Wow the leather seat cracked at 92k? That's pretty fast.

 

My 07 gs450h had the tin and it caused 7 or 8 leaks in the mid pipe. I brought to meineke and they made me a new one for 180

 

I better start preserving mine! They are starting to show some signs of wear. Many beige GSes look trashed. I have a black interior

 

Yup. There were significant cracks when I bought it, but that's most likely to blame the previous owner and the Texas summer heat.

 

What will save your leather is lotion I do this twice a year and thankfully with 180k miles and super hot heat the leather looks good.

 

I have a gs450h, it has done 425k. Since I have had it, the cats needed changing, and the front swaybar rubber bushes, but that is really it. It has had a replacement engine at some time prior to me owning it. Love this car.

 

wow impressive! What about the cvt transmission? regular fluid changes? whats ur secret

 

Cannot vouch for its previous history as I did not get one when I purchased this car. I believe it was a LIMO when first purchased, so many kms. CVT, is all good. I baselined it by changing all the oils, water pump plugs, O2 sensors and plugs. By looks none of these items were in bad condition, just wanted to make sure it was in a known state. Hybrid Battery is good too. Next step is to apply the high pressure fuel pump noise dampening cover from the LS series. So yep, regular early changes is what I am gonna do.

 

This is 400k km or miles?

 

He said so in both of his posts above.

 

I have 257k on mine, just had to replace the idler pulley, and it sounds like the pulley on the oil pump (if I have that right) might need to be replaced. Car runs great, everything still works. I had the trans serviced with a complete drain and refill of Toyota Trans fluid. Water pump was and belt was done in the last 5 mos. Runs amazing. Next I plan on replacing the front bumper cover and maybe doing new headlight assemblies.

 

257 nice. Oil pump pulley would be the crankshaft pulley/harmonic balancer, why what's wrong with it I made a tool to hold it so the crank doesn't rotate

 

Close at 168K miles. 2008 GS 350 RWD. Got 29.9 mpg on highway trip this past weekend. Awesome car. Very dependable. Still a smooth ride.

 

Nice, seems like there is no need to worry about high mileage on Lexus cars. Not sure I would want a 400,000km BMW, maybe a Benz would be ok? Definitely not a Landrover.

 

Actually turns out it's the tensioner pulley. Is that kind of a beach to replace? I can't seem to find any how-to's on that specific one.