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2 hours ago, AdamPCrowe said:

A word of warning from someone whose ownership experience has not been as enjoyable as it could have been. I bought an 05 plate early 3rd gen GS300 last year, 105k on the clock, full service history (Lexus dealer up to 80k), for £4k. Car looked like a gem, had never failed an MOT, drove beautifully and had obviously been well looked after. However since then it has cost me another £1500:

£700 on 2 gearbox solenoids and a fluid flush to sort out a gearbox fault that rendered the car almost undriveable.
£600 on a cat-back stainless exhaust system (Lexus wanted £1200 for the mild steel OEM bits!)
Another £200 on a stainless mid section. Basically once one bit of the exhaust starts rotting, it seems to trigger the next section to fail.

I'm also having cat issues at the moment with a P0420 code popping up every trip. Looking very likely I will have to replace the manifold cats, which will cost the best part of another £1200

The above prices are me shopping around, being as canny as I can and avoiding Lexus OEM if at all possible. And that's a big 'if' - I've owned numerous makes of car and I've never known a brand who have locked down the parts market as well as Lexus have. Apart from basic service parts, it's nigh on impossible to get anything from anywhere other than Lexus themselves - and their prices are seriously high. That £1500 I mentioned earlier would have been more like £2500 if I'd accepted that Lexus themselves were the only solution.

I bought the car because of Lexus' reputation for reliability, but I regret it and I wouldn't buy another. I'm going to spend whatever necessary to fix the current cat issue, get it MOTed next month, and sell it. It's a beautiful car, lovely to drive, but if I keep it I will be in constant fear of the next expensive issue.

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that is really terible, i mean parts should be easily available.. i mean like for instance I've never had any problems with the accord, have changed all sorts like all for discs and pads and a bearing and suspension arms and stuff

I guess I'll have to rethink on it then maybe

4 hours ago, Normski said:

Yep! Deffo have a look and let me know if you're interested in mine that comes with the Lexus Warranty 

cool, how many miles have you done on yours and what year is it, yoru signatire says an 06 and your name tag says its an 08?

also, how much are you asking for it?

Hey all,

I'm looking at buying an 09 gs300 with 148k miles on it.. but am wondering what is this car like in reliability?

How difficult is it to diy on and do we have any guides here?

Not really affriad to get my hands dirty, as currently have an Accord and have done just about everything on he car service or non-service wise myself and it really is fairly easy to take apart and fix, like for instance have done both front suspension control arms on it and other than beinga bit fiddly and some times hard to open as the car is an 03, they are doable..

And the reason I wasn't overly bothered about the mileage on the GS is because, the Accord has done 170k miles and she still runs sweet. no knocks or bangs and stuff, even when it's been driven spiritedly for the last 5years.

by luxury, most people mean that they shouldn't feel any bumps on the road.. but, what i would like to have is comfortable ride, but with full road feedback, so i know what i'm driving on..

I mean the accord is in no way uncomfortable, but with lowish profile tyres and slightly firm suspension, u get nice road feedback, plus can go around a cornor really well.

u urself have is250, should be hell of a car, right

yes i agree, but what i really prefer is a family/performance car..

something like accord type r(not widely available here), or if i've money, gs300 or gs250...

oh one thing, just popped in my head, maybe i'm wrong, is200 is rear wheel right?

how does it handle in snow?

I've done everything for the accord myself, and i think its doing slightly more than what it should be doing now(maybe wrong)..

but a friend of mine(was saying so much to the accord coz of his past experience) now has a 520d, very nice and powerful, said he also drove his friends newish diesel accord, and he said that accord r not good cars, not very nice to drive and consume alot of fuel.. but then when i took him for a drive in mine he was literary.. F** yeah, this is one sweet accord, and he did drive it on way back and was quite impressed with the drive, its a fun to drive car..

I really like cornoring and now after tweaking it slightly this car gives me much more confidence while cornoring at speed..

yes, u r right, accord's k20a6 produces 155 while had a look online and is200 produces 153.. not a big difference, but i was expecting with 2 more cylinder, i would get atleast 160 but not less, and the mpg is in the drian compared to the accord...

I think is200 has the same or slightly less mpg compared to my galant (that had an exciting 2.5v6 in it), as i remember a freind had an is200 and told me it was less than mine..

in fact, IF driven nicely, i used to squeeze out around 32mpg from the galant.. with the accord, IF driven nicely has given me around 40mpg (problem is i dont drive nicely)

with the accord, i can see why more mpg, coz they've cunningly put vtec abive 5k rpm range(which i really hate, but does save fuel), so u dont really get much low end torque.. but still drives reasonably good..

hence mostly i sit around 5k, and it does love to be revved

ls400/430 :o , 4.0ltr, hells yes petrol costs r of concern... the bit that i'm not really happy about is, that being a better car than honda, why is it less powerfull in the same engine size.. and hondas r very reliable, and possibly cheaper parts, if anything needs changing and easily maintainablt/diyable.

on an honest side, i dont really like ls looks, i like the looks of is from 99 to 2010 and gs in the same period(sorry a bit picky about looks)

wohaow, I'm surprised that not many members have tried to persuade a change from honda.. or maybe honda is the most reliable and cost effective

While reading thru some specs for a 2ltr accord and lexus, i was quite surprised/disappointed by the fact that even lexus being 6cylinder rather than 4cylinder(accord), is still slightly less powerful and consumes way more fuel than the accord

The reason i started thinking into buying a lexus was, 6cyl engine, and i thought more cyl mean more power, maybe I'm wrong..

Hey all,

Have been thinking about which car to buy next. Having previously owned a mitsu galant 2.5V6 version(absolutely lovely + torquey + solid car).. and currently have an 03 2.0 accord (also lovely + solid)..

Now, still miss the mitsu, coz that was extremely reliable, even with all electronic bits and bobs, and being a 1998 with 170k on the clock, touchwood never missed a beat, but at that time wasn't into diy..

so, God knows why.. went for a 2 litre accord, coz loved the way it looks(don't get me wrong, mitsu was a beautiful in my eyes, the only bit that sometimes nagged me a bit was it was an auto and i always liked manual transmission)..

And owning an accord even after 2 years, still miss all that power from my mitsu, but honda does give me really good mpg if I'm being a decent driver (rarely)..

Since owning an accord, i somehow got into doing diy on it and became quite involved, after joining accord owners club, looking at diys and doing my own diys. From what I've seen is, jap cars r quite diy friendly and r ultra reliable, barely go wrong.

Personally, really like the looks of audi a6, but reliability wise, they r in the drain.. so that options crossed for me.

But would like to know, how good is lexus, diy wise, running cost wise and reliability wise.

Of course, if anyone has had an accord before and now a lexus, a comparison would be perfect..