fergo308

Each time you press the 'on' button the speed will change. from memory,there are about 15 different speeds to choose from.


Justin...

jayclapp

It is popular for some to change out the interior light bulbs to increase the lighting. Here's the sequence designed into the 04 UL with keyless ignition. Notice that it is very subtle, intending to provide proper lighting without offending the driver or passengers.

When approaching the locked car with headlights set to auto:
1. The mirror puddle lights and the front overhead cabin light illuminate.
2. When touching the door handle, the floor lighting and interior door handles illuminate.
3. The rear overhead cabin light for each rear passenger illuminate separately and only when each door is opened. That lighting goes out when each door is closed.
4. When the driver closes his door, the front overhead cabin light will stay on for 15 seconds or until the ignition is turned to the on position, at which time the IP lighting will illuminate.

Cruisinthr

Holee! I've owned my LS for 10 years and I never knew this. Thanks for the tip!

fergo308

^^ Unfortunately,this doesn't change the volume of the beep for the key warning.

I've almost totally muted the lock/unlock beep using the volume control,but when I get out of the car to open or close the gate at my work,the 'key not detected' beep outside of the car is still at full volume,and audible from 50+M away.


Justin...

jayclapp

It's almost a shame that the LS is so sophisticated that it takes a 536 page manual to describe all the functions. It's virtually impossible to sit down, read through, and remember everything you've read. And it would take hours, maybe even days, to sit in the car and experience each feature. Oh, and then there's the 200 page or so manual for the nav system.

Love it anyway.

GLIDESUL

Ul owners if infant is whining put baby in back seat of car safely. Turn on massager and walaa fast asleep.

ezsailor

Does anyone have the list of customized options? (rather than go to the dealer and make the decision on the spot)

Carnut

some things you may not know I am not sure they pertain to all ls430's

1.) Ask a dealer to print out a list of the variables that can be set to your preference by them.

2.) There is a sliding drawer under the driver/passenger seat.

3.) “Hidden” trunk release button near the rear license plate.

4.)There's a rotary **** underneath driver's side dash that adjust the loudness of the beep when you lock and unlock your car

5.)You can adjust the maximum setting of steering wheel adjustment. With the steering wheel in all the way up (down; retracted; extended) click the **** 8 times in the same direction, it will extend the steering wheel even further. It does save setting and is helpful to large/small drivers.

6.)Lexus dealer can control the amount of doors that open with regard to the smart key.

7.)You can get the windows/sunroof to open while holding the unlock button on your remote. Leave the ignition off and sit inside. With the master remote in your hand hold down the lock and trunk buttons at the same time. On the display it will cycle through three setup options. One of those options is to open all of the doors.

8.)Head lights will turn off if you press Lock on the key twice

9.)Command List for voice navigation
http://www.vfaq.net/docs/Prius_NAV_Voice_commands.html

10.)When you put the L/R mirror on and you put your car on reverse, the mirrors turn downwards allowing you to see the floor behind.

11.)If you hold the unlock button on the remote down for more than 2seconds all the windows roll down.

12.)SMOG Filter: hold down the 'recirculate air' button a few seconds (its the button with three settings (outside/AUTO/inside) on the left of the NAVI screen), and the Smog filter settings will come up; you can adjust how sensitive your LS should be to smog. (Note: car must be stopped for this function to work).

13.)NAVI screen color: go to Options>Information>Screen Setting and there's a choice of colors. (04+)

14.)Smartkey: If you leave the key inside the car and try to lock the vehicle using the door buttons it can detect the key is inside the car and warns you with a long beep ...how does it know whether the key is just inside the door or just outside in your pocket? Beats me.

15.)Smartkey (2): You can assign seat setting presets to each individual key (husband and wife for example) by pairing a key with a seat position preset button (1, 2 or 3). From then on whenever that key unlocks the car the seat will automatically adjust to the right position without having to press the seat memory button.

16.)Bluetooth Phone: You can get around the "can't dial when the car is moving" problem by simply dialing the number from the phone in your pocket - it will still come through hands-free once the connection is made.

17.)Bluetooth Phone (2): If you have a PDA that uses your bluetooth phone to sync it won't work while the phone is connected to the car. To get around this temporarily you can tell the car to try to connect to a different phone that you have previously paired (just borrow one for this purpose). As it attempts to pair with the other phone (the other phone doesn't have to be present for this to happen) it will release the current phone and therefore allow you to sync your PDA. Just reverse the process to pair the phone with the car again afterwards.

18.)Bluetooth Phone (3): If you switch off the car during a handsfree conversation the phone will offer you option of transferring the call back to your phone to continue it (works on Sony Ericsson T610 at least).

19.)Door Storage Pockets: You can actually pull these and they will swing outwards 45 degrees to more easily get to items.

20.)Incline parking safety feature
If your LS 430 is parked on a slope, and the front wheels are not angled properly (such as in the direction of the slope), your LS 430 ignition WILL NOT WORK. The car automatically locks up the ignition, and the car will not start until you have reoriented the front wheels. This can occur on a slight incline of around 15 degrees, and all the way likely to 40. 45 degrees...To resolve the ignition lockup (and indeed, no amount of twisting or key-insertion will turn the ignition on), one must have one's foot on the brake, rotate the front wheels from side to side, until a safe wheel angle is achieved. Then, turn the ignition slowly; if it is still stuck, redo the wheels. Once the car has detected a safe wheel position, the car ignition will work normally and you can drive off--safely.

21.)NAVI Memory Point Chimes
Assign an icon to your memory point, which will take you to the icon selection menu---there you can select 'special icons' which emit chimes when you approach your destination.

Lorier

You can set how many doors your smart key opens by holding down lock button with trunk button.

joerogan

good info guys

masterff

You can do this yourself, enter the car make sure it's unlocked and the ignition is off, press and hold the lock and trunk buttons together, this will then show a display on the dash indicating which doors are set to unlock when you press the unlock button.


You can have just the drivers door unlock and all the rest lock, just the drivers side of the car unlock, or have all the doors unlock.

asdf0123

Any idea on how to save this???

amillion

I couldn't get the Navi override to work. Is this only on the UL models?

Gene01

Nav override -
It depends on which Generation and Version of the Nav software you have (same for all packages that have Nav - not dependent on UL).
What year is your LS430? This will determine which Generation of nav is installed.
Version 5.1 was the last one which permitted the nav "override". The lawyers had it removed in version 6.1 and later.

jrnevils

I like the little roll of fabric between the front seats and console to keep small items from falling down in between.