VBdenny

Not where you are in Virginia but, I watch craigslist often and have seen many nice LS400's for under $5000 Sold my 90 with 200,000 miles for $2500 but it was to a friends son so I maybe could have gotten $3000 had I been like that. Finding the right car takes time and perceivance. The worst time to buy a car is when you are in a hurry. The mileage on the car doesn't concern me nearly as much as the repaint. The paint on my 90 was (is) still perfect.

$4000 is too much for the car. Offer no more than$2500 and walk like an Egyptian if you can't get that Way too many cars available. The reprint would not be a comforting thought.

Water will not hurt anything. Most people think they won't spill anything or drop food particles but they do. Once while driving up the mountain on I-77 on Fancy Gap, the pressure decrease caused my daughters water, squirt bottle to spray water all over. Glad it was water. I actually have a video on YouTube called Get In Sit Down shut up & Hold on

I must certainly do wax the wheels. Very important to help prevent brake dust build up and wear.

Ahhh yeah. Sorry about that. Never eat and read I guess

Whenever I buy a car, I always prefer white. For a used car, I will take (in this order) white, black, gray, silver, blue. I would not ever buy a green car under any circumstances. NO, gold, yellow, tan, brown, or any of those other weird, off color things. With a used car, sometimes you get what you get and all you can do is wonder what the original purchaser was thinking.

well. not that I would actually allow somebody in the back other than maybe for a short ride to somewhere. Of course I really dont care for having anyone in the car when i am traveling as then you have whining about temperature, radio, snacks, ahhh

While they Dawn really is my only dish detergent, I don't use it at all on any part of the car because it strips wax on anything. Even your wheels.

I look at a car lease this way. Once the car is paid for You no longer own it

Very nice looking car but couldn't deal with the two door.

Living near the coast we have a boatload of nasty seagulls. Yes they look cute in those kids movies but make no mistake about seagulls, they are nasty things. We also have egrets which are even nastier. Should a rogue deposit land o your vehicle you will swear there are flying elephants.

Not a bad price for such a great car. You are going to be one very happy camper.

you are correct. Really hard water, especially from sprinklers will etch the surfaces and nothing will completely remove. Almost as bad (but no quite) as pine tree sap. I'm already sick of seeing snow.

I used Windex and a straight edge razor blade to remove the deposits on the glass. The ES330 had water etching all over. Took me forever to get it off. Used a ton of elbow grease to clean the paint.

I seriously doubt there is any way to improve laser detection simply because until the beam is transmitted, there is nothing to detect. If (IF) you are lucky, you will detect a scatter beam of another potential victim before you are locked on. There is a wide variety of laser jammers which intercept the beam and send back two signals, one at a very low speed (maybe 5mph) the other at an excessive speed (a few hundred mph) which confuses the computer and prevents a speed display. I suppose kind of like the military might use to jam tracking signals and such. They work well from what I have read however they are illegal in most states as (unlike a detector which is a receiver) the jammers transmit a signal. The deal with LIDAR is that you can NOT prevent getting caught unless you have a clear line of sight.

Oh no. Beeps only are terrible things as they contribute to make you begin ignoring beeps. I had the first Escort and Passport and they are top of the line detectors. The new feedback thing is interesting. Wake app has a live cop feature as well but like anything else, you only need to miss one to spoil your day. Just drove from Boston to Syracuse in search of snow, and found it. Not much radar on 90 today.

They sell the automotive stethoscopes at Harbour Frieght for about $5.

In the event you decide to use the blower, it's a good idea to put some electrical, adhesive, or even painters tape on the tip of the blower. Not that you would accidently hit your car but say the cord caught and yanked it into your paint. Learned that the old way.

I dry the car with a California Water Blade, then my Toro 310mph leaf blower.

Ahhh, no. Not possible since you'd have to put them on the Silverado and you'd need a step stool to reach. You certainly don't think I'd drive my car anywhere near snow do you? It is in the garage in VB.

Imagine that! Doing something useful. Not much sun here in Boston, just a lot of rain. Think I'll head over to Syracuse tomorrow and check out the snow. That will give me something useful to do. That way I can give a winter report on the MassPike and Thruway.

Well Becki, sounds like you have had your share of fun. Kind of nice not having to work huh. Much nicer to be able to go where you want, when you want. My wife knows somewhere south of zero about cars although she has proven excellent at picking out expensive cars on the highway with an "ooh, I like that" to which I respond, uh huh When I had my first cars, I was my mechanic. Gasoline was a big enough challenge at the time.

Years ago the courts made them stop taking the receivers especially after a bunch of Yankees headed for Florida were getting bagged on 95. Never heard of anyone getting a ticket for one either in recent years. Except for laser which requires line of sight, the Valentine works just about as well on the seat as the windshield.

When I bought the Electra, huge land yachts were in style. I was traveling to Brooklyn often and the roads there were terrible. I had friends that had big Cadillacs and Chryslers. Premium sold for 50 cents a gallon so we seized the bull by the horns and burned it while it was cheap. Nobody minded 9 or 10 miles per gallon and flooring a land yacht took a lot of gas. Under the hood the massive 455 (7.5L) engine sucked in leaded premium through a massive 4 Dollar (barrel) carburetor. We called the Quadrajet that because every time you floored the thing, it cost you $4. After the huge engine developed the power it was sent to the rear tires via a Turbo Hydramatic 400 transmission then to the 12 Positraction unit before it incinerated a pair of rear tires. I worked in a gas station at the time so we all had plenty of access to used tires. We would mount up a set, head for the back roads and see who could smoke them the farthest. If you could hold it sideways the entire way, extra bragging rights were available. Many good movies came out around the time these land yachts were popular. Many of my friends had old used yachts for "Winter Rats" and when the spring came and it was time to break out the summer cars, the rats were just about done. We would take them out on the back roads and try to push each other off the road. Got the idea one day while watching The French Connection. Left a lot of plastic and metal trim throughout the countryside. Now, that is considered environmentally unfriendly.

After to listening to various discussions about cars people owned in the past, I started thinking about some of the vehicles I've owned. I'd rather not go through the entire list so here are some of my favorites in chronological order. 1966 Oldsmobile Cutlass F-85. Picked this up in 1978 from the original owner. Still somewhere in my garage. Drove it all over the country. 250CID (4.1L) L-6. 3 (on the tree). 1970 Buick Electra 225. Didn't need a car when I bought this but saw the ad with no price and went to look for the hell of it. Turns out it was an elderly lady whom had been a customer on my paper route. Well old Charlie (her husband) who was a traveling salesman, had checked out suddenly (I suspected the stress) and left his Buick parked there. The Buick apparently sat there for 6 months while Charlie's memory faded. Right place at right time and I scooped the unit for $250. Beautiful with a powerful 455 cubic inch Buick V-8 1993 Mazda Miata - another car I bought that I certainly didn't need. When the previous owner rolled In To drop it off my wife said oh no. Bought it to flip it but then I made the mistake of driving it and ended up keeping it 3 years. managed to burn a new set of tires of it in less than 5,000 miles so that should say it all. My wife hated it and told me to get something else, hence the IS250 1990 Lexus LS400 - bought this from a friend who bought it new in 1989. Both my wife and I agree that I. Spite of the cars we have owned since, the LS is still the best driving car we owned. Smooth, powerful, and very dependable.