What is the max mileage i should consider on a Lexus GS300

[davepoth]

Rincewind209 said:

One owner is nice, and as said a good service history. Mileage is just a number, useful for bargaining but no guarantee of reliability. Avoid anything with signs of neglect like cheap tyres or mismatched ones. If they skimp on that they skimp on everything.

Definitely that. Also consider minimum mileage. If you are looking for a 7 year old car, I'd want to make sure that it had "good" miles. Let me explain.

If you drive your car for ten miles around town, stopping, starting, potholes, speedbumps, sharp corners, and so on, it'll wear pretty much every aspect of the car a lot more than ten miles at 80mph on the M1. So in my view a higher mileage car, if it's been used properly, will probably be in better condition than the "one retired owner" car with 2,000 miles a year under its belt.

Check out the trip computer if you can - a high average speed (over 50) suggests most of the car's life has been spent at speed, but then contrast that with the mpg - if that looks good too then it's a fair guess that the car hasn't been overly stressed. Of course if they've been reset recently then that's a bit useless but it's still something to consider.

[Heaveho]

The only real Toyota / Lexus bugbears are water pumps on nearly all models, they're known to leak, and obviously means the belt ( if that's what it has ) has to come off to fix. Six disc in dash cd changers on some models are notoriously unreliable. Other than that, it'll be a lack of maintenance that'll do for it, so look for proof of it being looked after. I'd change the box oil immediately as a precaution, and the belt and tensioners, if fitted ( can't remember if it's a chain or not on these ). If it knocks on rough roads, it'll more than likely be the drop links.

Lexus are generally spectacularly reliable, and therefore get accused of being dull by Alfa owners and the like! You'd be extremely unlucky to get a dud.

[nickofh]

Since you considered an Accord, what about a Honda Legend ?