Hi all I'm new to this forum and I tought I would come here for help.
First of all you're all gonna think I'm crazy but I have an sc400 that I bought from my sister 3 years ago.
My sister bought this car since 1997 as a certified pre owned car.
Since then I told my sister that if she wanted to sell the car someday to consider me as her first option.
Well 3 years ago that time has come so she told me she's gonna sell the car so I bought it from her.
But in order to buy it I had to sell my current car and here I know most of you gonna say I'm crazy but it was a 2 year old FORD TAURUS SEL that I bought brand new.
It had all the extra special options like compass and the 6 speaker stereo I think it was called the Mach system or something like that to go for this very old car.
The Lexus runs great let me tell you I use synthetic oil in it and it still runs like the day my sis bought it in 1997.
Now the thing is recently my auto parts store went Belly up and I bought a house so I had to sell my van.
So now we ONLY have the sc400.
My wife doesn't have a drivers license but I use this car to go to work buy groceries drive the kids to school and things like that.
But now my main concern is reliability.
See Right now I"m working at a VW dealership so I know the quality of foreign cars.
I'm working right now with a vw CERTIFIED mechanic and he's helping me with my car to kind of make it failsafe.
I already changed the fuel pump this month I'm doing the coil pack.
In the past 3 years I changed the Power stering pump,Brake line,o2 sensors,Brakepads, and maybe 1 or 2 other things I can't remember now.
My sis said she changed the oil seals and A/C compressor.
So nobody did work on the engine or the tranny exept for a timong belt and water pump change.
My mechanic told me that maybe I can get away with just buying 7 selenoids for the tranny and maybe keep the same tranny.
But that just a big maybe.
I want to get rid of the whole tranny.
I'm thinking since we only use synthetic oil we can push 200k miles with this engine.
But the tranny I don't know.
Do any of you know who makes the tranny for the sc400
Because them we can do a research and find out how these tranny's are and so we know.
But I think 139 k miles is enough.
Do any of you think I have to drop this tranny and get a new one before this one dies?
