yuri.ber

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Long time since I posted something on the forum. I still have my 01 UL, it's actually has been 9 years since I bought it this September. Its been great with maintenance and needed repair but yesterday I had a very weird experience. Wanted to experience some triple digit speed on an empty stretch of I 81. When the needle reached 123mph the car stopped pulling for just half a second and as it reached 125mph a whole bunch of warning lights came on: ABS, check VSC, BRAKE (the red sighn that lights up when you press the handbrake) and the red warning triangle. While the lights were on the car did not loose power or ability to break or steer. Drove for another 20 minutes until I had to gas up. Shutting off the car, gassing up and buying something at the store took about 10 minutes. Restarting the car made all the light go away.
Never happened before. All maintenance up to date. No warning lights or codes.
Anyone has any idea what that might have been?

Johnhav430

I can't say definitively, never took the LS up that high, but I thought my brochure said the limit is 130 mph (the original tires were V rated which are good to 149 mph). Also, check VSC seems to be a generic Lexus warning from what I've read. Thing is, imho you don't want to lose abs and stability at that speed.

If this were a German car, I would venture the ABS/stability pump is on the way out, or an ABS sensor has gone bad, but I don't think it's the case with the LS. Also, on a German car one would plug in to read the shadow codes, even though the warnings have gone away.

d1gital

Dont think that this is it, I've taken my 01(not UL however) to 135 with no problems.