Inlvwithsc

Hi everybody! I am crazy about SC just like u guys, however I don't know anything about repairing cars. Recently I found a 94 sc 400 for sale with 180000 miles, says did all maintenance work at Lexus dealer with car fax. With such high mileage, what usually goes wrong first? What type of maintenance cost am I looking at? Really grateful if you guys can share your thoughts and give me some light! Thank u thank u thank u!

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Just do your standard tune up and have fun!

EPayne42

Toyota/Lexus are great products. I bought my son a 1999 ES300 with 200K on it. It needed some love to get it road worthy, but now it's running great. Has the original engine and transmission. Purrs like a kitten and runs smooth. I bought my daughter a 1995 SC400 with over 200K on it. It needed a starter and some TLC when we first got it (only paid $900). It's a BEAST. Runs great. Can't say enough good things about these cars. If you have to pay Lexus for your repairs, you may have a different opinion. If you can do the work yourself, they're very affordable and reliable cars. I've seen many clean Lexus in my local salvage yards. My bet is their owners didn't want to deal with the repair bills. My son's ES would have been scrapped if I couldn't do the work it needed.

One common SC problem is the instrument clusters wear out and need rebuilding. The lights wear out and the motors that run the tac and odometer get lazy ...and eventually fail. There's a guy that rebuilds the clusters. Search this site. Another common problem is the LCD screen on the climate control goes out. I replaced my daugher's LCD screen and it wasn't as tough as I expected (if you can solder). I purchased the screen from Best Pixel Repair. www.bestpixelrepair.com



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TaninAuto

Hi, Tanin Auto Electronix here. We are vendors on the site. We repair instrument clusters and climate controls as well as sell DIY parts like the LCD screens you mentioned for your SC400 , 1992-1996. It is definitely common to have to repair the clusters and climates on these cars.

Here is the link to the LCD screens if anyone is in need of them for DIY replacement:

http://www.taninautoelectronix.com/L...exussc_lcd.htm

Here is the link to our cluster repair service if anyone is looking for this service:

http://www.taninautoelectronix.com/L...ter_repair.htm

Feel free to contact us at any time for instrument cluster or part replacement questions. We are always happy to help out!

Thanks,

Inlvwithsc

Dear TaninAuto,

Thank you very much for your post. I know my thank you reply is quite late but thank you!!!

Inlvwithsc

Dear EPayne42,

Grateful for your detail reply with pics too! Thanks.

I know it's been quite a few months, but thank you!!!

have a great day!!!