rev up your engines, today I'm gonna talk about why you should buy a Lexus, but
strangely enough I'm gonna start with why you shouldn't buy a Lexus and that's
because it costs too much money I'm cheap I would have never have bought one in
the past, but I got this one for my wife years ago one of my customers got it
from his father, they were tired of it and I gave him $3,000 for the car even
though it only had 60,000 miles on it yeah it was like 12 years old but I
don't care I know these things can last so when it was new in 2002 it was just
thirty four thousand dollar car, so basically I paid less than 1/10 of the
original price for a vehicle that, I've had customers with es 300s that
had 400,000 miles on with 60,000 miles 80% of its lifespan left I would never
buy a new one regardless of the cost because I think they're ugly I like the
old style front, those new one with those giant scowling mouth plastic front ends
I think that's one of the ugliest designs ever, and sure a lot of cars are
all copy now a big scowly front grille people think, oh that's popular that's
cool and they go out and they buy something
they want it to look like that, me I think it's ugly I like the old ones
they're better looking, face it you want a big mouth on the front of your car it
just looks stupid, now the reason I love this Lexus is because I'm getting older
these things are really comfortable and luxurious, now this car is 18 years old
but the seats leather are still in really good shape it's amazing
and being a Lexus things hardly ever break now, in the interest of honesty yes
I put lots of parts on this car but for a rather odd reason, I use it as a test
car to test out brake rotors all kinds of car parts, I tell them to send me some stuff
for a 2000 to ES 300 I'll see if your products are any good
and here's something that I found out they kind of surprised even me, couple
years ago a company sent me brand new front struts for the suspension, so I put
hem on this car and at the time the car was 16 years old with the original
structure, and lo and behold it rode much worse
with the brand new struts, now they weren't original equipment struts they
were aftermarket ones but it rode so much worse with the new ones that I put the
old ones back on, so here we're talking about a car with 16 year old struts that
still rode fine the new aftermarket ones rode worse than these old ones, they can
last that long and tells me they're building these things right, check inside
the door made in Japan there's just something about serious
Japanese car manufacturers and motorcycle manufacturers for that matter
they take it seriously they keep building the car quality you don't see
that with cars that are built lots of other countries, now it's not a race car
it's got plenty enough horsepower with v6 you can cruise all day long when we
drove to Big Bend the speed limit was like 85 miles an hour we did 9000 and
cruise control didn't skip a beat, it's got the proven Aisin transmission I
change the fluid a couple of times that's it, still shifts like a dream and
sure I upgraded to headlights they look cooler but that's the advantage of a
platform like this, a lot of the parts that are newer style will fit out of the
older ones especially aftermarket ones so you can upgrade it if you want, hey
I'd rather buy $250 you wear the headlights then buy a brand-new Lexus
for what forty-five fifty thousand dollars these days and up, but even
though it still kind of looks and runs like a new car
the insurance on it is dirt cheap, it's an eighteen year old car now they're
gonna pay like 500 bucks in insurance on this thing, check out the insurance on
a new car if it gets wrecked or stolen and it's a $60,000 car they got to put
the $60,000 payout, don't think your insurance is gonna be cheap on that, they
got big giant trunks with lots of space, but really the main selling point this
luxury and they can last so long many luxury cars
hey they fall apart they want you to buy a new one every four or five years these
things weren't made that way, take the engine it's naturally aspirated doesn't
have a supercharger ,doesn't have a turbo charger, isn't GDI high-pressure injector
just a plain old v6 fuel-injected engine like in a Corolla or and a Toyota
pickups they're known for reliability they can last a long time, you don't do
anything them butchange the oil, I'm a fan of the v6 ones I'm not really a fan
of the big v8 ones yeah they're a bit more luxurious but as they age those
engines are more expensive to work on they're much harder to work on, give you
an idea you got a v8 engine in order to change the starter on the later model
ones you got to pull the intake manifold off you're gonna spend over a thousand
bucks changing the starter, I change the starter out in this thing I think it
took me 15 minutes, yes starts are going to wear out anyways but
guess what I went to Autozone and bought the starter been in there for six years
works perfectly fine the advantage of this is a lot of it is just Toyota Camry
parts a lot of them are totally interchangeable and there's a big
aftermarket for them, so you can do what you want without having to spend a fortune
at the Lexus dealer on their outrageously overpriced parts, Hey look
at me, when they're dirty I haven't washed this thing in two weeks
they still look good, of course a lot of that depends on the color that you get
in the car if you're gonna get a black car it's gonna look dirty in two hours
anyways, but if you get a color like this it doesn't show dirt all that bad so
you're not to wash it as much and like I said the quality is just there take
these leather seats, the previous luxury car that my wife had was an old Toyota
Cressida and those seats got so cracked it looked like the Grand Canyon inside
so I covered them with these great New Zealand pure wool seat covers, they were like
250 bucks a piece but one day she said I know something's weird in my car, so I
took those New Zealand sheepskin covers off and inside those Cressida crack
leather seats believe it or not there was a colony of ants with eggs and
everything when I pulled it up, they scrambled and ran all over the place, I
don't know what the heck they're doing on a mobile car that's driving around
but an entire colony of ants made inside the luggage seats were just not made
that well then, but hey these are 18 years old and they still look great
that's just what I call quality, I know some people are saying Oh Scotty how
much did lexus pay you to say how great their cars are
well I don't think they paid me anything considered and I said I would never buy
a brand-new one because I think those grills are as ugly as can be
I'm telling you a real-life experience from myself and my many customers that
have all these things and I've never shell out for a new one, heck that kind
of money I'd rather send my grandkids to college then wasted on a car, but if you
want luxury in a car that is gonna last a really long time
I hardly ever break down and not be all that expensive to maintain either, I mean
you don't go to the dealer just find a regular mechanic like me that works on
there to take care of the thing stay away from hybrid Lexuses, my customers
with hybrid Lexus they love them when they were new but then they when they
got 10 years or older and started to break down man the parts cost a fortune
for them, because there's really no aftermarket for that hybrid stuff you're
talking dealer then and the prices will just astound you, but if you're looking
for a nice reliable long-lasting luxury car hey
get yourself a Lexus that's got a v6 engine in it, so if you never want to
miss another one of my new car repair videos, remember to ring that Bell