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Scotty,

My Mother-In-Law has a 2006, Lexus ES330, with 117,000 miles on it.  It has the usual dings and dents that come from a car driven by someone getting older (74) and not as aware of there surroundings as they once were but mechanically the car runs excellent, engine purrs like a Kitten, transmission shifts with no vibrations and quickly, and routine maintenance has always been done.  There are a few little electrical problems though.  The items that have stopped working are the built in garage door opener, the power mirrors, and the seat memories.  When she last had it into a pep boys (against my advice, not to use them) they told her all of that was controlled by a single electronics module, and that was what needed replaced, then quoted her $2,000.00 for the repair.  This sounds a little outlandish, price wise, and I am skeptical about those three items being controlled by the same module and if the module is bad why nothing else is being effected.   Wondering if you might be able to let me know what I might be able to do to fix these little things since that car is going to become my daily driver in the next few months as she wants something new and is going to be giving me the car for free, and when my daughter turns 16 I will be giving it to her as her first car, four years from now.  Can't beat a free Lexus, Right.  Thanks for any help.


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Unfortunately it could be those modules and only a guy with a Lexus dealer level computers going to be able to analyze it probably better to just live without that crap that's the problem with high tech cars when they do break down very few people have the equipment to work on them and very few people who have that equipment are honest these days


Thanks for the input. I'll keep an eye out for any honest mechanics on the east side of Atlanta, but I still have not found one that is trustworthy. Thanks for the info. 🙂


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