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[ambermarine]

Hi fellow Lexuns

I am just back from my annual Florida trip,the weather here is a lot cooler than there but only recently, it was the same temp back in February or felt like it.There is definitly a change going on in the winter weather down there.

Anyway just small snipit of info, whilst I was there I used my time to go into Scanlon Lexus in Fort Myers southwest Florida I have nether seen as many Lexus cars in one forecourt ,back lot, anywhere they could park them ,must have been five hundred.This outfit are not the biggest dealer either, they are further south at Germain Lexus Naples.

I digress, the need to replace a squeaking Serpentine belt took me to the Fort Myers dealer and I was asked was the the belt being fitted to a UK car after the spares guy spotted my Brit accent, I said yes and he informed me officially he could'nt supply the item on that basis.

I was advised to change my mind and state it was being fitted to a US imported vehicle so he could sell me the item.

The case is that the dealerships are not allowed to sell parts that are being exported from the US.

This I can only assume is a federal law as it would make no difference to Lexus if the part was paid for and local taxes were added.

Just another item to mention regarding my LS I reconnected the Battery yesterday after ten weeks stood and the car started up first time the usual adjustments were made abs vsc etc and I switched her off.

I started her up ten minutes later and the revs died off after initial start and the engine stopped .I restarted and the same thing happened it would not idle.I restarted and revved the engine for a about twenty seconds and everything was fine it dropped into 600 revs and stayed there .It as been fine since so I can only assume that the ecu had lost some info whilst stood and needed rebooting it as never happened before on any of my Lexus cars so it is unusual.

[Scribe]

Ambermarine, I remember this problem being discussed before.  I had a version of it after my Battery was recharged and reconnected.  The revs would occasionally drop at idle to the point where the engine almost cut out, but after a day or two this stopped and it has been fine ever since.

[Titch LS]

I had that near-to-stalling and very low revs on my Mk4 some time back. That was Battery related too if I recall.  Must be a Lexus rebooting/resetting thing. After a while dash lights went off and all settled down to normal.

[ColinBarber]

On 29 March 2016 at 2:48 PM, ambermarine said:

This I can only assume is a federal law as it would make no difference to Lexus if the part was paid for and local taxes were added.

I'm not so sure. More likely that Lexus are putting pressure on US dealers selling parts for international shipping which is affecting sales in-country.