There’s an RX350 for sale with a noisy torque converter. It has about 240k miles and it’s priced about $4500.

Is this something that can be fixed affordably? I’d love to get into the 3.5 RX, but I don’t know anything about this problem.

Any thoughts?

 

Hi coupelex, I'd pass on that one.

 

Yeah I think so! The seller said it'll cost $1500, but when I called the dealer they said that's just the price of the torque converter, and the repair is another $4000!

I had thought a torque converter wouldn't be that difficult :/

 

We get cars like that down here on craigslist every now and then, "Just needs a $100 headgasket."
How about the rest of the car- paint damage, interior, exterior, rust, etc?

Many of the ones I looked at have tires wore to the tread bar, 4 new tires will be another $700.