Hmm. Good thought on rebuildable sensors. My 4R height sensors finally started to fail. There were corroded. Parts were so hard to find. OEM was too much so I junked the who air rear and went with aftermarket springs. Land Cruiser wasn’t this way, they used a hydraulic system so maybe.

 

A friend of mine just bought a Telluride a couple weeks ago. He contacted a bunch of dealers around me and all wanted at least a couple grand markup and I told him not to do it since he didn’t need a car, only wanted one. He finally found a dealer that wasn’t marking it up at Jones Kia in Bel Air. I’m sure if you called around there will be others that are selling at MSRP.

 

I will call them! There’s a dealer in Morgantown WV that’s selling at MSRP too, that’s the one I was trying to think of

 

3 lefts make a right.....

 

It's negated by the lack of a zig-zag shifter, though, right?

 

Zig zag didn’t exist for Lexus at that time. The second gen had it. Some say the second generation LS interior was better than the first, maybe the zig zag shifter had a part in that. (If you believe that)

 

Might want to just buy a new sensor assembly. Downright insane price for what is essentially a potentiometer, a few brackets and an end link with no carrying capacity whatsoever (still better than a spare wiper blade that costs more than a whole new wiper ) but it should practically last the lifetime of the vehicle. Of course, if you weren't really using the air sus in the first place...

 

Actually, it's helped by the lack of the zigzag. Most Toyota (and Lexus) products of that period used a fore-aft PRNDL lever with a green N for Neutral and an orange R for reverse. A few GM products that were rebadged Toyotas also used that system.

 

Yeah very unlikely. Neither I nor my passenger would tip the balance.

Right. Just keep going on the circle you will get back to your departure instead of going back. Lol. I'm going to rotate to see. Still have some meat to burn too.

 

Like when we were kids riding the bus and thought if we all shift over to the right side of the bus in the middle of the driver making a left turn, we could make the bus tip over. We never tried it though....

 

When you're on small planes, yes, they ask you to seat at certain spots depending on your weight vs. others to keep the plane balanced.

 

I bet that original shifter was very, very nice to use, and solid. Regarding interior assembly, LS500 comes apart one handed in 30 seconds, while LS430 getting the dash off is a true project.

 

Seeing is believing

 

Just so I understand...high difficulty and therefore extremely high cost to service is now a desirable trait in a luxury car?

I mean....8 hours of labor to remove and reinstall the engine/transmission of a mid-engine exotic car for major service, I sort of get. But a similar amount of effort to remove/reinstall the dashboard to access something like a blower motor is somehow a good thing?

 

No, but taking apart a dash one handed of a $100,000+ car with that much ease is a tad disconcerting.

Guarantee a fan motor would cost more in that than an old LS anyway.