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Sorry...I have a 1990 LS400 with 165,000 miles. Bought her in 1993 with 59,000 miles on it. Wife has been driving it. I bought her an 02 ES300 and am driving the LS now. There have been a few threads on here about the "clunk" from the front end and the Daizen bushings seem to be the cure. I was just wondering if $700 was too high for this replacement?

My local Lexus dealer said they could not do an alignment due to the bushings being to worn down. These are the bushings that when worn down, you here the clunk when going over speed bumps. They told me $700 to replace them. Would this be correct in anybody's opinion?

I bought it used with 25,000 miles on it. Now has 29,000. And you are very right....it is a split second kind of thing. I started out normally with about 1/4 throttle. Then due to the situation, I pushed the gas pedal to the floor and when power cut out, I started furiously pumping that gas pedal to get across the road into the parking lot across the street before I was hit. My lexus dealer told me there wasn't anything unusual in the lexus databanks as far as my ES300 was concerned. So I'm calling the lexus dealer service person to tell him what happened and ask if there is anything that can be done. I will ask him if the reflash has been done also. Thank you. Just got off the phone with the service person. He said to try turning off the VSR and see if that helps. I havn't seen a VSR off button, but I'm going to look. Then he pulled up the TSB for the reflash. Said it was for 02-03's. And if the above doesn't work, he will do the reflash.

This is true. I did not feel the hesitation until I needed the power of my 02ES300. And it was almost too late. I have picked up my daughter up from ballet the last two nights. The studio is located in Sandy Spring, Md. right on a two lane major cross county road (Rt. 108). There aren't any stop lights and it is a very busy road. Tuesday evening after pick up, I waited 10 minutes for both ways to clear (I was turning left onto the road). When clear, I started to accelerate normally when a car came around the bend to my left heading at a high rate of speed. Since I was halfway out in the road, I hit the gas pedal....you guessed it...my technological wonder of a lexus hesitated and it felt like it cut power. I jabbed the gas pedal several times and made it across the road just in time not to be hit. Had to change my wears when I got home. Then last night, same place, it happened again. Same situation. I went home and told my wife that we need to trade it in on a vehicle that isn't this dangerous. She said that before we do that to call the lexus of rockville service department (been using them since 1993 for our LS400) and see what can be done. I will not drive this vehicle again. Anybody have any thoughts?

My wifes gas mileage on our 02ES300 averages 16.7. She drives it around town mostly (very easily I might add) with very little hiway cruising. My 1990 LS400 averages 19mpg. My 2002 Z06 Corvette averaged 20mpg and that was driving it very hard. Can anybody tell me what the heck is going on with this terrible gas mileage on my 02?