BinaryJay

I posted in another sunshade thread but I should have posted here. Does anybody have any idea what they have to do to the car to replace the sun shade motor that makes it so expensive? They told me 7 hours of labor for this!

rominl

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7 hrs?! wow, i wonder if that's their random quotes or it's indeed from the bulletin. i guess at most i imagine taking apart the trunk lining, rear seats, and rear deck. 7 hrs sounds like a lot of time

MI350_55

It comes in handy when I have my kid in the back. Gives a little more shade for him. Thanks for the heads up though.

BinaryJay

I'm not sure why they would make it up, considering I'm not giving them a cent to fix it. It does seem excessive though... I hope while they're tearing the car apart they don't do more bad than good and leave me with a rattling mess when I pick it up. One would hope that going back in there and forcing them to tighten everything up, and hopefully, look up and apply any TSIBs related to the area while they're in there, would leave it better than new... trying to stay positive.

It would be a cold day in hell when I would actually pay that much to have it fixed. If it ever goes again and I can't get it fixed for nothing I am just going to jam the thing shut, take out the fuse responsible for it (hopefully there is a dedicated one) and pretend it doesn't exist.

I'll use it for whatever period of time these repairs are usually warranted for (any ideas? the car is out of comprehensive already so any warranty would be on the repair work itself) and then I'm never touching it again except to just roll it up and down a few times a season just to make sure all the parts stay greased up. I would like to actually benefit from the feature, as it's a nice one especially for when I put kids in the back, but the prospect of usage breaking it again doesn't sit well with me. It scares me as if I were to ever trade the car in in the future and it's broken, they would dock a crazy amount off the trade-in value right off the bat over it.

I hope what they do is just replace the whole assembly, which is probably parts compatible with later years (GS350 etc.) and which one would hope has gone through a revision or two to prevent it from happening again. If it costs Lexus 7 hours of labor to fix it, I'm sure that they have put some thought into the design by now.

dunnojack

lexus put a time bomb in all the expensive parts.