IS3504life

It has 180,000kms on it. I purchased it cheap enough threw the dealership I work at.

Question is is it runs perfectly, drives wonderfully, BUT it will short out somewhere and the P/S stops working, heater, battery light, traction light, etc all lights up and then after I park it, the battery is dead....

New to the Lexus so very curious as to what I can do in order to keep this beautiful little sedan as my new project....

Thanks in advance everyone

Cheers from Canada

Awesome board as well you all have here

jadu

iTrader: (42)

Sounds like an alternator failure-I'd have it tested. Congrats on the purchase and welcome!

IS3504life

Thanks for the quick reply jadu. I was leaning towards the alt as well. I will have it tested tmrw and i'll keep you all up to date on my progress. Hopefully it will be a simple alt fix and on the rd enjoying this fun little car asap again!

Now to hunt for a decent priced alt...

Bichon

As jadu said, those are the classic symptoms of an alternator failure on this car. Depending on the age and condition of the battery, all of those deep discharges may cause it to fail too.

Icy350

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Congrats on yor purchase, hopefully you get this resolved without any additional headaches.

Gville350

iTrader: (10)

Being a '06 IS350 owner that went through an alternator failure, I can agree your symptoms do have me leaning that direction as well.

IS3504life

Thanks everyone!!!! I will test my battery this eve first, and I have an alt on standbuy!!!

Thanks again for the quick responses everyone!

Gville350

iTrader: (10)

FYI, a bad alternator can quickly make a good battery go bad. If your battery is nearing its end of useful life, might want to consider a new battery as well.

IS3504life

For sure. I'll be replacing both while I give it a complete once over in the shop.

SeanO

iTrader: (1)

Welcome to CL.

Here's my 2010 IS 350.

IS3504life

They're such a sexy class car. My 2 last Bimmers were black as well. Looks awesome SeanO

I'm actually out in Manitoba now, would love to find a Lexus club to cruz with!!!!

IS3504life

Alternator changed, running like a dream!

Now next issue in question?

Only getting power to my drivers side window, none of the others including my sunroof are getting any power?

Thx in advance everyone!

Bichon

They need to be re-initialized after disconnecting the battery. The solution is in our FAQ that is stickied to the top of the forum. I'll link the relevant thread here: https://www.clublexus.com/forums/is-...isconnect.html

IS3504life

Awesome thx Bichon!!!!