Agreed on the color, need to keep it south of $20k though...
keep looking........its only money...........
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Agreed on the color, need to keep it south of $20k though...
One has to confirm they are buying the trim sold,,, a few of those above on CL claim to be Premium but are base. Easy to quickly see on 10-13 as only Premium models with headlight washers
if you take care of your GX, it'll take car of you.
Not to be too redundant, but in another post I mentioned (somewhere) that maybe >95% of Toyota (including Lexus) products will give >300k miles of reliable service, and maybe <5% may be lemons. Domestic vehicles will generally be the inverse: <5% will give hundreds of thousands of miles service, while >95% can expect not much over <100k-150k miles of reliable road time before replacing engine, trans, etc.To add to the above, modern imports are incredibly robust to "deferred maintenance". But you'll also find threads currently on the first page of this forum about unrepairable engine failure on a documented, well maintained engine, and pinion gear failure at a low mileage, again not maintenance related. Rare? Absolutely. But these aren't magical, failure-proof vehicles. Just solid.
People confuse "reliability" with "lack of maintenance" all the time. I feel like people brush off the "inspect X Y Z" piece of their vehicle's maintenance schedule and just wait for something to fail catastrophically before fixing it or junking the car.Just keep expectations realistic. They are way more reliable than domestics at similar mileages, but EVERY Cruiser I've owned has had "significant" maintenance or repair items done sooner or later. I usually buy around 150k miles and run to close to 300k. Many of these are items that will leave you stranded. Like I say, they are rare (and usually expensive), but they can, and do, happen. I had valley coolant plate repair shortly after I bought mine. You'll drop $1500 to get that fixed. Or spend a couple hundred in parts and a long weekend to do it yourself. I need new rotors, too. Still love the car and consider it super-reliable, would jump in and take it anywhere without hesitation.
They're still just cars. Things break as they get older. Like I say, thankfully at a slower rate than domestics, but repairs are also typically more costly I've found. You also "pre-pay" for that reliability via higher purchase costs compared to say, a 12 year old Explorer.
All true, but I'm talking about things that AREN'T necessarily preventable, even with adequate maintenance. Stuff happens, even to a Lexus.People confuse "reliability" with "lack of maintenance" all the time. I feel like people brush off the "inspect X Y Z" piece of their vehicle's maintenance schedule and just wait for something to fail catastrophically before fixing it or junking the car.
Audi tells you to replace the timing chain guide at 60,000 miles because it will fail catastrophically at 65,000 miles. Lexus says to inspect the timing chain every 50,000 miles and at 150,000 miles you have to replace a gear or pulley or something. If you don't, it will fail catastrophically at some point. If you do, you can be reasonably confident that you'll get another 150,000 miles out of that component.