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2004 LS430 with no compass ?

Well, after playing with all the new features on my (new to me) 04 LS430, I started explaining them all to my wife. She took the car out today, and when she returned she asked me where the compass is. (On the 02 ES we traded in, it was up on the mirror.) I told her I'd look it up in the owners manual.

In the owners manual, it points out that the compass is displayed in the center of the dash between the tach and speedometer, by pressing the DISP2 button "when so equipped". Each press of the DISP2 button toggles the display from "Outside Temp", to "Compass", to Blank. Well, I suppose my LS is not "so equipped", as I only get outside temp and Blank display with that button. Another page of the manual has a description of "COMPASS (Vehicles without Nav)". I have Nav, so I guess "No compass for me".

I suppose they feel that if you have that street map display on, you need nothing more than that.

So, all these fancy (albeit cool) buttons, features, and info displays, but they chose not to give us a simple "N", "E", etc.

Go figure

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njbok
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If your 2004 is like our 2002 LS430 w/ nav, the compas is in the nav display. In the "heading up" mode (so you see the map with the car always facing up on the screen), the compass 'needle' is in the upper left hand corner of the nab display, with the red portion of the arrow showing which compass direction you are headed in. In the 'North up' display mode, the direction of the car (arrow on the screen representing the car) points in the compass direction you are traveling. To switch between display modes, touch the icon in the upper left corner of the screen which identifies the current display mode.

I hope this is clear.

Xplant

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Xplant

Yes, I did see that, but heck, I had that in my 02 ES, and STILL had a nice big, clear bright green "N", "S", etc right up there on my mirror.

While a driver can look over and try to locate the little tiny compass indicator on the Nav screen, it takes some doing and some good eyes to know what direction you're headed at 65 mph. The big, bright green letters on the mirror would have been nice. I mean, after all the ES had it.

I guess my point was, why skimp at THAT price, on an LS ?

Anyhow, I shouldn't complain, as I just love the LS !

Thanks for the response.

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njbok

On Wed, 02 May 2007 09:22:20 -0400, njbok graced this newsgroup with:

just press the compass on the display and the map will change to true north.

Reply to
Max

Change your map setting to "North Up" -- it is then trivial to see what direction you are going. Even at 65 mph & above. :-)

Reply to
Jay Somerset

Ha,ha,..... Yeah, I know I can do that with the nav screen, but as I said, my old ES with nav, also had the easy-to-read standalone compass on the mirror. I would have thought that if any Lexus model would have BOTH, it would be the LS430, not the ES300.

Don't get me wrong though, I'm not missing my ES300 at all.

:)

Reply to
njbok

I have an '04 LS430 with NAV and from the beginning missed the dedicated, stand alone, compass. One of the few design flaws of this vehicle.

Reply to
D.D. Palmer

I have noticed a tiny--easy to miss--button switch at the bottom of the mirror on some models. Pressing it turns the mirror compass on and off.

Charles

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Charles Proctor

If you drill down through the layered menus on the map display there is a large scale compass (full screen) and global positioning info included in the '04 LS 430 w/ nav and no compass.

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Garth Coller

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