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07-14-10, 08:54 AM
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very nice score! mine is the same color. shape and color seems to have stood the test of time quite well. looks a helluva lot more contemporary out on the road than its competitors back from the early 90s. and those rims are tight!
do you have prior service records? anything major done? for me, at 176k, i had a new starter motor put in, engine mounts, rack and pinion, valve cover and intake manifold gaskets, dist, rotors, steering stabilizer, rear main seal, trans pan gasket, etc. a/c went out at 150k before as well, and paid out for some suspension work at 145k. it's got a weird intermittent engine stalling/ choking problem currently that is baffling. i should prob start a new post on that... as problems mount and the repair bills compound, i'm starting to wonder if my beloved '91 LS's days are numbered. my parents were the original owners, and i remember my friends and i being shuttled to high school in it. i don't want to see it go, but these days, my time is worth more, and a new car means much less headaches.
do you have prior service records? anything major done? for me, at 176k, i had a new starter motor put in, engine mounts, rack and pinion, valve cover and intake manifold gaskets, dist, rotors, steering stabilizer, rear main seal, trans pan gasket, etc. a/c went out at 150k before as well, and paid out for some suspension work at 145k. it's got a weird intermittent engine stalling/ choking problem currently that is baffling. i should prob start a new post on that... as problems mount and the repair bills compound, i'm starting to wonder if my beloved '91 LS's days are numbered. my parents were the original owners, and i remember my friends and i being shuttled to high school in it. i don't want to see it go, but these days, my time is worth more, and a new car means much less headaches.
07-14-10, 09:34 AM
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so far so good, i did look up the records at Lexus.com and everything seems to be in good order. the car sat for a number of years in the previous owners garage, so i do expept a few things to pop up. I did have a problem with the AC the other day, but i took it in a had the freon refilled, so i would imagine i have a slow leak somewhere. a lexus garage wanted me to put in about 1100.00 worth of work in it, so i took it to a friend of mine that works on german cars and he hooked the ac unit up and it seem to hold pressure so he just added Freeze 12. blows out 40 degrees. i have also been trying to get the remote on the key to lock'unlock the doors, but i can't seem to get that to work, i bought a cpu that goes in the trunk behind the antenna, but that didn's seem to work, so i will keep exploring. then i put new brakes on. other than that mostly just a good clean. i really don't want to put alot of money in it as i am using it as a daily driver, i also have a truck that i drive on the weekends.
07-14-10, 12:01 PM
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very nice score! mine is the same color. shape and color seems to have stood the test of time quite well. looks a helluva lot more contemporary out on the road than its competitors back from the early 90s. and those rims are tight!
do you have prior service records? anything major done? for me, at 176k, i had a new starter motor put in, engine mounts, rack and pinion, valve cover and intake manifold gaskets, dist, rotors, steering stabilizer, rear main seal, trans pan gasket, etc. a/c went out at 150k before as well, and paid out for some suspension work at 145k. it's got a weird intermittent engine stalling/ choking problem currently that is baffling. i should prob start a new post on that... as problems mount and the repair bills compound, i'm starting to wonder if my beloved '91 LS's days are numbered. my parents were the original owners, and i remember my friends and i being shuttled to high school in it. i don't want to see it go, but these days, my time is worth more, and a new car means much less headaches.
do you have prior service records? anything major done? for me, at 176k, i had a new starter motor put in, engine mounts, rack and pinion, valve cover and intake manifold gaskets, dist, rotors, steering stabilizer, rear main seal, trans pan gasket, etc. a/c went out at 150k before as well, and paid out for some suspension work at 145k. it's got a weird intermittent engine stalling/ choking problem currently that is baffling. i should prob start a new post on that... as problems mount and the repair bills compound, i'm starting to wonder if my beloved '91 LS's days are numbered. my parents were the original owners, and i remember my friends and i being shuttled to high school in it. i don't want to see it go, but these days, my time is worth more, and a new car means much less headaches.
07-14-10, 12:02 PM
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so far so good, i did look up the records at Lexus.com and everything seems to be in good order. the car sat for a number of years in the previous owners garage, so i do expept a few things to pop up. I did have a problem with the AC the other day, but i took it in a had the freon refilled, so i would imagine i have a slow leak somewhere. a lexus garage wanted me to put in about 1100.00 worth of work in it, so i took it to a friend of mine that works on german cars and he hooked the ac unit up and it seem to hold pressure so he just added Freeze 12. blows out 40 degrees. i have also been trying to get the remote on the key to lock'unlock the doors, but i can't seem to get that to work, i bought a cpu that goes in the trunk behind the antenna, but that didn's seem to work, so i will keep exploring. then i put new brakes on. other than that mostly just a good clean. i really don't want to put alot of money in it as i am using it as a daily driver, i also have a truck that i drive on the weekends.
07-14-10, 12:07 PM
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Once I ran into a 1st gen LS400 with cloth seats and no sunroof. The seller said that it was ordered for someone in Arizona. The extreme heat would make leather seats very uncomfortable, and the sunroof is just not necessary in that climate.
Wish my 2nd gen LS was like that!
Wish my 2nd gen LS was like that!
07-14-10, 03:01 PM
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the cloth has been amazing, and even the places where you'd expect the heaviest wear on the driver's seat is holding up really well. the only trouble spot is the armrest, and even that looks good enough that i won't be looking for a solution any time soon. everywhere else, the cloth is just great. now that it's finally getting hot in socal, every now and then, i pretend i'm back in high school and roll with my shirt off and the windows down. doesn't work at all in my other cars that have leather interiors, it'd be pretty nasty.
oh, and in an unrelated story, i found myself lined up next to a brand new MBZ C300 Sport a few days ago with 3 youngsters in the car. the light turned green and i noticed the C300 squat suddenly and lurch forward. i figured, oh what the hell, and slammed my pedal until it pushed the button at the end of the floor. by 40, the gap stopped growing, by 60 i was making up ground and by 80 i had edged ahead. sorry boys, even with a headstart, you can't get away from the 20 year old silver cruise missile! naturally, at the next stoplight, none of them looked over, so i proceeded to go grocery shopping at trader joe's
oh, and in an unrelated story, i found myself lined up next to a brand new MBZ C300 Sport a few days ago with 3 youngsters in the car. the light turned green and i noticed the C300 squat suddenly and lurch forward. i figured, oh what the hell, and slammed my pedal until it pushed the button at the end of the floor. by 40, the gap stopped growing, by 60 i was making up ground and by 80 i had edged ahead. sorry boys, even with a headstart, you can't get away from the 20 year old silver cruise missile! naturally, at the next stoplight, none of them looked over, so i proceeded to go grocery shopping at trader joe's
Once I ran into a 1st gen LS400 with cloth seats and no sunroof. The seller said that it was ordered for someone in Arizona. The extreme heat would make leather seats very uncomfortable, and the sunroof is just not necessary in that climate.
Wish my 2nd gen LS was like that!
Wish my 2nd gen LS was like that!
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