Rellgeta

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Hello world . It's been a long time. I used to have a 99 GS and after that I went to a 05 RL. Love the car but I wanted something different.. I always loved my GS so I picked up a 06 GS. I read the concerns of that year. So far it rides smooth as silk. It had over 160k miles but it drives like new. I seen it had been serviced though-out. I never had a silver car so I am getting used to this one.

I have done a fuel system cleaning (the BG product) it idles well, no sputtering. Hopefully they did the recalls.. I went to that driver Lexus website and its saying no recalls for me.. I want to mod but not go crazy.. nice rims, tint, lowered just a little and a body lip..

hope you guys like it.. hopefully this will last for a long time... I paid 9k for it,.. i prob got ripped off hahaha but this was one of my dream cars and the service history was massive..

PS. the last two photos was my last 2 cars....

2005 Acura RL
1999 Lexus GS00

tayslexus

Welcome to CL. I really like your new ride it looks very clean. I hope you enjoy it for many years to come. The GS is new to me too, bought mine a couple weeks ago.

rem5891

Nice car! Congrats on the pick up. Got mine about a month ago... Unfortunately it didn't come with navi :/

Fausty

looks really clean op congrats. I didn't have navi on my 06 300 and hated that I didn't buy a car with it but to be honest I never use it now on my 08 lol.

Rellgeta

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thank you. I hope I can use it for years.. 160k miles tho.. I wonder if the recall was done to my car. would it even lasted this long if it didnt?

OceanView

160K miles on a lexus is nothing.
Just take care of routine maintenance and you should be fine.

Seize

Congrats on the GS!

Looks like a really clean one

Sodium

Very true. A while back I saw a thread that was essentially a circle jerk about how unreliable the 06 GS300's engine was and how it burned more oil than the Iraqis in the Gulf War, and how everyone's valves had more carbon deposits than a coal mine. Then someone posted a pic of his GS300's tach, which was at 297,000 miles and still going strong.

Rellgeta

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I was wondering that too.. are all gs300 bad? this one runs smooth as silk.. no hesitations or anything.. i wanna keep it for a long time.. i love the gas mileage. i get close to 35mpg highway and 25 mixed driving.. love that so far....

Sodium

Probably not.

From what I've seen here, the three main complaints about the GS300 are that they burn oil, that they have carbon buildup issues, and that they have transmission issues.

Having to add a quart or two of oil between oil changes isn't really a problem, at most it's a minor inconvenience.

The carbon buildup is a problem, but one that's well known, and it's nothing that a regular Seafoam treatment or a professional cleaning every 30,000 miles won't cure.

And I'm convinced that most of tranny problems (excepting the ones caused by a bad ECU) are because people buy into the "it's a sealed tranny, and the lifetime fluid doesn't need to be changed ever" argument, even though there's no such thing as a lifetime fluid. Of course, Lexus shouldn't have called ATF WS a lifetime fluid in the first place.

Of course, I have a GS350 so what do I know

Sodium

To reduce the carbon buildup issue, you could also get an air/oil separator. This will catch most of the oil going from the PCV tube to the intake, and that means far less oil is available to create carbon deposits on your intake valves. RR Racing sells one for the IS-F, but I would imagine it could be installed in a GS300 without too much trouble.