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00 ls400 airbags deployed off a pothole, shift lockout

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Old 07-05-23, 01:33 PM
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Default 00 ls400 airbags deployed off a pothole, shift lockout

Hit a evil pothole on the highway going about 80 which deployed the airbags, pulled over and couldnt get the car in park to get out and take a breather, wasnt aware of the manual release at the time and just drove home ears still ringing, the car wont go into park without using the manual release and locks itself in park when you get it there, any ideas? it also blew the seatbelt tensioners, blew the sub and threw the vsc code, how do i get her back to normal
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Holy **** are you okay? The bad news is, 99 times out of 100 the car is totaled. Good luck finding new bags + trim + rebuild tensioner if you try and repair it yourself.

How slammed are you to cause the impact to be that bad... The chassis must have impacted the ground to set the sensors off. The car will probably never align straight again. Are your wheels okay? I can't believe you slammed hard enough to deploy airbags, but not blow out your tires\wheels.

I mean you can always just drive the car with no airbags, but like... Your funeral.

VSC my bet is probably wheel speed sensors and\or something else that got knocked off. Can scan the car to find stored codes.

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Old 07-05-23, 04:06 PM
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i would say im not too low but im pretty low, probably 2 inch clearance, the wheels are fine, and i plan to just drive without airbags. would just like to figure out the shifter lock out and then fix the tensioners
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It's literally the first result if you had taken the 10 seconds to google search:

https://www.clublexus.com/forums/ls-...hift-lock.html
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i actually did find and read that thank you very much but it doesnt relate to my problem at all, as my brake lights all are responsive and brake pressure switch is fine, mine happened as a direct response to the airbags deploying
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