Mileage
200,000 means the engine is just run in... However it all depends how it was looked after foe those 200k, although being a Lexus, 100% of Lexus owners really look after their cars so I wouldn't worry about that.
Recently their was a guy with a '90 LS400 on ebay with 750,000km on it. I just rang him out of interest and had a chat. He had a limo service and had 7 LS400's of vareing ages but he liked them as you can pick up a '98-2000 VVTi for under $10k now so the're cheap to buy. On the one he was selling, he put a low km import motor / transmission in at 700,000 as the origional motor was smokey on start up and he replaced the tranny as the motor can with one but the origional one was still working perfectly. This car he said, everything still worked, nothing leaked, but the seats were getting tired and it wasn't nearly as nice to drive than the '98 VVTi. My '98 VVTi has 220,000km on it and it drives like a brand new car. The mods ive done is to fit a set of heavy duty Bilstein shocks and had a rear sway bar made up from 22mm hollow to 24mm solid, mainly to control cronic under steer, although it was much improved, I should have gone bigger, 25 or even 26mm solid and reduced tyre profile from 225/60/216 to 225/55/16... Ive removed the cold air intake scoop and it now makes a B-E-A-U-T-F-U-L grown when you pedal it and ive replaced the entire audio system with a kick arse sound system which is C-H-O-I-C-E !!!!!!!
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Ive also had a start button fitted, don't ask why I just like it, and an Odyssey battery that weighs just 6kg (the stock one weighs 25kg and that mod alone made it noticably 'nicer' to steer.
All I want to change now are for a set of fully adjustable coil overs (didn't know about the when i bought the Bilseins
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And a Torsen unit (limited slip diff).
So yeah, don't be worried about the 200k mileage... I wouldn't worry 'till you get to about 500,000 km !
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