Recent content by Odog2731

(Dad here)....Owen (my 16year old son) recently bought a 99 LX470. Long story short we were having trouble with the cam shaft that connects the key cylinder to the ignition switch. We finally got a replacement and we have tried putting it in 3 times with no luck. Currently everything works but...

(Dad here) We found the vehicle on cars.com. We actually flew to Huntsville and it was dark when we got there. The seller picked us up at the airport. We drove to a Shell gas station. A quick walk around the vehicle, signed some paperwork, paid the guy and we we on the road. Since Huntsville is...

Owen's dad here....we picked it up in Huntsville Alabama. We have another question. The large plastic pan that goes underneath this thing is in very rough shape (missing a big corner of it and generally beaten up). Is that something most people discard when doing light off-roading? If not...

It's definitely been awhile since my last update, I have done a little bit while I was gone though. I now have storage in the back that still need drwers on it but haven't gotten to that yet. I also put on the 2in Ironman lift which has made a huge difference with the car. Unfortunatly since we...

So the latest is we changed out the window switches on the driver door with no change to the parasitic drain. If we unplug the radio completely it drops by .3 amp. Is that what the radio should draw? That takes us down to .35 amp draw on that AM1 N.2 fuse as well as .3 amp on the ECU-B1 fuse...

this was more about the light on the dash vs the removal of the system

We are trying to trace a parasitic drain on the battery and we found 2 wires near the interior fuse block that are spiced by a previous owner. Brown with a green stripe. can you advise what those go to.

So we checked and the AHC control unit is unplugged. We also ordered a new switch unit for the driver's door. Any known issues with the cruise control as that seems to be one of the fuses with a drain.

Owen's dad here....I want to clear up a few things. We bought the vehicle from the original owner (pretty old guy). We found out the battery was changed right before we bought the vehicle which leads us to believe he was having the same issue. The radio is original and we pulled it to see if...

Yes as a teenager who knows next to nothing about cars its definetly a frustrating one. The stereo in the truck is not aftermarket. Not sure about the second question, and yes after we noticed the radio stays on I had made sure to turn it off everytime I turned off the car. Theres two other...

Thanks for the feedback I will take a look to where that leads to this weekend.

Here's another update, i'm still having trouble with my battery. I had thought that the drain might be normal and I just needed to drive it more, but after a couple days of a lot of driving I let it sit for no more than a day and it wouldn't start. I did a little more research on the ECU-B1 fuse...

Here's the latest, we have found that these two fuses draw .5 amps when everything is turned off (ECU-B1, and AM1 NO.2). The question is, is this this normal? Also what do these fuses do? Its possible that I could just not be driving it enough but just wanna make sure its not these fuses...

I checked all the stuff you said and the only thing that does work is the radio and speakers. If I turn on the radio the antenna goes up and the speakers work, but once I turn the radio off the antenna goes down and the speakers turn off. The doors lock and unlock, the windows don't work when...