 10 horsepower and 20 pound-feet of torque, to 230 and 242. The power and torque peaks are lower, too. This extra-strength six is now mated to a five-speed automatic with a much wider ratio spread than the previous four-speed's, which contributes greatly to the claimed increases in performance: 0-to-60 times improve by 0.8 second for the front-driver and by a full second with all-wheel drive to 7.7 and 7.8 seconds, respectively. Fuel economy is also up slightly on the EPA cycles to 20 city and 26 highway with front-wheel drive and 18 and 24 with four-wheel drive, despite a weight gain of about 150 pounds. Lexus simplified the RX's all-wheel-drive system this year by ditching the viscous limited slip on the 50/50 torque-splitting center differential, leaving the traction- and stability-control hardware to apportion the torque in slippery conditions (the Torsen-rear-diff option was dropped after 2000).

We scrambled up a badly eroded dirt road without difficulty, but so might a rear-wheel-drive pickup.THIS IS ONE of those times I am mystified by popular taste. The Lexus RX premium crossover sells about 100,000 copies a year, every year? This plush, pas de balles, early-Cubist nightmare with a smile like Dick Cheney will sell 100 grand in the next 12 months? The Lexus RX (1998) was a pioneer in a market segment that now dominates the portfolios and profits of many auto makers: premium crossovers/SUVs. The lineup includes Acura MDX, Lincoln MKX, Mercedes-Benz GLE SUV/GLE Coupe, and Volvo XC90, the last being my pick of the litter. But if the people want a Lexus crossover, by God, a Lexus it shall be. Indeed, the company’s product planners seem to be locked into a morbid feedback loop with current, much-dialogued Lexus owners, making features that strike many outside the circle as just plain weird into brand signatures. The floating mouse controller with haptic feedback, through which many of the car’s amenities are accessed, frequently underwhelms in its accuracy and fluency.

But somebody must like them. The new RX invests heavily in even more sound deadening and powertrain NVH countermeasures. There are new engine mounts to quell engine rocking and vibration. To sit in an RX with the engine off is to experience anechoic solemnity, the silent howl of the universe. Wow, it’s quiet in there. The RX’s carry-over engine, the 3.5-liter V6, can be celebrated, I suppose, as one of the last naturally aspirated, premium-market engines. It’s not a trivial piece, either: port/direct-injection with a 11:8 compression ratio, and variable valve timing that can switch between Otto and fuel-saving Atkinson combustion cycle, as load requires. Try that with your ’32 Ford Flathead. To add depth and color to the sound of the naturally aspirated V6, there is a resonator device on the intake side of the engine, a snarling little duck call that plays in the higher rpm. More on Luxury SUVs Infiniti QX60 Volvo XC90 Lincoln Mercedes The transverse-mounted engine’s 295 hp (up 25 over the previous model) and 267 pound-feet of torque get pumped through the whispering, if overeager, eight-speed automatic transmission.

That delivers 0-60 mph acceleration pace in the 7s—adequate, though hardly besotting. A little more body structure here, some retuning of the MacPherson strut/double-wishbone rear suspension there. Otherwise, and except for the hallucinogens in the styling department’s water, the RX is a dependably iterative generation of Lexus’s bread-and-butter product. So, about the styling. Is it in pain? Should somebody help it? No, it’s just very focused on being exciting. These stylistic exertions are, as near as I can tell from the media briefing, the direct result and marching orders from Toyota president Akio Toyoda, who has publicly expressed his desire to raise the Lexus brand’s emotional temperature. The RX is practically a nervous wreck. 2016 Lexus RX 350 F Sport Base price: $49,125 Price, as tested: $53,405 Powertrain: Naturally aspirated port/direct-injection 3.5-liter DOHC, 24-valve V6 with variable valve timing; eight-speed automatic transmission with manual shift mode;

front-wheel drive with on-demand all-wheel drive. Horsepower/torque: 295 hp at 6,300 rpm/267 pound-feet at 4,700 rpm Length/weight: 192.5 inches/4,387 pounds Wheelbase: 109.8 inches EPA fuel economy: 19/26/22 mpg, city/highway/combined Cargo volume: 18.4/55.9 cubic feet (rear seat back up/folded) The Lexus’s spindle grille—in F Sport trim comprising a warped field of black plastic webbing, outlined in lustrous alloy lips—is the brand singularity, drawing us toward a Lexus badge with arrows pointing to it from all sides, including the LED headlamps and arrowhead pointed bezels of the cornering lamps. At night it looks like its own dealership. At one point, as recounted in the briefing, the RX program managers went to see Mr. Toyoda after he had driven a late-phase prototype and he asked them, sagely, “Is it the best you can do?” See, it’s all about the inflection. But, in fairness, no crossover/SUV on the market is a beauty, due to packaging and performance constraints.

In the luxe-SUV segment, all dimensions are obliged to grow over time: head, leg and hip room; seating height (H point); luggage capacity and overall interior cubes. By the time you accommodate all that, with a V6 engine, eight-speed transmission and all-wheel drive, you have two big, ugly boring boxes. These must be rakishly dressed in stamped steel panels, glass and resinous plastics, as convincingly as possible. The RX’s vigorous light-lining, slashes of character lines and vectoring rays of negative draft (the hollows in the sheet metal) are what’s required when you want to make a box look like it has shoulders. Stylistic trade-offs can be costly, too. For example, the front overhang of the RX 350 F Sport ($49,125), our top-shelf tester, jutted out to catch the handsomely made, aggressively styled, acutely useless twin-splitter, pouting at the lower front bumper. Yes, but every millimeter comes at the cost of vehicle approach angle, the maximum incline negotiable without the vehicle’s nose touching the ground.

There is, as before, a hybrid version, the RX 450h and 450h F Sport ($52,235 and $55,645), which adds a now-slimmer stack of nickel-metal hydride batteries under the rear seat and plumps up the seat cushioning above; in all-wheel drive versions, with the same engine, the electrons drive a motor/reduction gear between the rear wheels, providing as-needed hybrid all-wheel drive. Total system output is 308 hp. A bit more housekeeping: The new RX gains 1.9 inches in wheelbase, freeing up more legroom front and rear, and allowing the geometry for a raised seat height; there is no provision for third-row seating. The RX has also grown 4.7 inches in overall length, which is a goodly increase, as these things go. Two things that haven’t changed: First, its merely adequate handling; second, its cabin so rich and well stitched that it renders the first forgivable. The indirect lighting is warm and discreet; the lines polished and well provisioned; the instrumentation large and bright. Especially wonderful are the sport seats that use a new foam injection process to fill the seats’ contours to drumhead perfection.