for when yoy want to wash your headlights when your headlights are off, as in during the day....

 

I also keep forgetting to test the headlamp washers as well. I also always say I will try them when I wash the car but always forget. I guess for most of us that keep our cars clean it is a feature that will rarely get used. Hopefully on my next road trip I can test it

 

honestly headlamp washers are pointless. i dont see any reason to use them unless they were completely covered in snow. they dont remove dried dirt from snowy roads at all.

my understanding is that they are heated?? headlamps washers. how long will it take for it to heat up, and melt the snow off my headlights before i can get moving?

 

umm really? i really need to check, last time i pushed that button i didn't recall anything happened.

if that's the setup, that's pretty dumb

 

oh wait...i retract that statement. the button only works when the headlights are on. if the headlights are off, then the button does not work.

so i guess you have to have your headlights on in order to use the washers...but the thing is some people i guess only want to wash their windshield, or only want to wash their headlights.

 

oh that might be why then, maybe my headlights were off!

 

The headlight washers are present in US makes of the LS because European Union regulations require auto-leveling and headlight washers on all vehicles with HID headlamps.

I am not sure why, but it would seem they decided to maintain consistency and use the same setup abroad. I would imagine it would also be easier to keep them all the same as it is always possible for the US to adopt a requirement similar to the EU.

Just my 2 cents..

 

My ventilated seats seemed to have poor airflow, noticed others talking about the air filters which are right under the front bottom of each front seat. Check the manual defined the replacement process.

Mine are running cooler now, but nothing like when it was new.

 

Ah, interesting. The LS 430 had optional headlamp washers....and I read that the brake flashing light on hard braking is only on the Euro-spec LS 460.

 

It was an option, so much for that theory.. I live in florida and bugs are more of an issue and like with dirt, they aren't very useful.

 

Is it possible to get your trunk to close while inside the car?

 

simple answer -- nop

 

Sure you can close it while you're inside. Just send any of your passengers to do it for you.
If you're alone, just drive a while with the trunk open and when you see someone walking down the street, do a "shout-out" and they can close it for you. No need for advanced technology.

 

While driving with the rear sunshade deployed, it will close when the car is placed in reverse. The it will re-deploy once the car is put back into gear.
Pretty cool.

 

One of the things that annoyed me was the inability to rip .mp3 or .WMA files directly to the hard drive. But there's actually a really easy workaround.

I belong to a private audio hub, and it's got some pretty specific naming conventions and only allows full albums to be ripped.

So I simply converted all of the .mp3 files back to .CDA, which is what a normal audio CD uses. It ripped them back to .mp3 and kept everything in tact. I am assuming the same will happen if you convert a bunch of random .mp3 to .CDA and pop in the player, but I haven't tested it yet.