Hello everyone. A friend of mine is buying a 98 GS400. He was asking me things about the car and since I'm an SC guy I am not familiar with GS's. Can someone tell me things to be aware of and to look for with these cars? I believe this car has close to 180k miles on it. He is buying it for his son.
Thanks

Ken

 

use the search button, they do have one of those in the sc section too. right? sorry to be rude but this has been happening way to frequently lately and you are not new to the site.

 

Lol I spent a while the other day answering this question: https://www.clublexus.com/forums/per...questions.html
but just look through the stickies within the 2GS Forum and you will find everything you need.

 

In the amount of time it took for you to write all that, you could've just replied with some keywords to look for other than balljoints and lock actuators, if in fact there are any. The following is a quote from a STICKY, "Re-establishing a sense of community in the SC forum" in the SC section. Kind of thought it applied in all Lexus forums. It should.

While I'm not a new member, my friend however soon will be and neither he nor I are familiar with GS models. Why post if you have nothing helpful to say?

 

Thank you for the link and not being an arshole. Everything I wanted to know is there. Thanks again!

 

so you saying that you knew how to search? over it. please close thread

 

we also have this in the gs section they posted it here also since the sc/gs seems to be getting all the kids as prices drop on them and some of us older members arent clicking so well with some of the newer members i guess you could say.So since the mods are asking us to help people does this mean just do nothing for your self (searching) because someone will come along and do your leg work for you?

glad you got your info but since you wanna get all high and mighty and quote that sticky,THIS is how you are helping re-establish a sense of community, by name calling?


BTW mods who will be in here shortly im sure, maybe since we are getting alot of new members and this seems to be the same type of questions we could have a sticky with most of this info they need to know.....yes i know we have a few great stickies but maybe one just with this info

BTW OP have your friend look over these threads....have ALMOST everything you need to know in them

https://www.clublexus.com/forums/gs-...ou-search.html

https://www.clublexus.com/forums/gs-...d-newbies.html


welcome to our side of the boards but please next time come across better....or more polite i guess

 

At least give him some keywords you don;t have to do the leg work for him. It is a forum after all. If all the answers existed in the search then this forum wouldn't exist.

 

ball joints

 

The entire front end

 

You pretty much have it covered. Check to make sure the power steering isn't leaking. Just like with the SC, it'll kill your alternator.

 

I will not argue with that. However just throw some keywords out and I'll take it from there. The same questions get asked over and over on the supra forums so I understand, but, I always help them out with keywords or links I'm familiar with. We've all been there and me being one of the older guys in the supra forums (42) I try to make the new guys (supra owners) feel at home and welcomed.




I will not argue with that either. I should've refrained.

Thanks for the links! I will pass them on.



Thanks! You've been a help to me before so I thank you.


I think we're pretty much done here.

 

buying a gs shouldnt be different to buying any other lexus.