ChikuLexus Posted January 18, 2006 Posted January 18, 2006 Glad I found this board. It was so helpful in understanding my problem and remedying it. The local Lexus dealer is fixing it under warranty, after receiving maintenance records, and gave me a new ES 330 as a loaner. They're also charging only about $250 to replace timing belt and $175 for a transmission flush, both of which seem very reasonable to me. Again, thank you all for your input. Without that, I would still be putting $35 into my comparatively ancient ES every three days.
SKperformance Posted January 19, 2006 Posted January 19, 2006 SO what exactly did you do and tell them?
Toysrme Posted January 19, 2006 Posted January 19, 2006 Nice! Services are overpriced, but I know a ton of people would kill for Lexus maintenece, and jsut to have Toyota/Lexus actually accept real sludge damage LoL! I think you came out in the + bigtime. Especially in retrospect with others!
ChikuLexus Posted January 19, 2006 Author Posted January 19, 2006 I simply told them the truth. And of course backed it up with tons of Firestone receipts of oil changes and quite a few other things. Oil changes being the key documents of course. Frankly, I don't know why it sludged. It's been maintained very well. In fact, a couple of times at least, by mistake it has had back-to-back oil changes in consecutive months, literally. That's a consequence of multiple drivers within a family, not always aware of recent maintenance. And the ES 330 is SWEET. It's going to be hard to get back in the ancient ES, as I now think of it.
Toysrme Posted January 19, 2006 Posted January 19, 2006 Be glad this didn't happen 6 motnhs from now when you woulda been pimping an ES350.
SKperformance Posted January 19, 2006 Posted January 19, 2006 The service of the t belt and tranny sound reasonable since they are repairing your engine. In all seriousness they remove the belt anyway so changing it is only a matter of a new one compared to an old one which is about $50-80. A tranny flush is $100. I would quiery them on the pricing especially since they did not tell you about it being fixed for free. BTW did you not have a thread on this before? If so post in the same one , not make new ones to update as the time line and results get lost in what happens.
chuckb Posted January 19, 2006 Posted January 19, 2006 how are they fixing it? I thought they usually just replace the long block on something like that?
Toysrme Posted January 19, 2006 Posted January 19, 2006 (edited) chuckb wins the question of the month award! A very good question indeed. Edited January 19, 2006 by Toysrme
Ericok Posted January 20, 2006 Posted January 20, 2006 how are they fixing it? I thought they usually just replace the long block on something like that? They used to but got tired of shelling out $6k per repair for a new block. Now they actually try to clean the sludge out of the existing heads and put it back together - that's why you can get a timimg belt repalcement as part of the deal.
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