Five months ago I bought a 2000 LS400 with 185,000 km (aprx. 115,000 miles)
on the odometer.

Here in Denmark Lexus is a rare automobile. We have two (2) authorized
dealers in the entire country!
I got the car from one of these dealers. I'm the second owner, and the same
dealer sold the car as new, and has carried out all service and maintenance
on the car since new.

It is well maintained, and basically drives wery well.

However. I have two issues with the car, that seems to puzzle the dealer:

1. It is very sensitive to cross winds.
Unlike any other car I've had (among others two Camry V6), this Lexus
requires a lot of steering in windy conditions.
Especially at higher speeds (80-100 mph). Having the wind in from the side,
and passing trucks can force the car to almost change lane.

The dealer have checked the car, but found nothing he says. The car is
equipped with air suspension, and I have noticed that it is not quite at
level when parked and looked at from behind (little over half an inch). The
local Toyota shop here in town had a look at it, and tried to adjust on of
the rear sensors, but it didn't appear to change anything. They advised me
to take it to Lexus.
Perhaps this could have something to do with the wind sensivity?

I can se from other posts, that the air suspension on this car is not very
reliable. How would a problem with the air suspension show itself?

2. Transmission hesitation
My car has a problem with rolling starts, exactly as described in this quote
from another posting regarding an ES300:

Quote
I also notice it when doing the "California roll", or turning a hard corner
without ever coming to a complete stop.  The tranny gets confused, and I
either sit and wait for it to accelerate, or I have to press the pedal down
farther, causing the engine to race.
Unquote

On the internet I found out how to reset the transmission memory (disconnect
the negative terminal on the battery for 5 minutes), and this cures the
problem for the next few days. Then it returns gradually as the transmission
memory gets refilled with data - I guess.

The Lexus dealer here in Denmark had never heard of the problem, not on any
Lexus model, and he didn't know of any software update for my car, or
whether it could be updated at all. He's been 'investigating' the matter now
for 14 days.

With so few Lexus cars on the road here, I guess our mechanincs never build
up a deeper technical knowledge about these cars.

I would very much appreciate if anybody have information or comments to
these issues. I expect that this authorized 'we-cannot-find-anything-wrong'
Lexus dealer will need a little pushing.

Thanks
Erik Rudbeck
Denmark