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Old May 12, 2010 | 09:50 AM
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Just wanted to introduce myself. A couple weeks ago I purchased a GS400 ,silver with black interior, and it only had 44k! It had 2 previous owners, clean title and carfax. I've just started doing all the preventive maintenance such as new serpentine belt (had small cracks), changing the filters out, switching to synthetic, new brake pad front and back (they were getting low). Got tint put on, eventually going to change the deck (has an old school Alpine deck lol), either change the rotors or machine them (get some vibration on braking), and later change out stock 16 wheels for 19 MRR HR2 with TEIN coilovers. The car has little quirks like everyone describes here, whirring sound on startup and occasionally on braking (apparently that's just the break booster), had a gurgling sound on acceleration (was air in the coolant, fixed now thanks to the help on the forum), little bit of rattle from the sunroof (haven't fixed it with foam yet), and the actuators being finicky (I'll wait to fix them but great guides on here). Love the car and all the help on the forum!
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Old May 12, 2010 | 10:40 AM
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Congrats and welcome! Thats very low miles, sounds like you found a very clean GS. What part of AZ do you live in? You should come out to the meets sometime, click my sig for more info.
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Old May 12, 2010 | 10:55 AM
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welcome to the club sir, how bout some pics?

site is DEF full of some useful info

here is my fav post with TONS of useful info

https://www.clublexus.com/forums/gs-...ou-search.html
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Old May 12, 2010 | 10:59 AM
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Congrats on the GS400!
Welcome to CL
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Old May 12, 2010 | 11:04 AM
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Congrats and welcome!
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Old May 12, 2010 | 11:10 AM
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welcome my fellow 99 gs400
we need pic though
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Old May 12, 2010 | 12:40 PM
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Welcome... and best of luck!
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Old May 12, 2010 | 01:48 PM
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Congrats and welcome!!
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Old May 12, 2010 | 04:18 PM
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Great find.. 44k miles...
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Old May 12, 2010 | 06:06 PM
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Originally Posted by tmf2004
Great find.. 44k miles...
+1, thats a rare find with mileage that low although i'm a bit surprise you have all those minor issues for a car with low mechanical miles.. Anyways, Enjoy and Welcome to the Club..
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Old May 12, 2010 | 08:08 PM
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welcome to the family..great find
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Old May 12, 2010 | 08:14 PM
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congrats and welcome! post some pics up.
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Old May 12, 2010 | 11:00 PM
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pics up!!!and welcome to da party lol i mean ...To the Lexus World
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Old May 13, 2010 | 12:14 AM
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Shoot I thought my 99 at 69,000 was low, about got 100k now. Gotta love this "pocket rocket" 400's rule!
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Old May 13, 2010 | 01:45 AM
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welcome and great pick up. now lets see pics of this 44k mile car
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