No start after replacing some stuff
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Alright, so unfortunately this conclusion has left me very unsatisfied, i ended up taking the car to a lexus dealer and they told me it started but kept dying. After that they called 3 hours later and told me that its running just fine. I got there and asked the master tech about wtf happened and where i went wrong, the guy tells me "i didnt do anything, i opened up the car, saw that the plugs were flooded, cleaned the sparkplugs and reinstalled them, and the car started right up. The work you did was good and clean, it should have started" So now im just sitting here pissed lol
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Yea its good news for sure, shes runnin great, but just not knowing why it never started at my house got me tilted lol. They charged me for 2 diagnostics cuz it took em like 4 hours to diagnose, so my bill was 429 CAD
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I paid that exact $$$ (within 10-20) to get my front brakes sorted incl new caliper. if I lubed the pins in the fall, 1 caliper never would have failed.
honestly im just glad someone else took care of the problem because its easier than DIY. I'm sure overall you saved a LOT of money and maintained the car correstly.
I have to use CRC to clean my intakes this summer. I just do Redline or Chevron Techron every 5000 km but no idea if Im even slowing the carbon build up. I heard from a mechanic that my intakes were pretty dirty four years ago.
honestly im just glad someone else took care of the problem because its easier than DIY. I'm sure overall you saved a LOT of money and maintained the car correstly.
I have to use CRC to clean my intakes this summer. I just do Redline or Chevron Techron every 5000 km but no idea if Im even slowing the carbon build up. I heard from a mechanic that my intakes were pretty dirty four years ago.
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Ngl it wasnt too bad of a job, take off the intake flap thing and u get decent access. Make sure to have like a very long screw driver and a set of long picks to get around the valves, also a shop vac to suck out the crc fluid
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