GX460 & GXOR B.S. thread

[Acrad]

2010-2015 optional local Lexus RES

I installed it in mine

GX460 #Remote #Engine #Start ( #RES & #RES+ ) - ClubLexus - Lexus Forum Discussion

GX - 2nd Gen (2010-2023) - GX460 #Remote #Engine #Start ( #RES & #RES+ ) - Is there any sort of setting the dealer can change to keep the vehicle running upon entering it after it has been remote started? It shuts off every time I open the door and get in. Dealer told me that's the way Lexus...

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There was a RES+ with cellular but rare

 

[Cold Iron]

There's a cut off because my 2010 doesn't use any cellular or Enform for the remote start. Not sure when that was a thing but my guess is post-2013.

Some on CL has said the later years need a subscription to Enform even to use the key FOB to remote start. But I am not sure that is really the case. My 19 worked with just the key FOB and before I had the Enform subscription. And so does MeefZah 2020. The key FOB sequence is really picky about timing, although after doing it enough it is second nature. My guess is some of those that say you need Enform to use the FOB to remote start don't have the timing down so they believe it isn't working. But that is just a guess on my part. I am sure that you need 19 or newer to use Enform due to the requirement to use 4G.

As long as I can get Enform remote start for ~$60 a year I will continue to pay for it and use it. 4G should be around to at least 2030 more like 2035. In theory. Things change fast

 

[Acrad]

2016-2018 IIRC are the years where one needs to look for 3rd party options

 

[Roody]

You can also remove the battery and bring it inside if you don't want to run a long extension cord to the street.

FWIW, I hardmounted a Noco charger to my tractor (which will sit for a month plus between uses) when I installed a block heater in it. If the rig is regularly sitting for weeks on end and driven short distances, a hardmounted charger would be a good idea.

Well Costco warrantied the battery so going to see what happens with it in the truck over the next few weeks. Going to keep the aux lines off of it and try to drive it more.

 

[Rednexus]

Well Costco warrantied the battery so going to see what happens with it in the truck over the next few weeks. Going to keep the aux lines off of it and try to drive it more.

Aux systems are usually but not always the culprit. My rig was killing batteries every two years due to a parasitic draw. It was the rear cargo area dome light, and it took me hours of fuse-pulling to figure it out (the draw only occurred when it was set to "DOOR"). It was drawing about 100 mA when everything was off, which was enough to degrade my batteries but not enough to cause a no-start condition until the battery had been in for a couple years.

 

[Acrad]

I’ve had good luck with this Amp Hound over the years finding parasitic draw.. looks like it has doubled in price though in the last 6 or 7 years.. I think I only paid $65-$70 for it.

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[rav8]

2010-2015 optional local Lexus RES

I installed it in mine

GX460 #Remote #Engine #Start ( #RES & #RES+ ) - ClubLexus - Lexus Forum Discussion

GX - 2nd Gen (2010-2023) - GX460 #Remote #Engine #Start ( #RES & #RES+ ) - Is there any sort of setting the dealer can change to keep the vehicle running upon entering it after it has been remote started? It shuts off every time I open the door and get in. Dealer told me that's the way Lexus...

www.clublexus.com

There was a RES+ with cellular but rare

Same here. Probably best purchase I've made if I think about frequency of use. I think it was $100 at Bell Lexus when I bought mine. I'd pay that every year for the convenience if I had to. Range is pretty much limited to driveway but that works for me.

 

[Hiluxforever]

My 3rd gen Hilux/Pickup 4wd Black grille shipped!

going to further cut my front end to try to give it a more traditional nose.

I am not too far from Tom's Rhinoplasty...

 

[Roody]

My 3rd gen Hilux/Pickup 4wd Black grille shipped!

going to further cut my front end to try to give it a more traditional nose.

