Hey All,
I am a new LX470 owner ( new to me 1998 with 376k miles) and am in the process of doing some repairs on the vehicle as it is giving me some troubles before becoming roadworthy. I have spent a ton of time trying to scour the local based resources ( the local pick and pulls, salvage yards, etc. ) for parts that I can buy relatively cheap compared to dealer, but have not had much luck as unsurprisingly the yards in the metro Atlanta and surrounding Georgia area don't have much of a LX470 graveyard. As such, since I found the throttle body to be interchangeable with a Tundra/Sequoia of the same year, I spent some time going through the forum here to identify other parts or pieces that have been used interchangeably across the Tundra/Sequoia/100 series vehicles, but have not had much luck finding anything. Sure, a few folks have posted some discussions around the throttle, but I know that Toyota has a tendency to reuse these quality parts across the fleet, so there must be some other things they decided to throw on that can be pulled from other cars.
So, long story short, I want to put together a comprehensive interchangeable list of parts that you can grab off of other Toyota models and use on the 100 series. I would like to contribute as a PDF or an article that can be a mainstay on the forum (if it doesn't already exist) and help others like me that are either not financially inclined or morally inclined to pay some of those extortion level rates at the stealership or junkyard who is using the word Lexus as an excuse to upcharge used toyota parts. Let me know your thoughts around this idea and what could help make this a valuable resource.
Please feel free to reply with some that you have personally found as interchangeable so that I can start compiling and craft a useful tool.
P.S. - I don't know if anyone has experienced this, but after reaching out to a lot of salvage yards that have LX470 parts in them across different parts of the country, they are pricing some of those used parts quite exorbitantly as well, to the point where buying from an online lexus or Toyota dealer makes just as much sense. Am I just really cheap or has anyone else experienced this? (I am definitely "value" oriented but come on)
Thanks!
I am a new LX470 owner ( new to me 1998 with 376k miles) and am in the process of doing some repairs on the vehicle as it is giving me some troubles before becoming roadworthy. I have spent a ton of time trying to scour the local based resources ( the local pick and pulls, salvage yards, etc. ) for parts that I can buy relatively cheap compared to dealer, but have not had much luck as unsurprisingly the yards in the metro Atlanta and surrounding Georgia area don't have much of a LX470 graveyard. As such, since I found the throttle body to be interchangeable with a Tundra/Sequoia of the same year, I spent some time going through the forum here to identify other parts or pieces that have been used interchangeably across the Tundra/Sequoia/100 series vehicles, but have not had much luck finding anything. Sure, a few folks have posted some discussions around the throttle, but I know that Toyota has a tendency to reuse these quality parts across the fleet, so there must be some other things they decided to throw on that can be pulled from other cars.
So, long story short, I want to put together a comprehensive interchangeable list of parts that you can grab off of other Toyota models and use on the 100 series. I would like to contribute as a PDF or an article that can be a mainstay on the forum (if it doesn't already exist) and help others like me that are either not financially inclined or morally inclined to pay some of those extortion level rates at the stealership or junkyard who is using the word Lexus as an excuse to upcharge used toyota parts. Let me know your thoughts around this idea and what could help make this a valuable resource.
Please feel free to reply with some that you have personally found as interchangeable so that I can start compiling and craft a useful tool.
P.S. - I don't know if anyone has experienced this, but after reaching out to a lot of salvage yards that have LX470 parts in them across different parts of the country, they are pricing some of those used parts quite exorbitantly as well, to the point where buying from an online lexus or Toyota dealer makes just as much sense. Am I just really cheap or has anyone else experienced this? (I am definitely "value" oriented but come on)
Thanks!
