Cd ?radio Faulty

[davydiver]

Hi and greeting to all ! I have just tried to FIX ? the cd player in my LS430 2003 ,It was simple to remove , and replace ,but it ends there. I found that on replacing it I now don't have the radio or sat nav or control of the climate working . I spoke to the main Lexus dealer who has serviced this car since I owned it ,his suggestion is to try and find a breakers that might have a replacement cd/radio unit ? he also said that the number shown on the front of the cassette flap has to be an exact match,mine is P3909

hope someone can help

Cheers

[Bluesman]

Hi David and welcome to the LOC, we are a
friendly bunch and some of us even know how to pull them to bits and
put them back together again, with of course the one bolt and washer
left over. I am no good in sorting you present problem but someone will be along shortly to help. Regards Mike.

[Womble72]

Try eBay, there's a company that recondition the units, there based in Brentwood Essex, on the doddinghurst area, very helpful, charged me £60 to recon my unit for my IS250, main dealer quoted £2k to replace, they do do postal too,

Hope this helps

[soundchaser100]

Sounds like you left a plug out on the back. I took the radio out of mine (2001 LS430) to try to fix the cd and left the plug off the bottom panel by mistake. This stopped the A/C from working and got me a warning message about checking that everything was plugged in. In the end I have opted to fit an I-pod adapter instead of using CDs.

Paul

[davydiver]

Thanks guys I took it out again to check that I had replaced all three plugs , which I had, I found that by leaving the middle black plug out I got the radio and the climate control back to full working order, I can live without the CD player ,but just obsessed with keeping my old ls430 in 100% new condition.

Suppose I will have to keep looking for a 2003 being broke with a unit witht he same prefix P3909 shown on the cassette flap!

Cheers and thanks

[soundchaser100]

There are only 2 plugs used but 3 sockets on the back of the radio. The black one plugs into the hazard warning switch!

Paul

[davydiver]

Thanks Paul, I will pick up courage to pull the thing out once again and check it out

Regards. Dave