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Jan 15, 2011 | 09:59 AM

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Is it worth it? Help!

Well all Im back to say the least but with out a car and thats my delima. I had a nice sc300 black 5spd loved it. Now I want a GS4 and in black or silver with black interior. My hold up is I found an amazing well taken care of black on black GS400 with really high miles (270K) for $5k car has every option from what I can see even navi and is all stock unmolested. So should I travel 1000miles to buy a high mileage gs400 in the color I want or should I buy something with say 100k less miles in a different color where in some cases the interior looks rougher than it should for around $6K? All opinions welcome and I will add that I do paint cars myself so the black on black was more for the interior color.

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Jan 15, 2011 | 10:05 AM

ThomasGS4

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Truthfully, I'd wait for the right one to come along.

Jan 15, 2011 | 10:38 AM

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If he has maintenance records and the car runs good, offer him less than 5000 though more like 4.. I sold my old 98 for 5500 with 180,000 clean inside and fairly decent outside

Jan 15, 2011 | 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by 1UZ-GS

Truthfully, I'd wait for the right one to come along.

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Originally Posted by wcgorillaz

If he has maintenance records and the car runs good, offer him less than 5000 though more like 4.. I sold my old 98 for 5500 with 180,000 clean inside and fairly decent outside

Imma have to kind of agree with both... If he has good maintenance records i would probably offer less money and take it but even tho lexus are good cars 270k miles is alot. You can probably get one under 100k miles for under 10k

Jan 15, 2011 | 12:24 PM

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Yup dont let yur want for the car impair yur judgment if that makes any sense. Wait for the right 1 and yull be much happier u did.

Jan 15, 2011 | 12:50 PM

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I personally think it could be a good deal, if it's super well maintained..

buuut I think 5k is too much, i honestly wouldn't pay more then 4k for it..

I would probably wait a little longer, what's your budget?

Jan 18, 2011 | 04:44 PM

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Well I have a budget of roughly 7k to spend but im kinda tapped at that also registering the car which would cost me about $200 here in florida.

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Jan 19, 2011 | 07:50 AM

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well it depend bad you wanted one.... 2gs are hard to find these days... took me 4 month to get mine but i ended doing more repairs but i got mine for 5g with 166k... spent 2g in repairs....tat ac and throttle control motor and teh basic...

i would offer lower 4g... aint bad if the person is well kept up with the car... you never know it be an old folks to took care of it...i ask the person to send lots of photos and record b4 i go see it.... of know anyone that live near by to help you out... or a member on here.....