BennyJ

iTrader: (5)

sounds like whoever is doing your labor is screwing you, no offense. if you arent already, you should really try doing the more simple stuff yourself. Brakes shouldnt cost you $400, i just did my own and it was ridiculously easy and only cost me about $100 for pads and $40 to turn the rotors. I also just had my alternator and battery replaced and it only cost me $350

PS.
My car is a GS400 and its got just over 150k miles and runs like a champ! All you gotta do is make sure its properly maintained.

dl11

Well, for the brakes I'm probably going to do it myself and I'm getting new rotors and pads and which is why it's costing that much. The 90k was the dealer, so of course it's going to be extra. And I went with Bilstein sports and all of the bushings which cost me around 600 plus 350 to install all of it so I don't feel like that is bad.

McKrevice

iTrader: (1)

He has no idea what he's talking about obviously.

Chumacher

the 400 is faster than a 430 because of better gear ratios. you'd have to be a moron to buy a 300 and put in more money and work to make it as fast as a 400.

it's a bad idea to have a 300 for a daily driver because it isn't much better on gas compared to the V8's. the frame and engine bay of the GS was designed to support the weight of a heavy V8 so all the GS300's are just lugging around unnecessary weight.

AZIAN68

i have a 98 gs300 bought it with 150k now has 200k (with in two years of driving) , with in the past 3 months here is the list i have replaced.

altenator 250,
timing belt kit - 70 ,
belt tensionor 50,
service belt 20,
valve cover gasket 35 ,
oil pan gasket 30 ,
accelerator pedal sensor 350 , THIS TOOK CARE OF LIMP MODE
pcv 5 ,
spark plugs 40,

the following both driver and passenger front
upper ball joints 300 ,
lower ball joints 100 ,
lower control arm 360,
radius arms 260,
outer tie rods 45
redoing the front end took care of that whoople at 60-80mph even with 20"

all prices are for parts/no labor that i searched and found on the internet mostly rockauto.com

a/c compressor just took a dump

LexLugger

GS430's torque is up from 310 lb-ft to 325 as opposed to the 400. As importantly, power and torque peaks are at lower rpms, for faster response. Sounds like a selling point to me.