jLB
Another one followed me home. Can we keep it?
I think in the case of the LX, most the new owners maintain it phenomenally. It's odd for a 1-owner LX to be anything other than pristine and pampered by the Lexus dealer.
While there might be some truth in this, for those original owners that kept their LX470 maybe 10 years or less. After about 10 years (2016), I started getting the impression that my local Lexus dealer, wasn't real interested in doing much of the work on my older LX470. So, I shifted most of my work to the local independent that also took care of my son's 100 series Land Cruiser. Maybe the automatic sales guy intervention, that Lexus tried to schedule on every service trip, had something to do with creating this impression, or the "You're due for another timing belt change", even though we'd done one less than 20k/2years ago due to a weeping water pump. Prior to that, my vehicle made its regular trips to the Lexus dealer every 5000mi. The 21 year old, one owner, 1999 LX470, that I picked up last year, had a similar service history. Regular 5000mi visits to the dealer for the first 10-12 years, then shifted to a local independent that specialized in these vehicles.
The Lexus "brush off" wasn't quite as bad, as the 1989 Pontiac Turbo Trans Am that I had from 1989-2009 (30k mi when I sold it), where the dealer flat out said "They only made ~1500 of these, nobody here has even seen one of these before, much less received training on them, the GNX based engine is like nothing else Pontiac sold, and we're terrified that we're going to break something that we can't replace, please don't bring it back here ever again". I had similar treatment on a 1969 Camaro Z28 in ~1979, at the Chevrolet dealership, after they tried to explain to me that I had to have a 307ci or 305ci engine, because a 302ci engine is a Ford engine.