I am not too far from Tom's Rhinoplasty...
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I need to see a mockup of what you have envisioned here, can't wrap my head around it

 

[Hiluxforever]

I need to see a mockup of what you have envisioned here, can't wrap my head around it

Grill will be flush with headlight. I will have to fabricate a horizontal surface to meet the existing nose.

 

[Hiluxforever]

I probably should re-learn AutoCad. I learned on the DOS version 16.

 

[Rednexus]

I probably should re-learn AutoCad. I learned on the DOS version 16.

FWIW, I had no problems re-learning basic 2D AutoCAD after a 20+ year hiatus. I surprisingly still remembered many of the commands and was drawing stuff within a couple of hours. I use it often now, especially for ordering laser cut steel from SendCutSend for fabrication projects.

 

[Hiluxforever]

FWIW, I had no problems re-learning basic 2D AutoCAD after a 20+ year hiatus. I surprisingly still remembered many of the commands and was drawing stuff within a couple of hours. I use it often now, especially for ordering laser cut steel from SendCutSend for fabrication projects.

I am supposed to for work as a Mechanical Engineer. But there are a million things on my plate.

 

[r2m]

I probably should re-learn AutoCad. I learned on the DOS version 16.

Ha-ha!
Brought back memories when I learned AutoCAD in the early/mid 1980's, when it was installed on x286 PC's with 5" "floppy's". I thought it was the cat's meow after using a mainframe CAD program called Intergraph, when I started in 1980. Back then, each (dummy) CAD station cost about $60,000 per station but they still had to be connected to the mainframe to do anything, where all your work and the actual program was on. And when it went down and the people down in the basement had to reboot the mainframe, everyone was shut down and just sitting around till it booted back up. It was my first exposure to computer terms like "booted", etc.

 

[Hiluxforever]

Ha-ha!
Brought back memories when I learned AutoCAD in the early/mid 1980's, when it was installed on x286 PC's with 5" "floppy's". I thought it was the cat's meow after using a mainframe CAD program called Intergraph, when I started in 1980. Back then, each (dummy) CAD station cost about $60,000 per station but they still had to be connected to the mainframe to do anything, where all your work and the actual program was on. And when it went down and the people down in the basement had to reboot the mainframe, everyone was shut down and just sitting around till it booted back up. It was my first exposure to computer terms like "booted", etc.

Yeah I had a year of hand drafting and architecture as well as a year doing Autocad in high school in the mid 90s. Been invaluable in my career

 

[Rednexus]

Yeah I had a year of hand drafting and architecture as well as a year doing Autocad in high school in the mid 90s. Been invaluable in my career

I had it in the late 90s/early aughts. Building our house, I'd use CAD to lay our deck boards and even figure out the angles for trim installed around windows. Such an invaluable tool. I have SolidWorks on my work computer and would love to learn it, but don't' have the time myself. Pretty amazing what folks can design now in SolidWorks for the aftermarket 4x4 world!

 

[r2m]

I had it in the late 90s/early aughts. Building our house, I'd use CAD to lay our deck boards and even figure out the angles for trim installed around windows. Such an invaluable tool. I have SolidWorks on my work computer and would love to learn it, but don't' have the time myself. Pretty amazing what folks can design now in SolidWorks for the aftermarket 4x4 world!

I started using SolidWorks in the mid 90's when AutoCAD couldn't keep up with the geometry that SolidWorks could pull off, specifically, being able to model thread for medical devices.
But before CAD, my first job in design engineering was ink on Mylar with drafting "machines" (below). What a life saver CAD was when you deleted something that you needed to "undo" or move parts of the drawing around! There was no "undo" with ink, or moving things around.

 

[Rednexus]

Hand drafted civil/site plans certainly look much better than anything that comes out of CAD. Old school draftsmen had legit skill to make some plans that are basically a work of art!

 

[llm]

I used to work as a chemical engineer in the oil industry- I can't even begin to imagine what a pain it would be to design and do all the calculations, only to find out you need to make a change.

 

[Green4Gulf]

I color outside of the lines.