I been through like 6 junk yard trying to look for parts for the LS and SC. Most of the time I see like 10 1st gen ES in the each junk yard compare to only 1-2 cars of 1gen of LS and SC... Kinda disappointed and makes me wanna get ES for easy and cheap parts...

 

if u see a 93-94 LS400 once u head there again..let me know if they still have their passenger side headlight .

 

In the junkyards in our area, the headlights and tail lights pretty much disappear as soon as the guy sets the car down on the ground. LOL!!!

 

not surprising, the ES is a more volume seller so there are bound to be more of them in the junk yard. Also, the 1gen ES was pretty much a rebadged camry...so it was kind of junk-ish, haha

 

in the junk yards in my area there aren't even an es. no lexus to speak of that i can find actually

 

Try http://www.copartfinder.com to find parts for your SC and LS. Good luck...

 

It makes you wonder about the kind of affective commitment a pimped out Camry instills in its owners, doesn't it?

 

Isnt the ES the highest volume model??? I would figure they would always have more parts

 

there's a bajillion early LS and SC models at my local yard

 

bingo.....volume.....

 

I saw mostly 91-92, but i did see some 93 tho. I saw one 93, still had everything!! but no 95-00 LS LOL

 

If you sell 1M vehicles, compared to 200K vehicles, of course you will see proportionately more of the 1M vehicle than the 200K vehicle. I'm sure there were more Taurus' there than anything... don't mean I'm going to get a 1st gen Taurus because I can find plenty of junk parts... ha ha.

 

You are correct. Since inception Lexus has sold 1,017,963 ES models in the U.S alone. The RX is very close behind the ES and I'm very sure the RX will surpass the overall sales in the very near future...the top three highest all time sellers of Lexus are:

ES 1,017,963
RX 1,015,696
LS 500,935

 

I haven't been making my premium car-buying decisions based on junkyard parts availability. Certainly makes for unique criteria.

 

Well, yes, unlike later-generation models, the 1Gen ES WAS essentially a rebadged Camry. Although not that many of them were actually sold in the U.S., that may (?) explain their significant presence in the junkyards. At the time of the 1Gen ES250, the Camry and Accord, because of their huge sales and demand for parts, were also the two cars most widely-stolen to be stripped of parts....so the ES250 shared, to some extent, in the Camry's theft-rate. And where were many of those parts and hulks sold to?......yep, to unscrupulous junkyards and used-parts dealers. That, of course, doesn't prove that the junkyards horent135 visited were run by crooks, but it may not be a good sign.