Back to your question. No, it's not normal. See if the Toyota 800
number can help you. The dealer's Lexus experience sure isn't
working.
On Feb 29, 1:44 pm, mcbrue <mcb...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Got back from 3 wks in south Fla. Battery nearly run down, but managed
> to start it so went shopping with chief shopper and I sat in car and
> let it run to charge battery. Noted a qiet noise like a pump running
> at times. This was yesterday. Today got in and drove out driveway and
> car front bottomed on the end of the driveway where it joins to street
> - had never done that before. Parked it and came back out and couple
> of friends with me commented it looked low in the front. Drove off and
> parked it again and when I came out I noted the right front fender was
> down to the level of the tire and the left side wasn't. So I started
> it up and drove off to a place I was sure was level, got out and
> looked at it and it was level with the motor running. But I was
> suspicious, so I drove to stealer****p and asked the nice young people
> there about it. As we talked, the passenger front got lower and lower.
> At time when the nice young service writter measured it with a tape
> measure, there was about 1.5" difference in height. The wheel well was
> closer to the tire on the passenger side, and the top of the tire was
> nearly at the opening of the fender. The drivers side was higher, at a
> normal height. Service writter called the shop and the expert in the
> shop said it is normal for the car to sag when the motor is turned off
> and the car compensates for the drivers weight by raising the drivers
> side higher than the passenger. I have not noted this height
> difference before. Is this actualy true that there is a normal sag to
> the right of 1.5" when the engine is shut off? What is the "running
> pump" sound I hear likely to be - I did hear it again today.
>
> Anyone else notice this heigth difference or pumping sound?
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