ToeofGoat

My wife has the same car and I believe hers has a similar problem that I think is from acid rain. I first noticed after the dealer washed it during a warranty repair. Looks like 1/4" spots with random edges, like the clear coat has been burned off. Ours has 13000 miles and is kept outside.

06 GS430 with under 3K miles with identical complaint.

My wifes 06 GS430 has a rattle in the paasenger dash vent or glove box. She doesnt care but it drives me crazy.

My wife just traded her 04 CTS on the GS430.We had an appointment at Noble Mercedes in Fredericksburg Va to most likely purchase a dark blue CLS500 that we had been dealing on when Lindsay Lexus rec'd a red GS430. After seeing what Lexus gave you for 61K compared to 72K from MB, and rumors of MB reliability we went with Lexus. She had an 02 S-Type that had lots of services issues that she traded on the CTs when it only had 10K miles on it . I felt that car handles better at high speed than any other car we have owned, and tried to get her to look at an 05 or 06 S-TYPE R, but couldn't convince her. She will ntrade in a year or 2 and We will take a look at Jaguar again then. At this point with only 1200 miles on the Lexus, she is happy with her choice.