The three things I wish the IS 500 had that my NX had is power folding mirrors, power liftgate/trunk, puddle lights on the door handles pointing down as you approach the car, and keyless entry on all four doors. No excuse for a nearly $70k vehicle to not have these things when my $42k NX had all that.

 

Yeah, but did your NX have the V8?? I'm very happy with mine as is, but I could have wished for real leather seats if I wanted to be picky.

 

could any body help me please, where the other connections connected at ?


found another shape, from Japan too!

 

The price difference between the Nx and the IS 500 is nearly $30k... I'm sure the V8 isn't worth a $30k bump in price and yet not include basic things like power mirrors, power lift trunk, and outside puddle lights. I love my car too but come on!

 

Hi Nigel and all,
I thought the issue might be due to the different mirror dimensions. I did the same as our friend who bought his mirror from Japan. I thought it would be an easy swap, but it wasn’t at all. because I bought a different color and had to swap everything internally and not only the outside plastics.
The Auto function isn’t working either, as you mentioned. I bought the control unit from a used 2014 Lexus and only used the necessary buttons and the internal control panel, have you found any solution for the Auto function? Also, what does JDM mean?

I used all the internal parts from the original mirror except the actuator mount, I was surprised that it did not fold all the way.
I used my original glass mirror so I had to cut the two wires that goes to Auto dim from left to the right side as we only have driver side dim.

please let me know if any solution for the Auto function and the folding angle, finally if how to calibrate the 360 view camera, they need calibration after reinstallation. I know how to get there Menu bottom + three tuns of the light control lever but it is too difficult to calibrate, I missed up everything.

 

Agree completely. It's lexus being dumb with options. My wife's NX cost $50 something, my RCF was $82k. How are they NOT going to put power folding mirrors on the car when you can get a honda that is $30k have power folding mirrors...etc. Lexus is so silly with what they do half the time. It's really annoying. Do I like my car, yes, for sure. Silly things like the "all weather package" which includes the heated windshield and washer fluid on the headlights, was something like a $100 option. Why not just add it from the factory and charge $150 more for the car. Seems so silly some of the options just aren't part of the total package with a vehicle.


JDM means Japanese Domestic Market.
Same with EDM - European Domestic Market,
USDM- United States Domestic Market

From what I gather Auto will NOT work. At least on the two platforms that I retrofitted mirrors to, the auto function doesn't work since it was never a native option in the states. My CT that I retrofitted mirrors to, I also used everything from my mirror housing except for the JDM power actuator. They were bolt in though so it wasn't a big deal. i did find a module that folds/unfolds the mirrors when I lock/unlock the vehicle. I have found no such module to work with my RCF.

For the dimming, you probably could have just gotten the passenger side module and had dimming feature as well. Someone on the earlier IS group retrofitted power folding mirrors and in fact did get both mirrors to auto dim.

For calibration of the cameras, I would imagine that's something you'd just run through some initiation through TechStream. Find someone that has it and take a look. That other connector in your other post/picture is probably for the camera inside the mirror, yes? I don't have that on either of my cars, but every Lexus that I've seen that has the 360' camera system has cameras in the mirrors and those are the connectors for them.

-Nigel

 

will never work . I have seen many cars were they install the Auto function when they all have the folding function only.
by module, you mean the black square computer ASSY outer mirror control ? I thought that would work but then I saw less wires coming to the module so I though it is missing the wire the connect the auto dim to the sensor in the back view mirror and the module would be expensive too.

the auto dim is not good anyway compare to the previous Toyota Avalon I had 2011 were is darken very good. now it is only darken well in the inside mirror.

IS 500 almost the perfect car (regardless the gearbox )but those small tiny thing really is ruining my experience even though that they are silly. the IS almost have everything AUTO.

by the way, here in the GCC market (Gulf countries, Saudi, Kuwait, UAE..etc) we have folding but no 360 view camera and heating for the out side mirror.

I am thinking to move my Lexus to Europe if my car would pass the their strict regulation ( they offer me to have my car under 10 years Lexus relax warranty ) hopefully they will help me there, I will try to formate the compute and transform the car to have everything in the infotainment system EDM. currently almost most of the future are not working for me as my car is from USA (no maps for example).

so sad to here that the Auto function might never work.

 

I am checking with the seller if it could work for my car.

would it possibly work for your RC

https://www.ebay.com/itm/37443931542...E3YJAKXG3R9M8J

 

any update on it working for the IS500

 

i posted part numbers and have done mine, look for my post

 

Bump, saw guys doing this on the Facebook pages. Can’t find them on there. Need to do it on my IS500.