Hi. I’m thinking of buying a 2004 Lexus ES330, in Ontario Canada. It’s from a cheap used car dealership who sell it “as is” they just get bulk load of cars and wholesale.
mileage is 255k kilometres.
dealership, but again all they do is sell and register the car.
The price is $4500, but the guy said he will sell it to me for $4000. He only let me drive it up and down a narrow caul de sac for 30 seconds and the actual “test drive” was him driving it and us in the passenger seat. Bit weird but honestly it didn’t shake or anything.
he told me, for safety it would need the ABS signal fixed and thinks it’s just the signal not the actual system. Let me know if you need more info, do I buy or pass?
Listen to @doc
You don’t want to mess around with broken ABS systems. Yes it could a cheap sensor fix, but it could also be thousands for a new module.
Keep looking for another example without any ABS failures.
Walk away. It is a shady deal and he is hiding stuff from you. Keep looking for other cars.
I would sprint away from this as fast as I could.
Thanks for your reply, but why is that?
255,000 km is about 140,000 miles. Lexus vehicles are not cheap to fix as they age and things break on them. Without a full test drive (and a mechanic thoroughly checking it out) and already there is an issue with the ABS system (who knows what the problem there is - and you cannot trust what the dealer says), I would pass on this one.
Another item to consider is timing belt. It should have been replaced by now if the mileage is acurate. If the dealer says it has been changed, demand proof. If he can't prove it, take the cost of getting it changed by your trusted mechanic and deduct it from the asking price. The Lexus ES series didn't have a timing chain until the model year 2007 ES350.
A limited test drive?
Yeah. Instant pass from me on that one.
