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luxobarge

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  1. Well I bought the car only a few days ago so I haven't serviced it myself, there was no service history with the car but it does seem to have been taken care of. I had a mechanic use one of the diagnostic cables, he said there was no errors showing perhaps because when I restarted the car after it stalled initially the ecu would have cleared any error codes from the stall - the mechanic suggested the coils as being the problem his reasoning was: *the car was sat in traffic for quite a while which would have raised under bonnet temperatures, which may have exacerbated any problem with the coils which just so happened to be due for replacing anyway. *the coils also had some dark lines/faint cracks in the casing as well as some black soot which wiped off(?) *the car restarted and ran with no problem once the engine(coils) had a change to cool down. I will post here in a week or so if the car hasn't had any further troubles, hopefully this might help someone in a similar situation. P.S: The coilpacks were surprisingly cheap, due to there only being two of them, and they are the same part as used on older model v6 camrys.
  2. Hi I've recently purchased a LS400 and I've been lurking these forums for quite a while. I've only owned my car for four days and last night after sitting in bumper to bumper traffic on a motorway on-ramp for 30mins, i was driving in the merge lane when the steering went heavy; I looked down and noticed all the warning lights on my dash were on - the engine had stalled. I pushed the car into an emergency stopping bay and had a look for anything obvious, after the car had been shut off for about 20 mins I thought I'd try start it, it started and ran fine but I had it towed home to be safe. Has anyone had a similar experience and can offer some advice?
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