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quadzillabill

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  1. I find myself in need of a car for the first time in many years due to a job change. Not sure how its going to go financially, so I'm looking to pay cash and get something that I could use for hopefully 75k miles before having to invest a lot of money in repairing or replacing it. Locally, a '99 RX300 FWD with 75k miles - originally a Texas car showed up in the paper today. Think I can get it for right around $10k. Owner is a local corporate employee, originally a Texas native (and Clemson grad) who is being transferred to India. Almost all work done at Lexus dealerships and well documented. $60k mile service was performed for $800. Car has only been driven 13,000 miles in the last 3 years since that major service. At around 65k miles, the 3.0L 24v V6 engine was found to have a 'common' head gasket problem during routine maintenance and Lexus replaced the short block, oil pump, timing belt and some other items at that time under goodwill warranty and according to the owner extended the warranty on the engine to 100k miles. 24 hours of shop labor on that service. While they had it apart, he had them replace the water pump and a couple other minor things. Anyone know anything about what sounds like it was a recall-type problem? Drives solid, looks good and hasn't been out in the Michigan weather much during the 5 years (and 30,000 miles) they've been here. Seems like a lot of car for the money - and based on Lexus reliability, I'd expect it to last for many more miles. It does need some new tires, so I'm figuring $500 for a good set. I'm hoping to get some guidance from the experts here. If I get it, you can count on me hanging around and soaking up all the good stuff in your forum. In the mean time, tell me what you think of my plan and the RX. Thanks, Q
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