My new car
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Thanks for such a warm welcome guys!! I haven't picked it up yet as it's in a state far far away. But I can't wait to begin the road trip with it. I'm already planning to repair the wind issue. It seems pretty easy. Who all has done it themselves?? Did it resolve for you?
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Yes I did. I happened to be in town for a football game when I was looking. It drove like a bunker floating in marshmallow clouds. No leak evidence on any of the air shocks. As I said, I couldn't tell it wasn't a brand new one on the show
room floor. Maybe 3 tiny scratches on the entire car. All of which should polish right out. I'll fly back out next week and drive 11 hours back home. Should be an easy drive and I can't wait!!
room floor. Maybe 3 tiny scratches on the entire car. All of which should polish right out. I'll fly back out next week and drive 11 hours back home. Should be an easy drive and I can't wait!!
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Thanks for such a warm welcome guys!! I haven't picked it up yet as it's in a state far far away. But I can't wait to begin the road trip with it. I'm already planning to repair the wind issue. It seems pretty easy. Who all has done it themselves?? Did it resolve for you?
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Just to be clear: Not all of the cars had the wind noise problem. If your car doesn't have a problem, you shouldn't be fixing on it. The cars are so exceptionally quiet, when all is well, there should be little possibility that you will think that you have a problem when you don't. If you think your car may have a wind noise problem, then it probably does.
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Radar-controlled cruise control:
I don't use CC much as it is, but even though I drive at or just over the posted speed limit (depending on what posted is), I run a Valentine 1. I do not want anything interfering with it. Plus, I know I'm smoother than any cruise control, as I can see terrain/traffic changes before it can.
It's more a personal thing, really. I consider the best cruise control I've ever had on a car is the electric, not vacuum, cruise on the '89 W126 (S-class) Mercedes and the '95 W124 (E-class) Mercedes. Super smooth.
Best of all time, however, is that which is on the Freightliner XC-chassis motorcoach we have. Air-actuated, and even with the batteries disconnected for months at at time, the computer remembers where I set it, last (58.5 MPH). It will not kick off unless speed drops below 25 MPH, IIRC, and long before then, I'm all over the lack of velocity thing.
Driving a 40' long, almost 30K lb. machine, which is towing another 4,500 lb. '98 Grand Cherokee 5.9L behind it (making the combo about 58' long) absolutely demands you pay attention to almost imperceptible changes in terrain.
Regardless, the best CC is, IMO, a constant throttle input, not necessarily a constant speed.
I don't use CC much as it is, but even though I drive at or just over the posted speed limit (depending on what posted is), I run a Valentine 1. I do not want anything interfering with it. Plus, I know I'm smoother than any cruise control, as I can see terrain/traffic changes before it can.
It's more a personal thing, really. I consider the best cruise control I've ever had on a car is the electric, not vacuum, cruise on the '89 W126 (S-class) Mercedes and the '95 W124 (E-class) Mercedes. Super smooth.
Best of all time, however, is that which is on the Freightliner XC-chassis motorcoach we have. Air-actuated, and even with the batteries disconnected for months at at time, the computer remembers where I set it, last (58.5 MPH). It will not kick off unless speed drops below 25 MPH, IIRC, and long before then, I'm all over the lack of velocity thing.
Driving a 40' long, almost 30K lb. machine, which is towing another 4,500 lb. '98 Grand Cherokee 5.9L behind it (making the combo about 58' long) absolutely demands you pay attention to almost imperceptible changes in terrain.
Regardless, the best CC is, IMO, a constant throttle input, not necessarily a constant speed.
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I don't think his car has the DVD system. He didn't mention it anywhere. Although it seems like most cars as heavily optioned as his would normally have that option also...
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Radar-controlled cruise control:
I don't use CC much as it is, but even though I drive at or just over the posted speed limit (depending on what posted is), I run a Valentine 1. I do not want anything interfering with it. Plus, I know I'm smoother than any cruise control, as I can see terrain/traffic changes before it can.
I don't use CC much as it is, but even though I drive at or just over the posted speed limit (depending on what posted is), I run a Valentine 1. I do not want anything interfering with it. Plus, I know I'm smoother than any cruise control, as I can see terrain/traffic changes before it can.
rssumme - I bought the same model as you, all but the Executive. Mine is a 2010 model. When I drove it away, it had 13,800 miles. It now has 26k! Mine is Charcoal Granite (I think that's the name of the color) same as yours, but mine has dark tinted windows and 19" chrome 5 spokes. See my Avatar. Get you some 4LS Exhaust Vents on it and you'll be tickled silly every time you crank it!!!
Congrats on such a good find and great car!!!
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This one does not have a rear screen/DVD option. I assumed it came only with the executive option. I will be adding something after market though because I have 2 nine year olds. (:
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Mckellyb - I haven't ran my Valentine 1 in my LS (yet). But I hear the radar CC does not set it off. However, if it does, there's a very simple solution already built in! Instead of pulling backward on the cruise stalk which cancels cruise, you push the opposite way (forward) and the cruise control system switches to traditional cruise mode ... NO RADAR! I run it on traditional most of the time, because the radar cruise, even at maximum following distance reacts later than I do. But I am using it more and more, because you never know when another driver may do something erratic, and I may have glanced off the instance before. Then the system would have a reaction maybe before I would.
rssumme - I bought the same model as you, all but the Executive. Mine is a 2010 model. When I drove it away, it had 13,800 miles. It now has 26k! Mine is Charcoal Granite (I think that's the name of the color) same as yours, but mine has dark tinted windows and 19" chrome 5 spokes. See my Avatar. Get you some 4LS Exhaust Vents on it and you'll be tickled silly every time you crank it!!!
Congrats on such a good find and great car!!!
7milesout
rssumme - I bought the same model as you, all but the Executive. Mine is a 2010 model. When I drove it away, it had 13,800 miles. It now has 26k! Mine is Charcoal Granite (I think that's the name of the color) same as yours, but mine has dark tinted windows and 19" chrome 5 spokes. See my Avatar. Get you some 4LS Exhaust Vents on it and you'll be tickled silly every time you crank it!!!
Congrats on such a good find and great car!!!
7milesout
What is a 4LS vent? Tell me more...
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https://www.clublexus.com/forums/cl-...ust-vents.html
Makes it a little louder. Some love it but I like my LS460L to be quiet. Nice ride by the way! Great find!
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Makes it a little louder. Some love it but I like my LS460L to be quiet. Nice ride by the way! Great find!
Makes it a little louder. Some love it but I like my LS460L to be quiet. Nice ride by the way! Great find!
Your white color with tinted windows is just THE BOSS!
