Does anyone have a picture of the low speed pedestrian speaker?
I checked under the shroud in front of the radiator. The pt # for the module, that looks like a "pack of cigarettes" on the drivers side, decifers as the cabin air filter smog detection module.
there is another module below the bumper that also looks like a speaker.

Any info would help.
Thanks in advance
Bob

 

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Looks like this:

 

it's definitely more ear piercing than in my CT and Prius... like why does it have to be that loud. normal ICE cars aren't even that loud driving by.

isn't it the one you can see if you look into the grill standing in front of the car? i haven't bothered to "test" to see if that's where the noise is coming from.

on the CT and Prius it's at the front grill.

 

Yes, it's annoyingly loud and I get a lot of strange looks. I had to explain to a neighbor the first time I backed it out of the garage that "no my new car isn't broken." I would love to ask the design team why they thought it should sound like a cat caught in the fan belt when on battery. Why not emulate normal engine sounds? I should point out that our new RX sounds about the same so this is just the new "sound" that Lexus wants to represent their hybrids.

 

It really makes no sense to me why it's louder than a regular engine.. Of all the engineers at Lexus/Toyota, the best they could come up with is a cheap piercing mp3 spaceship sound.