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Hmm, Oh well. I'm selling my car anyway. I've spent way more money than it is worth.

Ok, so I drained the oil and I still have the same problem. No weird colours in the oil, which indicates a good sign. I think I've narrowed my problems to the blown head gasket, so the question is: how much would that round up to be? Anyone know?

I don't exactly have time for that tonight, but what if it is a black and gooey mess? What could that mean?

Ok, the oil looks fine - nothing out of the ordinary besides the fact that I have a LOT of oil in the car. This is not a good sign. I might have misread the dipstick since it was at night when I checked it. Just out of curiosity, I checked the transmission fluid and its dark brown, almost black. As I know, tranny fluid is supposed to be a ruby red or somewhere along that color spectrum. Now I just hope that its the head gasket and a screwed sparkplug.

Without fixing it they will spot that a mile away. Then they will just rake you over the coals, and probably not even want the car. Your gonna have to have it fixed. there are a few ways to go about this, but I would need to know how many miles are on the car, the year of the car and how long you had it and how much you paid for it, that way we can go over all the options that make the best sense. And you will have to have an open diagnostic that says what the problem is and a list of the parts that will need to be replaced. I will be able to determine the hours needed and that will give us a labor charge. We have people come to the shop in this situation. it's allways tough. So we try to help when we can.

If it's only a valve problem, you could get off alot cheaper. As then only the heads will need to be removed, and fixed or replaced. If it's a cylinder issue, then it gets much more involved as the motor will more than likely need to be pulled and the whole top end taken out and blah blah blah blah....

So we need to address that issue first.

By the way, you did check all your spark plug wires real good and make sure they are all connected and all that right? Not that I think this is your problem, but I haven't seen your description of the problem, you said it was running really rough and you saw smoke. A dropped plug wire would make the car run rough, and you would get some smoke, and the fuel smell. Just checking the easy stuff too.

The car has about 148,000, its a 1992 ES, and I paid like 3600 dollars for it. I've only had it for about a year, and I do alot of highway driving. I could try and check the 'easy' stuff and I'll get back on that one. No, I didn't see any white gooey type stuff on the dipstick or otherwise (hopefully, thats a good sign.)

Yeah, I was thinking that I could have a messed up ring. I do agree with AMF. It makes sense. Honestly, do you guys think that I could trade it in as soon as possible? Or will a dealer like chew my AbS for even thinking about trading the car in?

Oh yeah, did I mention that there is white smoke at idle with the distinct smell of gasoline? Yeah.

thats kind of interesting... I was thinking the same thing, but again, I'm still not sure. I'm hoping to get a response from Toysmere, or blckft, or however his name is spelled, lol. Anyway, thanks for the reply!!

Its the strangest thing, I was driving down the highway cruising at 80 MPH. I stopped at a toll and and there was some serious trembling. A lot of vibration was going on. After I paid the toll, I gave it some gas, then all this blue smoke started comming out, and I started to freak out. I stopped at a gas station and bought some motor oil; put it in and hoped for the best. Everything works out fine until just now. The same thing happens again, only this time its a combination of white smoke and blue smoke. I have no idea whats going, and if someone could elaborate, that woulb be great.

Thank you!

PS temperature, and RPS are fine. 147K Miles

this is friggin stupid. How can no one NOT KNOW what the dimensions are? This is the audio section for Christ's sake!

i'll try and ask here. does anyone know the dimensions of the front/ door and rear speakers for a 92 ES? i believe they're all 6.5's all the way around, but again, i'm not too sure.

kthnxbye

anyone know the front/door and rear speaker dimensions of a 92? I think they're 6-1/2 all the way around, but I'm not too sure.

Type R's FTW!! :)

there is none. the fact the they're Lexus' is proof enough.

so, who DOES have the highest milage

LAMO

92 ES here. I just had the transmission rebuilt, and since then I've had this strange vibration comming when I'm idling. I've never had this before and its quite loud. If anyone has ever experienced something like this or knows what might be the problem, please help me out. I'm scared my car's transmission or engine is going to fail again!

BTW, the vibration is felt all throughout the car

Outstanding, Thanks!!

I'm tired of taking my car to crappy shops. I can't seem to find a good shop around here. If there is anyone who lives in the Orlando area who knows of a very reputable Lexus shop (besides a dealership) tell me where its located and I'll put in a good word for you.

Thanks!

is it possible that battery corrosion can create cracks or holes in the air intake tube? I recently replaced this (like 6 months ago) and now I'm back to the same crap of having a bad idle... I was also wondering if the knock sensors could be at fault of the poor idle.

Thanks!

Its mid-summer, man! Why in the hell would you want your heater to work??!

same thing happens to me. Thanks wwest :)

yeah, shayan, I was just about to ask that myself

I want to have the temp bulbs and the cluster replaced by Lexus. Any idea on how much one would expect to pay for such repairs? I was thinking a good $500, but thats just me overestimating :)

My ES is a 92 and for over 15 years its been using regular unleaded. No problems here...

Regular