Lexus is built on the Toyota chassis. The Corolla is not as fancy, but is a better value.
I drove mostly GM cars for years. Every one turned into a POS. After GM suggested I buy a new car rather than have them fix it under warranty, I've not touched another one.
That's not the problem. If a transponder is in the car then it can't be locked from outside. The is nowhere to inert a metal key as there are no metal keys.
I like having the remote. Before it came with the car, I installed burglar alarms where the fob controlled the door locks.
What I would like is a front door lock that is controlled by a fob also, like the car, and if at all possible doesn't use batteries for the door lock itself.
I looked all over 4 years ago and coldnt' find anything.
In the soon to be sold Toyota, both fobs broke at once, which made me think it was the receiver. about $300, so I bought one and then another from ebay. Neither did fixed it.
I dropped my hearing aid down into the "black hole" under the center of the 60/40 seet in my Ranger. Didn't realise I had lost it untill much later - so where did I lose it? I had stripped the shed roof, loaded all the scrop on the trailer, and taken it to the dump. Good thing IO had (unsuccsessfully) paired them to my Blackberry cell phone (only actually works with an i-phone) - I narrowed it down by where I could catch a signal - I drove the truck 2 blocks to verify it was in the truck, then started digging and tearing thinga apart.
No lexus is built on a corolla chassis, and in fact no lexus sold in North Anerica is built on the same chassis as any Toyota sold in North America (ublike Honda and Acyra)
No metal key hideden within the fob? You are CERTAIN? No key cyl concealed under a cap in the door handle that can be popped off with the key? You are 100% certain?
I'll bet the Muffler looked a lot different afterwards too!!! We has a 1969 GMC pickup with a 292 inline 6 - had a "cherry bomb" muffler on it as a replacement for the original after ONE good backfire. One day comming down a good long grade with a big Cockschutt 1955 tractor on the tri-axle towards a narrow bridge where some guys were working, I shut off rhew ignition for a second, then back on - never seen guys clear a bridge so quickly in my life.
A friend years ago installed a "dummy' dual exhaust. The tip screwed off. Fake Lakes would do the job too - unbolt the cover (cut-out) to get to the key. I guess you could do it with real lakes too.
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