goodoldgrandad

It does fit perfectly the shape and contour of the number plate area. I've got straight, cut, and large squarish ones when I want a change - but the arounded corners are a bit different.

Probably would look better with your own registration number on !!!

Photo just to prove it fits !!

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If anyone needs a new rear number plate for their Aristo Mk 2 then I've found that the standard Jaguar S-Type shaped plate fits perfectly with the rounded corners. :D

I bought a set (front and rear) from Demon Plate for £31, which were delivered to me the next day in the post. Their web-site is www.demonplates.com but I guess many local car part store will also stock the S-Type plate.

Yes - I think it was cold, damp, and maybe just a natural build up of dirt. Anyway, a quick spray of the magic juice and the mechanism's fully working a treat.

I've tried sorting out the speaker connections and my hands-free kit with no luck. The Aristo Mk2 amplifier is as the previous drawings/information and is a none standard 10 way connector. The ISO connection on my hands-free kit is a standard ISO connector, which is 8 way. I can't get an adaptor cable anywhere, and Lexus/Toyota dealers are unable to help.

The ISO connectors assumes you have 4 speakers (front right, front left, rear right, and rear left) - the Aristo (and GS300) have these plus the 5th front central dashboard speaker. Other than cutting and splicing in the new cable wiring and disconnecting the centre speaker all together (or leaving it on permanently) there appears to be no simple way to fit this type of hands free kit.

I don't like bodging up wiring - so the hands free kit (unused) is going to be sold !!

ET will not be phoning home - or at least not from a moving car. :duh:

Thanks to the support of this club and members I've taken off the door trim and fixed the problem by simply using a bit of good old WD40 to lubricate the mechanism. The locks now work perfect every time.

The passenger door lock has stopped working automatically with the other doors (only locks with the key), so I guess the solenoid has gone inside the door panel. Anyone any tips of how to strip the door panel and check or replace the lock bits on a Mk 2 Aristo?

If you have always had the problem (even immediately after you fitted new discs and pads) then it is likely to be the ball joints if the wobble is noticable at all speeds of hard breaking. If the wobble improved after you first did the disk change but has since got worse then probably the discs have warped again.

Unless the pads and discs are matched then you can quite quickly end up with wheel wobbles (particularly if you are heavy on the breaks at high speed - the heat build up can quickly cause problems. Warping is not a sign of old age - it usually is a sign of how much punishment they have taken).

If you can find a straight flat piece of quiet road, at an appropriate speed try when breaking easing your hands off the steering wheel. If the car tries to pull one way then I'd check the ball joint, etc on that side first.

Oh dear - someone with a Mk1 to the rescue please.

Thanks - when I've saved my pennies for the alloys I'll let you know when I've booked it in for the breaks.

I suspect it is an Accessory fuse, but not sure for what exactly.

Thor have quoted me for something similar to your set up, but I need to get the alloys first - otherwise I won't be able to drive home !! I hadn't thought about the spare, so I'll have to sort something on that front as well.

Drivers side fuse box as follows (lid label as glued to back of inside the cover):

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UP

Washer (20A)------Fr Fog (15A)---------Tail (10A)---------SRC-ACC (15A)

Guage (10A)-----Fuel Opn (10A)-----D FR Door (20A)------Panel (7.5A)

Heater (10A)-------SRS-B (5A)-------D P/Seat (30A)------Radio No 2 (15A)

Wiper (25A)--------OBD (7.5A)---------STOP (15A)----------Cig (15A)

ECU-IG (15A)------Starter (5A)-----------IGN (5A)---------D RR Door (20A)

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Hopefully you are blowing the 15A radio fuse !!!

Thanks - that will help me pin-point the wiring back in to the harness loom.

Looks like you are getting over 3m rear disks - I suspect this will hit the wheel arches !!

Can I ask what size & fitting of wheels to have to clear the new callipers, etc. as I plan to have my breaks done in the Spring.

I had the stock Sat/Nav and Japanese TV system replaced with a Clarion UK system and Freeview reciever. This has a seperate control to dim or alter the dashboard brightness, but needed a hard wire to the lighting circuit to tell it when you had switched the lights on.

I just need time to sort out the wiring and mark it up.

The audio equipment in my Mk2 Aristo TT is all located in the boot (except the CD drive in the glovebox), but is a real nightmare to understand. Nothing has ISO connections. The main Toyota/Lexus amplifier is used but there is a seperate radio reciever box, sat nav unit, and TV reciever spliced in. More spagetti than a Clint Eastwood western !!

I think this will have to be a spring/summer job when I can get the car outside in daylight and trace through every wire. Sadly someone only had green and brown wire available for the hundred and one connections, and snipped out the original wiring colours.

The good news is I discovered a pair of quality Japanese pillers under there and an unconnected wire that was to dim the sat/nav display at night (which just needed connecting to the rear lights - so I'm not blinded now when I drive at night by the previous glare of the dashboard display). B)

I think many people have changed the standard chrome wheels to Lexus GS300 alloys (mine is) and removed the spoiler. The spoiler does make the boot heavy and prone to drop on your head in the slightest breeze - maybe someone got fed up with the danger of the shopping run !!

Someone said the TT Vertex version stopped in production before the MK2 GS300 finished. If it continued to the end was the TT transfered to the Mk3 as well?

Can anyone clear up the difference of opinion as to what date the Mk 2 Aristo V300 Vertex Twin Turbo stopped in production?

Yes - it's in the boot. I just need to figure out what's what and I post something back on here.

I could be sick as a Parrot if I can't find the right connections!!

I'll have a look around the boot and glovebox areas. I know there is a cellular phone speaker relay on the boot amp/reciever unit on the Lexus GS300, so I'll get my trusty meter out and do some prodding around to see if is the same on the V300.

If it's an alarm sound from the dashboard then its not the ball joint as this is an exteral metalic sound - the Aristo does have various safty features that bleeps (like reverse gear, etc). Traction Control could be just a dead bulb - worth cheeking first.

Father Christmas brought me a hands-free mobile phone kit (Parrot CK3100) to fit in to my Aristo Mk 2 V300. According to the "distructions" in the kit it needs to replace the ISO wiring on the plug/socket that connects the car radio to the car speakers in the car (so it can mute the radio/CD if on and the phone then sounds through the car speakers). My car has the integral radio/CD/Sat Nav/TV.

Has anyone any idea were the main connections for the speakers originate? :duh:

Having got the kit as a present I am aware that the Mk 3 GS300 have Blue Tooth phone override built in - you just need to know how the enble it and synchronise the equipment, so does anyone know if any provision was on the Mk 2 for in-car phone kits?

Thanks - it worked. Just with non-broadband I had time to make a cuppa, feed the dog, wash my hair, go shopping, and clean the car !!

Great information. Thanks guys.