Iansaltes

I'm gonna go with Pures price and say right around 3,000. But remember, most of the guys here are pretty conservative when it comes to estimating a price... especially cause we cant look at it. Ive seen some perfect (and I mean PERFECT) 1gen LSs with well over 200k sell for over 5k on eBay...

If they WANT 4100 for it.. they will probably take quite a bit less than that... maybe right around 3,000.

Front shocks... OEM replacements, I believe are right around $80-90 each, as for cost to install....I have no idea.

Sanpete

Prices are usually better from private sellers than dealers, even if you don't count the fees dealers charge, if you have the time to check sources like craigslist.org, cars.com, autotrader.com, autoextra.com, etc. The latter three you can search within a ceratin distance from your location. It's easier to find cars in a place with lots of cars, of course, so check in the larger metropolitan areas you're willing to travel to.

If you really love the one you saw, and think you have a good sense of what shape it's in mechanically, do a carfax on it and, if it checks out, offer the dealer what you're willing to pay. Can't hurt to make an offer.

ttyR2

310,000 miles on my '90 LS400 and it has a LOT of life left in it. Such a wonderful car.

GKLCPA

Some of my favorite discussion strings and posts have to do with how many miles folks are putting on these cars. Whenever I read something like this, I get a warm and fuzzy feeling that I'm going to have my LS a very long time. I've got 75K on mine and I'm putting on about 35K miles a year. So getting to 300K miles means at least 6 to 7 more years of driving before I even think about getting another car, which will most certainly be another LS.

Dave, if you like the car and if it checks out, see if you can get them to drop the price and go for it. If you get a good one, you definitely won't regret it. As a matter of fact, you'll probably get rid of your other cars because you won't want to drive them after tooling around in the LS.

Zeal3

iTrader: (1)

Our LS is our family car and its very comfortable as long as everything is working properly you will enjoy the ride. the negative i can say is the steering. its not tight enough bcs we have a toyota celica and a sc300 and both have tight steering compared to the LS. but other than that slap on a suspension and be happy

rsg

hmmm...they would have given you a hard time for buying an Asian car but the German one was fine?
Anyways, I would say go with the LS but avoid the air suspension. It's very expensive to fix and at about 10 years the ride will not be that pleasant.

grady ins.

But the german one wasn't alone when parked outside of town hall. There are 2 other local politicians who drive MB's so, its not quite so "unusual". But I see your point. And after driving a LS, I DON'T CARE what people think of it, (If they think anything of it at all ).

Dave

kwikrnu

In Nashville craiglist there are currently five 1990-1993 ls400's priced all between $1500-6800. The mileage ranges from 80K to over 220K miles.

What is reasonable for a ls400? Around my area early or mid 90 corolla, camry's and avalons are selling for $1500-$6000 with 150K plus miles and are trashed inside and out. In this same area you can find a very nice garaged LS400 for $3000. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out you are getting an excellent deal.

This car was garaged its entire life. Owned by three different people before me. The first owner had the car for a year and paid $44822.10 for the car, I have the receipt. The second owner was the police chief of Nashville. He gave it to his daughter. Then there was me. I paid $3K and would have paid more. It is as perfect as a car with 154,000 miles can be. Heck, I sold my two owner 2003 corolla with 141K miles for $6K a few months ago and it looked older than the lexus.

Sanpete

Looks and fine points matter more to Lexus owners than Corolla owners, as a rule, so older Lexuses might be held to a higher standard. I did notice when I was car shopping that old Toyotas and Hondas don't sell for that much less than old Lexuses and Acuras, but maybe proportionally it's still the same: new Accord sold for 75% of new Acura, now sells for $3000 next to $4000 for its more expensive cousin.

Jpet

glad your car is still on the go. my 199 Ls 400 is having starting problems and last week it shut down while driving. i don't suppose you've had that experience ?
223k on the car and drives like a dream

JohnAndic

They are all great cars. The 98-00 is the superior daily driver. You can't buy a nice example of a 90-94 and drive it into the ground. If you really want to go the trying the car out route you have to buy a really cheap one and drive that into the ground. Then buy a 98.