Jeremyaz

So I arrive at my destination, park and shut-off the vehicle....the only problem is that I'm bluetooth with my phone and want to finish up my conversation before leaving the car. As it stands, when I press the start button to shut-off the vehicle, the bluetooth turns off and moves the call to my phone.

With all my other cars, I was able to park the car, shut off the engine and finish the conversation on the bluetooth speakers and not be forced to switch. Has to be a setting somewhere. Anyone know how to change this?

Thanks!

2014 GS350 F-Sport

liquidz

When you park, shift into "N" and engage parking brakes. Press the "Push to Start" button to switch off the engine, while keeping power to the everything else. After Engine is off, you can then shift into "P". Once the conversation is done, you can double-tap the "Push to Start" button to turn off the car's electronics.

sirsaula

Thanks dude!!

wangster79

I'm not sure how often but this info may come in handy one day.

DEEAuto

I Agree

yardie876

Works great for when you want to leave the radio playing while pumping gas too.

mcomer

liquidz properly describes the safe way to do it, you can also just punch the power button when stopped in any gear range and once the motor shuts down just slip it into Park.

Rexus300

iTrader: (1)

Damn I never though about putting it neutral and then turn off car! God, I cannot believe Im getting old. 30 years here.

liquidz

lol, that is the safe way of doing it. But I've done a few unsafe way too with the car in the wrong gears.

I discovered this trick accidentally since I have a very steep driveway. So my routine is to shift into "N" and then engage parking brakes, release foot brake, and then shift into "P". This method allows the car's weight to rest on the rear parking brakes instead of the car's weight to rest on the parking pin. Also, this minimize the amount of car roll-back onto the parking pin too. One time I forgot to shift into "P" while still in "N" and voila! car engine is off but I have power to everything!

puckhead85

this sound almost as complicated (to me) as switching the lane change blinker to 5/7.

terrycs

Too much trouble ... I just let the call seemlessly transfer to my iPhone.

Afrosheen

To the op: park and leave the car running. You won't kill a tree.

For the hill parkers, go ahead and throw it in park. The GS automatically engages the parking brake anyway, you won't be stressing the parking pin on the transmission. Lexus outsmarted some people with this feature.

islandbeef

Nice to know. Thanks.