View Poll Results: Crawl / MTS - model year/trim upgrade survey
2010 - Base - Added Crawl
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2011 - Base - Added Crawl
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2011 - Premium (stock Crawl) - Added MTS
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2012 - Base - Added Crawl
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2012 - Premium (stock Crawl) - Added MTS
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2014 Base - Added Crawl
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2015 Base - Added Crawl
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2015 Premium - Added Crawl
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2016 Base - Added Crawl
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2016 Premium - Added Crawl
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2017 Base - Added Crawl
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2017 Premium - Added Crawl
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2017 Luxury - Added Crawl/MTS
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2018 Base - Added Crawl
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2018 Luxury - Added Crawl
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2019 Base - Added Crawl
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2019 Premium - Added Crawl
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2019 Luxury - Added Crawl
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2019 Luxury - Added Crawl/MTS
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MOD: Crawl Control (CC) and Multi Terrain Select (MTS)
#841
Racer
Congrats. The best icons on the dash
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ltsr (03-07-19)
#842
Driver School Candidate
#844
Driver School Candidate
Awesome thanks for that! Sorry if that was repetitive. Time to research amazon techstream. Love the forum members here , much better crowd than others I’ve been around.
#845
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07GD99TDK/ref=ya_aw_od_pi?ie=UTF8&psc=1
#846
#847
Driver School Candidate
I'm installing my MTS module right now. The hardest part for me was the knee airbag trim at the bottom. Getting it unclipped is tricky and takes some elbow grease and finesse without breaking anything. Once that's off there's the two bolts for the glovebox behind the trim, one of the left and one on the right. The bolt for the actual module was on extremely tight. It took a 12v impact wrench for me to loosen it. Overall it's a pretty straight forward process especially if you have experience removing trim and tinkering with stuff like that.
Edit: Successful install of MTS on a 2010 base. Order was placed on Feb 14 from Motors Head Japan and shipped on Feb 21. Item arrived at my door eleven days later on March 4th. Total with shipping was $139.73.
Edit: Successful install of MTS on a 2010 base. Order was placed on Feb 14 from Motors Head Japan and shipped on Feb 21. Item arrived at my door eleven days later on March 4th. Total with shipping was $139.73.
Last edited by bambam2; 03-07-19 at 03:07 PM.
#848
Racer
While you're there, if you have Break Glass Sensor module, it's a good time to adjust that to level 9 or so.
I'm installing my MTS module right now. The hardest part for me was the knee airbag trim at the bottom. Getting it unclipped is tricky and takes some elbow grease and finesse without breaking anything. Once that's off there's the two bolts for the glovebox behind the trim, one of the left and one on the right. The bolt for the actual module was on extremely tight. It took a 12v impact wrench for me to loosen it. Overall it's a pretty straight forward process especially if you have experience removing trim and tinkering with stuff like that.
#849
Super Moderator
Thread Starter
I guess I always seemed to pass over this MTS info in owner's manual in regards to braking enhancement off-road.
Page 335 of my '12 owner's manual.
200 Series but I assume quite similar.
"Multi-terrain Anti-lock Brake System (Multi-terrain ABS)
The multi-terrain ABS operates in conjunction with multi-terrain select control. This function detects off-road driving in sand, mud, gravel, dirt and so on based on signals from the yaw rate and acceleration sensor, the speed sensor and the ECM, and then automatically switches to the ABS control most appropriate for the current road conditions."
Page 335 of my '12 owner's manual.
200 Series but I assume quite similar.
"Multi-terrain Anti-lock Brake System (Multi-terrain ABS)
The multi-terrain ABS operates in conjunction with multi-terrain select control. This function detects off-road driving in sand, mud, gravel, dirt and so on based on signals from the yaw rate and acceleration sensor, the speed sensor and the ECM, and then automatically switches to the ABS control most appropriate for the current road conditions."
Last edited by Acrad; 03-07-19 at 03:00 PM.
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hzhao (03-07-19)
#850
I became part of the MTS crowd today! Install was actually very easy...if you follow the directions. I thought for some reason I could just take off part of the trim and not do the whole knee airbag removal...wrong LOL. once I followed the directions to take the trim off (which pops off very easily surprisingly enough), the rest was very simple. Thanks to everyone for all the work here. I did unhook the battery (not sure if everyone else did or if i needed too?), but first attempt to start the truck was a failure, second time it started super rough and computer did a reboot and the MTS was there (if that helps anyone else).
Now trying to decide if I want to do Crawl or not? I use apple products and I don't think tech stream is compatible? I know I can do paper clip method, but wondering how useful the mod has been? thanks for everyone's help here, great forum!
Now trying to decide if I want to do Crawl or not? I use apple products and I don't think tech stream is compatible? I know I can do paper clip method, but wondering how useful the mod has been? thanks for everyone's help here, great forum!
#851
Super Moderator
Thread Starter
Congrats. Yeah... that first stall after a battery disconnect happened to me when I replaced my battery last year or so. I have heard others experience as well. Possible something related to reset of the TPS but I can't remember offhand. I know not best practice but I just swapped mine with vehicle turned off. On running TS on an Mac I've heard of people successfully running it on a Windows VM under Parallels. You would have to snag an old copy of Windows XP or 10 though.
#853
Super Moderator
Thread Starter
MTS is basically variable ratio ATRAC that lets you also run Mud/Sand mode in 4H. You can tell throttle mapping is also changed with the different MTS modes.
Unfortunate they never included this in US as Canadian Executive model has MTS along with the front console cool box, "full length" fuel tank skid, driver side camera which also enable Multi-Terrain monitor and a supplemental air cooled AT cooler.
https://www.lexus.ca/lexus/en/build-price/gx#/packages
Unfortunate they never included this in US as Canadian Executive model has MTS along with the front console cool box, "full length" fuel tank skid, driver side camera which also enable Multi-Terrain monitor and a supplemental air cooled AT cooler.
https://www.lexus.ca/lexus/en/build-price/gx#/packages
#854
Racer
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Acrad (03-09-19)
#855
I became part of the MTS crowd today! Install was actually very easy...if you follow the directions. I thought for some reason I could just take off part of the trim and not do the whole knee airbag removal...wrong LOL. once I followed the directions to take the trim off (which pops off very easily surprisingly enough), the rest was very simple. Thanks to everyone for all the work here. I did unhook the battery (not sure if everyone else did or if i needed too?), but first attempt to start the truck was a failure, second time it started super rough and computer did a reboot and the MTS was there (if that helps anyone else).
Now trying to decide if I want to do Crawl or not? I use apple products and I don't think tech stream is compatible? I know I can do paper clip method, but wondering how useful the mod has been? thanks for everyone's help here, great forum!
Now trying to decide if I want to do Crawl or not? I use apple products and I don't think tech stream is compatible? I know I can do paper clip method, but wondering how useful the mod has been? thanks for everyone's help here, great forum!
Congrats. Yeah... that first stall after a battery disconnect happened to me when I replaced my battery last year or so. I have heard others experience as well. Possible something related to reset of the TPS but I can't remember offhand. I know not best practice but I just swapped mine with vehicle turned off. On running TS on an Mac I've heard of people successfully running it on a Windows VM under Parallels. You would have to snag an old copy of Windows XP or 10 though.