funny. One of our lexus' leaked oil from 110k on and would've needed a fresh head gasket or just another motor to stop the leak. The tranny was replaced twice, never shifted smooth and the car was on the verge of comepletely exploding by 170k (dropped compression, valve knock). My cosins RX had the tranny replaced and still has issues and our other LS had tranny replaced early, gauges never work right and has electric issues (but runs great). The LS V8 4.0 liter is bullet proof and will go to 350k easy if driven properly but most of the drivetrain on pre 03 lexus' from our families experence is less than good and we are VERY good to our motorized things (we have a 350 ski boat with over 2000 hours on it in mint condition..
Currently grannies RX330 is holding up but it only has 40k, but our 5 speed IS300 has an internal oil leak and drinks about a court or more ever 1k miles and it absolutely cannot be fixed according to our techs without a replacement motor. We also spent 2k on this p.o.s trying everything to get it to stop and hundreds of other $$ to get other things fixed as well as hours of our own time.
This is coming from someone with over 6 Lexus' in the direct family in the last 3 years, and 4 currently. The number is getting smaller thank god.
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