Buying a ‘99 GS400, is it worth the money?

[Zach1992]

I’m looking at a ‘99 GS400 for $3k. The car has 300k miles (high enough) and the driver says he had an issue with it not starting on 2 occasions, months apart.

So, my main question is, would you buy this? Is it worth it? What would you pay?
 

Secondly, reading the forums here, I may have to replace the ECU for this intermittent starting issue? Or is this something else?

 

 

 

[ppine]

These are sophisticated and long lived cars.  Buying one with 300 k miles could be asking for trouble.   Why not spend a little more and save yourself a lot of problems by buying one with fewer miles, say 150 k miles?