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The rear suspension squeak could be from rusty joints on the sway bar links. I had that noise and couldn’t figure it out for a long time.

Here is how I confirmed it. Bounced the car up and down by opening the trunk and pushing on the frame of the trunk opening up and down.

Then disconnected the rear sway bar links and repeated the process.

Otherwise you could drive it up on ramps and have somebody perform the shake down while you check for noise underneath.

I read about the rear bushings squeaking but it wasn’t the issue with mine. Mine sounded like a spring mattress.

HotRodRod

Thank! I plan to change the sway links and bushing along with the trailing arm bushing once I’ve found the problem. But the links would be a lot easier to change so fingers crossed

crisp76

Beautiful looking ES! I have a 2000 Platinum Series that I bought 10 years ago with 108,000 miles. Currently at 230,000, and it’s been a fantastic daily driver. Just now changed the Alternator. Like others said, just do a couple drain and fills on the transmission and don’t go over 5000 miles on engine oil changes and you should be golden.

ItsRichie

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Very clean car! Been looking into selling my BMW 335i (money is going towards renovations on the condo) so I've been lurking around on craigslist and thinking about picking up a low mileage ES300.

ObSCessed

+1 on the amsoil atf except i use the signature series, been using it for over 4 years now, very smooth shifts at 160 k and counting, 2001 es300. For the record I put the amsoil engine and tranny flush and my mech got all the old atf and replaced with amsoil. Since then i have been good about bleed and feeding 1 or 2 quarts with new every 15- 20k. Sorry to hear someone had issues with signature series thats all ive ever used same with oil.my experience has been trouble free for years now.